And for maximum tonal whiplash
NADIA REID - Out of My Province- https://nadiareid.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-my-province
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4145199521_7.jpg
The indie-folk star's third album, its title quoting Janet Frame, was written while Reid was travelling the world. Alongside guitarist Sam Taylor, the violinist Anita Clark (Motte) returns to her live band.
Nadia Reid - "Get The Devil Out"https://youtu.be/VoRc9nBYwHo
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 8 March 2020 02:19 (four years ago) link
L.A.B. - "In The Air"
A huge hit, the song eventually rose to No.1 overall, where it's stayed for 3 weeks now. A very rare achievement for a Kiwi artist.
Benee may get her first No.1 here soon – her track "Supalonely" has gone feral on TwitClock. On an unrelated note, she's also gonna try to take over the U.S., it can't be that hard.
- https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/9337519/benee-interview-supalonely-emerging-artists-spotlight
OTHER STUFF: bKIDD featured new vocalist Jarna on his rap track "Can't Take This" (a 'Visualizer' is a music video with no budget?) ... Electro artist VASILI has a stunning new album, Hidden Inside, his tenth(?) in 7 years ... Yumi Zouma released their new record, Truth or Consequences ... Some prominent Various Artists have made a Katherine Mansfield album, GET YER OWN IDEAS, MATE ... (that's not the title) ... Rappers Shiraz & LSJ had some success last year and unveiled their most polished track yet, "Whitney". They had it mixed & mastered and everything ... Estère played a session track, "Mad about Your Sea" from her upcoming album ... And, the NZSO will stream its Bach concert live on Wed 25 March at 19:30 NZT on https://nzso.co.nz/live
The coronavirus is affecting New Zealand and its musicians like anywhere else – there's a page for artists who are facing problems with money, mental health and other things:
- https://nzmusician.co.nz/news/covid-19-vs-nz-global-music-industry
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 21 March 2020 03:44 (four years ago) link
Ah, that one music video TV channel we have is back! for a few months.
I guess they don't mind the comparison with Radio with Pictures...- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/radio-with-pictures-1976/series
― sbahnhof, Friday, 27 March 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
WOMAD festival was one of the last events to be held, in March.
But... there was a problem.
Wellington publisher Mary McCallum went to Womad with 17,000 people each day, just before the lockdown. It’s a fortnight since people headed home from Womad in New Plymouth, some going straight into self-isolation as a preventive measure.
The problem with Womad- https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2020/03/31/1107877/the-problem-with-womad
― sbahnhof, Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:03 (four years ago) link
If a song called "Supalonely" can't get to No.1 during a human quarantine crisis, something unusual must be happening
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 18 April 2020 08:37 (four years ago) link
The rapper Melodownz signed to Def Jam last year; his party piece is probably the track "Peace Signs, Gang Signs", he also did a long-distance collab with UK MC Coops on "Infinite" in 2018.
His latest single is a change of direction, heavily influenced by drill.
'“There’s a lot of drill and darker themes in music at the moment which I love also, but I just wanted to create something that makes people happy and comfortable.” Melo describes.'
MELODOWNZ - ‘Fine’- https://basefm.co.nz/melodownz-fine
reason I stick with this dude is goofy lines like"I don't hang with nobody who not nice"
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 18 April 2020 08:38 (four years ago) link
From last year, but whadevva:
LOU'ANA - "Move Along"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd3STQPI6PY
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 18 April 2020 08:39 (four years ago) link
Old time occasional poster/long time lurker who just retrieved his password here to say that GRG67 just put out their new album on Rattle Records last week and are very good at the jazz. Their release show was terrific and they're playing again on Thursday.
https://rattle-records.bandcamp.com/album/happy-place
Also went to the Cakekitchen release show last week. Wasn't overwhelmed by the selections from the new album on a first listen, but when you're competing against the career highlights on almost 40 years that's an occupational hazard, and a new track (recorded during lockdown) was one of the highlights of the whole damn show.
https://allyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/trouble-again-in-this-town
Coming to stages in Auckland in August: black metal legends Ulcerate, whose new record is a monster.
https://ulcerate.bandcamp.com/album/stare-into-death-and-be-still
(Since The Beths have their own damn thread I assume mentioning them here is redundant...)
― dillamonster, Sunday, 12 July 2020 05:56 (three years ago) link
I hadn't heard GRG67 before! Happy Place is a great album, thx.
Sorry for implying earlier that Radio 1's Henny G was too "full-on", as I now realize that she is the world's funniest broadcaster and her emergency music show in lockdown was the best one of those. Furthermore, the playlist starts with someone called Lee F Blower and then the latest banger "Heatwave" by Randa, whose yet-to-be-completed album will, I maintain, be the Alb of the Decade if they do it right.
- https://www.mixcloud.com/Radio_One_91fm_Dunedin/nz-on-air-presents-the-local-9420-with-ashley-adelaide-henessey-sam-tom
It's not quite true that I spent the last ten months listening to that Soccerpractise album on repeat, but pretty close.
