Nada Surf have been around for lord knows how long. ‘Popular’ from 1996′s ‘High/Low’ was their ‘flash-in-the-pan’; for a brief period (maybe two weeks), everyone knew who they were. It would be easy to tag them one-hit-wonders if that was all you knew about them. Those who followed a little closer would have also caught [...]

…Ben Gibbard, apart from having an awesome first name (!!!), writes some pretty decent songs. Not really the ‘turn your amp up to 11′ kind of songs, more, ‘what does it all mean?’ king of songs. The new Death Cab for Cutie album drops in May, but tracks from it are popping up all over [...]

In a move that could certainly bankrupt them, Dr Pepper are putting money (or soda) on ‘Chinese Democracy’ not being released this year. From NME: Dr Pepper have announced they will give a free can of the soft drink to every American – except former guitarists Slash and Buckethead – if Guns N Roses release [...]

2002′s ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ was the album that got me interested with Wilco. Hearing ‘War on War’ for the first time is as vivid memory as any of my big, life changing events. Last evening’s concert will be the event that turns me from an intense interest in Wilco to a rabid obsession. Every member [...]

Where are the Dead Flowers when you need them? They used to open for every international act that came to town and you could be guaranteed to have a few drinks beforehand and still get there in time to watch the main act, and avoid them. But when Queens of the Stone Age are the [...]

Portishead went in and out of flavour with my within 12 months of discovering them. It may of had something to do with going and seeing them in Christchurch with some friends who were a couple, but we going through a tough break-up. Every note and lyric seemed poignant to their issues, and as a [...]

‘Narrow Stairs’ is the follow up to Death Cab for Cutie’s 2005 release ‘Plans’ – rather than a mistake made by an incompetent builder. The first single from the album ‘I Will Possess Your Heart’ is an epic – full of the winding instrumentation that their previous releases relied on – and sounds damn fine. [...]

The beast that is SXSW is taking over almost every channel of music news, but there is some other stuff happening out there. Of interest… Trent Reznor is picking some sort of holes in the delivery of ‘In Rainbows’. Jealousy perhaps? Read all about it here. Jack White’s ‘The Raconteours’ second album “Consolers of the [...]