Kenny Dixon Jnr is one of the handful of househeads really worth checking live, he's militant, soulful, talented. And he's putting on a Mahogani Music night featuring Andres and Pirahna Head, Paul Randolph, Roberta Sweed and Nikki-O at Liquid Rooms at the end of July, the day before I ...
iPods are a big step forward - as much a hot new technology as a zeitgeist defining change in the way people listen to music - but the manufacture seems pretty average on the recent models. My 4th gen 40GB model died after only five months. Fortunately I'm ...
Hordes of Japanese artists, designers, musicians, video artists, sculpters, rappers, pop stars and some seriously random kids descend on Tokyo every six months to show their wares. The Design Festa was at the massive Tokyo Big Sight festival hall on May 15. ...
Five months since I left my weekly radio show in Australia. Radio too - it's not that easy to catch radio without a tuner (travelling with an iPod and a laptop) and without knowing the local stations. But I'm dying to hear some good radio... so podcasts? Any ...
Ben Frost was fantastic at TINA* last year, I got hooked on his band School of Emotional Engineering at the same time. He collaborated with Melbourne video artist Khalid whose beautiful abstract images, simple visuals and understated approach really impressed me. Anyway Khalid has a ...
If you're in Tokyo you have to be doing regular karaoke. Here's a quick primer. Oasis - Shakermaker Sonny and Cher - I Got You Babe Simon & Garfunkel - I Am A Rock Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself The Who - Substitute ...
Listening to jazz is cool, but reading about it is wild. It’s the only way to cut through the kid-gloves holding-an-antique thing most people have with jazz these days. I’m reading Miles Davis’s autobiography. Sure he was well educated – musically and otherwise – but he will try ...
"Artists like Linkin Park and Coldplay could be the first of many flare-ups, with more artists starting to view themselves as small business units and not major label adjuncts." Digital Music News. Bands like Gorillaz, Limp Bizkit or Coldplay are driving the bottom line of their ...
1. Various – Sexual Life of Savages: Underground Post Punk from Sao Paolo, Brazil (Soul Jazz LP) This dark rhythmic punk funk puts most of the white bread stuff currently exciting the NME to shame. Highlights for me are tracks by Fellini and As Mercenarias....
I was a little skeptical at first, but so many sites are tacking on Google Ads - loads of blogs, Sydney Morning Herald and Inthemix.com.au - and plenty of people are talking about the profits from doing it. So there's now one on Fortune Grey. ...
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