I went on Afternoons with @JMulliganRNZ to talk about how much I'm enjoying Search Engine with PJ Vogt . You can listen to me blabbing on here.... rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

I had a really great chat with kristin hersh for RNZ Music. I've never interviewed anyone who was so interested in what I thought about their music or made me laugh so much. Have a listen... rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Macauley Culkin looks like Thom Yorke cosplaying as Kid Rock

I just checked and I've got 116 albums on my 2023 list so far and at least 30 of those I tagged as "loved." I've got an equally long list of albums I still want to hear. Can't emphasize enough how much incredible music gets released all the time - I'll never catch up & that's ok

Guest hosting Music 101 this week: tune in for chats with twitter users KODY Marlon Williams Tom Scott K M T P , plus MĀ, a @rachie_ash cameo, and contributions from living legends Kara Rickard & Elliott Childs. 101FM at 1pm.

Tune in! Mainly because Tony is great and it'll be an awesome show but also because my reviews of new music by Mega Ran is a GRAMMY® Nom @brokenrecordcol and Umeko Ando are being played.

Conjuring  ZZ Top and the Dead much in the same way that the Minutemen chanelled CCR and Van Halen, the Meat Puppets' weird boogie odyssey ‘Huevos’ is one of the great American guitar records. An alternate history of punk where its major deity isn’t Johnny Thunders, it’s JJ Cale.

bandcamp editorial being gutted is particularly dark because some of the smartest writers and editors were over there covering scenes that *nobody* else would. 1 of the last music pubs that demonstrated unabashed curiosity, that treated music as an endlessly expanding world.

Laying off half the staff including the core editorial team isn’t business as usual. Songtradr had a chance to do the right thing, but many artists will look at today’s news and conclude that they’ve bungled it.

Weird Porirua music news from the BBC... bbc.com/news/world-asi…

I got to talk to marcissistdaticket about his fascinating book High Bias: The Distorted History Of The Cassette Tape. I had a great time chatting with Marc about the book and the way tapes changed music consumption. Have a listen here.... rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

have all the zoomers going nuts over "countrygaze" heard of the band neil young & crazy horse

When we recorded this on Monday, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry and I had no idea that Pitchfork would be gone by the time the episode dropped. Really feeling for everyone who lost their jobs. We need critics. Let critics live! newyorker.com/podcast/critic…

I saw Calexico at the Opera House in Wellington last night... it was brilliant. Full review for RNZ Music below. rnz.co.nz/news/top/50883…

This was fun! Talking about Hyperfixed Podcast and The Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast with Emile Donovan on RNZ rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

"I think it is fair to say that it’s possible to get a read on someone by looking at their record collection." - henryrollins, who turns 64 today. 💿 disc.gs/4hWEPKu

After months of work, my radio documentary on the influential guitarist Clarence White is out! featuring Ry Cooder and Gene Parsons discussing their late friend. rnz.co.nz/national/progr…