Rhythm and Vines is well on it’s way to becoming the NZ festival of choice, in a week where the BDO headline act looks destined to be David Bowie (which I have no problem with at all, but I know of a few people who will be like…meh), it’s worth noting that the line-up for [...]

Many of you may know (and you can probably tell from the last few weeks inactivity), I’ve had my head buried in fatherhood for the past few weeks. A toddler, a newborn, it’s all a complete vacuum for time. The opportunity to listen to good music while having kids around is pretty rare. My toddler [...]

Naming a new child is hard, but it helps to stick to what you know. When we named our new son Miles, I thought about the musical implications – beyond the obvious (Miles Davis). So creatively, I used the Beastie Boys Ill Communication title track for inspiration. M.A(lexander) Bell. Here’s the very nice DITC remix [...]

On a day where Kayne stole the lime light at the MTV VMA’s (I totally thought the day would end up with everyone dissing Russell Brand, but not surprised about Kayne making a scene…I’m yet to figure if it was a great career move or not), Pigeons and Planes restores all that is good in [...]

1991. It seems like a lifetime ago right? As I sit here and type this, I struggle to think back to what I would have been doing 18 long years ago. Warner Brothers Music were probably looking forward to another September of music mayhem, but could never had predicted that an album due to drop [...]

I have avoided most of the press surrounding the ‘next big’ supergroup, even though the line-up does get me excited. Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul-Jones…who wouldn’t get excited? Perhaps I was scared that the output would be horrible, but to be fair, what was the likelihood of that happening? Anyway, the first snippet [...]