Diary of Musical Thoughts

They changed the name ... and now they're changing it back?  I think? I would have bet on "Lemonade" winning the poll this...

I promised to publish this list over two years ago , and then ... nothing. Everything on the list was finalized on schedule, but I struggl...

George Michael left us far too soon last week, the latest in an annus horribilis for musician deaths that can't end soon enough.  The ...

A couple of weeks ago, I was thinking about the time I went to Soundscapes on College St in October 2003.  I would soon be travelling to Be...

"I often stand on the boardwalk and stare at the mix and sometimes I marvel I made it" -- 99 minutes This one started out as a m...

This list is always my favourite part of the year-end round up.  No pressure, no rankings, no trying to break down what it all means.  There...

This is my second review this year of an autobiographical bildungsroman about an artist struggling to succeed in the music industry in New Y...

We've reached the last month of the year and I've been revisiting a lot of what I've been listening to over the past eleven mont...

Days later, and it's still sinking in. We've become uncomfortably used to dealing with the deaths of A-list musicians this year.  Bu...

Toronto music fans will remember the Warehouse (later the Kool Haus), which hosted countless international acts in spite of having the worst...