Photos of MGMT (better late than never?)
I’m going to blame an eMail glitch in the machine for the extreme lateness in posting these photos of MGMT at Auckland’s Powerstation on Thursday 17th March. Photos supplied (on time) by Dan…
Radiohead King of Limbs album review
RE-POSTED FROM 9 MARCH 2011 Radiohead release a new album and clocks stop, dogs barks are quietened worldwide with juicy bones and ‘phone calls cut short. Torrent sites buzz and aeroplanes circle overhead….
Review of Lasers by Lupe Fiasco
Lupe Fiasco was an exciting prospect. He came from a space of alternative hip hop with pop sensibilities. He part of was hip hops response to nerdy glasses worn by hipsters. He wrote…
Review of Michel Poiccard by The Death Set
If you open your album with a five second track called I Wanna Take This Tape And Blow Up Ya Fucking Stereo you are, automatically, awesome. It’s instant bribery to love the rest…
REVIEW of Cool Cult – Try Crunch
Fittingly emblazoned by a fucked-up looking minotaur on the cover of Auckland trio, Cool Cult’s debut album is released on Muzai Records, literally just weeks after being signed. They have created here, with…
Computers Want Me Dead EP, reviewed
You will, no doubt remember the C4 promo song about walking in circles, I don’t recall if it was before or after My House by that other local electro-pop outfit Kids of 88…
Rest in Peace Loleatta Holloway
Disco, and latterly, House singer Loleatta Holloway has passed away aged just 64 after slipping into a coma, on March 21st. She was probably most well known for her songs, Hit and Run…
Rest in peace Jet Harris
The first, and most would say, greatest bassist for The Shadows Jet Harris, has passed away aged 71 with cancer. He was born Terence Harris in Kingsbury, north-west London in 1939. His prowess…
Smiley Culture dies during police raid
British reggae star Smiley Culture died, aged 48, during a Metropolitan police raid as a result of a stab wound. While the details surrounding the musician’s death are subject to investigation by the…
Rest in Peace Nate Dogg
Hip hop star Nate Dogg (Nathaniel Dwayne Hale) has passed away aged just 41. The cause of his death is unclear, although he had been recovering from two strokes he suffered in recent…
Review of Andrew Keoghan – Arctic Tales Divide
Arctic Tales Divide is the debut album from the now Auckland-based Andrew Keoghan, who, after a foray into television (reporting for TV One News) has decided to leave TV to his older brother…
Interview with Sam Beam of Iron and Wine
I really like Iron and Wine. I love their new album Kiss Each Other Clean – it’s so unexpected and refreshing – you can read my review here. So anyway, when given the…
COLD WAR KIDS – Mine Is Yours, reviewed
Perhaps, at least if one were to revisit history, it’s kinda uncool to confess enjoying their 2006 debut, Robbers and Cowards. But I reckon the singles Hospital Beds, Hang Me Up To Dry…
Better Than Something: Jay Reatard
BETTER THAN SOMETHING is a feature documentary that examines the life and last months of Memphis based garage rock musician, Jay Reatard. Shot just nine months before his untimely death at age twenty-nine,…
Review of Wounded Rhymes by Lykke Li
I fell in love with Lykke Li ages ago – like when she was really way too young for me. (I’m talking 2007, with the amazing Little Bit – if you never watched…
Review of Tao of Dead by …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
I kinda like shit that is ridicrous (that’s ridiculous and ludicrous mixed together to make it more of each; greater that the sum of it’s parts, dontcha know). …And You Will Know Us…
Bright Eyes – The People’s Key, reviewed
Unless you’re really into conspiracy theories, chances are you never associated the angsty folk-jangle of Bright Eyes with reptilian shapeshifters before. Being vaguely aware, as I am, that certain royals and politicians in…
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake reviewed
If there’s one thing you should never do with PJ Harvey, it’s guess what she’s going to do next. Each time you think you know what she’s about, a new one of Polly…
Interview with Sam from An Emerald City
Cheese on Toast met up with Sam from An Emerald City to chat about their new album The Fourth… An Emerald City play this week in Auckland – Thursday night at The Winchester…
Review of Gil Scott-Heron And Jamie XX – We’re New Here
Dubstep has become, like any new musical trend tends to once the great unwashed gets it’s filthy hands on it, a dirty word – it’s become synonymous with the same wah-wobbly-sound and douche-bags…
Gang of Four photos
Oooopsie – we are a bit late putting the photos from Gang of Four at Powerstation last Thursday night up online – apologies! Check out teh full photo-set, including shot of Cut Off…
Interview with Autumn Splendour
Cheese on Toast found Autumn Splendour in The Healing Room in St Kevin’s Arcade earlier this week. We chatted to them about their 45rpm 7″ EP. Watch the interview here:
Autumn Splendour EP – review
I am making the bold and, frankly not particularly well researched claim (an unsuccessful ten minutes on Google) that Auckland three piece Autumn Splendour have broken world records by managing to squeeze six…
Funeral Party – The Golden Age of Knowhere – review
Wolves are always, let’s be honest, gonna be cool. I mean sure, it was de rigor a while ago to have a wolf in your band name – but that could only go…
Review of An Emerald City – The Fourth
Word is that this album might nearly have not happened, but thank the stars and cosmos that it did. The Fourth is the sophomore record from An Emerald City recorded at StudioEast in…
