When I spoke to my brother earlier this week, he was surprised that I wasn’t out buying the new Foo Fighters album. The truth is, I wasn’t even aware that it was being released this week – I have fallen so out of touch with my early 20′s heroes I didn’t even know their album [...]

I’m pretty enthusiastic about anything James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem) does – so when I clocked that Aotearoa’s Shocking Pinks had signed to Murphy’s DFA Records I knew that they were obviously moving in the right circles. You can download “I Want U Back” via the EMI Records site for free! Also, some of the Radio [...]

Word on the street is that Rage Against The Machine could be headlining the BDO after dates in Australia have been confirmed for them on either side of the BDO scheduled dates. Could this be the act to bring me out of Big Day Out retirement? Though reports of their current live act haven’t been [...]

I’ve been hitting Facebook a bit hard lately, but there is only so much you can play with that thing until you get bored. I’ve also been mucking around with imeem today which is another one of those web 2.0 (whatever that means) platform thingy that is all about making friends, this time through music. [...]

I can’t get enough of this video at the moment. As well as being a very very powerful piece of music the video is crash hot. Look forward to the loading of this one people. It is something special.

Eagle vs Shark hasn’t exactly got great worldwide reviews. Though I was personally excited to see it, it was hard to not be a little psyched out by international reviews. Metacritic.com has it scored quite low (Mixed or Average Reviews) and though I liked what I had seen and heard about it before the film [...]

Two hip-hop heavyweights released their albums this week in Kayne West’s ‘Graduation’ and 50 Cent’s ‘Curtis’, both of which are no doubt eagerly awaited by many. Me? I’m not so fussed. In the past 4-5 years, I’ve only dug 10-15 hip-hop albums (Deltron 3030, Fishscale or College Dropout probably being the ones that stand-out; as [...]

Apple released details today about the new iPod – due next week.It looks like a scaled down version of the iPhone, without the phone inside, and features Wi-fi, web browsing capabilities, the same touch screen and similar styling cues (all of a sudden, the new iMac casing makes sense).Have drool over at www.apple.com The iPod [...]