There is a What’s New in New Zealand Music thread that’s regularly updated, but I can’t find it in Search somehow.
― breastcrawl, maandag 19 augustus 2019 15:16 bookmarkflaglink
That'd be What's New in New Zealand Music? , which I've been a bit slack about posting in.
― etc, dinsdag 20 augustus 2019 5:32 bookmarkflaglink
lol, it's literally called that? I should have looked harder, I guess, but I assumed it was a recent-ish thread.
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 11:12 (four years ago) link
This is great advice and direction. Thank you so much!
― neilasimpson, Friday, 23 August 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
This is an extremely useful thread. Many thanks sbahnhof for your diligence.
― neilasimpson, Saturday, August 24, 2019 1:49 AM
Cheers, Neil...
I'm not from here either.
When you first arrive, you hope life is all gonna be like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evx3J-bzNRQ
But then it turns out it's mostly like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxm-wutKi7k
― sbahnhof, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 08:47 (four years ago) link
HHAHAHAHAHAHAH
― clouds (peanutbuttereverysingleday), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 10:50 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS5fN9bo1Vc
"Blue Smoke" was the first ever single from New Zealand, here's the story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMBBttcTVwo
If Pixie Williams had done nothing else, she would still be in the history books for what happened on October 3, 1948 when she turned up at a makeshift recording studio in Wellington, New Zealand, still wearing her hockey uniform. ... It was a huge hit (and was covered by the likes of Dean Martin) and it would have seemed Williams -- then living in a hostel and working in a battery factory -- would have a wonderful career. It was, however, brief.
Pixie Williams: "Maori Land" (1949)https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/fromthevaults/4306/pixie-williams-maori-land-1949
https://www.audioculture.co.nz/content/images/857/hero_thumb_Blue_Smoke_Songsheet.jpg
― sbahnhof, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
That's pretty cool.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 24 April 2020 23:53 (four years ago) link
That RSA thing is great. And kinda topical today. I can see myself foisting it on others now.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 25 April 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
I've long been puzzled by the relative lack of chatter about Blam Blam Blam. Including here, apparently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HVogejKx_c
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 25 April 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link
They would've achieved Nunnesque popularity, if only they'd had a sensible name like The Blams
Good band tho – this is their last live gig, on Radio with Pictures
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/rwp-live-at-mainstreet-blam-blam-blam-1984-
― sbahnhof, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 00:40 (three years ago) link
That RSA thing is great. And kinda topical today. I can see myself foisting it on others now.― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, April 25, 2020 12:01
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, April 25, 2020 12:01
OK, but
You must sign in
― sbahnhof, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 00:41 (three years ago) link
This may not be the right place to ask but an RFI question about NZ music scene...
I'm fairly familiar with the popular (and some fringe) releases of the Flying Nun/Xpressway catalogs, but something I've also been curious about: are/were there any indigenous/maori/polynesian members of any of the bands/scenes?
Living ~1/3 of the world away, my only exposure to crossover (non-traditional) NZ artists are like OMC or Jemaine Clement (or maybe Te Vaka counts?) which seems fairly scant, but maybe there could be other factors other than the obvious.
I should note that I'm fairly unfamiliar with the Urban Pasifika genre.
So there it is: RFI nontraditional NZ artists with indigenous/maori/polynesian roots.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 29 January 2021 19:08 (three years ago) link
(working through this thread backwards, that Pateo Maori Club - "Poi E" embed upthread is a jam)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 29 January 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8frPD7DgqI
OUT FRONT WITH THE KNOBZ
― lambert simnel (doo rag), Saturday, 1 October 2022 09:54 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKColaFHHg0
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 08:46 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tDBjJGnfrY
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 08:47 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiddntlexkY
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 08:50 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQFI2yqyYO4
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 08:56 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXxalI6Mg6w
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 08:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tdOCYQo_qQ
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 09:01 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdoNzewx3ko
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 09:06 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB4zTSG7k1M
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SGy4e_UZ9Y
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Saturday, 15 October 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNoCuTMfJa8
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Saturday, 15 October 2022 01:08 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYAa09jIn0o
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Saturday, 15 October 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erE7NYEZLYY
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 03:00 (one year ago) link
These guys! From my 2008 Voice review, when they were coming to NYC:
..."Blue Skies" is the last stop on Die! Die! Die!'s second album, Promises, Promises. The Steve Albini–recorded, self-titled 2006 debut's flying shards of impulsive/compulsive encounters were caught by walls thrown up, tracks tightened till they imploded: 10 songs, in just over 20 minutes. But now, all through this Shayne (of Straitjacket Fits) Carter–produced set, walls are pushed out as inner space-junk expands; shards reappear as pieces of Andrew Wilson's personal blue skies, of old hopes and dreams. Breathing room is found, yes, though his shattered, scattered voice and guitar can't help planting some bizarre memory garden of l-o-v-e and more, despite it all. The eloquent guts of Lachlan Anderson's bass will never digest such seeds very easily, and drummer Michael Prain's Keith Moon-schooled soloing-as-accompaniment dents craters in today's glazed maze, where Wilson and "You!" grapple in reflective gear. Die! Die! Die! play the Music Hall of Williamsburg March 29 and Highline Ballroom March 30.
― dow, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 03:24 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhfU8YfzOi4
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Friday, 21 October 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/ladi6/ladi6-guru-mp3?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Sunday, 23 October 2022 02:09 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20C19KmI03g
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Sunday, 23 October 2022 02:20 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWGoqsAoKvI
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Sunday, 23 October 2022 09:37 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siBurrXFJ3g
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Sunday, 23 October 2022 09:44 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGIbSdnbgOE
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Sunday, 23 October 2022 09:53 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9uru4LJkps
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Friday, 28 October 2022 08:11 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjJY95_Kj9E
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Thursday, 12 October 2023 18:33 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayV0dlQNMMA
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Thursday, 12 October 2023 18:35 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyObGLciBRA
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Thursday, 12 October 2023 18:38 (six months ago) link
Hey do rag I was thinking of you - and George Gossett - when xyzzzz and I saw the Dead C in London this summer - good times
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 12 October 2023 19:49 (six months ago) link
takes all sorts i guess
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 06:54 (six months ago) link