2008

If you’re one of those people who just needs to have a bigger music collection then all your friends, we’ve got quite the opportunity for you. The world’s undisputed largest collection of recorded music is now on sale via EBay. A three million dollar opening bid gives you the chance to buy three million records and 300,000 CDs. Have fun importing all of those bad boys into iTunes.

Here are some links to help you fight the mid-week blues:

• Don’t try to bring more than 72 beers to Rothbury
• Thieves make off with $25k worth of Matt Costa’s gear
• Photo Gallery: A Day In The Life of The Beatles
• Did you know Tiger Woods digs Van Halen?
• Stereogum’s Oldstand looks at an old issue of Rolling Stone
• Spinner counts down the 25 Best Band logos
• Popdose offers The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Toto
• Jeff Miller reviews night four of the Wilco Residency

Finally, Mike Gordon sat-in with Melvin Sparks at Nectar’s this weekend. Read on for two incredibly funky clips…

New Zealand’s 4th most popular musical comedy band, Flight Of The Conchords, have put together a fantastically hilarious mockumentary about their experience at SXSW called A Texan Odyssey. So, if

If you aren’t able to attend Wilco’s five night “bust ’em all out” residency, you’ll still get a chance to listen to one show as it happens. Audio of tonight’s

Over the last few years our neighbors to the North have been exporting some of the most buzzed about bands around. So much has been written about these acts, that I won’t waste your time rattling off a laundry list of them. There is one band though that has been greatly overlooked among the art-rock and indie-pop that we’ve been eating up like plates full of poutine (and coincidently happen to be rather huge in their native land) – Sam Roberts Band.

Despite the rather mundane moniker the band has been nominated for multiple Juno awards – Canada’ version of the Grammy’s – for their last two albums; raking in a trifecta of them in 2004 for Artist, Album and Rock Album of the year for their major label debut We Were Born In A Flame. While I would normally avoid most things that resemble a radio-friendly mainstream rock band, it’s really hard to not like these guys. So don’t be a hoser and read on eh…