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Einstein Music Journal (EMJ) is New Zealand's foremost MP3 music blog, featuring new music from New Zealand and around the world.

Latest Blog Posts

  • The Phoenix Foundation: new single & EP on Nov 19, 2009 in New Zealand Wellington

    Happy Festivus It’s been a pretty quiet year for The Phoenix Foundation while the individual band members all focus on their own solo projects. Luke Buda and Samuel Flynn Scott both released their second solo albums last year and Will Ricketts...

  • Grooms on Nov 19, 2009 in Brooklyn New York U.S.A

    Ride The Frightening   Grooms (née Muggabears) from Brooklyn create the kind of hedonistic fantasy grunge that Sonic Youth and Pavement did in their heyday, combining powerful, churning guitar lines and intelligent basslines merging blissfully in a...

  • Dandi Wind on Nov 17, 2009 in Canada

    Secret Little Opiate   While most of us have been captivated by Dandilion Wind Opaine’s other band Fan Death all year, she has been secretly recording some new material for Dandi Wind. To reward our patience she has released a new limited edit...

  • Har Mar Superstar interview on Nov 16, 2009 in California Los Angeles U.S.A

    Gangsters Want To Cuddle Me   Har Mar Superstar (real name Sean Tillmann) has just finished a short, sweet US tour with Bang Bang Eche, and continues on the road with his white-clad band, but touring is not all he’s been busy with. The enigma...

  • The Drums on Nov 14, 2009 in Brooklyn New York U.S.A

    I Don’t Care About Nothin’ One of the big things with the internet is that it really opens up the world and removes a lot of ideas about seasonal music. The last few months we’ve been enjoying a lot of sun-inflected blissed-out su...

  • Javelin on Nov 13, 2009 in Brooklyn New York Providence Rhode Island U.S.A

     Dollar Bins of the Future Javelin is the experimental sampled-based music created by cousins George Langford and Tom Van Buskirk who have been making music all their lives, but have been producing music as Javelin since 2004. They have created an...

  • Urbantramper- Rise and Ride Toward on Nov 13, 2009 in Album Reviews

     Urbantramper- Rise and Ride Toward 8/10 Following up 2007’s Tokon & The Colours was always going to be difficult, but Urbantramper has made a record that not only complements it, they’ve made a record that explores new subjects and...