Diary of Musical Thoughts

Kristin Hersh's memoir focuses on a single year of her life but doesn't have a beginning, middle, or end.  The writing is based on a...

Five years ago, when I would listen to Beach House's third album "Teen Dream", it sounded like a dress rehearsal for the full...

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? ...