Aldous Harding: The lost interview
Especially for New Zealand Music Month GARY STEEL disinters a 10-year-old interview with Aldous Harding conducted at the time of her debut album.
Icehouse, 40 years ago
It’s not often you get to interview Iva Davies (Icehouse) and Jo Camilleri (Jo Jo Zep) at the same time. GARY STEEL did way
Hi-Fi Show Report: AXPONA
OWEN HARRIS moseyed along to the largest hi-fi show in the USA and instead of just taking in endless rooms of product took time
Random Vinyl Play: This 1969 debut is an unheralded classic
In a new column, GARY STEEL dips into his vinyl racks. Today it’s the tasty debut by UK psychedelic band Caravan.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear #100: Metallica with Lou Reed – Lulu
MATT KELLY somehow manages to listen to 90 minutes of possibly the worst collaborative album by major rock figures ever made.
Rick Wakeman’s horrific Beatles ‘Tribute’
MATT KELLY finds a blotch in the prog-rock keyboard maestro's catalogue that's even more risible than King Arthur On Ice.
NZ music’s battle to be heard – 40 years ago, that is
NZ music acts whining about how hard it is to make a mark in 2024 might find this piece about the struggle to make
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear: Wing
MATT KELLY's tribute to one of the best/worst singers ever to grace NZ stages and Southpark, a true classic of awful. RIP Wing.
Graham Nash’s 60 Years Of Songs & Stories
GARY STEEL chats with GRAHAM NASH about his halcyon 60 years in rock and his first-ever solo dates in New Zealand.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear: Captain Sensible’s Happy Talk
MATT KELLY has something to say about a punk icon making music softer than a pillowcase stuffed with whipped cream.
Two Pink Guy albums for the price of one. Gah!
MATT KELLY listens all the way through (so you don't have to) to two of the most imbecilic records ever made. Shame on Pink
There’s a riot goin’ on: Riot III
Riot III's explosive and controversial music gets a respectful reissue 43 years later. GARY STEEL, who was there at the time, digs in.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear: Ladbaby’s sausage roll record
MATT KELLY reproduces a letter reprimanding in no certain terms Ladbaby for the unforgivable indiscretion of his sausage roll song.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear: Fallout Boy’s Mania
MATT KELLY once had a bit of a thing for Fallout Boy, but no more, savaging their Mania album for being the dog it
Riot 111: Wellington’s “terrorist” punk band
To celebrate the imminent release of a lovely vinyl platter capturing the key moments of Wellington's “terrorist” punk band Riot 111, here’s a story
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear: Patrick Stump’s Soul Punk
Fallout Boys' stuff was okay but MATT KELLY is utterly stumped at how totally and irredeemably naff that group's Pat Stump's solo is.
Frank Zappa’s amazing conceptual continuity
Any prospective fan making their way through Zappa’s bounteous discography needs to know how to find the motherlode, but it’s not easy, writes GARY
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – The Cheeky Girls’ two album abominations
MATT KELLY gives two appalling albums for the price of one with his examination of this Romanian abomination from hell.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Soldier, Komar & Melamid
MATT KELLY is aghast and amazed at one of the amazing and annoying records in the history of recorded music.
The Great Witchdoctor Q&A – Phil Bowering
Low Profile’s Elephunkin’ is one of the most fondly remembered Kiwi songs of the 1980s, but what has Phil Bowering been up to since
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