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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker
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If you’ve seen the documentary High Fidelity (John Cussak etc), I’m almost certain they renamed me Dick. I really think one should be consulted about this shit too, even if they swapped Real Groovy Auckland for Championship Vinyl Chicago everybody knew.
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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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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?
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.
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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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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And yes, Mike Love is indeed an asshole
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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Apparently the Post-WW2 German Airforce jacket I was wearing might be a WW2 jacket… slightly problematic. Oops.
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
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
brotherlove1.bandcamp.com/album/rock-a...
Rock and Roll Criminal, by Brother Love and the Homebacon Gang
9 track album
brotherlove1.bandcamp.com
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
open.spotify.com/album/5q0hxQ...
Perfumed Earth
Purple Pilgrims · Album · 2019 · 9 songs
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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
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.
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.
youtu.be/gH5_vZimKrE?...
The Derek Tape (1992)
YouTube video by talezman88
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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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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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