Even though I consider myself one of the coolest people I know, my abnormally high street cred instantly drops mega points whenever this embarrassing factoid arises: I don’t know who Pharrell is.
There was a time when I was able to get away with this small character flaw. If the topic of Pharrell ever came [...]

As I reported earlier in the month, Michel Gondry’s dear little brother Olivier “The Twist” Gondry (best known for his work with The Vines, The Chemical Brothers and Hot Hot Heat) has directed and edited a video for Daft Punk’s classic, “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”, off their upcoming live tour DVD due out later this [...]

Taken from Jason Schwartzman’s iTunes Playlist:
“I remember when this record first came out. It crushed me. I went bowling with some friends before the album came out, and one of these guys had heard the record, and they described to me how it opened with this ‘DING DING DING DING!’ I envisioned it and envisioned [...]

I originally wrote out a reasonably long post about this video, firstly critiquing the song and then following up with the video itself. I have since decided to scrap that idea and just sum it up in three bulletpoints:
- Bad haircuts
- Pointy shoes
- Eyelashes
That’s about all the depth I could find in this poorly made [...]

The first time I told you all about Tim Shiel, AKA, Faux Pas, I somehow managed to successfully compare the Melbournite to DC Comics’ iconic pointy-eared caped crusader: Batman. But after recently receiving a self-described “schizophrenic 3am mailing list message” from Monsieur Pas, announcing the release of his upcoming Changes EP, I now realise that [...]

INT. CADILLAC ADVERTISING BOARDROOM - DAY
HEAD OF ADVERTISING
Thank you all for coming. We’re here to finalise the campaign for the 2008 Cadillac Escalade. Did you all receive the memo?
The entire ADVERTISING COMMITTEE nod in unison.
HEAD OF ADVERTISING
Excellent. Now before I start, are there any questions regarding the direction we’re taking?
A young, handsome blonde-haired, junior [...]

If the award for this-month’s-most-blogged-about-music-related-topic went to Radiohead’s In Rainbows, then the runner up would surely be Anton Corbjin’s suitably bleak and depressing Ian Curtis biopic, Control.
Because I’m lazy, I won’t state the obvious or attempt a review of the film (’Sam Riley’s performance is fantastic’ blah blah etc.), but I will say this: [...]

One of the most memorable moments I have ever experienced at a gig was when The Shins took the stage at Enmore Theatre earlier in the year. “Sleeping Lessons” was the song, already the opener of their most recent album Wincing The Night Away, and therefore a perfect starter to the show.
The song began slowly, [...]

Those Swedish youngsters known as The Hives have delivered us another ridiculously catchy first single, this time off their latest album, The Black and White Album. With a video that’s so Hives it hurts, director Kalle Haglund (who’s had plenty of experience directing the boys in earlier videos for “Main Offender” and “Walk Idiot Walk”) [...]

Barely a week after the digital release of Radiohead’s In Rainbows record, Billboard.com are already reporting that the most-blogged-about-band-of-the-year are currently planning a 2008 world tour:
“We plan to tour next year, starting in May through to probably the end of the year. With lots of holidays in that period,” says Bryce Edge of Courtyard Management, [...]

It looks as though those borderline-obsessive questions I hypothetically asked myself regarding the content on Rivers Cuomo’s upcoming demo compilation, Alone, finally got some answers. And it took a ‘professional’ to get them. Typical. From Rollingstone.com:
…According to Cuomo, the comp will have roughly “eighteen tracks, and it’s spanning my demo-making career from 1992 to 2007, [...]

These days I purposely go out of my way to avoid bands tagged with the ever-popular sub-genre category known as ‘garage rock’. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the genre - hell, I enjoy a ripped-jeans toe-tapper as much as the next screaming teenage girl - it’s just the complete over-saturation the genre itself [...]