Diary of Musical Thoughts

Most of this post will be a series of unanswered questions.   Is the rate of change of music slowing down?  Are new innovations and the e...

This was a sneaky great year for music, in that I didn't truly appreciate the amount of great stuff that was released this year until I ...

For years, the sum total of my knowledge of Pete Shelley was the video for his 1981 non-hit "Homosapien".  I still love everything...

"November 2018 techno comeback", 59 minutes My first mix in over a year.  A comeback of sorts for the long dormant podcast.  And...

There are plenty of things to appreciate about this movie (the always great Cooper, riveting stage scenes, at least two thirds of the music)...

The fifth installment in the series assumes the same basic format as the fourth, with four long (20+ minutes) tracks of blended noise posing...

Kim Gordon is a private person by her own admission, often shy and introverted, a reluctant star for an industry that sought a marketable pe...

I bought the e-reader version of this book and it was so cheap that I wasn't expecting much beyond endless tales of mindless debauchery ...

The first three installments in the series chronicle a slow descent into the clutches of dementia, with an emphasis on slow and barely disce...

Kristin Hersh's memoir focuses on a single year of her life but doesn't have a beginning, middle, or end.  The writing is based on a...