Diary of Musical Thoughts

I wish I could say that I spent most of my time digging through the culture of the city, but the reality is that work occupied all but a sma...

"Sat aft mix" - 98 minutes In the absence of new writing from me (too much traveling lately), here is a mix that I've been sit...

How long has it been since I've done a running diary of a major music awards show? Red carpet talk is centred around which artists will ...

This story about the major labels plan to abandon the CD by the end of 2012 made the rounds this week, prompting some good discussion abou...

More often than not, shoegaze bands seem to emerge fully formed, at least compared to bands in other genres. For every rock band that releas...

M83's newest effort sounds even more like an album recorded and released in the 80's than "Saturdays = Youth" did, and I b...

I've been a black metal fan for about fifteen years. The previous sentence is technically the truth, but it isn't particularly accu...

This was my first time back at the Phoenix in over five years. Never has a place felt so completely familiar and yet also so oddly foreign....

"The Vainqueur:Elevations mix" (30 minutes) What's better than baking to the hyper-minimal sloshing of Vainqueur in the summer...

"Wins and WAR and Ambience" (56 minutes/86 minutes) I set out to make an ambient mix, and usually that means some quiet bits and a...