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Yamis

Fri, 26 Dec 2014 03:15:10 +1300

Sorry bout it (as my kids says),

Run the Jewels playing the Studio on K Rd Jan 10 at 8pm with Joey Bada$$, (Wellington the night before). If you like Hip Hop in Wellington or Auckland you HAVE TO see this. If you love Hip Hop and are within commuting…

Mike O'Connell

Mon, 22 Dec 2014 14:19:34 +1300

I recall hearing this form used regularly by Jeremy Wells in his earlier (TV) shows. Taranaki has four syllables. Never heard anyone say they're from or its from the 'Watu or the 'Rapa. If my home city was officially known by its Maori name, then it could also be the…

Stupid

Mon, 22 Dec 2014 12:09:04 +1300

Slightly louder and visually lighter version of AXEMEN "Point That Thing" Peter Gutteridge tribute at Golden Dawn on Fri night here... Thanks Russell...
http://youtu.be/XYNRvRgBvGg

Kyle Matthews

Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:15:56 +1300

I’ll be filling in on the Saturday 9-11am show on 95bFM, January 3 and 7.

3 and 10?

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 22 Dec 2014 08:55:06 +1300

orc wood... en province
There is something infantile about it.
Wait till ya get up to the 'big smoke' aka "The 'Kland"...
;- )

Geoff Lealand

Mon, 22 Dec 2014 00:04:52 +1300

So I believe. There is something infantile about it.

Sacha

Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:25:01 +1300

pervasive use of "the 'Naki"

I believe it's what younger locals call it now.

Sacha

Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:20:56 +1300

you’d have dug it in the moment

oh I fully agree. genuine regret. originally intended to catch more than one of those sessions.

Geoff Lealand

Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:09:57 +1300

I agree. We are now in Lisbon and I intend to go in search of fado.

Lilith; Just as an aside, being born and educated in Taranaki, something really annoys the hell out me with pervasive use of "the 'Naki"

Alan Perrott

Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:51:45 +1300

hey Sacha, I’m hearing you but it really was a time and place thing. you’ll just have believe me when I say you’d have dug it in the moment.
otherwise, yeah you did miss out. it was a rambunctious evening of high spirits with an added dose of something I…

Sacha

Sun, 21 Dec 2014 19:44:56 +1300

they just made a live EP. Beautiful folksy stuff from the ’Naki. Have a listen for free on Bandcamp, and if you wanna buy, it’s only eight bucks. Bandcamp lets you buy and send as a gift

everything that is good about the music business now compared with even ten…

Sacha

Sun, 21 Dec 2014 19:31:38 +1300

Not much new there in the world of sound

Verily

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPudE8nDog0

Sacha

Sun, 21 Dec 2014 17:39:49 +1300

guest vocalists a-go-go

Holy crap. Knew I was missing something special as I saved shekels at home. :(

Sacha

Sun, 21 Dec 2014 17:38:44 +1300

banged out the national anthem

is there a good version, musically speaking?

Russell Brown

Sun, 21 Dec 2014 16:15:31 +1300

From Friday night at Golden Dawn: The Axemen playing 'Point That Thing', in tribute to Peter Gutteridge.

https://youtu.be/tz023YmyXtk

Russell Brown

Sun, 21 Dec 2014 15:48:03 +1300

Damn good times.

That sounds brilliant. It was a shame to have missed it, but I was a bit Golden Dawned-out from the night before — and I was DJing at a party, which turned out to be a whole bundle of fun.

Alan Perrott

Sun, 21 Dec 2014 15:42:04 +1300

was anyone at the last of Lawrence Arabia's gigs at Golden Dawn last night? Was the first time I've ever banged out the national anthem in a pub with gusto then bonus points for kicking off with the Dog's Show theme and closing with the Goodnight Kiwi tune. Another round…

Russell Brown

Sun, 21 Dec 2014 13:35:40 +1300

iTunes – “a hideous binary turd that transforms the sparkling world of music and entertainment into a stark, unintuitive spreadsheet.”

