If there’s an earthquake in Wellington over Easter, there will be a lot of worried music fans around the world.  There will be a mad amount of good music trolling through here over that week, with Queens of the Stone Age and Smashing Pumpkins joining the already crammed weekend in Wellington  Thursday 20th March – [...]

Herein lies the problem with compiling lists of ‘the best albums of blah blah’. It is impossible to form a conclusion on everything you hear in a year, unless you really listen to it. When I listened to 365 albums in a year I tried really hard, but in all honesty, it was too much. [...]

After nearly 30 years with the band, lead singer Ali Campbell has announced that he is leaving UB40 to focus on solo work. His departure is scheduled for after upcoming shows, making Rotorua’s Feb 2nd ‘Raggamuffin’ event even more special – one of the last UB40 shows with Campbell at the helm. 10 hours of [...]

You may have heard his name bandied around, but Tommy Ill is more than NZ’s siftiest hip-hop artist – his blog could also be the funniest online content this side of The Onion. From todays post: It is a little known fact that aeroplanes are powered on raw terror, harvested from their very passengers. Your [...]

Can Portishead still be relevant 11 years after their last album? The verdict will be known when ‘Third’ is released on April 14th. While I hope I’m proved wrong, the English downbeat sound has changed alot since their 1997 self-titled release, which, in my eyes, was not as strong as their debut ‘Dummy’ anyway. Early [...]

I’m rabidly awaiting the next Black Keys album (April 1st) – but rumor has it that some of the songs on the Danger Mouse produced album weren’t actually meant for the Akron duo. Regarding the collaboration (from drowned in sound… The collaboration came about when Burton approached the band to compose tracks for the late [...]

Lessons learnt from the Big Day Out 2008 It’s way easier to smuggle booze into the Big Day Out than you would imagine. At 32, it’s okay to stay in the same spot all day and enjoy the music from a comfortable seat. If you know you’ll get aggro at people standing on your feet [...]

Arriving to the stadium was a bit surreal. The crowd at the back of the show – (the cheap seats) were penned out of the seating area and looking incredibly stoic (save the drunk middle-aged women whipping themselves into a frenzy with their tornado-like dancing). Having already forgone watching ‘Fiction Plane’ , I worry to [...]