Archive for November, 2009
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Laneway Festival 2010
Echo and the Bunnymen| The 3Ds| Daniel Johnston| The XX| The Phoenix Foundation| The Black Lips| N.A.S.A| Hockey| Surf City| Sarah Blasko| Dear Time’s Waste| Florence and the Machine| Cut Off Your Hands| The Dirty Three| Street Chant| The Family Cactus| The Naked and Famous
February 1, 2010 - Britomart Square, Auckland
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Daniel Johnston
Many […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Auckland, New Zealand by Nick Fulton
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Recent Reviews
The Gladeyes- Psychosis of Love
8/10
“The interplay of the band, consisting of Jade Farley and Gwen Norcliffe, and their charmingly coy and subtle singing style coupled with their insightful lyrics are the winning formula here.”
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The Gladeyes- Monika: MP3
Tyondai Braxton- Central Market
6/10
“While it can err on the annoying side, feeling at times overly indulgent […]
No Comments » - Posted in Featured Reviews by Nick Fulton
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Tyondai Braxton- Central Market
Tyondai Braxton- Central Market
6/10
On his second solo album Battles vocalist Tyondai Braxton focuses largely on those quasi-orchestral arrangements that helped make his work with the math rock band so revered. Staccato rhythms and oddly squelching sound effects feature prominently, first track ‘Opening Bell’ features familiar edgy melodies and strangely happy-sounding military whistles as heard in […]
No Comments » - Posted in Album, Reviews by Sarah Gooding
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Lightning Bolt live photos
Lightning Bolt
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
San Francisco Bathhouse, Wellington
Photos By Michael Harvey
More Lightning Bolt live photos
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
God Bows To Math/TFF interview
Double Happiness
Released on Monday, November 23, MUZAI Records presented two bands on one split CD. First is Auckland hardcore punk outfit God Bows To Math, with four tracks of spitting aggression and spiralling feedback. Then it’s TFF, the Dunedin teenagers who craft long, noisy jams using high pitched guitar screeches and crooked saxophone playing. I […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Auckland, Dunedin, New Zealand by Nick Fulton
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
The Gladeyes- Psychosis of Love
The Gladeyes- Pyschosis of Love
8/10
Expertly pieced together from songs spanning many years in age, The Gladeyes’ long awaited Psychosis of Love kicks off with the most familiar song ‘Monika’. Each song has been embellished lightly (flourishes of instrumentation, extra backing vocals), but retains the essence of what made them swoonworthy in the first place. Their […]
No Comments » - Posted in Album, Reviews by Sarah Gooding
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Wild Palms
Heretic Descendant
Taking cues from The Fall and Bauhaus, London’s Wild Palms are rendering a new strain of aggressive, post-industrial postpunk. Their trademark staunch, mechanical bass and guitar scrape away any superfluous decorations for a suitably dreary, industrialised sound. Wild Palms have been touted as a band to watch by NME, and listening to their debut […]
No Comments » - Posted in London, UK by Sarah Gooding
Friday, November 20th, 2009
The Phoenix Foundation: new single & EP
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 (Wild Bill Ricketts) and Richie Singleton (Rebel Peasant) both released their debut albums in 2009. […]
1 Comment » - Posted in New Zealand, Wellington by Nick Fulton
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Grooms
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 mélange of shimmering, powdery drums and whiny adolescent vocals. ‘Dreamsucker’ is an immediate favourite, with its glistening guitar and bass […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A by Sarah Gooding
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Dandi Wind
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 edition 7″ silkscreen printed vinyl split with Chicago’s Dead Gods, which you can buy from […]
