Since upgrading to the latest version of wordpress (V2.1), I’ve decided to muck around with the theme I am using. Don’t be surprised if you cop 3 different looks in one day. No alarm required, it’s likely I’m tinkering. In the meantime, back to the old faithful. Nice clean default wordpress theme (slightly modified for [...]

The Shin’s could be forgiven for being crushed under the weight of peoples expectations. Before I even heard an album of theirs I was waiting for it to rock my world. When Natalie Portman famously gave them the big ups on ‘Garden State’ (“They’ll change your life”), it must have been a thrill and a [...]

I always loved a hot cup of coffee on a cold winters day (in fact I remember glugging down instant coffee from a very early age), but only recently, say in the last 2 years, have I become quite hard-out into coffee. Last week, I completed a barista course through the lovely people at Emporio [...]

Yeap, it had to happen, and C4 have done it. It’s Dave Chapplle bitches. No word when the show starts (except it must be sometime this year. Here’s hoping that they get some of his stand-ups too. www.c4tv.co.nz/LineUp/ComingIn07/tabid/211/Default.aspx Also, stumbled over this site, which theorises what happened to Dave prior to the dissolving of Chappelle’s [...]

“Sound of Silver” finds LCD Soundsystem further expanding its sonic palette, taking its experimental impulses to wild new places but also firmly establishing itself as a singularly great pop group. Here, pulsing beats, abstract funk, crystal melodies and towering walls of sound combine to create a sound genuinely like no other. LCD Soundsystem’s ‘Sound Of [...]

I was stoked to get ahold of the Nike Original Run track done by ‘LCD Soundsystem’ earlier in the year, and surprised how effective it was in making a run seem a little more ‘fluid’. This track and the other one made by ‘The Crystal Method’ are now available through the NZ iTunes Music Store, [...]

Saxophonist Warren Maxwell is believed to have quit the seven-piece jazz, funk, reggae group, in a good-natured parting.Maxwell will focus on his new band, Little Bushman, and newly established Wairarapa recording studio. Full article here… Sax man drops Fat Freddy – New Zealand’s source for entertainment news, gossip & music, movie & book reviews on [...]

Anything related to the Onion can be counted upon for a good laugh, and the A.V Club throws up this beautiful article… Regular blog readers may remember my mid-year tally of the worst band names we’d encountered, a glimpse of the year-end’s definitive list of bad puns, clumsy imagery, and misappropriation of the word “funk.” [...]