Archive for December, 2011

The Axemen and The Fetals Wednesday December 7 2011 Whammy Bar, Auckland 

2011 was easily The Corner’s busiest year so far. We found our footing and watched our audience grow, and most of that was because of all the notable stuff that came about. Early on in the year we gave people a place to comment on Metro’s controversial article on bFM; […]

Sleigh Bells have announced that their forthcoming album will be titled Reign Of Terror and is out locally on February 20 2012. The record was produced by guitarist Derek Miller, and written by Miller and singer Alexis Krauss; view the tracklisting below.

Ladyhawke has revealed that her fothcoming sophomore album will be called Anxiety, and according to NME, will be released on March 19 2012. Below you can watch a teaser video containing footage of her recording, pictures of her album artwork and a snippet of a brand new song.

Chillstreet, who played their debut gig with Homebrew over the weekend, have released their op-shop themed video ‘Savemart’; watch it below and freeload the song via Soundcloud.

This Saturday will see Evil (David Mitchell, Liz Mathews and Roddy Pain), Octopus, Stud, My-Oh and DJ Raw Chicken play at Kingsland’s Sports Bar. Expect drink specials on the night ($5 pints, specials on Woodies and Cruisers), and free karaoke on five screens. Details below. Evil, Octopus, Stud, My-Oh, DJ Raw Chicken […]

Over the next week, and before we take a temporary blogging vacation over the new year, The Corner will be posting a whole bunch of end of year lists. Apart from the one list we managed to finally post on Christmas Eve last year, this is the first time we’ve […]

PNC’s forthcoming free album Under The Influence was produced entirely by newcomer Matt Miller, who PNC says brought about a turning point to his approach for the record – ” I was checking out his SoundCloud page and liked how he’d taken well known tracks, flipped them and made them his own. His […]

Explosions In The Sky, who play Auckland and Wellington late next week will be joined by support acts The Golden Awesome and Ghost Wave. Full details below and you can read our Q+A with the band right here.  Thursday 15th December @ The SFBH, Wellington w/ The Golden Awesome Friday 16th December @ […]

Henry Rollins has announced that he will return to New Zealand for four dates next April. Pre-sale tickets are available now with general sales from Monday December 12, and tickets purchased before December 24 are priced at a special Early-Bird rate. Wednesday 11th April, Clarence St Theatre, HAMILTON (Ticketek) Thursday 12th […]