Wednesday, March 10th
Soothsayers! So So Modern’s The Worst Is Yet To Come…
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Wednesday, March 10th
Wow, Dan Deacon washing his greens in a plastic collander in… a (very) short Wham City doco!
Nevernudes lost a member to Wilberforces… who are playing March 27th!! ‘Press releases’ state spazziness as reason for member drop.
Force Fields track from their new 7″ – and soon to be Golden Walls Hotel LP – Darlin Please Get Out Of That House…
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Monday, March 8th
Mark Linkous, of Sparklehorse, committed suicide. Sad face.
What do Lil Jon, the RZA, Jake Gyllenhaal and Joe Jonas have in common?? Uh, the new Vampire Weekend video…
Golden Axe, Thought Creature, Old Grey Wolf at Mighty Mighty this Saturday!! Gameboy in yr grille suckazz
Woahwoah according to the Matablog, Cold Cave are now playing with ex-members of Hercules and Love Affair and Mika Miko?!!?! YES YES YES YES YES YES
Sunday, March 7th
Sunday sermon: People’s Temple Choir – recordings from crazy man Jim Jones and crew (for awhile he raised funds for his church by selling monkeys door-to-door, I would so love to see Destiny try that one)… includes the last sermon before the infamous mass suicide. Bonus: Satan takes a holiday!
Friday, March 5th
Animal Collective at the Guggenheim New York:
It’s the 2010 Thrill Jockey singles club feat. Javelin, Double Dagger, Jason Urick, Future Islands, Jack Rose with D. Charles Speer & the Helix, High Places and Oval
Thursday, March 4th
VBC birthday pre-sales are sold out! Limited door sales will be available for Mint Chicks, Die! Die! Die! and Bang Bang Eche
Wednesday, March 3rd
Tuesday, March 2nd
The Chills have cancelled – not playing SFBH tonight… Secret Knives and Joe Blossom still on though!
Last night’s Pavement show in the internet tubez:
Monday, March 1st
Uh, synth fans, prepare to faint: original BBC Radiophonic Workshop synth for sale… more info on The Doctor Who News Page
Roger Shepherd speaking about all things Flying Nun at Adam Art Gallery tomorrow (Tuesday March 2), from 4pm! Will be radiating live on VBC also
New Die Die Die single / video! Shame about the name…
Connan Mockasin album release tour dates announced – SFBH Saturday March 13, with support from Sam Eastgate (Late of the Pier), Elroy Finn and Will Ricketts (The Phoenix Foundation)… Please Turn Me Into The Snat available now!
Mountain Goats support for Wellington announced, it’s that fellow Luke Buda
So So Moderns’ Crude Futures is amazing! Check The Listening Post later in the week for a review
Raekwon not just playing one show in Auckland, now playing SFBH March 21… someone bring Ghostface!
Friday, February 26th
It’s Good Cause Friday! Today’s good cause: sign the e-petition to save Radio New Zealand from undergoing insidious changes
Thursday, February 25th
Straight Outta Compton with only the swears… hard lulz.
Got a new tune? There’s a now a link at the top of the page for easy uploading to our Soundcloud account… do it!
Tuesday, February 23rd
Surf City now at Happy instead of Mighty on Saturday… not true either!
Aw, Galesburg and Strange News are gonna be having a break for a bit… change their minds by attending upcoming shows like Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Dirty Projectors and Wooden Shijps!
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(if they’re not around anymore who will make sure you can still see the likes of Eric Bachman (Archers of Loaf/Crooked Fingers), Hayden, Micah P Hinson, David Pajo (Slint), Jens Lekman, Jason Molina, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, The Rogers Sisters, Deadbeat, Kevin Blechdom, Animal Collective, Erase Errata, Jon Auer (The Posies), Camera Obscura, Edith Frost, Richard Buckner, Pop Levi, Jim White (The Dirty Three), Nina Nastasia, The Clientele, Yacht, Panther, The Magnolia Electric Co, Kristin Hersh, Goxxip, Architecture in Helsinki, The National, Half-Handed Cloud, Explosions in the Sky, Broken Social Scene, Okkervil River, Malcolm Middleton, !!!, Kimya Dawson, Angelo Spence, Mark Kozelek, Band of Horses, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Howe Gelb, Yeasayer, New Pornographers, Lucky Dragons, Jeremy Jay, Holy F*ck, Girl Talk, Of Montreal, Jim White, John Doe, Deerhunter, Vic Chesnutt, Victoria Williams, Handsome Furs, Beans, Lightning Bolt, Akron/Family, Why?, Ponytail, Telepathe, Neko Case, The Books, Joanna Newsom, HEALTH, Black Lips, Tiny Vipers, Slow Club, The Dodos)…
Monday, February 22nd
The Transistors, who were fined for playing ‘too loudly’ on top of a building in Chch and are completely ace at filling that void where The Replacements used to be, are playing Mighty Mighty 11th March with Street Chant!
Other Campus videos - Die Die Die playing a new track, Butt Simpson, Jens Lekman dancing to Janet Jackson!
Ummmmm so looks like Foals did a total Primary Colours on this one, their new track Spanish Sahara proving that they can move beyond mathy hi-hat ravaging annoyance pretty expertly.
I think I'm still in shock from just how incredible this set was. Dripping with bizarre electronic tidal waves and monster machine sounds, I was soooo doubtful as to whether they could emulate their records live. Seriously. They didn't just emulate the record, they reproduced and obliterated it.
Wow, how late are these?!!?!? Here is the first batch of report cards on acts from Campus A Low Hum, to be updated as my memory stops clouding over and I remember more of the acts that I saw.
Straightforward, melancholic guitar pop meets an australian accent that comes on probably a little too strong, but the delivery is wayyy too earnest for anyone to get too hung up on the 'Strayan vibes. CHECK.
Okay so my laptop has been pretty destroyed recently so posts will be sporadic, but in the meantime, here's an autotuned, not-quite-right cover of Beyonce's Halo, by Major Lazer.
BASS. Lots and lots of bass. It's the most striking thing about Telepathe's live show. Literally. SFBH shook so much during their closer of So Fine that collapse wouldn't have seemed like too much of an impossibility.
There was this incredible moment during The Ruby Suns' set (7pm Day 3), somewhere around when it became apparent that Oh Mojave was now a bona fide club banger, that three of my friends and I almost instinctively let off our party poppers at the same drop...
Here are the rest of my favourite releases of 2009! Already outdated though. Sad face.
Tweencore: We drink the fountain of youth and glorify musics that are all abouts its!!! BFF styles!
Most dangerous and feared of all sports - synchronised swimming - meets Japanther...
From beyond the (g)rave, it's the 100 best things on my dead hard-drive.
Real nice new vid for recent visitor Daedelus' upcoming EP!
"Once this process of 'gentrification' starts in a district it goes on rapidly until all or most of the original occupiers are displaced and the whole social character of the district is changed."
Ruling! Heh, spam in the genre of indie/experimental (with 'troll' sub-genre), received in TKS comments today. Hey Mr., I totally wasn't insinuating anything!
A bastion of your parent's/grandparent's record collections are in Wellington tonight, making for a strangely family-friendly event. I've not seen as many black shirts since the Destiny Church march in 2004.
40 minutes of ass shaking lazer booty that causes snakes to crash planes and wizards to learn kung fu!
Exactly that.