Princess Chelsea (aka Chelsea Nikkel) told Cheese on Toast’s Andrew Tidball on his Kiwi FM radio show Auckland Calling that her long awaited album is due to release via Lil Chief Records in February 2011, and we previewed a couple of tracks – Machines of Loving Grace is about bundling up in your bedroom watching tv with your lover and Frack which is is inspired by Battlestar Galatica.

Here’s Monkey Eats Bananas from 2009.

Princess Chelsea is playing at the Wine Cellar this Sunday evening – an early show, doors from 7.30pm and Chelsea already revealed that her support act is a super-special secret surprise – who will be playing AFTER her set. She mimed clues to Andrew at the radio show and if his guess is correct, he doesn’t want to spoilt the surprise but it promises to be totally awesome.

First Aid Kit is Johanna and Klara Söderberg. In 2008, the Swedish teenage sisters caught the attention of music aficionados world wide when Fleet Foxes gave their nod of approval to the duo’s stunning version of ‘Tiger Mountain Peasant Song’.

I Met Up With The King from their debut album ‘The Big Black & The Blue’.
First Aid Kit play next week at Auckland’s Wine Cellar on Thursday 16th

Rather disturbing, and possibly not that safe for work (involves lots of vomiting) music video for Dear God I Hate Myself.

Xiu Xiu are playing Auckland’s Whammy Bar this Friday. Don’t miss out on buying a ticket or you’ll be spewing. See what I did there?

Deerhunter’s fourth album Halcyon Digest is due out at the end of September – and the lead single is gorgeously dreamy and melancholy, called Helicopter. Watch the video here

Ex-pat Renee-Louise Carafice is about to release a brand new album entitled I Will Raise a Bird Army, and the first single, A Kick To The Head was written in response to Xiu Xiu’s “Fast Car” (which is, in turn, a Tracy Chapman cover.)

Xiu Xiu, playing in Auckland next Friday (10 Sept) at Whammy, frontman Jamie Stewart produced Louise’s album which is being released in New Zealand via Border on Sept 27th.

Watch the music video here

And as a special treat, Cheese on Toast is offering a free download of the track here

The Hundred in the Hands are a New York based duo Eleanore Everdell and Jason Friedman and their self-titled debut album is due for release later this month (20th September) on Warp.

Check out the clip for Pigeons

From Interpol’s forthcoming fourth, and self titled album, due out in September

Sometimes, something totally unexpected and awesome comes across the desktop here at Cheese on Toast.

Killing Bear are a three piece from Pukerua Bay (30km North of Wellington)

And you can download the mp3 yourself for legal and free from here

Steve Buscemi in a new HBO series set in prohibition era New Jersey created by Emmy award-winning screenwriter and producer Terence Winter of The Sopranos?

Pilot episode directed by Martin Scorsese?

Michael Kenneth Williams (who played Omar in The Wire) is in it too?

Shit. Yes.

Premieres on HBO in USA on on September 19

CHeese on Toast caught up with Gemma and Kelvin from 47 Diamantes for a quick chat and coffee last week – luckily we had our video camera with us and we chatted about how they formed the band, what they’re up to recording-wise, grinding in your face, James Goldsmith’s buttload, being “better than Kids of 88″ and performing on a BOAT…

47 Diamantes are playing this Saturday at Awkward Feelings (on a) BOAT!
There are still a handful of tickets available to this limited capacity event – get yours now!

Here’s the latest music video from BARB

Directed by Joseph Harper

King Khan has been working on so many projects lately that sometimes I wonder what the point is. It’s hard to say how many times one chubby Indian-Canadian man can play through a garage/soul formula and get away with it, but since perfecting such a sound with King Khan & BBQ Show and King Khan and the Shrines (both after The Spaceshits and Les Sexareenos), Khan has been on a sloppy rock ‘n’ roll binge.

He released an album as the Almighty Defenders with members of The Black Lips and he has even been working with GZA. His last project, The Black Jaspers, was such a cool yet boring rehash of everything on the punk rock-ish side of everything Khan has ever done that I had effectively forgotten about them by the time his current project rolled up, The Tandoori Knights.

