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...

One of the best side effects of "The Avengers" movie being a mega-hit worldwide is that people are starting to think the Hulk is...

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...

Short review of “Avengers”: I loved it. Longer story: I remember the crazy, epic excitement I felt when Tim Burton’s “Batman” was being f...

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...

So, our car was stolen last week. Evaporated into thin air in the middle of a nice afternoon, parked on the street one moment, gone the next...

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....

I realise that there is an awful lot of things that Peter , age 8, may never really grow up with that his dad, 40, took for granted. The no...

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 ...

On February 18, 2004, we welcomed a new addition to our house. Today, Peter's a whopping EIGHT years old, which seems impossible to b...