After a lengthy hiatus, Alex and I are taking another crack at music blogging. We're fired up and have a swank new site: http://www.idi...

JG Ballard is dead at 78. I think it's fair to say that if there's a single author who was a literary influence on more of the arti...

So I know that our posts at DIJ have slacked off in the past couple months, and for that I'm sorry. Without wanting to speak for Alex o...

Fifteen-odd years back I chanced across a track on the radio by James, britpop stalwarts who never cracked the biz this side of the pond. T...

Oh snap! It was my first hip hop show EVER! I got out my old ADIDAS track jacket, some gold chains and chunky rings, so I felt like the 4th ...

Hey, you guys like Depeche Mode right? Well, here's the first single from their forthcoming album Sounds of the Universe . Produced by B...

I recently watched a performance of Erik Satie's ballet "Relâche", which accented small chamber and ensemble pieces of Satie...