Posted in Footnotes on Dec 24th, 2009
1. Christmas songs for rap nerds. [Flavorwire]
2. Who own’s it: The Kardashian’s vs. Bey Bey Beyonce. [Bossip]
3. Who is the hipster of the decade? [Gawker]
4. What coulda been oughta been (The Decade Reconsidered) [SFJ]
5. The worst song of the decade [SOTC]
6. Seven things you didn’t know about the extremely modest RedOne [Idolator]
7. The Karate Kid [...]
Posted in Music on Dec 24th, 2009
This is the closest you’re going to get to me mentioning a Best of 2009 list, but I recommend you take a closer look anyway. No one expected the iTunes New Zealand Best of 2009 list to be perfect but it probably couldn’t get any worse. Firstly, they ignore the fact that we’ve had the [...]
Posted in Music on Dec 24th, 2009
That grainy cellphone picture on the left is Auckland’s London Bar’s last call. The venue well-known to many drinkers and – more to the point – jazz musicians, closed it’s doors for the final time last month after it was announced that the building was soon to be occupied by the Bangkok Restaurant & Bar. [...]
Posted in Music on Dec 24th, 2009
XXL has confirmed that T.I. is indeed out of jail and the rapper is now reported to be finishing the last three months of his sentence in a halfway house in Atlanta. XXL spoke to T.I’s legal defense attorney Steve Sadow who said “You live within this house that is broken into areas for living, [...]
Posted in Music on Dec 24th, 2009
Here goes the new single from the most debated albums of the year. But let’s admit it, it’s still been Jay-Z’s year, right? – I mean, as long as 50 Cent keeps on putting more effort into writing books than he does writing songs and Kanye doesn’t drop a new album in the first half [...]
Posted in Reviews on Dec 23rd, 2009
Timbaland – Shock Value II
Let’s go right ahead and skip to track 11, a song called Ease Off The Liquor, and admit that it should never have happened. Never ever. Even though the production is nice and all, the song works as an interlude on an album that lasts almost 75 minutes all up and the world just could’ve [...]
Posted in Music on Dec 23rd, 2009
We’re all pretty aware of the fuckery surrounding Flying Nun Records since the whole Festival/Mushroom/Warner Music thing (if you don’t, it maybe worth picking up a copy of Gareth Shute’s NZ Rock 1987-2007) but it was announced today that the label is officially back in the hands of founder Roger Shepherd. Radioscope mentioned that this [...]
Posted in Music on Dec 23rd, 2009
With the d the e the f the i the a the n the c the e, Rage Against The Machine have beat out Joe McElderry for the number one spot on the UK charts. Their classic track Killing In The Name was part of a Facebook campaign to get RATM to the top of [...]
Posted in Reviews on Dec 22nd, 2009
The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
The sharp guitar note that cuts into the first song of The Flaming Lips’ latest album could just as easily be the siren of machines warming up. It resonates with the band’s signature noises, of distorted thudding drumbeats with Wayne Coyne’s soft voice, but Embryonic leads down a darker path than [...]
Posted in Music on Dec 22nd, 2009
Since I’m responsible for writing the Chart Attack for Real Groove every week (the next one will be out tomorrow), paying attention to the charts and what gets played on the T.V and radio plays a pretty big part in what I do day to day. But airplay is a funny thing – sometimes it [...]
>> SATURDAY 13 MARCH
- Wooden Shjips at Whammy Bar, Newton, Auckland Region
- Head Like A Hole, Street Chant, The Transistors at Bacio Bar, Newton, Auckland Region
- Metallica, Faith No More and Black Sabbath Tribute Night at Kings Arms, Newton, Auckland Region
- The Sing Songs, Bear Cat, The Glad Eyes at Leigh Sawmill Cafe, Leigh, Auckland Region
- Oui Groove, Team Dynamite, TDK at Rakinos, CBD, Auckland Region
- Hit It and Quit It Revue ft DJ Kano (Oz), Recloose, Frank Booker at Khuja, Newton, Auckland Region
- Sick Disco Ft. Randomplay, Boomio Sound, A.D.A.M, MTronBomb at Cassette Number Nine, CBD, Auckland Region
- Kolab Soundsystem, Datt DJ at Ponsonby Social Club, Ponsonby, Auckland Region
- Street Chant, The Transistors, Rackets, Fatangryman at The Basement, CBD, Auckland Regi
- Converge (US) at Bodega, Wellington Region
- Connan Mockasin - Album Release at San Francisco Bathhouse, Wellington Region
- Golden Axe, Thought Creature, Old Grey Wolf at Mighty Mighty, Wellington Region
- Sola Rosa at Al's Bar, Canterbury
- The Pink Floyd Experience at Kerikeri Domain, Northland
>> SUNDAY 14 MARCH
- Petit Cheval Burlesque presents Plum Green at Cassette Number Nine, CBD, Auckland Region
- All the Way Live ft Koru Licks at Rakinos, CBD, Auckland Region
- Conch Sunday Grill at Ponsonby Social Club, Ponsonby, Auckland Region
- Wooden Shjips (US) at Bodega, Wellington Region
- Josephine Costain at Dux De Lux, Otago
>> MONDAY 15 MARCH
- Aroha Documentary Film Evening at Alleluya Cafe, Newton, Auckland Region
>> TUESDAY 16 MARCH
- To Beat With Her Heart ft Charlotte Yates, Mahina-Ina Kaui, Kerryn Fields at Galatos, Newton, Auckland Region
- Acoustic Tuesdays ft Keshia and Karlos at Rakinos, CBD, Auckland Region
- Amanda Palmer (US) at Al's Bar, Canterbury
>> WEDNESDAY 17 MARCH
- The Dead Weather (US) at Powerstation, Eden Terrace, Auckland Region
- Teenage Kicks at Cassette Number Nine, CBD, Auckland Region
- Amanda Palmer (US) at Kings Arms, Newton, Auckland Region
- Loop Sessions ft DJs Dylan C, TC at Rakinos, CBD, Auckland Region
- The Circling Sun, DJ Truent at Ponsonby Social Club, Ponsonby, Auckland Region
- Sign Of The Hag / Isaac Vs Drum Machine / Mos Iocoss, Baba Rossa, Jemi Hemi Mandala And Zye Soceles Quartet at 84 Lichfield Street, Canterbury