Never Rap Again by EDDIE NUMBERS [Video]
Eddie Numbers raps to his therapist about not being able to rap again.
Today’s Supernatural by ANIMAL COLLECTIVE [Stream] + Animal Collective Radio news
Animal Collective have premiered the first single from their forthcoming new album Centipede Hz – Today’s Supernatural via their new online radio net-cast Animal Collective Radio today.
Chris Langeland of THEE VICARS found dead
Chris Langeland, guitarist and co-songwriter with London-based garage trio Thee Vicars was found dead last Wednesday evening (25 July).
Laura by BAT FOR LASHES [Video]
The new single from Bat For Lashes from her forthcoming new album The Haunted Man is Laura.
The Newsroom [TV Review]
I watched a screener of the first episode of the new HBO series The Newsroom last night – which startes screening in New Zealand on Monday 13th August (8.30pm – Soho, SkyTV; encores…
Making Tracks funding decisions July 2012
The decisions from NZ on Air’s July Making Tracks funding round were published today.
Tidball on 95bFM – Tuesday 24 July [Podcast]
Did you miss the show, or wonder what that track that went “wump-wump-widdle-woo-widdle-woo” was? *
JULY 27 : Happy Birthday Bobbie Gentry
Roberta Lee Streeter – aka Bobbie Gentry – turns 67 today. She was notable as one of the first female country artists to compose and produce her own material – and she, quite…
THIEVES announce new EP
Auckland-based post-noise-ters Thieves have announced the release of their new EP – self released on August 13th.
New CRYSTAL CASTLES track
Crystal Castles unleashed a new song called Plague last month, in their live set at the Parklife Festival in Manchester, England. Well, now a studio version of the song is online and available…
Set The Ray To Jerry by SMASHING PUMPKINS
Every week on my radio show on 95bFM (Tuesday night’s 7-9pm) I play a track from my musical past… This week’s “Tardis Tune” was Smashing Pumpkin’s Set The Ray To Jerry from 1996.
Fortune by DEAR TIME’S WASTE
After yesterday’s news that Dear Time’s Waste new album Some Kind of Eden will be released in September – you can check out the beautifully shot music video for the lead single Fortune…
NICKI MINAJ to play one NZ show
The NZ Herald have reported that Nicki Minaj will play a show at Auckland’s Vector Arena in September.
LAWRENCE ARABIA w/ support from Andrew Keoghan at Auckland Town Hall, 20 July 2012 – Photos by Danielle Bolton
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DIE! DIE! DIE! in Turkey
Cheese on Toast reader Tony Church sent us this photo of some Die! Die! Die! stencil work he found “in some back alley” in Istanbul the other day. “I never realised that Die!…
Pat and Rivers from WEEZER tell Cheese on Toast about their favorite songs from the Blue Album
In case you’ve not heard, or you forgot or something, like, perhaps you bumped your head and have amnesia, Weezer are coming to New Zealand to play the seminal Blue album in it’s…
DEEP SEA ARCADE – Girls
Check out the clip for Girls by Deep Sea Arcade – it’s mid 90s brit-pop all over again – in a good way…
DEAR TIME’S WASTE announce new album
Dear Time’s Waste will release a second full length album Some Kind Of Eden on September 7th. The follow-up to 2010’s critically lauded Spells features the new single ‘Fortune’.
Presence Magazine to release free compilation CD at Zinefest
Our friend Greta Gotlieb started Presence Magazine in 2008 while she was in the UK. She brought the idea back home with her, where it has grown into a Auckland based niche zine/magazine…
THE VACCINES – new album / stream first single
The Vaccines have revealed details of their forthcoming sophomore album.
New additions to the bFM playlist
While we were snooping through bFM – we sniffed out these new additions to the bFM playlist in the past week or so…
What’s been spinning at bFM?
Cheese on Toast hacked into bFM’s mainframe computer to see what tracks they’ve played more than 10 times in the last week (ok, actually, we just asked them politely and they told us…
theaudience – Top Ten Unreleased tracks 19 July 2012
Here’s the Top Ten unreleased tracks over at theaudience.co.nz as of last Thursday…
