Having been sick on and off now for over a month (I’ve never seen so much snot), I’ve started to appreciate the little things that make me feel better alot more. Point in case? For some reason today, I had Rebel MC’s ‘Street Tuff’ in my mind, so of course, I wanted to find it [...]

The verdict might be out on ‘The Beautiful Machine’ but one thing is for certain; Shihad are never dissapointing live. The crowd was warmed up by Luger Boa and The Mint Chicks, but there was never any doubt about who they were there to see. Even The Mint Chicks acknowledged it on a number of [...]

If you are reading this, and not sure what the video below is about, then you may possibly be missing some of your brain – or at least been in a cave for sometime in the late 80′s and early 90′s. At school, one of the stupid, Avenger driving white trash ran over my Public [...]

Anyone over the age of 21 has had their heart broken at some point or another, and we all know how it goes. At the time, the world is coming to an end, but in retrospect, you often find yourself looking back confused about what the big deal was. I always thought the turning point [...]

After downloading Stereogum’s RAC Mix album and catching Ra Ra Riot’s ‘A Manner To Act’ I made the conscious effort to track down their EP, which I originally scoured over about this time last year (when it was released). I deliberately waited to check them out. I’m always a little cynical about checking out ‘the [...]

It’s been a crazy weekend. The weather has been mad here in Wellington, and the Aussies beat South Africa, and the Warriors won three in a row (maybe the Phoenix will win this afternoon too). The craziest thing this weekend I’ve managed to experience isn’t Dr Horrible’s Sing along Blog or the fact that someone [...]

Freddy’s tempt us again with another one of their UK releases being leaked here (and being on the rotation on Radio Active). No doubt it’ll become easily available soon, but in the meantime, you’ll have to deal with it via YouTube. As you would expect, it’s another piece of downbeat genius only made better by [...]

Popular music is an ever-changing landscape, which is something that must cause both considerable frustration and pride in independent music labels. Pride, because the amazing bands they sign at the beginning of their careers get broken by their little label, but frustration when the mainstream catches up, and entices those little bands away from them [...]