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Kyle Matthews

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:59:35 +1300

Just noticed that alt-j are playing Laneways – got their album an awesome wave off itunes at Xmas time and it's kept on growing on me over the past month – really good.

Officially jealous now :(

Geoff Lealand

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:31:00 +1300

The lot in the back seats took some time to warmup and the couple next to me inexplicably left the show half-way through. Don McG was top-notch (love that song "Make Your Own Mind Up") and although EC didn't do anything from my favourite album Should I Be Cruel, it…

andin

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:33:33 +1300

clappity clappity
Yes the year is hardly one month old and sanity is thin on the ground. Yacht rock eh! the saccaharine soundtrack to a period of excess that saw a generation look up its own arse and get mesmerised. And ZZTop were part of that, girls and cars hmmm...…

Danielle

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:15:33 +1300

The "deep catalogue" song I was most thrilled to hear:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgvUrYUFlJM

Since my husband got a setlist from the soundboard I'm slightly disappointed that there were three songs from Get Happy!! on the cards which didn't make it in the end.

I was hoping for more from King of America…

JacksonP

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:51:03 +1300

Elvis Costello and band, The Civic.

Great show. Personally, I was hoping for a few from King of America, but there was enough to keep even the most ardent critics happy. And the EC fans were literally out of their seats going clappity clappity. Well, I was. ;-)

Ethan Tucker

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:21:26 +1300

For a bit of fun I looked up a recent ZZ Top video, having read an interview with them in Mojo a few weeks back. I steered well clear of them in the 80s but in a way it's kind of refreshing that they're still making exactly the same videos…

Sacha

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:12:09 +1300

Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City

The Guardian is impressed (via Sola Rosa).

JacksonP

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:04:15 +1300

Just listening to Flume and thinking they’ll be this year’s SBTRKT.

Heard this today, and thought it would sound good loud, after dark, surrounded by happy hipsters. Or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAEQt7wq44w

Russell Brown

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:47:03 +1300

Ah, of course. I think I’d assumed Jaar was just another remix DJ, rather than an artist in his own right.

“Space is only noise” from 2011 is a decent album.

I can see it's going to be a bit like last year, with the electronic stuff being the most…

Danielle

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:38:54 +1300

OK, so Yacht Rock: I had no idea, but I just read about it and realised that I am a bit of an idiot-savant afficionado (we DO have the entire Have a Nice Day CD series, for starters).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2iFqcFcdBU

Also, it's Elvis Costello Day, everyone! We are excite! If you…

Peter Darlington

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:17:43 +1300

Okay, if we’re gonna get serious about this yacht rock thing …

How about a yacht, a pipe and a vintage safari?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9D7K1gZNCw

Peter Darlington

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:14:35 +1300

Ah, of course. I think I'd assumed Jaar was just another remix DJ, rather than an artist in his own right.

"Space is only noise" from 2011 is a decent album.

Russell Brown

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:25:47 +1300

Okay, if we’re gonna get serious about this yacht rock thing … here’s a Nicolette Larson edit. Booya.

Russell Brown

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:24:24 +1300

My introduction to Nicholas Jaar was the Cat Power Cherokee Remix.

Ah, of course. I think I'd assumed Jaar was just another remix DJ, rather than an artist in his own right.

Chris Lipscombe

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:53:11 +1300

Just thought I'd add my voice to the summertime recommended music/reads. Patti Smith's Just Kids is curiously satisfying, especially the way the story is intertwined with with Robert Mappelthorpe's. Also works as kind of extended liner notes to Twelve. David Byrne's How Music Works is finding its way around the…

JacksonP

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:46:41 +1300

Cheers Russell. Looking forward to Laneway.

My introduction to Nicholas Jaar was the Cat Power Cherokee Remix. Who is of course here next month also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFGdfgUbLvQ

Christchurch folk need to get along to
Anissa Victoria’s Vintage Market
Wish I was in Chch for this. Definitely something I'd enjoy. Hope the…

Peter Darlington

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:44:09 +1300

Loving that Kendrick. One of my summer jams, along with this R. Kelly joint:

When a Man Lies

and this one by Usher, possibly my favourite track of 2012:

Climax

Nice, I'll check them out.

