Archive for May, 2010

Downloads / Streams

Download Pikachunes Four-Track Debut EP

Download Pikachunes Four-Track Debut EP

The debut EP from Miles McDougall a.k.a. Pikachunes has been a long time coming and ever since the brooding Shout It Out, which sounded like it belonged on the Lost In Translation soundtrack was released in November last year there’s been an inkling of anticipation. Dude has kept himself busy, […]

May 31, 2010 × 0 comments

Albums

The National “High Violet”

The National “High Violet”

Some music is like comfort food to me. Its familiarity returns me back to safer and simpler times, the aural equivalent of eating a giant bowl of hot mashed potatoes (and if you can manage to do both at the same time, then you’ve got it made) First time I […]

May 27, 2010 × 0 comments

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The National "High Violet"

The National "High Violet"

Some music is like comfort food to me. Its familiarity returns me back to safer and simpler times, the aural equivalent of eating a giant bowl of hot mashed potatoes (and if you can manage to do both at the same time, then you’ve got it made) First time I […]

May 27, 2010 × 0 comments

Features

Live: Collapsing Cities and Tommy Ill at San Francisco Bathhouse

Live: Collapsing Cities and Tommy Ill at San Francisco Bathhouse

Collapsing Cities and Tommy Ill Thursday May 20 San Francisco Bathhouse, Wellington

May 26, 2010 × 0 comments

Albums

Hole “Nobody’s Daughter”

Hole “Nobody’s Daughter”

It’s been a long time between drinks for Hole, nigh on twelve years since the release of Celebrity Skin. Let’s be honest though, this isn’t Hole, it’s Courtney Love with a new lineup of musicians. If Eric Erlandson’s comments on the project hold any truth, the album was initially conceived […]

May 25, 2010 × 2 comments

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Hole "Nobody's Daughter"

Hole "Nobody's Daughter"

It’s been a long time between drinks for Hole, nigh on twelve years since the release of Celebrity Skin. Let’s be honest though, this isn’t Hole, it’s Courtney Love with a new lineup of musicians. If Eric Erlandson’s comments on the project hold any truth, the album was initially conceived […]

May 25, 2010 × 2 comments

Singles

The Naked and Famous “Young Blood”

The Naked and Famous’ video for Young Blood is predictably about being young – jumping in water with your clothes on, destroying stuff, jumping off things, flying kites, riding bikes, getting hurt, laughing, crying, yelling, all that good stuff – it was directed by Special Problems, who seem to be […]

May 24, 2010 × 5 comments

Videos

The Naked and Famous “Young Blood”

The Naked and Famous’ video for Young Blood is predictably about being young – jumping in water with your clothes on, destroying stuff, jumping off things, flying kites, riding bikes, getting hurt, laughing, crying, yelling, all that good stuff – it was directed by Special Problems, who seem to be […]

May 24, 2010 × 5 comments

Singles

Deceptikonz “Like What”

Like What is the first in a series of street single’s set for release in anticipation for the Deceptikonz third album Evolution due out in July. As it stands, Mareko’s verse, which opens the song is really the one to talk about here – apart from a couple of missteps […]

May 24, 2010 × 1 comment

Videos

Deceptikonz “Like What”

Like What is the first in a series of street single’s set for release in anticipation for the Deceptikonz third album Evolution due out in July. As it stands, Mareko’s verse, which opens the song is really the one to talk about here – apart from a couple of missteps […]

May 24, 2010 × 1 comment

Albums

Band of Horses “Infinite Arms”

Band of Horses “Infinite Arms”

I hear there’s been a bit of hating on the new Band of Horses album, Infinite Arms. To be fair, the predictable third-album-criticism-syndrome has some currency. Maybe it is more of the same, but if AC/DC can make a killing off repackaged riffs, why can’t anybody else? Maybe it is […]

May 20, 2010 × 1 comment

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Band of Horses "Infinite Arms"

Band of Horses "Infinite Arms"

I hear there’s been a bit of hating on the new Band of Horses album, Infinite Arms. To be fair, the predictable third-album-criticism-syndrome has some currency. Maybe it is more of the same, but if AC/DC can make a killing off repackaged riffs, why can’t anybody else? Maybe it is […]

May 20, 2010 × 1 comment

News / Tours

We’re Fully Behind Getting “Poi E” To Number One In NZ

No doubt I was one of the last people in the country to see Boy, which I finally saw the other day (the woman seated two seats away from me that fell asleep half-way through the movie must feel pretty dumb) but like everyone else that has seen the film, […]

May 18, 2010 × 0 comments

Albums

Young Sid “What Doesn’t Kill Me…”

Young Sid “What Doesn’t Kill Me…”

Young Sid’s ascent to critical acclaim in New Zealand is fitting. Since Scribe and the Deceptikonz are taking too long between albums and P-Money, one of New Zealand’s best hip-hop producers has moved far and away from his original sound, it was understandable that Kirk Harding’s Move The Crowd label […]

May 12, 2010 × 2 comments

Singles

Rhombus Feat. Rodney P “The Bubble”

Rhombus Feat. Rodney P “The Bubble”

This thing is just incredible. The Bubble comes from Rhombus’ forthcoming sampler CD Rhombus In Dub: Volume 1 (which also features Optimus Gryme) and on it Rhombus provide the perfect type of beat (raw drums surrounded by spacey synth splurts) for Rodney P to just dominate this thing. For example: […]

May 12, 2010 × 1 comment