Diary of Musical Thoughts

Arcade Fire used to be an incendiary band, a once in a decade instance of a band that arrived perfectly formed upon their debut album, witho...

During the two months at home it was easy to lose track of what day it was.  However, I always knew which day was Monday because that was t...

There were a string of deaths in the music industry in the past month, including Little Richard and Dave Greenfield of the Stranglers.  But ...

I finally got around to watching this, and I can safely say that I've never seen a documentary come across more like a horror film.  I c...

The release of this Youtube Original documentary coincided with the scheduled start of Coachella's first weekend.  Right now nobody has ...

Moby's first autobiography, "Porcelain", was in many ways not even about him .  Big parts of it were about chronicling the ear...

This blog celebrated twenty years (!) this past January.  Even though I've been really terrible when it comes to introducing and complet...

I know this is late, but I couldn't let this one pass ... Celebrity producers have been around for decades, often upstaging the acts the...

I get it, I really do.  It's rare to hear an album that sets out such a lush, gorgeous mood and can sustain it song after song.  The mus...

This is the first book written by Peter Hook in his three part autobiographical series, albeit read by me in reverse order.  The Joy Divis...