What stands out about The Tandoori Knights, whose full length Curry It Up is due out this month, is the absurd kitsch that sticks out at you, much like a certain subcontinent. Of course Khan and bandmate Bloodshot Bill are not actually blending elements of Indian music with Western rock ‘n’ roll and garage – The Tandoori Knights’ act is instead a throw back to the theatrics of ’60s bands like Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, of Wooly Bully fame, who dressed up in turbans in a fine example of Orientalism as mindless entertainment (Khan’s soul hero, The Mighty Hannibal did a similar thing). Why, even Dick Dale stole from the East with Misirlou, based on an old Greek rebetiko song, recontextualizing it into America’s own surf kitsch image. The music and entertainment of King Khan and his collaborators has reached a camp, post-post- stage of making fun of those who made fun, and if Khan can focus his antics into more projects like these I would be quite happy.

posted by Jeff Bell

Official music video for Ready to Start

“Gahhh – I love this album so so so much!” - Andrew Tidball

OH-MY-SHITZZZ this is going to be so stupidly amazing!

It’s in cinemas next week from Thursday 26 August

And Cheese on Toast has 10 double ‘in season’ passes to giveaway – check out our “win cool shit” section on the right hand side of the page

To be honest, Cheese on Toast head-honcho guy Andrew knew very little about Jersey Shore – maybe only about this animated gif, really….

So, his good pal Rebecca Maxine came over to watch the advance screener of Episode of Season 2 of Jersey Shore…

O.M. GAWD Jersey Shore Season 2 is about to hit NZ screens and after seeing Ep 1, I can tell you it is only getting more ridiculous and way more ABSO-ludacris! The ‘housemates’ are this time being shipped down to Miami, Florida to wreck their special brand of madness.

Angelina is back and so is her dramadrama about nothing, but she has her reasons- she is just “trying to be classy right now” (!). Although to give her some cred-at least she wasn’t sitting on her Ed Hardy car seat covers when she came up with that little gem. “The Situation” is as mega-douche as ever, but this time the rest of the boys really seem to be trying to keep up! Ronnie is single and is really gonna show Sammi “Sweetheart”, his ex “how he do in da club”. Pauly D, ah that’s DJ Pauly D when ordering cabs evidently, is all about tearing it up in Miami and avoiding “Grenades” and “Landmines” (it’s not what you assume).

I have a feeling that the Guidos and Guidettes really have a mind to out-do their New Jersey escapades. Snooki, resplendent in own-name bedazzled cowboy hat, of course comes out with some of the greatest, not to be missed, lines anyone has ever uttered in obliviousness like- “I feel like a pilgrim from the ‘20s” and the conspiracy of the Obama government putting a 10% tax hike on tanning beds being directed at them. Once again Jersey Shore is bringing a grotesque and unique view on the human condition-ha and a guy pashing 2 girls AT ONCE, sooo worth the watch.

- review by Rebecca Maxine

Jersey Shore Season 2 premieres in NZ Tuesday 7th Sept at 9.30pm, MTV, SKY Channel 014 – click here to watch the trailer online

But also, to celebrate the second season of Jersey Shore, MTV New Zealand and Event Cinemas are teaming up to host ‘Jersey Shore Night Out’ an exclusive movie event to be held in Auckland and Hamilton.

Thursday 2nd Sep – EVENT Cinemas Queen St
Friday 3rd Sep – EVENT Cinemas Manukau (Westfield)
Saturday 4th Sep – EVENT Cinemas Chartwell, Hamilton

Tickets are $25 per person and can be purchased from www.eventcinemas.co.nz

Robot is the new single and music video from Wellington’s Tommy Ill.

Tommy’s self titled debut full length album is out next week on Loop

Joss Whedon’s (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly) latest creation is Dollhouse which premiers on C4 this coming Monday at 9.30pm – our pals over at C4 sent Cheese on Toast a screener copy of the first episode to watch this week.

For the first 10 minutes or so it feels like it’s going to be one of those big mysterious things that you never really ever work out in a lame Lost kinda way – but then it all comes together nicely with a solid plot point and it’s happy sailing from there on in.

Starring original Buffy cast member Eliza Dushku as Echo who is an “Active”. Actives are members of a highly illegal and underground group who have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas. Confined to a secret facility known as the Dollhouse, Echo and the other Actives are sent on new missions each episode while there’s a series-wide ongoing plot-line of an FBI Agent Paul Ballard (Tahmoh Penikett) piecing together clues that lead him closer to the Dollhouse.

We’re not talking gripping thriller material here – but it was a solid watch and episode one does get pretty exciting and tense (in a prime-time light weigh but totally enjoyable way) as the Actives close in on the kidnappers of a millionaires daughter.