I admit, Apple's weird design choices in iTunes get frustrating — they broke search pretty badly. So I'm giving Swinsian a go. It does support AirPlay, but I can't find…

Russell Brown

Sun, 21 Dec 2014 10:53:04 +1300

While checking out (yet again) Russell’s fav ‘Christmas shopping tune’, I happened upon an upload from earlier this year, a segment of an excellently recorded live show by Saints’ contemporaries, Radio Birdman.(live at the Marryatville Hotel, I think in Adelaide). Closing track is a cover of Stooges’ Search & Destroy.

Nice!…

kiwicmc

Sat, 20 Dec 2014 18:34:10 +1300

iTunes – “a hideous binary turd that transforms the sparkling world of music and entertainment into a stark, unintuitive spreadsheet.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/28/charlie-brooker-pfroblem-with-macs

Mike O'Connell

Sat, 20 Dec 2014 17:15:43 +1300

but in the end was completely blown away by Slowdive:
I recall seeing the original Slowdive in a grubby little pub in Willseden Green ca. 1990. The bass player lost his cool that night, smashed his bass, drove it into the stage. They were the wunderkids of the moment along…

Mike O'Connell

Sat, 20 Dec 2014 17:05:32 +1300

but in the end was completely blown away by Slowdive:

TracyMac

Sat, 20 Dec 2014 16:35:13 +1300

Mmm, iTunes isn't really the best, even at that. Media Monkey has features that crap all over it, including a very powerful autotag and album download feature.

The problem is, some of those cool features and the best UI skins are components you have to download, install, and configure. While…

Eediot

Sat, 20 Dec 2014 15:27:34 +1300

One of the main reasons I moved from Spotify to Rdio over a year ago was the interface- both the web site and iOS apps (that and the fact the app worked as remote when playing Rdio on my PC to the home system. It is sometimes laggy with new…

Mike O'Connell

Sat, 20 Dec 2014 13:38:28 +1300

I don't plan to attend the CWC but I will be there at Hagley Ovel, right from the first ball on Boxing Day. Hoping the sponsor's beer is half-way decent but not expecting much.

I don't like cricket, I love it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NORzXmzO7ug

In a year of favourites, my fav artist…

Caleb D'Anvers

Sat, 20 Dec 2014 10:28:18 +1300

Finally got to Latitude this year. I was at a conference in the States last year, so missed out (though my wife got to go). Was a little underwhelmed by the lineup initially, but in the end was completely blown away by Slowdive:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aGVgGW5HZ0o

Somehow, I never really connected with…

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 20 Dec 2014 09:07:53 +1300

E-Bowler?
I see the Cricket World Cup has launched an ad campaign with a full page insert in The Press – it has a topical and even 'catchy' slogan:
"Greatness is contagious"
I wonder if it is airborne, or if you need a physical exchange of bodily fluids?
There's many…

Yamis

Sat, 20 Dec 2014 00:04:17 +1300

Run the Jewels 2 smashing it on those top album of the year lists. Number 1 on pitchfork. I've been playing the shit out of it.

Not sure what to link to out of it but here's a good one. If you like your Hip Hop ruff and raw you'll…

Pete

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:24:47 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2ZVn1UrCvjc

Andrew Dubber

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 21:22:32 +1300

I’m with Russell here. If your metadata and artwork is complete (and that was a hell of a mission), then iTunes is probably the best 'music library presented as Excel spreadsheet’ around... as long as you mess with the view options a bit (show songs, order album by artist, only…

Daphne Lawless

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 19:01:43 +1300

Chris Starling was also part of goth legends The Sisters of Mercy around the turn of the century.

