I first heard Flight of the Conchords on a blog. A music blog. The blog, one of those ubiquitous mp3-embedded kinds directed me to a hilarious seven-minute YouTube clip featuring the duo that calls itself “New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo. Read more
Psst…were you a hippy in the nineteen-sixties and seventies? Er, okay, you don’t want to answer that question, right? Or, perhaps you were too young or not even around those days. So here’s another. Did you ever like hippie music? You know what I mean, music from the psychedelic sixties, tunes that reek of incense, patchouli and, of course, other unmentionable substances. Read more
The best thing about scouring for music on the Internet is that you discover new bands and musicians constantly. Sometimes these are brand new outfits, lurking under the radar, like hidden treasure that’s waiting to be discovered. Read more
Christmas and New Year’s Eve have just gone by and a rather tumultuous year is over. This is the time of the year many of us badly need some uplifting music. I do, for sure. In the old days that used to mean making your own mix-tape, raiding your own larder of music to do a compilation of what you’d think would go down well with a tumbler or two of eggnog on a nice cold evening. Read more
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