Isn’t funny how sometimes you just wake up and a song is in your head? I’ve been trying to figure out what could have been making me think of this tune, and apart from constantly coughing for 4 days (and subsequent strained ab muscles), nothing has been bothering me at all. Maybe my brain is [...]

I didn’t even know the Beastie Boys were re-releasing their back catalogue (the career defining ‘Check Your Head’ being the latest release), but they are, and it all looks pretty finger lickin’ good (like 4 disc vinyl good). Part of the promo saw them drop the amazing ‘So What’cha Want’ for Fallon, with the Roots [...]

It doesn’t seem that long since “The Shepherds Dog” was released (in reality it was 18 months plus ago), yet here we are blessed with another release from Sam Beam. Around the Well is a double-disc collection of rarities and unreleased material, which, from what I’ve managed to find, sounds just as compelling and beautiful [...]

I managed to catch Grizzly Bear’s studio session yesterday at WNYC (via NPR), which was a nice way to convince myself that “Veckatimest” (released this coming week) will definitely be worth parting money with. I haven’t really listened to much of their catalogue, but I do think the video for ‘Knife’ is damn good (the [...]

Something that has interested me of late is the surge of people seemingly over Fat Freddys Drop – something that Simon Sweetman only fueled with his review of their performance as part of the Wellington Jazz Festival. “What I ended up seeing was as monumentally underwhelming, insipid and uninspired as I had always assumed the [...]

Laying around at home all day is not one of those things I enjoy doing. Add in the fact that I’m full of some brown/green substance that I think is phlegm, and a headache that makes a screaming child seem like relief in comparison, and you can draw the conclusion that I feel pretty shit. [...]

Some of you may already know that I’ve spent the last few months involved in a music club with a few like-minded individuals. The premise of our music club is to introduce music to other people in the group by the way of mix CDs. Every couple of months, we exchange CD’s and spend the [...]

Hot on the back of their live concert movie ‘Ashes of American Flags’, Wilco (The Album) looks to be one of the more eagerly anticipated albums so far this year. Possibly to negate the ‘problematic’ pre-release internet leak, Wilco have done it themselves, streaming the entire album in full through www.wilcoworld.net Wilco (the album), still [...]