IMNZ Top 20 Albums (to 10 May 2012)
The IMNZ Album chart is collated each week from album sales for artists who are members of, or distributed by members of Independent Music New Zealand.… [More...]
SUMMER FLAKE – Summer Flake EP
Stephanie Crase previously of the most excellent Birth Glow (and also of Batrider, Hit The Jackpot and No through Road) recently eMailed me about her new project called Summer Flake.… [More...]
THE EVERSONS – new b-side / Free Download of single
THE EVERSONS have released their single COuld It Ever Get Better for whatevs-bucks on their Bandcamp and the flipside is a previously unreleased song written by Chris Young of the band.
Could It Ever Get Better? by The Eversons
If you missed it – the video for the A Side is here…… [More...]
KILLER MIKE – Reagan
I listen to Killer Mike’s new single/track Reagan and then I say to hip-hop upstarts like Odd Future “THIS IS WHAT HIP HOP REALLY IS”.… [More...]
bFM Top Ten – Wednesday 16 May 2012
This week’s bFM Top Ten see’s no change in the top four tracks from last week… [More...]
Go-Go Godfather CHUCK BROWN passes away
The man credited with basically inventing the Washington Go Go sub-genre, Chuck Brown has passed away, aged 75. He died in Washington, where he’d recently been hospitalized for pneumonia.
Go-Go kind of existed almost solely in a Washington microcism – in fact, for a long time Go-Go was bigger than rap music in Washington DC – with it’s congo based funk rhythms. Other well known purveyors of the genre include EU and Trouble Funk. Terms like “Drop The Bomb” and… [More...]
PRINCE’s set-list from Melbourne
Any Cheese on Toast readers go? (Or in Sydney on Friday last week?) – leave comments!
Thunderstorms Intro
Purple Rain (Andy McKee Acoustic Intro)
Gold
Jam Of The Year (Incl. Also Sprach Zarathustra)
Song of the Heart
Let’s Go Crazy
Delirious
Let’s Go Crazy (reprise)
1999
Little Red Corvette
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man / Jailhouse Rock
Take Me With U
Raspberry Beret
Cream
Cool (incl. Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough)
Guitar Segue
Sometimes It… [More...]
TOP 5 – Heavy Metal Minjas
Cheese on Toast didn’t so much ask Heavy Metal Ninjas what their current Top 5 songs were, so much as Heavy Metal Ninjas told… [More...] us. Loudly. Voulme set to 11, even.
SLASH announces two NZ dates
According to The Corner this morning – Slash will play two NZ dates on his tour promotion his new album Apocalyptic Love, which is out next week.
August 17 – Vector Arena, Auckland – Tickets available from Ticketmaster
August 19 – CBS Arena, Christchurch – Tickets available from Ticketek… [More...]
MINUIT announce short tour + a benefit gig in Nelson
Minuit announced a three date NZ tour – Wellington, Auckland – and a special show in their hometown of Nelson where the proceeds will be donated to help Nelsonian Tony Bayard get to Boston, where he and his family hope to solve the medical puzzle that he faces.… [More...]
Andrew Tidball on 95bFM 7-9 Show 15 May 2012 – Podcast and Playlist
Here is the PODCAST (active for a week) of last night’s show on 95bFM
And here is the playlist…
Animal Collective – Honeycomb
Collapsing Cities – Regret
Home Brew – Plastic Magic
Home Brew – Fungi / Absense
Beach House – Wild
Beach House – Hours
Rackets – Push A Man
Rackets – Push A Man (Tryanadex Remix)
Zowie – Idiotize
Zowie – Love Or Hate
The Cribs – Come On Be A No-one
The Cribs – Chi Town
Street… [More...]
Be among the first in the world to hear new SIGUR ROS
Sigur Rós have invited their fans to participate in Valtari Hour… [More...]
Watch out interview with Kody from OPOSSOM
Just before he went overseas to tour with Bic Runga, Cheese on Toast met up with Kody Nielson to talk about Opossom.
He told us about after The Mint Chicks ‘deciding to have a bit of a break’ that he needed to work on his own music to ‘make my own mistakes’ and to ‘vent’. Watch the video here…
7Min 22Sec
OPOSSOM’s Electric Hawaii is out on June 1st… [More...]
NOT JUST ANOTHER SHOWCASE set-times revealed
Tomorrow night (Wednesay)’s showcase at Whammy & Wine Cellar isn’t just another; it’s brought to you by The Other People.
