So often, music forums descend into the classic trap of "my taste is more osbcure/cool/witty than yours". Personally I think thats death.

Hey hey from sexy Paris. The Chunnel gave me time to suss the User Pictures out. They are back.

Watching TV in New York, I see FOTC doing a promo for their upcoming show. General impression is they are being pushed like the most interesting upcoming show. I mean it was a full ad space slot - about 1 minute long, with the lads on a couch talking to camera and being, well, funny. This was after the HBO premiere movie and before the new series of Entourage (which seems huge this season in the US). Odds on the FOTC show being huge have got to be very very short. Yay!

Have added basic Profile and Country forms to user profiles. Unfortunately users will need to add information again. Old data is not available in the database but I can give you a link to your old profile if you so desire (post a comment below).

Also, new and fresh today is the Buddylist feature. You can add Buddys to your account by simply visiting the users account page, and requesting them to approve you. Users will be emailed this request and can choose to accept or not. All very web 2.0 of course. It will continue to improve over time as well. Enjoy the social awkwardness!

Blogs for NZM members are now open. It's a trial at this stage, just to see if there's any interest and also what kind of things people migt do with them. Go for it...