Some New Things To Hear
Suck It And See – The Arctic Monkeys You shouldn’t take the title literally, tastes like plastic and cardboard Transformers: Dark Of The Moon How they resisted temptation to include Pink Floyd is...
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Are haikus getting old? Is there another form of poetry you would like to see music reviews in? Comment away. Live At The Aragon – Mastodon Crack The Skye in its entirety, plus other concert favourites...
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Ok, it turns out that the entire time I was doing haiku reviews I was actually writing senryu. You see, haikus are about nature and are serious, while senryus are about human nature and are more...
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Auckland natives, Cut Off Your Hands, released their second full-length album, Hollow, recently. It’s really good. A more fully realised version of the new wave/post punk sound they’ve been producing...
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Sorry For Party Rocking - LMFAO. After getting a few tracks into this I’ve come to the conclusion that they’re not sorry for party rocking at all. If they were really sorry they’d do something else...
View ArticleSome New Music That We Have
Cults – Cults Indie blogosphere swoons. “Album of the summah!” - Skinny-jeaned critics. All Things Bright And Beautiful – Owl City Starting in parent’s basement, it stands to reason that Mum gets...
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Coast To Coast – Cody Simpson Talented swimmer leaves pool behind for a shot at “Bieber status” Making Mirrors – Gotye Ashton Kutcher and Lily Allen cosigned this via the twitters The Fall – Gorillaz...
View ArticleYA Authors Rock Out
Hey, did you guys know that Young Adult authors Libba Bray, Natalie Standiford, Dan Ehrenhaft and Barnabas Miller are all in a band called Tiger Beat together? I didn’t! Not until this morning when I...
View ArticleGrammy winning CDs
The 54th annual Grammy awards were held last night in Los Angeles, amongst the 78 winners (78! There used to be more, last year it was 109) were a few that can be found on the YA CD shelves. Read on…...
View ArticleMCA: A memoriam in video
I’d like to take a quick break from all the New Zealand Music Month posting to refect on the sad news this week that rapper Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys passed away aged just 47. In a career...
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