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Why you should always wear your heart on your sleeve. » When I like something, I like to tell the world. When I really love something; pretty much the whole wide world knows. But hey! Wearing your heart on ...
THE NON-STOP GIG! » 2010 is shaping up to be a pretty amazing concert-year. January, February! Oohhh don't even get started on March; dying in anticipation. If yo...
NICK JONAS AND THE ADMINISTRATION NEW ZEALAND ALBUM RELEASE DATE... » The debut album from NICK JONAS AND THE ADMINISTRATION will be released in New Zealand on February 8th 2010. The album 'Who I Am', was recorded in eig...
NICK JONAS AND THE ADMINISTRATION's debut performance... » We are currently busy compiling our best of lists of 2009. As well as a list of our most anticipated albums of 2010. Throughout various rounds...
CAGE THE ELEPHANT [ self-titled ] » A few seconds into CAGE THE ELEPHANT’s debut and self-titled album, and you already know exactly where you stand. It opens like something by...
JOHN MAYER - Battle Studies » I didn’t imagine I’d like JOHN MAYER’s new album, ‘Battle Studies’. ‘Your Body is a Wonderland’ kind of weirded me out, with its...
GIN WIGMORE and THE CARDINALS live at Nineteen42 » {slimbox images/partyfavours/ginwigmore-Nineteen42/ginwigmore1942-27nov2009-1-full.jpg, images/partyfavours/ginwigmore-Nineteen42/ginwigmore1942...
Born For This: PARAMORE are coming! » The cliché “When it rains, it pours”, has never been so true for New Zealand. March 2010 will see a musical downpour of massive proportions hit o...
JET hearts on fire - so come on, burn brighter. » JET. For serious. I must have caught Chris Cester in a philosophical mood. The Jet drummer hadn’t left his hotel in Raleigh, North Carolina, for 24 ...
St Jerome's Auckland Laneway Festival FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT! » The first announcement of Auckland’s inaugural St. Jerome’s Laneway festival knocked those of other, more established events out of the park. (Ech...
COUP DE MAIN <3 TAYLOR SWIFT!

coup de main hearts tayswift!

So! You've noticed that we have been rather quiet lately... Don't worry! We haven't run away to 'Where The Wild Things Are' just YET. We have however - run away to the land of koalas for IKEA adventures & TAYLOR SWIFT in Sydney & Melbourne. Back soon... xoxo
Read everything TAYLOR SWIFT HERE + more music tidbits
TAY SWIFT

tay swift!

Girl crush maybe? Check out how cute TAYLOR SWIFT is in this interview from the Grammys. By the sounds of it, I want a condo just like her! A moat around the fire place... what the??
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Taylor Swift at the Grammys

taylor @ Grammys

Taylor Swift at The Grammys. The 20-year-old beautiful singer wore a stunning Kaufman Franco dress, jewelry by Lorraine Schwartz, and Christian Louboutin shoes. Plus also watch her live performance!
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Sarah Blasko interview

sarah blasko on a wire

SARAH BLASKO deals well in opening salvos. The winsome songstress has turned loving and losing into award-winning triumph several times over, more recently with her third album 'As Day Follows Night'...
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Closet Heart Haiti

closet <3 haiti

CLOSET, Auckland based online T-shirt company have used their mad skills and brain power to initiate a way to raise funds for the Haiti cause. These wicked t-shirts are now available to puchase...
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Lily Allen live at Big Day Out

lily allen live @BDO

Poor LILY ALLEN had to contend with the aftermath of Dizzee Rascal madness - but for what she lacked in danceability, Lily made up in sass! Strutting the stage, alternating between kaoss pad & cigarette...
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Muse live at Big Day Out

muse live @BDO2010

Big Day Out 2010 headliners MUSE haven't earned their reputation as one of the world's best live bands, for nothing. Muse brought their expected stageshow tricks and more - a lot of lazers... a lot, of lazers.
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Sarah Blasko fashion lookbook
THE CRIBS NZ TOUR 2010!

Event Calendar

COUP DE MAIN IS LISTENING TO...
OK GO - Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky
VAMPIRE WEEKEND - Contra
MARINA & THE DIAMONDS - The Family Jewels

COMING SOON ON COUP DE MAIN...
Interviews with:
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE
THE ALMOST / UNDEROATH
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
THE HORRORS
THE DECEMBERISTS
PASSION PIT
THE TEMPER TRAP
KELLY BLATZ
LMFAO
MARINA & THE DIAMONDS
OK GO
YOU ME AT SIX
Ke$ha competition
Orianthi competition
Coup De Main's Best Albums Of 2009!
COUP DE MAIN's Best Albums Of 2009! As voted upon by our music writers - we countdown from 50-1... There's no other list like it.
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