Dunedin band Knives At Noon have been garnering an audience lately with their much talked about show at Homegrown as well as their opening gig for Vampire Weekend earlier in the year. The band are about to release their brand new EP Glitter Guts and we hit up keyboardist Oli […]
Ann Arbor rapper Buff1 played Auckland on Friday as part of Mean As III, which also featured a performance from David Dallas as well as DJ sets from P-Money, Fire & Ice and Che Kamikaze. Over the weekend Buff1 also released his brand new mixtape Ghosting featuring remixes of tracks […]
The late John Peel memorably said of The Fall, “They are always different, they are always the same” – possibly the most perfect characterisation of any band in history. Now after 28 albums including the classic Flying Nun live release Fall In A Hole (recorded by Chris Knox) and this […]
In an age where songs are dumbed down even further to hold their Glee appeal, Cee-Lo’s Fuck You is refereshing. It leans heavy on it’s 60’s Motown pop influences, sing-along lyrics (“and although there’s a pain in my chest/I still wish you the best/with a FUCK YOU”) and sugar-coated novelty, […]
About a month ago The Corner interviewed Seamus Ebbs, drummer of the “Antipodeans darling line-up” of BARB. Since then, the album has been released to favourable welcomes, and they have been confirmed for Gisborne’s Rhythm & Vines festival. Along with Ebbs, BARB is Liam Finn, Lawrence Arabia, Connan Mockasin and […]
About a month ago The Corner interviewed Seamus Ebbs, drummer of the “Antipodeans darling line-up” of BARB. Since then, the album has been released to favourable welcomes, and they have been confirmed for Gisborne’s Rhythm & Vines festival. Along with Ebbs, BARB is Liam Finn, Lawrence Arabia, Connan Mockasin and […]
By now you’ve probably heard that U2 are coming back to New Zealand; it was an announcement that was mostly impressive for the fact that ticket prices would begin at $39.90 (with general admission floor tickets for $99.90), a pretty odd concession in this day and age, especially when taking […]
By now you’ve probably heard that U2 are coming back to New Zealand; it was an announcement that was mostly impressive for the fact that ticket prices would begin at $39.90 (with general admission floor tickets for $99.90), a pretty odd concession in this day and age, especially when taking […]
Back in March our favourite identical twins Nina Sky began waging war with their record label Polo Grounds Music on Twitter in an attempt to get released from their record contract. They spoke on the situation stating, “As an artist, you’re conditioned to think if you say anything you’ll get […]
Ahem – let me clear my throat before I go into this. So here we have a poster for a club night at Flight Lounge called Holy F!ck using an image of black children being hosed by police during a civil rights protest in 1963 (this one taken by Charles […]
Ahem – let me clear my throat before I go into this. So here we have a poster for a club night at Flight Lounge called Holy F!ck using an image of black children being hosed by police during a civil rights protest in 1963 (this one taken by Charles […]
We talked a tiny bit about Ann Arbor hip-hop artist Buff1 when he hopped on a remix to David Dallas’ Front To Back late last year before joining Dallas onstage at SxSW in March. Now he’s coming to New Zealand to play as part of Mean As III, the series […]
Photo (c) Jess van Zeal Auckland singer-songwriter Anna Kaye, is on the verge of releasing her debut EP. It’s called Little Bonfire and is due out on August 28, the same day that she plays her EP release show at the Queens Ferry Hotel. The Corner had a few questions […]
Former Joy Division and New Order bassist, Peter Hook, has announced that he is heading down under and bringing the Unknown Pleasures tour to New Zealand. The show will see Nat Watson, Andy Poole, Paul Kehoe and Hook’s son Jack Bates play the album in it’s entirety alongside classic non-album […]
It was possibly the party of the year. The Auckland Renewal Collective, a project run by Legal Money Mike, Joel Paydirt and DJ Scratch 22, put on their first Community Projects show on Black Friday. It was a mix of a wide range of influences; from hip-hop to punk, and […]
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