Diary of Musical Thoughts

Two years ago , I paid tribute to Lou Reed by reviewing all of his live albums in the wake of his death.  Needless to say, David Bowie is mo...

Every social media platform and online media outlet has been re-branded as a David Bowie tribute/fan site this past week, and rightly so.  ...

So many thoughts about David Bowie.   In retrospect, of course the song and video for "Lazarus" are about his death.  I mean, t...

A typically great year for mixes ... mixes never go into a slump!  As in past years, the list is unranked and presented in chronological ord...

This year my tastes fell way out of step with the hype surrounding the most talked about electronic music , and I couldn't quite put my ...

"On the second day of the convention the mix announced it was taking a $68 million quarterly loss" - 66 minutes Inspired by a fe...

I won't remember 2015 as a great year for new music, and in a few years time I doubt I'll rank any albums from this year among my al...

I pretty much lost my head when I came across this album in the Berkeley Amoeba, for I had no idea it was in the works and didn't know t...

New Order have released three albums in the past twenty years ("Lost Sirens" doesn't count).  Since breaking up for all inten...

U2 have become a very small subplot in the follow up to the attacks in Paris.  They are nearing the end of their tour and their Paris conce...