One of the holy triumvirate of New Zealand indie rock bands who crept quietly into the college radio scene in the early & mid 1980s (alongside the Clean and the Bats), the Chills started with the same  …

Recently, I came across the disturbing fact that most of my frie-nds never listened to this band. Therefore, this mix is an attempt to breath life into one of rock's most talented acts. Supposedly due  …

Here's a single artist mix I never wanted to do. How do I narrow down decades of work that has influenced musicians, deejays and pop culture alike? I mean, the man did write "Manic Monday" for the Ban …

The final disc. Yes, I've skipped tons of his albums after Hawks & Doves. This does not mean that I hate every one of them (although I think a few are awful), but it *does* mean that I don't think ther …

Discs three and four. Last track cut from these two discs: "The Old Homestead."

It's hard to think of an artist (other than the Beatles) who had as consistent a run of amazing records as Neil Young did from 1969 to 1980. This set of discs is a revised (and expanded) version of the …

I've always wavered on the quality of Ben Folds' music, both with his original Ben Folds Five trio and as a solo artist. On the plus side, his piano-based indie rock has always had a distinctive sound  …

Listening to this just amazes me.Title comes from reading the back of an album.