Election special: Underground doomcore merchants The Beths helped the Green Party back to parliament by performing at their campaign rally in Titirangi ... Meme MP Chlöe Swarbrick got a booming result in the vote in central Auckland, an achievement maybe even bigger than her appearing in JessB's first video in 2018 as a netball official ... The opening track on the Ulcerate album, "The Lifeless Advance", also happens to sum up the far-right party of that name ... And there's a Cannabis Referendum but the electoral commission were too stoned to count the results for about two weeks. Obviously, There Is No Weed-related Music in New Zealand, so I'm not sure why I'm mentioning it here.
This band "Dick Move" might be a bit political as well :-D - https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/news/17818/Dick-Move-Touring-New-Album-Chop!-In-October.utr
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 25 October 2020 22:40 (three years ago) link
What's Old and Still Fresh in New Zealand Music? Well for instance this 'un I wrote about long ago in the Voice:
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2008 AT 4 A.M.
Die! Die! Die!
Promises, Promises (SAF)
"So much for blue skies! What about the future?" Thus New Zealand's young punks Die! Die! Die! yap back at a preacher's "You must believe!" They aren't really asking, but they also aren't really that close to no-future angels of '77. Of course not---too many things under the bridge, including bridges---and while these neo-classic cage-rattlers demand come-on comparison, they don't cling to it. They've got their own sonic reflux, absorbing the news and vice-versa. So even Die! Die! Die!, with their shrieky little name and shrieky little songs (tattooing ear canals), find themselves pausing just long enough to explain, quite reasonably, "Well sir, this winter, I cannot believe." "Blue Skies" is the last stop on Die! Die! Die!'s second album, Promises, Promises. Their 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, on this Shayne (of Straitjacket Fits) Carter–produced set, walls are pushed out as inner space-junk expands; shards reappear as pieces of Wilson's personal blue skies, of old hopes and dreams. His shattered, scattered voice and guitar can't help planting some bizarre memory garden of l-u-v. The eloquent guts of Lachlan Anderson's bass will never digest such seeds very easily, and drummer Michael Prain's Keith Moon-style soloing-as-accompaniment dents craters in a common labyrinth-in-a-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, Monday, 26 October 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
This might be new:
Die! Die! Die! - "450" / "I Seek Misery"- https://diediedie.bandcamp.com/album/450-i-seek-misery
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 8 November 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
Vanessa Worm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZREmKORfWNI
― stirmonster, Sunday, 8 November 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
xpost Thanks! Should have known they'd be on bandcamp.
― dow, Sunday, 8 November 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
The NZMAs, now named the Aotearoa Music Awards, are happening tonight and broadcasting on The Edge TV and Three.
Haven't followed the charts much this year, but it looks like a very promising nominee lineup – there are sure to be prizes for the some of the ones mentioned above based on popularity and maybe artistry.
Paige, who collaborated with JessB last year, is up for the breakthrough artist and pop award. Meanwhile, Troy Kingi's band are four years into their project to make 10 albums in 10 genres with the new one, The Ghost of Freddie Cesar, and he's nominated for best single for "All Your Ships Have Sailed".
Troy Kingi - The Ghost of Freddie Cesar- https://troykingi.bandcamp.com/album/the-ghost-of-freddie-cesar
Chaii ain't gonna win, but I love her
CHAII - Lightswitch EP- https://soundcloud.com/chaiimusic/sets/lightswitch-ep-1
Jawsh 685's "Laxed (Siren Beat)" is up for best single because it became popular worldwide as a 20-second snippet, which is handy, as there's nothing more to the track. The video's pretty good tho.(Then Jason Derulo saw an opportunity, etc etc)
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 15 November 2020 03:52 (three years ago) link
the cuticles & n.t. honey (typo'd elsewhere as m.t. honey but it's n.t.) are good. crude is doing stuff again but i only heard 30 seconds of a recent gig on someone's instagram post. heazlewood has a new band called consolidated fuzz, they're probably good, i haven't heard them. i'm in a band again too, good. why do people like the veils, they're terrible.
― unknown or illegal user (doo rag), Thursday, 13 May 2021 05:47 (two years ago) link
Arm Up Ehoa; The Pigs Want To Open Carry by Captain Cooked on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/G4AbY
― unknown or illegal user (doo rag), Thursday, 13 May 2021 08:49 (two years ago) link
Fazerdaze has a new song out: https://open.spotify.com/track/2qkAa6IrUy5WWizVE1rpeh?si=9u0qWliWSou70CfEOntp4g
It's got a great mid-nineties alt rock vibe. Less shoegazey than her previous work, with plenty of fuzzy grit.
It's been five years so hopefully a new album is coming soon!
― The Ghost Club, Thursday, 4 August 2022 01:52 (one year ago) link
I like the new Tiny Ruins songs, pretty indie-folk with memorable hooks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4feBg1lmrU
― aphoristical, Sunday, 21 May 2023 01:11 (eleven months ago) link