"When Prince was on New Girl the storyline was that our characters got to attend a party at his house. To that end, he sent us a playlist of songs he would actually play at his parties. Here is that playlist, it's a good one." - Steve Welch, Editor & Producer of New Girl

In need of some new tunes? We’ve got you covered with our Under The Covers playlist which we update more often than most people change their sheets.

It goes without saying that we have a big crush on Connan Mockasin, and that he’s at the top of our list for must see acts at next year’s Laneway Festival alongside Royal Blood… and Flight Facilities… oh! and FKA Twigs… OK so we’re looking forward to the whole bill.

Back to Connan though…

Isn’t it good that Prince has quit the internet?

We’re not sure why exactly, but there’s a perverse rightness about it that bucks reason.

It didn’t make him and it (probably) can’t destroy him so oddly the move just seems RIGHT.

And there’s a delicious futility in posting about it.

Nice work little fella.

There was a time when you couldn’t get the record below with its super cool Mad Men sleeve. Some sort of complexity between the record labels for Jimmy Scott (the singer) and Ray Charles (who “musically supervised” the record for his label Tangerine).

 

Let’s be honest 80’s music is just “so yesterday” and the Noughties hasn’t aged as well as it should have… 90’s music on the other hand is rockin’ our world right now, and it appears we’re not the only ones…

It was a hot summer’s day in Los Angeles when I was first introduced to the sweet sounds of Haim. A friend and I were driving down La Cienega Boulevard we had just picked up the sampler EP made of recycled paper, stamped HAIM (a stamp being the official hipster seal of approval yeah).

I’m having a beer with a priest in Texas. This is South by Southwest, undeniably the world’s biggest and probably its best music festival.