Mark Cubey

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:48:35 +1300

Loving that Kendrick. One of my summer jams, along with this R. Kelly joint:

When a Man Lies

and this one by Usher, possibly my favourite track of 2012:

Climax

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:18:49 +1300

Two gems amongst the general dross of National Radio summer programming: the Canadian series The Wire on the history of music and electricity, and the 2012 Powerstation concert by Elbow. In between times, I have been reading through David Byrne's How Music Works. Fascinating stuff on how formats have shaped…

Peter Darlington

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:56:23 +1300

I've always been an A-Z by author and title man myself, as you know. #Librarian

One of the wonderful things from the past couple of years has been getting into the whole mixtape scene. Section.80 mixtape by Kendrick Lamar is well worth a listen but it doesn't beat this funky…

Chip Matthews

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:40:15 +1300

Hey hey, I may have been in my tweens during that period, and was too into my Run DMC and New Edition to catch on to this sockless-music-movement, but I was there! ha ha. I remember Casey, that was our Sundays, listening while the old man was working on something…

Alan Perrott

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:21:11 +1300

cheers Russell.

and at risk of I'm not sure what, Liam Dann and I did a yacht rock night at Golden Dawn on Wednesday – we had a good time anyway. there was even some dancing.
just grabbed a nice 7 of Ace's How Long at Real Groovy with the…

Russell Brown

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:07:18 +1300

This was our Yacht Rock theme over the break:

This whole Yacht Rock thing ... it was the music I heard when I was too young to afford to buy records and had to listen to Casey Kasem's American Top 40 for kicks.

You kids weren't even born.

Also: that…

Grant McDougall

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:53:47 +1300

I went troppo in the Portil pre-Christmas sale, bought assorted albums by Augustus Pablo, Toy Love's Gluepot live, the Verlaines' Bird-Dog and Some Disenchanted Evening,Judee Sill Big Black's Songs About F--king and a few more including Len Lye's Composing Motion, a comp of the sounds made by his kinetic sculptures.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:29:23 +1300

While you are out and about tomorrow (Saturday the 19th)
here’s a coupla things you could check out:

attachment 1:
If you are in Blenheim head on out to the annual
Waihopai Valley anti-Spy Base protest
more details here

attachment 2:
Christchurch folk need to get along to
**Anissa Victoria’s…

Chip Matthews

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:19:58 +1300

This was our Yacht Rock theme over the break:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA2M8-csDDg

Hashtag CLASSIC

Russell Brown

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:08:20 +1300

for some reason the tracks you’ve posted aren’t showing up for me…what’s the 7 you mentioned?

This track here.

And the Dusty Springfield one is here.

Luke Williamson

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:07:23 +1300

Have been getting my big summer groove out of The Hotels. My family are sick of hearing it but I can’t resist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Cm8jS5kfM
Atlanta Rythm Section version of “Spooky” is best – guitar solos are great. In the best tradition of Jeff Skunk-Baxter, Larry Carlton, etc. Yacht rock!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMAo0m4E4Lc

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:57:38 +1300

In the days when CD writing was a thing, you could get bulk CD burners that took a big stack of blank CDs.

I wonder if one of those could be adapted to take a big stack of music CDs and rip them automatically.

Russell Brown

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:50:07 +1300

Also, the Young, Gifted and Broke mixtape def got a good playin over the break.

I've played that quite a bit too. Good project.

Alan Perrott

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:32:45 +1300

for some reason the tracks you've posted aren't showing up for me...what's the 7 you mentioned?

bob daktari

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:14:43 +1300

Jaar is awesome, so looking forward to seeing him – his Resident Advisor podcast last year was sublime – http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=97 (still avail to dl) – beats fans subscribe via itunes, they'll all good!!!)

Last couple of days I've been listening to the free Stinky Jim tune (cheers dubdotdash for the…

Chip Matthews

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:03:57 +1300

Spent quite a bit of time over the break driving the band van. Had a great introduction in to the world of “Yacht Rock” courtesy of Tom Scott (along with the accompanying video):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTI8vg7A5U

Also, the Young, Gifted and Broke mixtape def got a good playin over the break.

Public Address

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:03:57 +1300

Discussion from blog post.