1001 albums you must die before you hear: The Clash crap out
MATT KELLY attends the bloody crash scene at the messy end of a great band's superfine career. It's a crime.
The Gordons: Free birds with massive tweet
To celebrate NZ Music Month GARY STEEL excavates a 1983 interview - 40 years ago! - with legendary noisemakers The Gordons.
40 years ago – The Kiwi Animal
It’s New Zealand Music Month, so GARY STEEL digs up a 40-year-old story he wrote about NZ musical duo The Kiwi Animal.
40 years ago: Wellington’s Tin Syndrome
It’s New Zealand Music Month and for the occasion, GARY STEEL digs up some musical skeletons from his past. Today it’s Tin Syndrome’s turn.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear: Pornhub’s lamentable long play
MATT KELLY actually listens to the Pornhub XXXmas Album all the way through and instantly regrets it with all his heart.
Forty years ago: the slow-cooked post-punk of Unrestful Movements
For NZ Music Month GARY STEEL dips once again into his archive of interviews. From May 1983, here are Unrestful Movements.
Forty years ago – Philbo keeps a low profile
To celebrate New Zealand Music Month GARY STEEL reaches far back into his archives for two pieces he wrote on musician Phil Bowering.
It’s a single so bad that it destroyed a career
Sometimes just one song can ruin an album and send a career spinning off into obscurity. MATT KELLY has got this to say...
Forty years ago – This act ends with a bang
GARY STEEL loves interviewing obscure and entertaining NZ bands. Back in 1983 Moving Targets had big plans. Where are they now?
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – William Shatner
MATT KELLY for once is completely taken with an album from the original Star Trek actor that's at least as great as it is
Dire Straits 40 years ago
GARY STEEL interviewed two members of Dire Straits both before and after their 1983 gig in a dangerously windy Wellington.
Rucka Rucka’s Very Rucka Christmas – one of the very worst records ever!
Sometimes MATT KELLY enjoys listening to 'bad' records but Rucka Rucka Ali's album is beyond that, way beyond. Just don't go there.
The night Chicago died: a terrible twosome!
MATT KELLY endured two of the worst Chicago albums just so you would never have to. Below, he details the abject horror.
Space waltzing back in time
Musings on a week of listening, watching and the rest of it. This week GARY STEEL reads a couple of entertaining Kiwi music books.
The knows no bounds world of Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto died a few days ago, though the world only learnt about it today. GARY STEEL with a personal appreciation.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Le Tigre’s political folly
MATT KELLY actually likes Le Tigre but this pro-Hilary Clinton single is badder than bad: it's actually terrible.
UB40 – Militant and hot as. An interview with Astro
When GARY STEEL spoke to UB40's Astro 40 years ago the hitmaking band still described themselves as anarchists.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Bart Baker’s Greatest Hits
Even MATT KELLY has his limits, and he's reached them with this abominable musical "satire" which redefines tastelessness.
Blast from the past: Michael Franti and the Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
Thirty years ago GARY STEEL sat down at an Auckland sidewalk café to chat with Michael Franti ahead of their performance in Auckland.
Muhammad Ali’s tooth decay album is one you should die before you hear
MATT KELLY reviews a masterpiece in unintentional surrealism - Muhammad Ali's long-playing bout with Bertie Germ!
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