99 Problems
Hip Hop: December 2009
Seems crazy. Stepping into the shoes of Kerry Buchanan, the guy who taught me about hip hop and r‘n’b. Whose tastes most shaped my own. Whose music writing at its peak I will ever consider the greatest...
All Time Fave
From NZ Artists: December 2009
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Clubland
House / Electro / Techno: December 2009
Even at Sam Shackleton’s most kinetic moments of dub-based munitions deployment, there has existed a fervent experimentalism in everything he has undertaken. Whether it has been the laissez faire approach...
Inner Visions
Jazz: December 2009
In August, to belatedly commemorate
the 40th anniversary of the release of
The Beatles double album (aka The White Album of ’68), some Australian singers (including Tim Rogers of You Am I...
Living In A Box
TV Viewing: December 2009
Terrible remakes aren’t just a phenomena confined to movie screens or, in the worst cases, the shelves of DVD stores. We’ve seen The Bionic Woman and Knight Rider dusted off pretty unsuccessfully recently,...
Mixed Messages
Reggae / Dub: December 2009
Given the rapid boom and (nearly) bust cycle suffered by reggaeton, it’s possibly a blessing that the digital cumbia scene, which has been pushing outwards from Argentina for a good couple of years,...
Obscured By Clouds
Musical Extremists: December 2009
Few groups have done so much with so little as New York no-wave obscurities impLOG – their entire recorded output is four songs contained on one 12-inch single and one 7-inch single, and each of these...
Parallel Universe
Electronic / Esoteric / Eccentric: December 2009
Johnny Rotten was right, of course. All those dinosaur bands roaming around in the twilight of rock in the mid-’70s needed a swift and lethal two-inch punch, and punk did the trick. I suspect, however,...
Remake/Remodel
Reissues: December 2009
When music journalist (and soon-to-be Patti Smith guitarist) Lenny Kaye compiled a two-disc set of raunchy garage-band records in 1972 called Nuggets, little did he know that he was creating a new genre...
Singles Going Steady
Revisited Classics: December 2009
You have to remember, it was the ’80s. THERE WERE NO RULES. So if you were a ridiculously handsome homosexual man, of course you’d migrate from Ireland to Italy. And if you met a music producer with...