Tagged: chch

According to the New York Times , Spin Magazine has parted ways with its longtime editor Doug Brod , as well as its publisher Malcolm Campbell . Spin has made this change despite a more than 20% increase in advertising revenue during the first quarter of 2011. Still, the McEnvoy group, who purchased the magazine in 2006, felt a change needed to be made.  The NYT speculates that the change has to do with Spin establishing itself as a magazine that breaks independent artists over mainstream stars.  [...]

WHAT ? Two Vanessa Carlton posts in one day? CRAZY ! Thanks to an anonymous commenter on my blog, I learned that the album artwork for Vanessa Carlton 's 4th album, Rabbits On The Run , has also been released. The album is due June 21st on Razor & Tie . As I mentioned in my previous post , first single " Carousel " is due [...]

In a bit of April Fools Buff(al)oonery, The Deloreans - who you'll recall I wrote about towards the beginning of the year - announced a new farcical chillwave project name CH@CH@.  Riffing on their strong single "Buffalo," here is an alternate take. I'm going to leave this one mostly alone and allow you to compare...

• Buffalo » CH@CH@-Buffalo-single.mp3

As many of you might have picked up, I'm not from London. I'm from New Zealand, a part of the world that many (well, Australians at least) refer to as the 'shaky isles' . I'm proud of my country and my heritage. So it was extremely disturbing to watch from a a far as Christchurch - New Zealand's second largest city - was rocked by a major earthquake which has impacted thousands of people, my family included. This was the second quake in [...]