Fledge takes flight

Ben Campbell’s nascent Christchurch creative co- operative Fledge is showing a bit of muscle. The former member of Zed and Atlas, who now channels his music into House of Mountain, is a mentor for the New Zealand Music Commission and a director of Fledge Records – and now he has found chart success with Jed and Hera’s debut album, Live At York St

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Short songs with lots of mystery

When John Linnell and John Flansburgh were kids in Lincoln, Massachusetts, they used to love those cheap and cheerful TV ads for top-40 compilation records. Remember the K-tel pitch Twenty original artists, 20 original hits, with tiny grabs of each lined up to ring in your brain like rapid-fire sugar hits.

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Taylor Swift Shares Her Songwriting Process

“Songs start in strange, quirky ways” Swift on be a songwriter.    Taylor Swift was recently the feature guest of VH1’s “Storytellers” where she shared, among other things, her song writing process.   Swift Going to be Featured on VH1’s “Storytellers”  When the news broke that Taylor Swift would be featured on an upcoming episode […]

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