The fascinating ins and outs of a piano – Tania Giannouli’s Solo
GARY STEEL waxes passionately about a rather extraordinary release that is much, much more than just another solo piano album.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Avril Lavigne’s Hello Kitty
MATT KELLY doesn't mind Avril Lavigne but makes an exception for this 2013 album on which she is pointedly annoying.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear: Planet Jedward
MATT KELLY once again ventures where many fear to tread and grapples with an album that's far beyond redemption.
Pacific Audio fest and a tale of three pressings
Veteran Kiwi hi-fi creator Simon Brown took his Wand turntable to the fabulous Seattle-based Pacific Audio Fest hi-fi show. Here's his take on the
Jillian Hall’s combined wrestling and Xmas album: Gah!
MATT KELLY has heard it all but this insane coupling of wrestling novelty and Christmas album takes the mouldy cake.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Hulk Hogan
Witchdoctor's doyen of bad taste MATT KELLY wrestles with one of the very best of the worst and actually likes this really terrible album.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Belle And Sebastian
Well, it's not an album, it's a song, but what a stinker! MATT KELLY is appalled the latest Belle And Sebastian single.
40 years ago: Grammar Boys
It’s still NZ Music Month so GARY STEEL continues the excavation of his mouldering story scrapbook. Today's travesty: Grammar Boys.
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.
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...
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
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 – Bart Baker’s Greatest Hits
Even MATT KELLY has his limits, and he's reached them with this abominable musical "satire" which redefines tastelessness.
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