Diary of Musical Thoughts

A couple of gems courtesy of the RA news feed ... DJ Diner episode 6 featuring Ruede Hagelstein and his shnitzel recipe.  Why was the ...

Oral histories -- they're everywhere now!  I singled out these two mainly because of the one interesting factoid in each that sort of bl...

Shlomo Artzi tok to the stage flanked by a tightly rehearsed nine piece band.  I'm fairly new to the experience of seeing stadium size...

Yeah, I didn't see this  article coming. Of course I knew about EDM taking off and the incredible success of Skrillex et. al. and the...

Maybe Daft Punk will start releasing new albums more than once every eight years and eventually build up a real catalog.  Regardless of how ...

Somehow, while I was doing a bunch of traveling over the past few weeks and remained out of the loop on a lot of music news, the Rolling Sto...

There are two kinds of great albums -- the ones where you realize how great they are after one or two weeks and/or three or four listens, an...

Steven Hyden's profile of Huey Lewis is another home run in his Grantland portfolio.  It's partly the proverbial trip down memory l...

The Roses' classic lineup reunited a couple of years ago for the first time since 1994, and while Primal Scream never technically went a...

A few months ago I came across a story about the physics of mosh pits.  A few Cornell physicists (and part time metalheads) were blurring th...