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If you’ve seen the documentary High Fidelity (John Cussak etc), I’m almost certain they renamed me Dick. I really think one should be consulted about this shit too, even if they swapped Real Groovy Auckland for Championship Vinyl Chicago everybody knew.
I’m still so angry that the K’Rd Flying Nun Store files artists under their first name… so Bob Dylan is under B, and Neil Young is under N. Well if Flying Nun want to annoy me, I’ll annoy them! So join me in demanding they get celebrated… not just FOR TODAY, but for all time!
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I can’t imagine this not being The Beat Mod’n’Rocker zine album of the year… art damage post post punk heavy psych pop. Jadey Gladeyes is a legit genius, Stefan and Liz are damn close to genius, and Beth, I don’t know her, but I dig her back catalogue. stabbiesetc.bandcamp.com/album/out-at...
12 years late, and I only got hip to this band via Jay Hinman’s incredible Dynamite Hemorrhage issue 2 (2014). His zine is the 21st century Forced Exposure. Anyway Auckland postpunkers off their lithium scrip Civil Union. Bummer tunes rule. civilunion.bandcamp.com/album/civil-...
Rethinking my whole atheist thing because this is beyond just wonder, well past beautiful… open.spotify.com/track/3qsmRA...
New Existentialists, Half Sister and wildest door guy you ever saw at 605 Morningside last night.
My mum was unsure if me being the “wildest door guy” was a good thing until I reassured her Mr Russell Brown said it. She thinks you’re great. Her son on the other hand…
Reviews of both recent Alan Sparhawk albums, 'White Roses, My God' (SubPop, 2024) and his link up with modern folk/bluegrass group trampled By Turtles just posted on THEBEATMODNROCKER.SUBSTACK.COM
The New Eves 'The New Eve Is Rising'
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Peter Jefferies (Nocturnal Projections, TKP, Xpressway) interview on Radio New Zealand, 2014. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
KEXP just played T-Pain covering War Pigs and I'm obligated to share it with you, here's T-Pain covering War Pigs and it fucking rips
Anyone used a transcriber programme they think is decent? Reasonable cost (aka CHEAP) one I can just dump interviews into and get a reasonable word doco back?
So NATO members are going to 5% of their $ going on military spending. As a socialist I'm pleased actual Communist States must be booming as that was the point of NATO right? Opposition to the commie threat? Maybe food, clothes, housing should be their focus.
She got a great write up in Pitchfork (8.4) for this folky slbum. Incedible voice, deep, beatifilly husky. Lovd it. open.spotify.com/album/3SBuk7...
The coolest mofo’s ever… facing down a festival crowd. “I love that sign… ‘Die Daphne Die’… okay, I WILL!!” youtube.com/watch?v=_hnx...
And yes, Mike Love is indeed an asshole
An amazing “metal for people who dobt like metal” release, drawibg on shoegaze, slowcore , ambient and drone. Lots of dynamics, distant lyrics that seem trapped in an existential crisis, or dude just got dumped? Great stuff. open.spotify.com/album/4wQZhZ...
Apparently the Post-WW2 German Airforce jacket I was wearing might be a WW2 jacket… slightly problematic. Oops.
Hell yeah… ex-JPSE (JeanPaul Sartre Experience… ha ha what a band name!) Dave Mulcahy. Album Tiger is amazing dark guitar pop. Other JPSE players did great stuff too. Dave Yetton’s Stereo Bus is great power pop, Jim Laing had a fun solo lp before he died and Gary Sullivan is a drum god for Dimmer
The Brother missed his chance to be a pop star, ‘The Girl’ (track 1) should have been a 7” single, getting every art school heart a swooning. Check out his back catalogue, Axel Grinders, the rare NZ band that can ROCK AND fucking ROLL. Don’t Worry, Be Sappy
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I’ve heard a bunch of groups who have drawn on the Cocteau Twins, making etheral dream pop; Purple Pilgrims have added a David Lynch/Twin Peaks spooky edge to the sound. I feel like I’m going to awaken to some kind of hippy ritual murder, but kinda sensual and fun
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Early 1990s Auckland slowcore band Celine have somehow managed to drop one hell of a beautiful EP vis PowerTools. Get in before they’re gone or expect to pag serious collector scum prices. celine-nz.bandcamp.com/album/the-la...
Free psych blues from Philadelphia… bluesambush.bandcamp.com/album/s-t
Surface of the Earth playing live 14th June Ponsonby Auckland. I reviewed the reissued album in the Beat Mod'n'Rocker but that's physical media and I drone on for way more words than Bluesky allows... I used to have a myspace? Umm... substack maybe? Anyway, Surface of the Earth... free noise.
Sick Of It All showing the kids how to dance… youtube.com/watch?v=9fvu...
Derek might just kill that goddamn junkie Terry if he doesn’t come through with the $20, but he’s got time to school record store guy Kurt on the difference between ‘tripping’ and ‘flipping’, the merits of guitarists Trower, Gilmore, Page and Blackmore, and so much more.
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Richard Meltzer (who is the worlds greatest rock writer! Lester is a close 2nd… ignore Troy ok!) lending his support to the Angry Samoans in their fight with Rodney Bingenheimer. “Get off the air, get off the air you pathetic male queer” youtu.be/pG9S2kpGOOQ?...
I'm sitiing on a gold mine! Old New Zealand zines are fetchimng some wild prices.
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Lovely review of Peter Jefferies incredible first solo album, first released on Xpressway pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Jandek ‘Naked In The Afternoon’
His guitar tuning is:
E
A
E(1/4tone flat)
A(1/4#)
D(slightly#)
E
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The Audioculture website is incredible. Always a fun read… and yes, they have a great Sandra Bell write up. www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/sand...