I love skateboarding and New Zealand music – as seeing as good ol’ NZ Music Month is coming up it seems apt to push The Ruby Suns – born of NZ, but now in the states. ‘Dusty Fruit’ takes centreplace on this skate vid by Sam Kristofski – providing a perfectly dreamy atmosphere to what [...]

Maybe it’s something about the weather, or the reduction of sleep in the past 3 or so months (thanks to child number 2, who, while being unbelievably lovable during the day, goes Gremlin like at night), but at work I’m struggling to remain focused and enthusiastic about my job. Day’s like today however, really make [...]

I don’t understand why these guys are not the biggest band in the world. Every time I listen to either Cryptograms or Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. it sounds better (and I listen to it A LOT). Not a new track by any means, but Winter is definitely here. The line “Winter. In My Heart. It Never [...]

By all reports, Gorillaz killed Coachella this week; not surprising by anyone who has seen Demon Days… The core of the band from Coachella made their way to the Colbert set to roll out a bit of ‘Stylo’, including Greg House on Bass, and Bobby Womack on vocals (who, as much of a legend as [...]

The XX’s debut has been, for me, the best album in a long while (though that will change now that ‘This is Happening’ is set for release – more about that later); and ‘Islands’ is probably the best track on what is a stellar album. Somehow, the emotion built by the simplicity kills me everytime [...]

Very very cool. Spike Jonze in the chair. If you haven’t heard it already (lcdsoundsystem.com/thisishappening), the new album “This Is Happening” should be called “This Is Awesome”.

I think Wilco and Vincent Moon share an important quality. Pretty much everything they do is fantastic. While I haven’t really spent too much time enjoying the most recent Wilco album (and I’m not seeing them live this year either), Vincent Moon just reminded me how mental I’ve been about 1) not listening to ‘Wilco’ [...]

“On a cold day in spring time”… Blur getting back together last year was probably reunion that gave me the most warm fuzzies. I’ve always loved them. Oasis sat as in your face pricks – Blur were like the slacker bunch of kids down the road who played football and cracked jokes at each other. [...]