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The new MMXII sees Killing Joke preaching the same nihilistic vision they have for over 30 years. As front man Jaz Coleman says, the rest of the world is only now catching up.

For Talking Heads, Beck’s collaborators Gavin Hurley and Parallel Dance Ensemble’s Robin Hannibal talked PDE’s Juices, the song that frames their collaboration.

At the Third Man Records SXSW showcase in Austin Texas last month, Jack White headlined the lineup, debuting material from his new solo album Blunderbuss and retooling songs from The White Stripes, The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather with the muscle of two new bands – one all-female and one all-male.

The day after the showcase, VOLUME had an audience with the newly solo renaissance man.

Volume traveled to Austin courtesy of STA Travel, and this interview was shot using Panasonic GH2 cameras.

Each week Duncan Greive performs some low grade analysis on the week’s New Zealand Singles Chart and reviews a few new release pop singles.

The album cover for Up Here For Dancing shows Anthonie Tonnon at the window seat of a plane, face obscured as he gazes, perhaps worryingly, outside which is particularly fitting as it focuses on Auckland, but is written by a newcomer.

Terence Hogan recalls his memories of seeing Toy Love play live, smashed watermelon, broken glass, blood, sweat and all.

The late, great New Zealand music journalist Dylan Taite put his body on the line to get a scoop, going above and beyond to secure classic interviews with the likes of Bob Marley, Lou Reed and the Sex Pistols.

Each week Duncan Greive performs some low grade analysis on the week’s New Zealand Singles Chart and reviews a few new release pop singles.

Mark Lanegan has long been one of the most magnetic and mercurial rock vocalists. Blues Funeral, his first solo album in eight years, could be his best work yet.

The night before he relocated to New York City, a 19-year-old Nathan Haines nearly had his plans derailed by a close encounter with the boys in blue.

If albums provide a snapshot of a moment in time for an artist, then no title could be more apt in describing PNC’s current state of mind than Under the Influence.