The Nudge – San Fran Sept 1, 2017
Wellington three piece The Nudge bring a tsunami of sound, washing us with wave after wave of dirty blues, psychedelia and funk. These guys are famous for dressing up silly but playing like there’s no tomorrow!
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Sneaky Feelings: The 13th Floor Interview
Those Feelings are back again. After what seems like an eternity. The positively George St. Boys are back with a new album, finally, and the promise of a tour. Tim Gruar talks to founding member Matthew Bannister.
Moon Lander – Moon Lander (Bandcamp)
Wellington singer/songwriter Anthony Lander has found a way to turn a mucus-plagued afternoon into inspiration for a collection of ironic songs that both mock and celebration self-loathing in equal measures.
Paul Kelly – Life Is Fine (EMI)
Not drowning but waving. The cover of Aussie singer-songwriter Paul Kelly’s new album indicates that he’s back in safer waters with a revisit his 1990s pop repetoire. These are the waters that vividly recall his surging pop-rock fortunes of the Nineties.
Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains – V&A Publications
The Exhibition Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains is an immersive journey through the world of Pink Floyd. As with most shows at the Victoria &Albert Museum, it is touted to be an “indulgent and comprehensive” and by all accounts a highly popular and important experience.
Herriot Row – Lesser Stars – Southbound
From the first few notes from the debut album of Aucklander Simon Comber (aka Herriot Row) you are instantly transported back to James Taylor’s 1970s. These are songs of place and time, polished carefully like precious, fragile gemstones. They are soft and sensual in their own way, with just a hint of the Kiwi dry […]
Good Vibrations – My Life As A Beach Boy – Mike Love (Book Review)
Mike Love tells his own jaundiced version of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of The Beach Boys, the most popular American band in history. His own story has never been fully told, of how a sheet-metal apprentice became the quintessential front man for America’s most successful rock band, […]
Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World – Billy Bragg (Faber)
Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World – by Billy Bragg / Faber and Faber $45 Told with joyous vigour, this book tells the story of jazz pilgrims and blues blowers, Teddy Boys and beatnik girls, coffee-bar bohemians and refugees from the McCarthy witch-hunts. Billy Bragg traces how the guitar came to the […]
Grawlixes – Set Free (Southbound)
Currently Wellington based, the indie folk duo Grawlixes explore romance with a dry wit and a razor-sharp tongue on their debut album, Set Free. Like a hot cuppa-soup laced with arsenic they offer warm comfort and the satisfaction of a slow painful death to all those lovers who dared to spurn us.
Reb Fountain – Hopeful & Hopeless (Southbound)
As its title suggests, Hopeful/Hopeless is something of a tribute to those we’ve lost and those that remain. ‘Death’ is a common but never mournful theme running through these five beautifully crafted songs. This is also a fitting tribute to one of this country’s most innovative and supportive musicians, Sam Prebble.