Stones Throw Records is somehow become the label to fill the void left by Rawkus Records. In the early 90′s I would hunt and buy anything that had Rawkus on it. In hindsight, it wasn’t all biscuits and gravy, but Soundbombing II is still my favourite compilation of all time, so whatever duds I bought [...]

For a long time, I faked my knowledge of dub-step. To be honest, I’m still not sure I could identify a dub-step track without the help of wikipedia. However, Burial I know. Well. There was a time when the minimal stutter that typified Burial’s Untrue had done my head in – but after rediscovering it [...]

While I was a few years younger than I needed to be to truely appreciate Chris Knox’s indie bombshells ‘The Enemy’ and ‘Toy Love’, I still appreciate him for his achievements in both Art, and Music over the past 30 or so years. So, like most other New Zealanders it was a shock to hear [...]

Wow, just clocked this on the NME website, I figure it might be one of those “get it while you can” situations…seems crazy that you can stream the entire album now….when it’s not due for real release until 16th November. Still, this is a musical project with a difference and what I’ve heard so far [...]

To a certain degree, we should all be very scared of The Blackroc Project – on the whole, previous hybrid hip-hop/rock collaborations have been awful (Jay-Z and Linkin Park? It took sometime for Jay-Z to get around that career ‘blip’). Still, thinking (way) back to the Judgement Night soundtrack, reminds me that not all attempts [...]