Diary of Musical Thoughts

I'm not familiar with many of Mosh Ben Arie's songs, but I did learn that he's an excellent guitarist, much better than I was ex...

Yesterday I randomly happened to think about Max and Big Thief (a band whose music I have admittedly never heard).  I believe I was reading ...

I haven't heard any of the demos or B-sides/rarities collections that PJ Harvey has released over the past few years.  Why not start wit...

I was happy to see this album featured in the Pitchfork Review  because it's been largely forgotten by anyone who wasn't around in ...

I bought this book several years ago with high expectations.  But every time I opened it and began to read, I quickly became bored.  Now, af...

This is a reaction to Rick Beato reacting to the NYT's interactive piece about Taylor Swift.   The charts are simply too different now...

Albini leaves behind an incredible legacy.  From his own music, to the thousands of artists he recorded, to his still on-point essay "T...

Matty Pywell published a great retrospective review of Pulp's finest long player for Paste.  It's an intensely personal look back a...

 This story has been making waves in the classical community, as Makela lands a job with yet another top orchestra.  For a conductor who has...

The title of this post is a twenty word summary of a recent article in musicradar , which tries to cover far too much ground and comes off r...