Diary of Musical Thoughts

Once again, there will be no list of the best albums of the past year, because I haven't heard any of them (eventually I will get around...

This is a crushing loss for music, and so sudden -- even Stevie Nicks, in a handwritten note posted to her Twitter account, said that it was...

No matter how much you think you know, musical six degrees of separation never ceases to yield new surprises.  My mind blowing factoid of th...

While watching clips of Harry Styles' remarkable 15-night residence at Madison Square Garden in September, I found myself wondering: why...

I was dumbstruck this evening by the devastating news that Mimi Parker has died.  I hadn't heard about her cancer diagnosis, which she m...

This box covers two very different eras in Munch's career: pre-Boston, and post-Boston.  Of course, the general consensus is that his be...

In the last few years, a slew of Billboard Hot 100 chart records were broken that until recently would have been unthinkable.  Some of these...

I have just discovered that I never wrote a proper review of Ross' "The Rest is Noise", although I alluded to the book's p...

Karajan's recorded legacy is massive, with more recordings than any reasonable human could possibly keep track of.  Box sets should simp...

The reviews coming out of this August 24 event were out of this world, with fans and critics rushing to proclaim it as one of the all time b...