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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · Aug 4

The New Eves 'The New Eve Is Rising'
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The future is female? Well I guess the future is right now then mofo! Get some folk'n'post-punk of the highest order. Welcome to the 'Hagstone Rock' era.

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · Jul 30

Peter Jefferies (Nocturnal Projections, TKP, Xpressway) interview on Radio New Zealand, 2014. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Peter Jefferies

Peter Jefferies (This Kind of Punishment, Nocturnal Projections) joins us for a rare solo performance, ahead of his Kings Arms show this Saturday.

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Jul 23

KEXP just played T-Pain covering War Pigs and I'm obligated to share it with you, here's T-Pain covering War Pigs and it fucking rips

T Pain War Pigs

YouTube video by Working 2gether Inc.

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · Jul 23

Anyone used a transcriber programme they think is decent? Reasonable cost (aka CHEAP) one I can just dump interviews into and get a reasonable word doco back?

B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · Jun 25

So NATO members are going to 5% of their $ going on military spending. As a socialist I'm pleased actual Communist States must be booming as that was the point of NATO right? Opposition to the commie threat? Maybe food, clothes, housing should be their focus.

B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · Jun 17

She got a great write up in Pitchfork (8.4) for this folky slbum. Incedible voice, deep, beatifilly husky. Lovd it. open.spotify.com/album/3SBuk7...

Tether

Annahstasia · Album · 2025 · 11 songs

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · Jun 13

The coolest mofo’s ever… facing down a festival crowd. “I love that sign… ‘Die Daphne Die’… okay, I WILL!!” youtube.com/watch?v=_hnx...

Daphne And Celeste Getting Bottled At Reading 2000

YouTube video by duncy21

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · Jun 12

And yes, Mike Love is indeed an asshole

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · Jun 12

An amazing “metal for people who dobt like metal” release, drawibg on shoegaze, slowcore , ambient and drone. Lots of dynamics, distant lyrics that seem trapped in an existential crisis, or dude just got dumped? Great stuff. open.spotify.com/album/4wQZhZ...

It's Closeness, It's Easy

Planning For Burial · Album · 2025 · 9 songs

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · Jun 12

Apparently the Post-WW2 German Airforce jacket I was wearing might be a WW2 jacket… slightly problematic. Oops.

B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · Jun 9

Hell yeah… ex-JPSE (JeanPaul Sartre Experience… ha ha what a band name!) Dave Mulcahy. Album Tiger is amazing dark guitar pop. Other JPSE players did great stuff too. Dave Yetton’s Stereo Bus is great power pop, Jim Laing had a fun solo lp before he died and Gary Sullivan is a drum god for Dimmer

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · Jun 9

The Brother missed his chance to be a pop star, ‘The Girl’ (track 1) should have been a 7” single, getting every art school heart a swooning. Check out his back catalogue, Axel Grinders, the rare NZ band that can ROCK AND fucking ROLL. Don’t Worry, Be Sappy
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Rock and Roll Criminal, by Brother Love and the Homebacon Gang

9 track album

brotherlove1.bandcamp.com

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · Jun 9

I’ve heard a bunch of groups who have drawn on the Cocteau Twins, making etheral dream pop; Purple Pilgrims have added a David Lynch/Twin Peaks spooky edge to the sound. I feel like I’m going to awaken to some kind of hippy ritual murder, but kinda sensual and fun
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Perfumed Earth

Purple Pilgrims · Album · 2019 · 9 songs

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · Jun 9

Early 1990s Auckland slowcore band Celine have somehow managed to drop one hell of a beautiful EP vis PowerTools. Get in before they’re gone or expect to pag serious collector scum prices. celine-nz.bandcamp.com/album/the-la...

The Last Days Of Evolution, by Celine

6 track album

celine-nz.bandcamp.com

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · May 29

Free psych blues from Philadelphia… bluesambush.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

S/T, by Blues Ambush

2 track album

bluesambush.bandcamp.com

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · May 29

Surface of the Earth playing live 14th June Ponsonby Auckland. I reviewed the reissued album in the Beat Mod'n'Rocker but that's physical media and I drone on for way more words than Bluesky allows... I used to have a myspace? Umm... substack maybe? Anyway, Surface of the Earth... free noise.

B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · May 28

Sick Of It All showing the kids how to dance… youtube.com/watch?v=9fvu...

Sick Of It All - "Step Down" EastWest Records

YouTube video by BlankTV

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · May 23

Derek might just kill that goddamn junkie Terry if he doesn’t come through with the $20, but he’s got time to school record store guy Kurt on the difference between ‘tripping’ and ‘flipping’, the merits of guitarists Trower, Gilmore, Page and Blackmore, and so much more.
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The Derek Tape (1992)

YouTube video by talezman88

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · May 23

Richard Meltzer (who is the worlds greatest rock writer! Lester is a close 2nd… ignore Troy ok!) lending his support to the Angry Samoans in their fight with Rodney Bingenheimer. “Get off the air, get off the air you pathetic male queer” youtu.be/pG9S2kpGOOQ?...

Richard Meltzer on KPFK

YouTube video by talezman88

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · May 22

I'm sitiing on a gold mine! Old New Zealand zines are fetchimng some wild prices.

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Ha Ha Ha - No. 5

feat. Dead C, Hamilton music, Spud++1990, A4, 18pg, NM

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · May 21

Lovely review of Peter Jefferies incredible first solo album, first released on Xpressway pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Peter Jefferies: The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World

The 1990 album *Last* *Great Challenge...* is a claustrophobic, private-sounding collection that ranges from homegrown, tinny post-punk to melancholic piano ballads to fucked up tape manipulations. So...

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · May 19

Jandek ‘Naked In The Afternoon’
His guitar tuning is:
E
A
E(1/4tone flat)
A(1/4#)
D(slightly#)
E
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Jandek - Naked In The Afternoon (1978)

YouTube video by the spine

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · May 19

The Audioculture website is incredible. Always a fun read… and yes, they have a great Sandra Bell write up. www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/sand...

Sandra Bell - AudioCulture

“We shifted to an isolated pine forest, central North Island, 16 miles from the nearest shop, the isolation meant I had a lot of time to dream and create.” Bell was also inspired by seeing the travel...

www.audioculture.co.nz

B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · May 19

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Sandra Bell - Muzic.NZ - Musicians & Bands

Sandra Bell is well known in Dunedin and the American College Radio scene for her brand of rollicking dark indie rock music.

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · May 19

A few other Xpressway stars pop in to lend a hand too… Peter Gutteridge, David Mitchell, Alastair Galbraith, Kathy Bull… so this album really should’ve known as Sandra Bell and Her Heavy Friends! www.discogs.com/release/2633...

Sandra Bell - Dreams Of Falling

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1991 Cassette release of "Dreams Of Falling" on Discogs.

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