As it seems as though Starbucks is okay enough for “cooler-than-cool” Sonic Youth to use as a channel to release a compilation through, maybe I had Starbucks all wrong? Actually, Thurston Moore puts it plain and simple: “I guess, for some, Sonic Youth represents something that they don’t really equate with Starbucks. But I kind [...]

The self-titled opener from ‘Icky Thump’ reminds me alot of Blur’s ‘On Your Own’. They certainly don’t share much in the way of sound, but to me they signpost the track that makes me change my mind about the respective artists. I thought I really liked Blur. ‘Parklife’ was undoubted genius, and though I thought [...]

It’s hard to be a Radiohead fan sometimes. Their music is fantastic because it is done for them and what record companies or fans want are sometimes secondary. It’s easily to get a little miffed about it. ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac’ were completely different from their previous stuff, and quite abstract in a musical sense. [...]

Thanks has to go HBO for getting behind ‘Flight of the Conchords’. Though watching it online through HBO was good, being able to download it from the iTunes music store is a treat. Check out out here.

Josh Homme must be used to taking a degree of flak for Queens of the Stone Age. Read enough press about the band, and it’s likely you’ll find material that touches on the messy departure of original co-frontman Nick Oliveri, or maybe on the wealth of guest apperances their albums have been subject to. To [...]

Great soul voices don’t really pop up in New Zealand, so when they do, you take notice. Hollie Smith has a great voice, possibly one of the best we have ever been lucky enough to call from New Zealand. Her work over the past 4 or so years, first with Trinity Roots, later with Fat [...]

A mindset change is required when you listen to music that is outside of ones normal realm of taste. I felt it with older Roxy Music, anything by Bad Brains and even Springstein’s ‘Nebraska’. Mirrored is defiantly the musical equivalent of a such a slap upside the head. There is a host of elements you’ll [...]

10 years goes by pretty quick – it seems like just yesterday I was getting an advance listen of ‘The Colour and The Shape’ in Sounds in Cashel Mall. I almost did a runner with that disc. To celebrate it’s 10 years, the album is destined to be remastered and re-released with bonus tracks, as [...]