Peter Johnston

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:49:05 +1300

Here he is with his old band …

This is one of hundreds of music videos I recorded off Radio With Pictures back in the 80s and kept on VHS, with the aim of digitising them all one day. But then youtube came along and nearly all of the videos…

Alan Perrott

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:47:41 +1300

I twaddled off on my annual junk shop circuit thru Thames, Te Aroha, Morrinsville and Huntly this week and reaped a fine bounty.

most lucrative – not that I sell – was a minty copy of the Underdogs (best known for Sitting in the Rain) album Wasting Our Time.

check…

Danielle

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:37:08 +1300

I’m happy enough with iTunes for managing my music

I'm sorry, everything you said after that was drowned out by an enormous NOPE.

Russell Brown

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:30:37 +1300

I’m not sure there is any digital music service whose interface and workings isn’t at odds with how any music lover would want – coders just hate music I reckon… worse as services ‘improve’ the interfaces generally get worse (spotify’s sure has)

Were you an eMusic customer when they did…

Russell Brown

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:29:00 +1300

it’s still better than iTunes…

Well, than the iTunes Stoe. I’m happy enough with iTunes for managing my music, even if it could be a lot better. I have Apple ecosystem gizmos and that part works well – unless a software update turns the dread iTunes Match on again. What…

Peter Johnston

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:23:05 +1300

I enjoyed The Golden Echo much more than I expected. The Juan Maclean album is also a ripper – between that and the LCD Soundsystem "Long Goodbye" marathon I've listened to a lot of Nancy Whang this year. BTW I find Spotify OK to use on the iPhone app -…

Danielle

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:40:30 +1300

The New York Times reports that classic hip-hop is taking over the radio dial. I can relate.

The station that started this whole thing, Boom 92 in Houston, has been a staple streamer in our household since it started (my husband, being from Houston, heard about it from his friends…

Gaz Tayler

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:01:17 +1300

it's still better than iTunes...

Tim Welch

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:37:51 +1300

I dunno if you've featured these young fellas but I really like what they are doing here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7lRDc5LeWA

Peter Darlington

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:34:36 +1300

I consider myself of around average intelligence and have used an app before, so it should be easy right, but nothing, NOTHING, has made me feel as lost, hurt and confused as the Spotify UX. It’s likes it actively hates music, listening to music, or people who do in fact…

bob daktari

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:23:25 +1300

I'm not sure there is any digital music service whose interface and workings isn't at odds with how any music lover would want – coders just hate music I reckon... worse as services 'improve' the interfaces generally get worse (spotify's sure has)

As for end of year lists, yep there's…

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:02:21 +1300

Freegal can be truly awful to negotiate but when one has teenage family members who have long since acquired their music from other sources, I use their cards it's almost possible to download an album a week :)

Not sure about the quality. Variable I've found. While the tracks are…

Lilith __

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:01:19 +1300

Russell Brown

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:57:32 +1300

davesparks

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:54:57 +1300

I'm going to make more of an effort with Spotify, I really am — but it can't just be me who finds the user interface extremely unappealing

I consider myself of around average intelligence and have used an app before, so it should be easy right, but nothing, NOTHING, has…

George Darroch

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:54:42 +1300

I had a look at the Pitchfork list a few days ago and felt completely out of touch. I knew about a tenth of the artists, and even few of their songs. I think we're living in a very diverse music environment. It's thrilling, and sometimes overwhelming.

I hadn't heard…

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:19:29 +1300

And now, a Christmas shopping message from The Saints …

Bugger, I was lining up to post that one! Looking forward to some of those delicious links.

Said advertising, you're lying; Never gonna give me what I want; I said, smooth talking, brain washing; Ain't never gonna get me what…

Lilith __

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:11:55 +1300

And old mate of mine’s in new band Glass Boat, and they just made a live EP. Beautiful folksy stuff from the ’Naki. Have a listen for free on Bandcamp, and if you wanna buy, it’s only eight bucks. Bandcamp lets you buy and send as a gift, I'm sure…

Richard Stewart

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:05:19 +1300

Sun Kil Moon doesn’t seem as impressed with War On Drugs as everyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjDwit8ryEA

Public Address

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:05:19 +1300

Discussion from blog post.