Diary of Musical Thoughts

This is a reaction to Rick Beato reacting to the NYT's interactive piece about Taylor Swift.   The charts are simply too different now...

Albini leaves behind an incredible legacy.  From his own music, to the thousands of artists he recorded, to his still on-point essay "T...

Matty Pywell published a great retrospective review of Pulp's finest long player for Paste.  It's an intensely personal look back a...

 This story has been making waves in the classical community, as Makela lands a job with yet another top orchestra.  For a conductor who has...

The title of this post is a twenty word summary of a recent article in musicradar , which tries to cover far too much ground and comes off r...

Without exaggeration, I believe that  Gabriel Szatan's retrospective review of Jeff Mills' legendary "Live at the Liquid Room...

I love 80's nostalgia as much as the next person, and have fond memories of watching the "We Are The World" video countless ti...

This post isn't so much about "Rhapsody", which everybody knows is unimpeachably great, but about the NYT's risible semi-t...

The Telegraph published an article lamenting on how difficult it is for new artists to generate hit albums.  Note that this refers to hit a...

I'm sure he's told the story before, but Johnny Marr's description of the creative process that lead to the iconic intro riff t...