Even for the notoriously restless Neil Young , "Arc" is a weird sideline in his lengthy career. An offshoot from the fantastic ...

It’s May, and down here that means New Zealand Music Month , a celebration I grow increasingly fond of every year. For such a wee little co...

Well on and on and on and on I can't stop y'all 'til the early morn' So rock y'all tick tock y'all to the bea...

When I saw that Elvis Costello was going to be performing in Northern California the same time I was making my quasi-annual pilgrimage to t...

Ah, cassettes. They still seem fashionably retro to me, a spot I realize CDs in general probably occupy for everyone under the age of 30....

Some bands will always take you to a certain time in your life. For me, Urge Overkill is the sound of 1993. Urge were a bit of the odd ...

A band with rousing accordion riffs, a thundering horn section and the occasional lusty tuba solo isn't the sort of act you'd think...

There’s no reason this album should be any good, really. It’s by a former supermodel-turned-zombie-movie-actress. While Milla Jovovich has...

...One thing that happens as you get older is your idols get older, too. It's hard to believe David Bowie is of retirement age today - ...

It's that time of year, so here my picks for my favorite music of 2011, in alphabetical order: Beirut, “The Rip Tide” Sometimes sad is ...

R.E.M. have called it quits , which saddens me -- not as much as it might once have, perhaps, but it's still worth taking a moment to re...

Death changes how you listen to an artist. You can't help it. Try putting on Amy Winehouse 's "Rehab" this week and not th...

I do feel bad for the children of rock stars. Never mind all the lunacy involved around growing up being Keith Richards Jr or whomever, but ...

The beautiful thing about Bob Dylan for me is that you never quite get to the bottom of him. After a casual Dylan fandom for years, I dove...

When a soundtrack is at its peak, it evokes a movie but also kind of surpasses it -- you listen to the crashing cadences of Strauss for ...

What is P-Funk ? It's a style of music, a state of mind, a sprawlingly ridiculous cosmology all shepherded by the fried brain of one Geo...

I zipped on down to Auckland's mighty Real Groovy Records for a couple hours today for Record Store Day 2011 , celebrated worldwide as ...

OK, so this week was pretty much a disaster I'd like to forget. The terrible earthquake , more dismaying family sickness news, lots of q...

...So where were we? Last time around in my excavation into my box of mix tapes of ye olden pre-iPod days, I looked at a tape from 1992. Th...

Freedy Johnston, "Can You Fly" (1992) The world has a surplus of singer/songwriters, sensitive guys with guitars penning odes to t...