Diary of Musical Thoughts

Fourteen months after the last post in the series, finally, it's the ninth  in a series of albums that I haven't heard in over twent...

If you were a music fan in the 80's, there's something for you on Professor of Rock's (Adam Reader) channel.   His  unapologetic...

This was a bit of a letdown after reading/enduring the raw outpouring of emotion in Brett Anderson's two books.  However, it does commun...

This is the follow-up autobiography to Anderson's "Coal Black Mornings", which I read over three years ago .  Anderson is upfr...

For several years in the 90's, I bought a couple of dozen music magazines per year, both weeklies and monthlies.  The NME/Melody Maker/S...

Once again, there will be no list of the best albums of the past year, because I haven't heard any of them (eventually I will get around...

This is a crushing loss for music, and so sudden -- even Stevie Nicks, in a handwritten note posted to her Twitter account, said that it was...

No matter how much you think you know, musical six degrees of separation never ceases to yield new surprises.  My mind blowing factoid of th...

While watching clips of Harry Styles' remarkable 15-night residence at Madison Square Garden in September, I found myself wondering: why...

I was dumbstruck this evening by the devastating news that Mimi Parker has died.  I hadn't heard about her cancer diagnosis, which she m...