Pacific Audio fest and a tale of three pressings
Veteran Kiwi hi-fi creator Simon Brown took his Wand turntable to the fabulous Seattle-based Pacific Audio Fest hi-fi show. Here's his take on the
Jillian Hall’s combined wrestling and Xmas album: Gah!
MATT KELLY has heard it all but this insane coupling of wrestling novelty and Christmas album takes the mouldy cake.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Hulk Hogan
Witchdoctor's doyen of bad taste MATT KELLY wrestles with one of the very best of the worst and actually likes this really terrible album.
Forty years ago: Wellington’s legendary Primitive Art Group
Anthony and Stuart of Primitive Art Group explain the complex simplicity of their group’s explorative terrain to GARY STEEL.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Belle And Sebastian
Well, it's not an album, it's a song, but what a stinker! MATT KELLY is appalled the latest Belle And Sebastian single.
40 years ago: Grammar Boys
It’s still NZ Music Month so GARY STEEL continues the excavation of his mouldering story scrapbook. Today's travesty: Grammar Boys.
1001 albums you must die before you hear: The Clash crap out
MATT KELLY attends the bloody crash scene at the messy end of a great band's superfine career. It's a crime.
The Gordons: Free birds with massive tweet
To celebrate NZ Music Month GARY STEEL excavates a 1983 interview - 40 years ago! - with legendary noisemakers The Gordons.
40 years ago – The Kiwi Animal
It’s New Zealand Music Month, so GARY STEEL digs up a 40-year-old story he wrote about NZ musical duo The Kiwi Animal.
40 years ago: Wellington’s Tin Syndrome
It’s New Zealand Music Month and for the occasion, GARY STEEL digs up some musical skeletons from his past. Today it’s Tin Syndrome’s turn.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear: Pornhub’s lamentable long play
MATT KELLY actually listens to the Pornhub XXXmas Album all the way through and instantly regrets it with all his heart.
Forty years ago: the slow-cooked post-punk of Unrestful Movements
For NZ Music Month GARY STEEL dips once again into his archive of interviews. From May 1983, here are Unrestful Movements.
Forty years ago – Philbo keeps a low profile
To celebrate New Zealand Music Month GARY STEEL reaches far back into his archives for two pieces he wrote on musician Phil Bowering.
It’s a single so bad that it destroyed a career
Sometimes just one song can ruin an album and send a career spinning off into obscurity. MATT KELLY has got this to say...
Forty years ago – This act ends with a bang
GARY STEEL loves interviewing obscure and entertaining NZ bands. Back in 1983 Moving Targets had big plans. Where are they now?
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – William Shatner
MATT KELLY for once is completely taken with an album from the original Star Trek actor that's at least as great as it is
Dire Straits 40 years ago
GARY STEEL interviewed two members of Dire Straits both before and after their 1983 gig in a dangerously windy Wellington.
Rucka Rucka’s Very Rucka Christmas – one of the very worst records ever!
Sometimes MATT KELLY enjoys listening to 'bad' records but Rucka Rucka Ali's album is beyond that, way beyond. Just don't go there.
The night Chicago died: a terrible twosome!
MATT KELLY endured two of the worst Chicago albums just so you would never have to. Below, he details the abject horror.
Space waltzing back in time
Musings on a week of listening, watching and the rest of it. This week GARY STEEL reads a couple of entertaining Kiwi music books.
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