Uptown Lowdown Year-End Special!
Uptown Lowdown wraps up 2021 with a Year-End Episode where we bring you our favourite albums, concerts, singles, films, interviews and more from 2021.
The Black Keys – El Camino (10th Anniversary Edition)
The Black Keys come up with the perfect solution for any last minute Christmas shopping for that rocker on your list.
The Matrix Resurrections – Director: Lana Wachowski: Film Review
The Matrix Resurrections – Director, Lana Wachowski Starring: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jessica Henwick, Neil Patrick Harris Eighteen years after the “last” Matrix film and 22 years after the much-lauded first Matrix film comes The Matrix Resurrections. So let us roll away the stone and see if this resurrection is worth getting excited about.
The End ft: P.H.F., Power Nap, Uncanny Valley & Toy Triptech – The Wine Cellar Dec 18, 2021
The Wine Cellar brings the very short “concert season” to a close with The End… four acts taking 2021 out kicking and screaming.
Dirt – Bloom: Album Review
Dirt is essential to well-being. For your health, roll around in it and consume it. An exploration of soundscapes which bleeds out of and into all manner of Pop Art. Feet planted in the magnificent Sixties and heart soaring out from there.
Josie Moon – Deep Space: New Song Of The Day
Josie Moon takes us to Deep Space. It’s the sophomore single from her debut album Paint Me How You Need Me.
Mel Parsons – The Tuning Fork December 16, 2021
Mel Parsons re-heats the Auckland live scene with her warm voice and cool songs.
Star Chart – Level Life: New Song Of The Day
Star Chart is Chrissie Hart with producer Jess Haugh. Today they release Level Life, inspired by being locked down in Auckland.
Troy Kingi Is Ready For The AMAs: Interview
Troy Kingi is in Auckland ready to perform and (hopefully) to accept at Tui or two at tonight’s Aotearoa Music Awards ceremony. Here he is with his “thoughts and feelings”.
Boom Crash Opera – Kick It Out Live: Interview
Boom Crash Opera. There’s a blast from the past! The Aussie band is still going strong with a live EP due out in February. Here’s vocalist Dale Ryder with the lowdown.
Cat Stevens – Teaser and the Firecat (Island)
Cat Stevens celebrates 50 years of Teaser and the Firecat, his biggest selling record, released originally in October of 1971.
Waxahatchee – Tomorrow: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) releases Tomorrow today! The new tune will appear on the soundtrack for El Deafo.
Noise – Moving From NY To NZ: 13th Floor Interview
Noise is a Wellington-based band led by Will Marshall who has recently moved back to New Zealand after an extended stay in the US. With a new band assembled Will and his Noise are set to rock Wellington’s Meow this Friday.
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raise The Roof (Warner)
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss finally follow up Raising Sand 14 years later. Was it worth the wait?
Shihad – Old Gods: Album Review
Shihad would like to kill those Old Gods. The Gods of death, war and destruction are also the Lords of the Future. Rebirth and regeneration.
Best Coast & The Linda Lindas – Leading: New Song Of The Day
Best Coast and The Linda Lindas team up on Leading and new tune that will feature on the Deluxe Edition of the latest Best Coast album, Always Tomorrow.
Leisure – Sunsetter: Album Review
LEISURE is what Sunsetter is. A deep dive into the immersive waters of Ambient Soul Sonic Groove Thang. The album glides across that ocean like a sleek racing yacht up on its foils.
Phoebe Rings – The Tuning Fork December 11, 2021
Phoebe Rings bring their brand of dream pop to The Tuning Fork as we ever so gently ease back into the live music scene and anxiously await moving into “orange”.
Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Paint The Red Rose Blue
Elvis Costello and his Imposters present a second song from their upcoming album, The Boy Named If. The song is named, Paint The Red Rose Blue.
Tame Impala – No Choice: New Song Of The Day
Tame Impala teases us with No Choice, a tasty track that will be part of The Slow Rush Deluxe Box Set, set for release in February. And announces an NZ show in October 2022.