Whether knocking out soulful hip hop with The Shades, performing solo on a modified drum set, or with an electronic setup, Alistair Deverick always keeps his hands busy. Providing the rhythmical backbone for New Zealand indie powerhouse The Ruby Suns, he has already been found playing shows all across the world. Meanwhile, his own musical style under the moniker Boycrush spans from electronic heartbreak ballads to sample-driven hip hop and proper synth wave. Here Alistair recounts his fave songs old and new. Welcome to the forefront of the new South Pacific pop style! The Ruby Suns - [...]
It has been said that all art is a product of its context. That is certainly true of the self-titled third album by New Zealand songwriter Annabel Alpers who records solo albums and performs live as Bachelorette . Bachelorette was recorded while Alpers was living a somewhat transient lifestyle with parts of the album recorded in Libya, Virginia, New Zeland, NYC and the UK. Each of these settings left a mark on the album. For example, the album's final track "Not Entertainment" features a sampled Muslim call to prayer that would ring out in her neighborhood while [...]
Howard Shore wrote one of thee film scores of recent times with his music for Peter Jackson's Lord of The Rings trilogy. It now seems that a heroic nerd, with classically trained musical talent, has taken a firm hold of the Shire with her boundy movements. Virtuoso violinist Lindsey Stirling, of ' Legends of Zelda' fame, has just slammed out another devoted fan video, this time taking on a different cult franchise: The Lord of The Rings. Immediately it's clear everything is in keeping with Peter Jackson's vision, physically popping over [...]
Foo Fighters have now been around the world and back on the success of 20112s 'Wasting Light', so they thought it was about time they put out a video like the one for 'These Days'. Filmed during their gigging time in Australia and New Zealand, this captures the lives of the Foos in their natural environment: touring. Click here to view the embedded video.
Anxiety is the upcoming second studio album by New Zealand recording artist Ladyhawke, set to be released on 19 March 2012. Recorded in early 2011 with co-writer and producer Pascal Gabriel, the album will be Ladyhawke's return to music in two years. Ladyhawke premiered several of the tracks from the album during performances at the 100 Club in London, the Phoenix Bar in Sydney and The Tote Hotel in Melbourne, including tracks such as "Vaccine," "Blue Eyes" and "Sunday Drive"."Black White & Blue" was released as the album's lead single on 24 January 2012. Filed under: Beats , Zealander Tagged: 100 Club , ladyhawke [...]
Live Wires It's shaping up to be an exciting year for Christchurch three-piece The Transistors. On Monday they will take the stage to play one of the noisiest sets of the day at Auckland's Laneway Festival - then in March they're heading to the USA to tour with Japanese punk band Guitar Wolf. (EMJ) Are you all still living in Christchurch? (James Harding) Yep, we're sticking it [...]
Following her multi-award winning, critically acclaimed, self-titled debut album, Ladyhawke finally shares the first single from her sophomore album second, Anxiety , due out next March on Modular. "Black White & Blue" was written and produced by Ladyhawke, aka Pip Brown, alongside long time collaborator Pascal Gabriel (Miss Kittin, Goldfrapp, Peaches , Little Boots ). Stream it below, or get your copy digitally via iTunes (Australia and New Zealand only). Show Ladyhawke some love on MySpace or Facebook [...]
New Zealand police raided several homes and businesses linked to the founder of MEGAUPLOAD .COM The giant Internet file-sharing site was shut down by U.S authorities and yesterday they seized two fire-arms, millions of dollars, and luxury cars almost valuing $5 million. Police arrested founder, Kim Dotcom and three MEGAUPLOAD employees on U.S. accusations that they facilitated millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content costing copyright holders at least $500 million in lost revenue. Do you know warez to go now for your [...]
Kiwi songstress Kimbra had a pretty great 2011, being featured on "Somebody That I Used To Know", the Gotye song that has 46 million views on Youtube! She also won the New Zealand Critics' Choice awards 2011 and an ARIA for Best Female Artist. On top of that Kimbra's debut album Vows was released in OZ and NZ last summer and shot straight to #3 in her home country and #5 in Australia. To kick off 2012 in high style the 21-year-old artist has just released her new single [...]