Set-times have been revealed today
DOORS 8.00 pm
Trash Can Duo 9.00 pm Whammy
ThunderDykes 9.30 pm Wine Cellar
No Aloha 10.00 pm Whammy
2 a.m. Orchestra 10.30 pm Wine Cellar
Space Creeps 11.00 pm Whammy
Loui the Zu 11.30 pm Wine Cellar
Sunken Seas 12.00 am Whammy… [More...]
Interview with Dougy Mandagi of THE TEMPER TRAP
Temper Trap’s album is out on Friday and they are coming to play with Coldplay. Cheese on Toast spoke with Dougy Mandagi the other week…
Radlands by MYSTERY JETS
It’s important to change direction sometimes. Like if you are on a collision course for a planet, for instance. And frankly. deviations from the considered trajectory are sometimes really the very best thing a band can do. The Mystery Jets haven’t just changed direction from their synthy-pop flight path of their last two records (and the excellent After Dark dance-floor filler contribution to Count & Sinden’s Mega Mega Mega) – they’ve quite literally donned parachutes and jettisoned themselves in Austin… [More...]
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE album announced – track-list revealed
Last week we shared the new single and it’s b-side from Animal Collective (Click here, if you missed that)
Today it was revealed that the new album is entitled Centipede Hz and will be out in September on Domino Records – and here is the tracklisting, which evidently confirms that neither tracks from the forthcoming single will be on the new album.
Watch this rather awesome promotional video which reveals the track listing; or just read the list at the… [More...]
COLLAPSING CITIES are back – finally!
COLLAPSING CITIES have announced that their long-long awaited sophomore album is finally to be released on 13 July 2012; entitled Strangers Again.
Proceeding the album release is the release of their new single, called Regret
Regret by Collapsing Cities… [More...]
Extra Last DIMMER show added
An extra ‘last’ DIMMER show date has just been announced this evening.… [More...]
NZ Music Month Summit announced
The Music Managers’ Forum (NZ) have teamed up with the NZ Music Commission to present this years New Zealand Music Month Summit at the end of the month on Saturday 26th May… [More...]
STREET CHANT – Salad Daze
Here is the other A Side to Street Chant’s new single. You can watch the other video (Frail Girls) here…… [More...]
Interview with Ryan from THE CRIBS
Read our interview with Ryan from The Cribs / check out the full audio too…
MATTHEW CRAWLEY’s Lullaby Land Mixtape
Good friend and all around sweetheart Mr Matthew Crawley stayed up very late to make us a Lullaby Land Mixtape, so that we could sleep. That’s how generous and giving this guy is.
Turn this on when it’s bedtime, let Matthew caress you to sleep. Audio-ably, not, you know physically, in a creepy way…
0 sec – Nick Drake interview segment… [More...]
I’m pretty sure I’ve now got every single recorded piece of Nick Drake that exists, and this comes from
Watch SHE’S SO RAD perform Confetti at Shepherd’s Bush Empire
She’s So Rad are presently in the UK supporting Ladyhawke on her tour. They’ll be back in NZ to play the Ladyhawke shows here too!
Jeremy sent Cheese on Toast this link of a video of them performing their new song Confetti which’ll be on a forthcoming album, we’re told…… [More...]
TOMMY ILL album release party at Kings Arms – photos by Danielle Bolton
Tommy Ill brought his Album Release Party to Auckland-town this Saturday night (12th May) – specifically to the Kings Arms.… [More...]
RACKETS, LION EYES, HDSPNS at 12×12 at Number 4 Gallery, Photos by Danielle Bolton
12×12 is a series of showcases at Number 4 Gallery on Cross Street in Auckland – every Thursday of the month of May – last week Rackets, Lion Eyes and HDSPNS all played for 12 minutes each. Photos by Danielle Bolton… [More...]
Win a single passes to NOT JUST ANOTHER SHOWCASE
THE OTHER PEOPLE are putting on NOT JUST ANOTHER SHOWCASE this Wednesday night at Whammy and Wine Cellar – showcasing some of the countries freshest and newest talents – Loui The Zu, 2AM Orchestra, Space Creeps, Thunderdykes, No Aloha, Sunken Seas and Trash Can Duo.
Cheese on Toast is giving away THREE SINGLE PASSES to the show / One on Monday; One on Tuesday and One on Wednesday
To go into the draw:
Here’s the music video from Space Creeps… [More...]
