It’s A Quarter After One, I’m A Little Drunk, And I Need You Now Taylor Swift was a breath of fresh air the moment she appeared on the charts with Fearless. For those of us that were watching her fairytale unfold, which saw her become the biggest selling artist in…

Converse and K-Y present Real Groove’s Awesome Feeling 4 live at Cassette Number Nine this Friday. You bought the magazine and downloaded the album – now check out the Awesome Feeling 4 party featuring The Drab Doo-Riffs, Diana Rozz, Mothers of Darkness, Sam Hamilton and introducing Leno Lovecraft. Hosted by…

Young Sid What Doesn’t Kill Me… ***** South Auckland MC turns a penetrating gaze inward and outward on his masterful second album. Following a spectacular flowering a decade ago lead by Scribe and Dawn Raid, the Aotearoa Hip Hop Summits and Breakin Wreckwordz, Major Flavours and Big Things – after…

When the mysterious masked man they call Doom describes a producer as “the illest to grace the boards”, you know that something a little special is going on. The recipient of that prestigious big-upping is a feller from Cheshire, Northern England who goes by the name Mr Chops (or Coz…

The Rolling Stones’ studio output is undoubtedly impressive – at least up until the ’80s – but it’s their live reputation that earned them the title of ‘The World’s Greatest Rock’n’Roll Band’. That tag line was first used on The Stones’ 1969 tour, a year that was chock full of…

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting to come across any music tonight that would impress me into any sort of proactivity regarding the doom of Fleet FM, financially or otherwise. Hell, I live on the North Shore (don’t judge me), I can’t even pick up the frequency for Fleet!  But…

“I wanted 10 pence for the dryer/ Yes that was how we met/ My laundry bag was broken/ My clothes were soaking wet.” So begins Launderette, the one and only solo single by Vivien Goldman, released in 1981. Better known for encapsulating artists in words than actually being one, Goldman…

For a second there, I thought about just copying and pasting the lyrics from Poi E and letting that be the Chart Attack post for the week. The song moves up four places this week to number three, which hopefully means that it’ll now have the momentum it needs to…

Within a few short years, Anton Zap has made himself an indispensable part of deep house and has displayed a growing talent for mining late night emotion from his productions. The Russian producer has consistently hit the mark of late, as his recent emission for the Millions of Moments label…

New Zealand-born double bassist Jonathan Zwartz left this country for Australia in the early ’80s, studied in the US while playing alongside the likes of Rufus Reid, and returned to Sydney a couple of decades ago. He can tick off playing with Pharoah Sanders, Branford Marsalis, the Laine-Dankworth ensemble, most…