Having never seen Nine Inch Nails Live leaves you unsure with what you’ll actually get from a Live DVD from them. NIN music is typically layered, with Reznor happy to use anything available to him to get the sound he wants. The Nine Inch Nails catalogue proves this. Synths and samples are almost as important [...]

Love is awkward enough at the best of times, but from what I have seen, this movie takes it to a new level. The new thing from ‘soon to be bigger than Elvis’ Taika Waititi (the dude that fell asleep at the Academy Awards), Eagle vs Shark has been doing the rounds throughout all the [...]

One of the reviews I read for this movie was something along the lines of “Neil Young is getting old and it shows”, which has to be the shittiest thing I could think anyone would write about this movie. He may be getting old, and in a way softening up, but I like it. This [...]

With a (near) 6 month-old, we find it hard to get to the movies…in fact, it’s hard to even get to the video shop – and should you get a movie out, then that is the time that the man in question decides to have a late one – preventing you from watching that movie [...]

As a fan more of Rock than other genres, Electronic music doesn’t always sit well with me. A peppering of ‘Dance’ albums feature in my collection; a bit of Daft Punk, Crystal Method, even the odd Drum and Bass compilations, but nowhere does Electronic music feature strongly in a period of my life. LCD Soundsystem [...]

Easily the best marketing campaign made for anything kiwi, the L&P ads geniunely make me cry. They are funny, but the thing that gets me is that they are so true! With this year marking the 100th year of L&P, the marketing for our national drink has stepped up. The ‘Take the Top Off a [...]

Not sure of the origin of this, but reading it made me laugh till I had to dry my eyes… 1, OPENING JARS – nnnnngg, she’s struggling. You take it from her hands, open it effortlessly and pretend she loosened it for you. She didn’t. Jars are men’s work. 2, CALLING SOMEONE ‘SON’ – Especially [...]

My work colleague and I were discussing the music from the 80′s the other day. For music, it was a generally decade of one-hit wonders. Sort of like the Black Caps top order, it was rare to find bands that followed on from their successful opening play(s). Is this decade going to be the same? [...]