The Bads – Losing Heroes (no label) ALBUM REVIEW
GARY STEEL underestimated The Bads. He’s here now to pay penance with his review of their really, really good new album.
Peter Jefferies & Jono Lonie – At Swim 2 Birds (Flying Nun) LP VINYL REVIEW
A lost Flying Nun album finds its feet 30 years after its original release, writes GARY STEEL.
Bored Room Antics
Melodrama? Smell-O-Rama more like, according to GARY STEEL. Witchdoctor’s resident curmudgeon finds fault with Lorde’s ‘universally acclaimed’ second album.
Country Music With Sound Effects
GARY STEEL sends an open letter to Roger Waters on the occasion of his first album in 25 years, Is This The Life We
Sgt Pooper
Is The Beatles’ much-celebrated 1967 album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band an overrated piece of junk?
Whitney – Light Upon The Lake (Secretly Canadian) ALBUM REVIEW
GARY STEEL asks: Why do so many albums sound intentionally awful and artless? Part 2!
Cullen Omori – New Misery (SubPop) ALBUM REVIEW
GARY STEEL asks: Why do so many albums sound intentionally awful and artless?
Poliça – United Crushers (Pod) ALBUM REVIEW
We need more politics in music, but not poor music with a political twist, writes GARY STEEL
These Records Sound Amazing
Is it possible for recordings to sound as good as the musicians when they performed in the studio? RICHARD VAREY has found a record
Music Listening Clubs
DR RICHARD VAREY has been thinking about deep music listening on good equipment with other human beings in the same room!
NZ Music Month – Shoes This High
GARY STEEL digs up his 1981 review of the first and only record by the now-legendary Shoes This High.
The High Resolution Musician
David Elias is an acclaimed singer-songwriter. He also happens to be an audiophile and high resolution music pioneer. DR RICHARD VAREY talks to him
Murder Ballads, Dead Girls And Funerals
Fancy a spot of spelunking? GARY STEEL reassesses Nick Cave.
Records For Life
DR RICHARD VAREY takes a deep, quizzical look at the supposed vinyl revival, retro-mania and the new glut of merchandising around Record Store Day.
Unsung Legends Of NZ Music
ANDREW JOHNSTONE waxes lyrical about Graeme Downes (The Verlaines) and Matthew Bannister (Sneaky Feelings).
Future Islands – The Far Field (4AD/The Label)
Their fans will love it, but Future Islands’ fifth album sticks in GARY STEEL’s throat.
Daniel Brandt – Eternal Something (Erased Tapes/Southbound) ALBUM REVIEW
GARY STEEL is seduced by a seductive and gently adventurous album. By a drummer, no less.
Methyl Ethel – Everything Is Forgotten (4AD/The Label) ALBUM REVIEW
GARY STEEL makes an indignant stand against a record that sounds like a C90 cassette tape that's been thrown out of a car onto
The Map Room – Weatherless (No Label) ALBUM REVIEW
GARY STEEL recommends this album to all those lost souls who find life just too harsh and edgy.
Van Morrison, Mike Nesmith And The Road To Enlightenment
Have you ever looked to musicians and their work as a pathway towards insight on life and transcendence? ANDREW JOHNSTONE on the two artists
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