Date With A Big Mac
During their 1980 tour of NZ, Gary Steel interviewed Fleetwood Mac's John McVie. Another Blast From The Arse production.
No Future
Gary Steel is alarmed and disturbed. Where have all the good singers gone? And why must we endure the feeble performances of “stars” that
Best music? Worst sound. Worst music? Best sound.
Gary Steel asks one of the most pressing questions of the modern era: why does the best music sound like crap on good hi-fi
Nifty graphic asks wrong question
A nifty graphic exposition of music sales data, but did they ask the right questions?
Looking up the flying nun’s habit
Gary Steel breaks wind on a couple of recent Flying Nun compilations
Meshuggah – Koloss (Nuclear Blast) CD/DVD review
Meshuggah are the death metal musical monsters, reckons Jason Donoghue
Boys listening to weird records together
In honour of an alternative to the man-bonding sweat lodge: tit-for-tat listening sessions.
VHS-A-GO-GO
Gary Steel gets nostalgic for VHS tape, while young folks just get real and use it to their own ends
Garbage – Not Your Kind Of People CD REVIEW
Eighties music expert Jason Donoghue assesses nineties comeback Garbage.
Fun foremost for First Fifteen four
To celebrate NZ Music Month, GARY STEEL digs up a story he wrote about the very fabulous (but sadly neglected) First 15.
Smashing Pumpkins Tour, Album
The Smashing Pumpkins will appear at Vector Arena in Auckland in August.
Shiver Me Timbers
Gary Steel rediscover’s music’s potential to get right in
Keyboardist poops on Witchdoctor reviewer!
Yes keyboardist heaps scorn on Gary Steel. The hapless reviewer responds.
Record Store Day at Southbound
Record Store Day at Southbound Records
Naked Spots Dance
Thirty years ago, Gary Steel wrote this piece on Naked Spots Dance for NZ Rolling Stone magazine.
Amplified Streetnoise
Gary Steel unearths an interview with The Gordons MkII, who reveal they would like to have "a negro chorus section"
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace 3D FILM REVIEW
Gary Steel reviews the new, 3D version of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
Petition against online censorship
Pat Pilcher looks at a groundswell against anti-counterfeiting "treaty" ACTA
Hi-fi Nostalgia
Is the hi-fi past all that it's cracked up to be? John Groom ponders this heavy philosophical question.
Megaupload shutdown backlash looms
Those nosy Yanks shut it down, but soon the heat will be turned on the prosecutors, says Pat Pilcher
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