Diary of Musical Thoughts

This is one of those unfortunate cases where I end up defending music that I was never a big fan of to begin with.  But Jesse Dorris' re...

More than any other "genre pioneer" that I can recall, her death truly feels like the end of an era.  Many rock pioneers have pass...

I did finally read Hook's JD bio , and it's a more than worthy addition to the wealth of first-person JD literature out there.  He w...

Ryan Alexander Diduck examines Stardust's one-off hit for FACT. It's funny to see which songs from a fairly lackluster year (1998)...

The Toronto Star gave a scathing review to Paul McCartney's December 7,  1989 concert at Skydome , part of his 1989-1990 world tour.  Th...

I was watching a live performance of "Unknown Pleasures" played by Deerhoof with Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu on vocals and it struck...

Branca was a composer who was singularly of his time, and also of no time.  The rage, grit, and restrained chaos of his early no-wave recor...

Six months ago, Netta Barzilai wasn't even a professional singer.   Now, she's the winner of Eurovision.  How did all that happen? ...

Is it safe to say that there are more niche markets in music than ever before?  These two releases are great examples of that.  I read the ...

We know that Moby recorded "Play" at his professional and personal nadir, as a self-professed has-been who was planning to get out...