Archive for January, 2012
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Thee Oh Sees live photos
Thee Oh Sees The Grand Chancellors The Spunks | Mr. Slackjaw Saturday, January 28, 2012 Mighty Mighty, Wellington Photos by Rachel Brandon More photos of Thee Oh Sees, The Grand Chancellors, The Spunks and Mr. Slackjaw
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
Transistors interview
Live Wires It’s shaping up to be an exciting year for Christchurch three-piece The Transistors. On Monday they will take the stage to play one of the noisiest sets of the day at Auckland’s Laneway Festival – then in March they’re heading to the USA to tour with Japanese punk band Guitar Wolf. (EMJ) Are […]
No Comments » - Posted in Christchurch,New Zealand by Nick Fulton
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Xiu Xiu: new video
Broken vista At first a jarring, disjointed combination of jilted synths, aggressive beats and Jamie Stewart’s always-staggering vocals, eventually you’ll find yourself getting lost in ‘Hi’, the first song from Xiu Xiu’s upcoming album Always. Its video, directed by Jamie and David Horvitz, follows Jamie on a roadtrip through upstate New York, with footage of […]
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
Pop. 1280: new album
Scuzz Puppies Controversial music critic Chris Weingarten called Pop. 1280 the “hardest working scumbags in the scuzzfuckery business”, when recently raving about them in the Village Voice and on Spin.com. It’s on Spin.com where you can listen to the band’s new album in its entirety, before it’s officially released on January 24 by New York […]
No Comments » - Posted in New York,U.S.A by Nick Fulton
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Autumn Splendour: interview and video premiere
Super 8 Obsession Auckland’s Autumn Splendour have a new video to share that was shot on Super 8 film and processed in Germany. We got the band to explain what they’re about and why they have an obsession with naming songs after themselves. (EMJ) When did you start Autumn Splendour and has it always been […]
No Comments » - Posted in Auckland,New Zealand by Nick Fulton
Monday, January 16th, 2012
Beirut live photos
Beirut with Tono and the Finance Company Saturday, January 14, 2012 The Opera House, Wellington Photos by Rachel Brandon See more photos of Beirut and Tono and the Finance Company
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Sunday, January 15th, 2012
COOLRUNNINGS
Acid Garage Knoxville, Tennessee’s COOLRUNNINGS just popped onto my radar with their new single ‘Spirits of the High’, a fuzzy psych-rock blow-out that channels all things from the Mothers of Invention to Wooden Shjips. The band began in 2009 when Brandon Biongo and Forrest Ferguson combined their solo-projects to perform live – they’re now a […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Tennessee,U.S.A by Nick Fulton
Monday, January 9th, 2012
Bugus
Success Is A Warm Tommy Gun Starting the year with some hip-hop – this is about the best thing I’ve heard so far in 2012. It comes from an Atlanta artist named Bugus, who released his debut album 2020 in 2011 and he’s been winning some pretty decent praise from my favourite hip-hop blog, Earmilk. […]
No Comments » - Posted in Atlanta,Georgia,U.S.A by Nick Fulton
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
Cartoon
Warped All Day Take a ride on Cartoon’s magic carpet through an interstellar world of warped synths, squeals and relentless barrelling drums. Listening to the album 69er On A Magic Carpet is like being stuck in a remixed computer game, upside down. Dizzying sounds whir past at breakneck speed in an ever-upbeat utopia. In the spirit […]
No Comments » - Posted in New Zealand,Wellington by Sarah Gooding
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Yuck interview
Ashes to Ashes Formed on a Kibbutz in Israel, Yuck is a British band proudly rocking an American sound. They’re heading to New Zealand later this month to play at the annual Laneway Festival. Here’s a brief exchange we had with Yuck’s chief songwriter Max Bloom. (EMJ) Hi Max. Where are you at the moment? […]
