Diary of Musical Thoughts

Earlier this month, I was binge listening some CD-R's that I burned in 2005 and early 2006.  I've written about late-2003/early-2004...

Outside of a few scattered mentions, my last post focusing on Blur was over eight years ago .  I can't recall how it started, but this w...

Yazoo's "Don't Go" hasn't really left the radio in the thirty seven (!) years since its initial release.  What seemed ...

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 ...