The son of Neil has, what appears to be his network TV debut on Letterman tomorrow night (Thursday 28th February) in the US. Prime TV replays these shows (I think) a day behind – but if you’re interested, best to set up the recorder for this week and next! The Late Show – 11pm Weeknights [...]

The tenth (yeah, 10th!) album, ‘Raising Down’ from The Roots is due for release at the end of April, and the first tune to be circulated from it sounds as heavy as anything they’ve done. Check it out via Okayplayer/Nah Right. And Okayplayer has the new Erykah Badu album out tomorrow in the states too [...]

Supergrass Live at Wellington Town Hall (1999?) was probably one of the best gigs I ever saw. They were pitch perfect that night – it was just after their self-titled album came out and ‘Moving’ was getting a little bit of airplay. Perhaps the warm feeling I got from that concert was never replicated in [...]

More free stuff – this time, some MP3 action from the Feb 2 Jools Holland – Radiohead’s set in MP3 format from Deaf Indie Elephants

…are streaming the first single from ‘Attack and Release’ now on their myspace page. Surprisingly, it’s a departure from the sound that helped them get to ‘Magic Potion’, with the raw blues guitars put behind some subtle synth…not sure about it yet, but I hope it’ll grow on me.

Neutral Milk Hotel’s classic “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” marked it’s ten year anniversary this month. More interesting is the fact I found it on one of the demo iMacs in Wellington’s Harvey Norman. It is a curious album, one that is likely to sound familiar to those knowledgeable with the indie-folk landscape popularised [...]

Now the person who put this together takes record collecting to a whole new level. “From Thomas Edison to American Idol, this is the complete history of the music that shaped and defined five generations. 3 million records and 300,000 CDs containing more than 6 million song titles. It’s the undisputed largest collection of recorded [...]

Schedule Two records promote a heap of their bands through the net, and luckily, a lot of what is available online is free! As well as MP3′s, there is a heap of live videos from shows by (amongst others), Andrew Bird (who I have been told is great live), and Tapes ‘n Tapes. Take a [...]