Diary of Musical Thoughts

"The Fragile" didn't come close to meeting expectations, but the tour was a hit and so was the eventual DVD. Nobody bothered ...

Sometimes the brilliance of certain songs doesn't hit for you months, or even years. Everybody is familiar with this concept, right? Her...

Her 1993 album "Happiness" starts with more than a minute of shredding, echoing guitar noise that could have been lifted straight ...

Following a somewhat uncomfortable and fairly disturbing sleep, I woke up, flipped on the TV, and saw a man with a 70's porn star mousta...

... from the big drop." [full lyrics here ] What they meant was: Israel feels that it's been more than tolerant of Hezbollah's...

It's probably not realistic to talk about this album without acknowledging one's obvious bias toward the recording, that is, it'...

Two weeks ago my hard drive died and everything on it was lost. Let's just say that my annual Blue Screen Of Death was a bit overdue an...

Despite all the flaws in his set (bad PA system or shitty gear or a combination of both, keyboards that wouldn't work unexpectedly, keep...

I swore that I wouldn't buy vinyl on this trip and I managed to keep that promise to myself. The planned Hard Wax swingby never materia...

OK, "La Foret" didn't happen. It was a nice little experiment in improvisation, an attempt to make almost an entire album ful...