Diary of Musical Thoughts

Springsteen fans claim that he can sing in front of a stadium full of people and make everyone feel like he's singing directly and only ...

I found out about Ric Ocasek's passing via a tweet from Weezer's Twitter account.  I'd forgotten that Ocasek was a producer of s...

Shlomo Artzi's marathon three hour set was full of missteps. The first of two shows to celebrate his fifty year career, the dazzling s...

Lil Nas X has managed to fend off Taylor Swift not once, but twice on the way to his unprecedented 19-week run atop the Billboard 100.  And ...

Finally getting back to this project and jumping straight into the chaos of 1969! Salome, "Vivo cantando" (Spain).   There are...

I have been watching clips from the festival all week and what is there to say?  There are dozens of huge festivals all over the world each ...

On paper, Idan Raichel ticks so many of the right boxes.  His music combines Middle Eastern, funk, klezmer, and a host of other world music ...

This past week, Chris Richards detailed the slow conversion of indie rock bands into jam bands in an article for the Washington Post .  Cert...

I don't have much to add to this story beyond expressing the same feelings of shock and sadness as everyone else.  I do think that this ...

I was somewhat hesitant to buy this book because of its brevity -- 43 thousand words seemed lacking in the value for money department -- and...