Diary of Musical Thoughts

I love 80's nostalgia as much as the next person, and have fond memories of watching the "We Are The World" video countless ti...

This post isn't so much about "Rhapsody", which everybody knows is unimpeachably great, but about the NYT's risible semi-t...

The Telegraph published an article lamenting on how difficult it is for new artists to generate hit albums.  Note that this refers to hit a...

I'm sure he's told the story before, but Johnny Marr's description of the creative process that lead to the iconic intro riff t...

Shoegaze is more culturally relevant now that it has ever been.  I had nothing to do with this, and didn't even know it was happening un...

I remember the final years of Leonard Bernstein's life, he was the superstar classical conductor who was paradoxically famous for compos...

The dance music community has always been the underdog, and with the exception of a couple of years in the late 90's and the recent tren...

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...