1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Uriah Heep’s Conquest July 28, 2022 Matthew Kelly Conquest was a Heep album in name only writes MATT KELLY, who can't find a nice thing to say about their turn-of-the-decade excrescence. Read More
Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece The year The Doors released their best and worst albums July 26, 2022 Gary Steel From the epochal genius of LA Woman to the sad drudge of Other Voices, both in 1971. “How the heck?” asks GARY STEEL. Read More
Albums·Music·NZ music·Recordings·Thought Piece RTR Countdown Magazine Best Albums Of ’89! July 25, 2022 Gary Steel GARY STEEL's “countdown” of the 10 best albums of 1989 from the February 1990 issue of RTR Countdown. Oh-ho-ho! Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Pat Boone’s In A Metal Mood July 25, 2022 Matthew Kelly In a rare move, MATT KELLY actually recommends smooth crooner Pat Boone's bizarre heavy metal monstrosity. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Stevie Wonder’s Characters July 15, 2022 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY on an album that offered up Stevie Wonder as a spent force whose dull songs sounded like offcuts and just went on Read More
Interviews·Music Summer of drugs July 6, 2022 Gary Steel The psychedelic revolution flamed into the Summer Of Love in 1967 and Barry Miles was in the thick of it. GARY STEEL interviews the Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Killing Joke’s Brighter Than A Thousand Suns July 5, 2022 Matthew Kelly Killing Joke's striking early albums really meant something but this mid-'80s album is a synthpop washout, writes MATT KELLY. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece Are these the two worst records ever made? July 4, 2022 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY thinks he might have found the very worst two records of all time, even though he's only setting out on his mammoth Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – A gruesome Jethro Tull twosome! June 29, 2022 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY finds it necessary and the right thing to do to dump on not one, but TWO albums by classic rockers Jethro Tull. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Diana, The Musical June 25, 2022 Matthew Kelly With its hilariously off-colour and risible lyrics and crappy music backing, Diana The Musical easily makes MATT KELLY's infamous list. Read More
Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece Kate Bush was a figure of fun June 25, 2022 Gary Steel She’s rock royalty with an old song riding high in the charts, but not so long ago Kate Bush was mercilessly ridiculed, writes GARY Read More
Albums·Interviews·Music·Recordings Rebel smell – Time’s up for shock rockers June 21, 2022 Gary Steel Is it time for rock and roll rebels to face the music? GARY STEEL fuses his 1990s Marilyn Manson interview with musings on shock Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Marilyn Manson’s Mechanical Animals June 15, 2022 Matthew Kelly Even at his very best Marilyn Manson sucks the biscuit as far as MATT KELLY is concerned. Read on to find out why. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Walker Hayes’ Country Stuff June 9, 2022 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY puts a very sharp knife into a fat platter with thin ideas that may actually be the worst album of our year Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Mick Jagger’s She’s The Boss June 3, 2022 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY marvels at a shockingly bad album wherein Jagger uses 31 great session musicians for seemingly no reason whatsoever. Read More
Albums·Music·NZ music·Recordings·Thought Piece Lea Maalfrid’s This Love – a master class in singer-songwriting June 3, 2022 Gary Steel One of NZ’s most distinguished songwriters finally gets round to recording a career-spanning overview, and GARY STEEL is well impressed. Read More
Albums·Music·NZ music·Recordings·Thought Piece Lawnmaster’s Curable Romantic – Wellington’s self-proclaimed laziest band steps up June 2, 2022 Gary Steel Self-deprecating, funny and deeply humanistic, this Wellington band’s latest deserves a hearing, reckons GARY STEEL. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – The Doors’ Full Circle June 2, 2022 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY casts his withering gaze at the second and final post-Jim Morrison album and isn't in the least bit impressed. Read More
Concerts·Interviews·Music·NZ music·Recordings The Witchdoctor Q&A – Sandy Mill May 26, 2022 Gary Steel Sandy Mill is one of Aotearoa's finest singers. To mark a rare performance in Auckland this weekend, we ask her some leading questions. Read More
Music·NZ music·Recordings The Steroids and White Light Records May 25, 2022 Gary Steel In 1980 In Touch magazine got all excited about Wellington post-punk band The Steroids and the launching of their independent record label. Read More