A relative newcomer to the scene, Ryan Enzed has demonstrated his mastery of creating and combining synths in his numerous youtube tutorials about vsts and DAWs, such as Massive and Logic Pro. He champions the newest style of electro, 'complextro,' characterized by complex bass and melody lines made up of multiple synths. With a few solid beatport releases, and an official remix of Martin Solveig's 'Hello' (as well as a banging bootleg of Nicky Romero's 'Toulouse'), Ryan Enzed appears ready to show the EDM world what he can do in 2012. Martin Solveig - [...]
A little girl with a big, big voice, New Zealand's Kimbra has her single "Two Way...
Super 8 Obsession Auckland's Autumn Splendour have a new video to share that was shot on Super 8 film and processed in Germany. We got the band to explain what they're about and why they have an obsession with naming songs after themselves. (EMJ) When did you start Autumn Splendour and has it always been the same line-up? (AS: Natasha Cantwell) In the [...]
Yep, that would be a Minutemen reference you see there, however that's pretty much where that homage stops. God Bows to Math are an Auckland, New Zealand based group that I first noticed with their EP from earlier last year and enjoyed enough to throw on a podcast. Didn't realize an album was already in the plans, but as it turns out they've been trying to get this thing together for awhile now with a number of hangups along the way and finally getting it released towards the end of [...]
This sure as hell doesn't need those funny as rhymers who go by the Flight of the Conchords, but it sure makes for good comic relief. Spoonhead's glitched-out remix of "Hiphoppotamus vs. Rhymenocerous" is one heeavvvvvvy lazer-crunk beat with supporting vocals from Jermaine & Bret. "They call me the Hiphopopotamus, my lyrics are bottomless...." Flight of the Conchords - GlitchHopapotomus (Spoonhead Remix) Spoonhead Styles: Progressive, Psybreaks, Glitch-Hop, Bass [...]
Warped All Day Take a ride on Cartoon's magic carpet through an interstellar world of warped synths, squeals and relentless barrelling drums. Listening to the album 69er On A Magic Carpet is like being stuck in a remixed computer game, upside down. Dizzying sounds whir past at breakneck speed in an ever-upbeat utopia. In the spirit of Dan Deacon, Ryan Bennett's energy levels remain high in a constant state of psychotic bliss. With chewy synths splitting the crisp cuts of seamless melodies it [...]
Newbie from New Zealand, Jake Dubber released his latest dubstep album on December 31, 2011 titled, December. Dubber moved to Birmingham, England in 2004 at the age of 11 and has been active since August 2010. December is part of a four-album project that began in 2011 where he dedicated three months to working on an album, at the end of which he would compile the songs and release it. His previous albums were March , June , and September . In total, he has 37 recordings, with five remixes [...]
New Zealand indie quintet The Naked And Famous' debut album "Passive Me, Aggressive You" gets more love in the U.S.
It's been a great year for the Oceanic music to break big all over the world, from Twerps to Geoffrey O' Connor and now to Opposite Sex . Their self-titled album is something that should definitely make it into your weekly playlist, otherwise you're going to be missing some special goodness. In my mind, the first run through, I thought of a cleaner, more playful version of Love Is All , which is one of my favorite acts. It's got a little bit of an off-kilter [...]
This is not the first time Kiwi electropop sensation Zowie is mentioned on this blog. You might remember the explosive video for her single "Bite Back", or maybe the irresistible beat of her most recent hit "Smash It" , released last October. You thought you'd seen it all, well think again! Let's just go back in time a little and rediscover "Broken Machine", the song that made everyone fall in love with Zowie in the first place. The video for this sugar-coated pop anthem was directed by NZ combo [...]
The New Zealand fuzz-poppers kicked off 2011 with the release of their debut full-length album, Kudos , on Fire Records, and a brief American tour with psych-rock label mates Bardo Pond. And now, to round out the year, they've dropped a video to accompany the single, "Crazy Rulers of the World." The video debuted on Pitchfork a few weeks back and we've got the video for you here in case you missed it. We created this official video from footage shot during their D.C. show, so you've got a little bit of AON [...]
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