Diary of Musical Thoughts

I loved this list .  At its essence, this was no less than a concerted effort to assemble an entirely new canon of top songs, moving entirel...

The advance hype surrounding their 1997 "Popmart" tour promoted it as an audiovisual spectacle that had never before been seen.  I...

I have been meaning to write about this performance for a while.  For me, this was the most noteworthy and unique concert at the Proms.   Ce...

Morgan Wallen setting a record for the most weeks at #1 by a solo artist, in any genre.  Luke Combs hanging in the top five for weeks.  Jaso...

There isn't all that much to this WaPost article other than an offhand reminder to casual music fans that the CD still exists.  It prob...

Sinead once said that ripping up the photo of the pope on SNL didn't destroy her career, it allowed her to recover her career and be the...

There is so much to say about this remarkable documentary, and yet what can I possibly say about the Beatles and "Get Back" that h...

This documentary is difficult to follow, flying by breathlessly in a flurry of audio interviews, video clips, and scrapbook entries (the lat...

I need to counter the revisionist history of Julianne Shepherd's Sunday review in Pitchfork.    The review paints Lush as underrated an...

The lineup this year didn't look too exciting to me, I could take a pass on two of the three headliners, but Glastonbury is probably the...