Archive for February, 2010
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Eeling
Pistol Grip Prodigy
This is what happens when three of New Zealand’s best bands move to Melbourne. Street Chant’s Alex Brown, Sharpie Crows‘ Casey Latimer and Damsels‘ Adam Fulton have joined forces to create a hellishly exciting new band named Eeling. The trio shred, scream and pound their instruments into a furious ball of noise, creating […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Australia, Melbourne by Nick Fulton
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Nice Birds- Swirly
Nice Birds- Swirly
6/10
Swirly, the debut EP from Auckland trio Nice Birds is a trip back to the post-punk days of ‘93, forwarded to 2010 where the band, fresh from high school, have formulated a grungy, rough around the edges sound. They’ve spent the past year as shy underdogs on the local Auckland punk scene; picked […]
6 Comments » - Posted in Album, Reviews by Nick Fulton
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Moon Duo
Close Your Starry Eyes
Sloppy, sludgy psych rock from San Francisco with an ultra hazy finish and a magnificent innuendo; it’ll make your eyes blurry for days. Wooden Shjips’ Erik ‘Ripley’ Johnson (guitar/vocals) and his partner Sanae Yamada (keys) make up the band; creating a deep, dark nucleus of sound that punches sharply through the inner […]
No Comments » - Posted in California, San Francisco, U.S.A by Nick Fulton
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Recent Reviews
Megasus- Megasus
7/10
“The band inherits Kyuss’s stoner noodling in the quiet intro to ‘Swords’ before building up to a tumbling metal ode. Elsewhere they derive Slayer’s stereotypical spiralling guitar squalls in a subtle manner (’Hexes/Szaadek’), all with trademark aggressive overdrive to give their sound a melodic unison.”
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Megasus- Megasus: MP3
Owen Pallett- Heartland
10/10
“It’s strikingly original, […]
No Comments » - Posted in Featured Reviews by Nick Fulton
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Pantha Du Prince- Black Noise
Pantha Du Prince- Black Noise
4/10
Hendrik Weber aims to illustrate the illustrious sounds that we don’t perceive, but that are all around us. These everyday noises, or frequencies, are what he deems Black Noise, and it’s his goal to make music that represents this. Weber’s minimalist ambient techno is somewhat aspirational as it at least attempts […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Album, Reviews by Sarah Gooding
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Megasus- Megasus
Megasus- Megasus
7/10
Megasus’ debut album of crushing power metal may catch some curious Lightning Bolt fans by surprise. The sheer heaviness of the screeching, hard-hitting guitar-squalling album is far from drummer Brian Gibson’s usual noise attack he delivers with Lightning Bolt as their bassist. Here Gibson employs a character-filled haphazard drumming style to strip convention from […]
No Comments » - Posted in Album, Reviews by Sarah Gooding
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
HEALTH live photos
HEALTH
Saturday, February 20, 2010
San Francisco Bathhouse, Wellington
Photos by Michael Harvey
More Live Photos
2 Comments » - Posted in Live photos by Nick Fulton
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Dinosauruxia: New Single
Floating Naked Through Space
Our favourite Finnish girls, the loverly Emilia Lagk and Sanna Lehto, are about to release a brand new single titled ‘Safe’. It is being officially released tonight at a party in Helsinki, and will be available for purchase from tomorrow.
In the past year we’ve become accustomed to Dinosauruxia’s music as a wild, […]
No Comments » - Posted in Finland by Nick Fulton
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
White Hinterland
Future Sex
In October last year we bought you White Hinterland’s fantastic cover version of Justin Timberlakes’s ‘My Love’. It was our first encounter with Casey Dienel’s soft, eloquent voice, and we’ve since discovered that White Hinterland has a new album, titled Kairos, coming out on March 9 via Dead Oceans (Bishop Allen, Akron/Family).
After releasing two […]
No Comments » - Posted in Oregon, Portland, U.S.A by Nick Fulton
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Nice Birds interview
Kind Mutation
Nice Birds began on the North Shore of Auckland at the end of January last year. Born somewhat out of the ashes of two Northcote bands (Fox In French and The Happy Rainbow band), Nice Birds’ Michael MacDonald, Tim Berry and Alex Grant bonded over a mutual appreciation of post punk (particularly Joy Division, […]
