It will be a lively year for our music scene, with a little help from some friends, writes Hamish Mckenzie
They're not a label, promoter, or even a management agency. In fact, even after ...
A close encounter with French retro-electro-rock trio This is Pop at the opening night of the Modern Young People exhibition reminded me of how cool a simple music set up can be; as long ...
Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1962, frequent chart-topper Lisa Ono was exposed to traditional Brazilian music such as samba, bossa nova, and rhumba at a tender age. The Japanese singer-guitarist ...
The TV soundtrack LP is a curious beast, often a collection of dully unobtrusive incidental pieces (such as the downbeat electronica favoured by Grey's Anatomy) or a thinly disguised ...
Though it clocks in at only 25 minutes, That Fleeting Feeling is much more of an album than Regina Chang and Vincent Wong's first long-player, Musica de Digitalia (2006). While the latter ...
Railing against Gary, Howard, Jason, and Mark (that's in alphabetical order - lest fans imagine some slight against their fave) is like flailing at the Matterhorn with a mitten or, ...
On the title track of her new album, Britney Spears deems herself the "ringleader" and "the one who calls the shots," a claim to which her personal life (or at least the messy version proffered ...
Keyshia Cole's fame runs only four years deep, but it's already hard to see her as anything other than a heartbreak queen. Known for emotionally raw slow jams like I Should Have Cheated ...
Thank God the season of total musical stupidity is over. There is absolutely nothing rock and roll about Christmas, so that Glitter pervert can get lost. And what kind of God sends his ...
The Beijing Games notwithstanding, 2008 kind of sucked (well, for us anyway). What better way, then, to leave it all behind than to lose yourself in the eclectic music on offer at City ...