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Mike O'Connell

Mon, 28 Nov 2016 12:19:33 +1300

Good news, it's been recovered – there will be more Terminals!

Oh, and Dark Matter will play again this week as part of launch of Cheap Thrills II. the second edition of the magazine which is documenting and celebrating all the great music – then and now -…

Alan Perrott

Wed, 23 Nov 2016 09:23:32 +1300

that guitar sound takes me back to some of those ferocious SPUD gigs at the Gluepot – say what you will about Glen's vocal, but that band was a force of nature.

Craig Ranapia

Mon, 21 Nov 2016 22:28:17 +1300

She’s right that it’s a radio format, not a music genre, but the urban contemporary format and its name were the creation of the legendary black radio DJ Frankie Crocker. The format’s success was a crucial breakthrough for soul, funk and R&B artists in mainstream radio and it changed the American…

Mike O'Connell

Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:12:05 +1300

This is off-topic but nevertheless musically related.

Going back to the recent Nowhere! Festival, some of you may have been and seen the Terminals on the Sat night. I was by good chance there too. To cut to the chase, singer Stephen Cogle's treasured songbook vanished after their set. It…

Russell Brown

Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:15:15 +1300

I wish I'd got the whole song (late onto it and then accidentally touched the stop button with about 45 seconds to go), but this is still pretty awesome. Matthew Heine, Andrew Moore, Marty Doo and Mark Anderson as Suicide Wednesday, playing 'TV Eye' last night at a party at…

Russell Brown

Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:12:10 +1300

Not least the way it was widely embraced as ‘Urban Pacific’ and then ’Urban Pasifika’.

Good point.

Simon Grigg

Sun, 20 Nov 2016 06:05:50 +1300

Maybe “urban” has outlived its usefulness, but you have to ignore a few things to declare its origins racist.

Not least the way it was widely embraced as ‘Urban Pacific’ and then ’Urban Pasifika’.

Russell Brown

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 16:24:51 +1300

There was a good discussion on the ‘Urban’ tag by ethnomusicologist Dr Kirsten Zemke on Morning Glory this week. While covering much of the above, the focus was more on the fact it was an audience defined term rather than a musical genre, in a racially loaded sense.

I don’t…

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 08:40:18 +1300

It is hard in certain lights, not to see 'urban' as a euphemistic tag like Trump's much trumpeted 'inner cities' ....

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 08:30:12 +1300

Are we there yet?
...went out the window back in the '60s and again in the '80s, when Mobil gave away these Carl Barks drawn Walt Disney Donald Duck comics (and Mickey Mouse) – luckily I have some for sale over on Trade Me
http://www.trademe.co.nz/books/comic-books/walt-disney/auction-1200637942.htm

and other fine anthropomorphic funny…

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 08:25:06 +1300

Step right up folks!!
You have only until 3pm this arvo to bid on this fine paste infused and wrinkled artefact of the past...
What with Christmas coming – this could be the left-field gift that makes the day!
;- )
http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instruments/music-memorabilia/posters-prints/pop/auction-1200718165.htm

JacksonP

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 08:11:36 +1300

There was a good discussion on the 'Urban' tag by ethnomusicologist Dr Kirsten Zemke on Morning Glory this week. While covering much of the above, the focus was more on the fact it was an audience defined term rather than a musical genre, in a racially loaded sense. There is…

Shaun Scott

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 00:11:01 +1300

So she may have thought about this matter after her manager made the entry, I guess. Good on her.
Who knows, but either way, it’s got her a hell of a lot more press than just winning the award.

i reckon that’s a touch cynical (forgive me if I am…

Russell Brown

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 19:14:42 +1300

Who knows, but either way, it’s got her a hell of a lot more press than just winning the award.

Indeed. And like Damian says, it was "a highlight of the show and just fantastic". It was something that couldn't be flattened out by the television production and it gave…

Simon Grigg

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 18:55:51 +1300

So she may have thought about this matter after her manager made the entry, I guess. Good on her.

Who knows, but either way, it's got her a hell of a lot more press than just winning the award.

Sacha

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 18:41:11 +1300

So she may have thought about this matter after her manager made the entry, I guess. Good on her.

Russell Brown

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 17:58:12 +1300

The Wireless has also interviewed Damian Vaughn, along similar lines to me.

I think it's a bit glib to describe Aaradhna's speech as "the highlight/only event of significance" at the awards last night.

It may well have been the former, but it wasn't the latter. I thought several of this…

Public Address

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 17:58:12 +1300

Discussion from blog post.