Monster bill for the NYE fitting Wellington’s standing in NZ’s music scene. Monday 31 December 2007 Doors Open 8.30pm till sunrise SHED 1, Queens Wharf, WELLINGTON With – LADI6 & PARKS – FAT FREDDY’S DROP – SHAPESHIFTER PLUS DJ’s MU, CIAN & KAVA $106 (inc $6 Booking Fee) + $4 P&H Please note this gig [...]

Looking for something to rupture your ears to this Friday? Die! Die! Die! are on the road again, fresh from three 2007 NZ Music Awards nominations and a new album to play live…it should be a cracker. Presales $15 from Real Groovy

The lovely peeps from DFA let me in a secret this morning – they’re offering a Free download only EP (Radiohead…what have you done?) through www.7digital.com. NZ’s own Shocking Pinks get a plug and the glorious ‘Us v Them’ is in the mix in a live video form. Track List Shocking Pinks – Emily (Live [...]

The Mars Volta released info today about the upcoming follow-up to Amputechture. ‘The Bedlam In Goliath’ is due out on January 29, 2008 in the US, and features 12 tracks. The follow-up to 2006′s ‘Amputechture’ was produced by guitarist Omar Rodriguez Lopez and includes contributions from Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante. The tracklisting [...]

NME are hawking another reunion, this time in the form of ‘The Verve’. They were good, but not as good as Richard Ashcroft thought they were. And as a result, I can’t say I’ll be up all night waiting for the advance download being offered by NME as a promo for their new ‘we’re back [...]

It’s been around for sometime (recorded for “Exit Music”), but I’d only clocked it this morning. Very very nice. If not a little depressing. Sia – Paranoid Android – MP3 She’s Australian, but that’s okay. They were knocked out of the cup in the Quarter-finals too. Probably one of the more memorable vocalists used by [...]

“Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No?” was easily the best NZ album last year, and thankfully the judges in charge of the Tui’s this year agreed. If you haven’t already heard it, get off your arse now and get it. It’s too much. Hollie Smith also made out with a few, capping off a great 07 for [...]

In a week where some crazy stuff has happened in the country (Terror Raids, John Banks’ and Kerry Predergasts’ relections), it’s nice to know that somebody out in the great yonder feels the same about something as I do. “In Rainbows” was given a big-ups by me earlier this week, and now the uber-snob peeps [...]