Diary of Musical Thoughts

Well, that's not actually true. However, I find myself writing almost exclusively about bands, and not about, shall we say, "issues...

There's a gas leak in the building. Oh wait, it's Awesome in their stage outfits, with soft glowing white lights where their faces ...

OK, they like discopunk. They sound not one iota different from the last time I saw them over a year ago, and until controller.controller w...

I could try describing Yellow Swans' blast of ever-growing quaking noise (with bonus screaming), but on occasions such as these, it'...

Note: I'm very late with this ... I wrote a bunch of stuff during the live broadcast, but didn't get the chance to go back and look ...

Sigur Ros, "Takk". After the sleepy (= a bit boring) shoegaze of their debut and the so-called "boring" (= entrancing) ...

Autechre -- EP7. This is where it started getting weird, although they could still lay claim to making caustic, clangy hip-hop. Because of...

I've come to realise that I'm sick of hearing all my early year faves. I've been taking a break from the New Order and Caribou ...

Compared to his 2003 opening slot for ASMZ, Perri has scaled down his band. The two-drummer attack is gone (Boo!!), resulting in a quieter,...

Jewsrock.org is a fun site about -- take a guess. It's a new site, and very much a work in progress (where are Jonathan Richman's B...