“I used to get ten dollars a week pocket money from my parents, but now I also get extra money from a man in a suit who isn’t my dad. My favourite colour is red and if I could be any dinosaur I’d be a Raptor. ROARRRR.”

- Timmy, Operator Please, 9 yrs old.
In a [...]

For those who were wishing to reserve their judgement on the newest incarnation of The Vines, solely based upon a studio-recorded offering from the upcoming record Brain Dead and not their recent less-than-staggering Australian MTV Music Awards comeback performance - now’s your chance.
“He’s A Rocker” follows the tried and tested Vines melodic-grunge formula, but who [...]

Here’s a few shots taken at the Essential Festival on Friday. It was a great day of music and a good opportunity for me to see a bunch of bands I normally wouldn’t have gone to see. I left half way through Ratatat due to the fact that by that point it just got too [...]

NICE HAT.

It’s been four long years since The Music’s second studio album, Welcome To The North. After a ridiculously long hiatus which left many fans wondering if they would ever even make it to their third album, the wait is finally over.
Strength In Numbers has been slated for a release sometime in June, and judging [...]

From the combined genius of the man with more mash than a lousy London pub meal (The E.L.F.) and the self-declared ONEMANPARTY (Steve Slingeneyer of Soulwax fame), comes this positively lovely remix of the former’s EP title track, “Stevie Nicks Heart”. Gone is the nostalgic 80’s blue light disco ’slow song’ vibe, which has been [...]

Well howdy folks. So there we have it. Words cannot describe the greatness of the above image. The hats. The ‘tache. Even the lame ‘outer-glow’ Photoshop effect on the lettering - it’s all completely, and utterly brilliant. Just sit in awe and bask in all of its nerd glory. June 24th can’t come sooner. We [...]

I’ve spent most of today hunched over my laptop scratching my head, trying to figure out how to best review Saturday’s Die! Die! Die! Vs. All in Attendance show at the Oxford Art Factory. After several attempts, I’ve come to the conclusion that the only way to properly assess the ferocious evening of New Zealand [...]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Andrew Bird’s introduction to the blogging world, Measure for Measure, over at the NY Times website. Andrew Bird wrote about his songwriting process, and in particular, let it slip that he was off to record his next record, which would include a song titled “Oh No!”.
Since then, [...]

It’s been quite a while since we’ve heard from The Strokes after their third studio release, First Impressions Of Earth, back in early 2006. Between Albert Hammond Jr.’s solo project, Nick Valensi and Nikolai Fraiture’s babies, Fabrizio Moretti’s dumpin’ of Drew Barrymore and Julian Casanblancas’ whole lotta nothing, I had pretty much assumed that The [...]

Lately, this place has been acting as some kind of a one stop spot for all things Weezer, what with the recent emergence of “Pork and Beans” and all, but we promise there will be some local content, soon! Anywoo, here’s Step 7 in the most ridiculously hilarious YouTube series EVER. I’m sure hardcore fans [...]