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Autumn Splendour: interview and video premiere
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 Autumn of 2009 Cait and I...
The Hairdos
Scarred Zombie Punks Fuzzy, distorted experimental post punk that’s not trying hard to fit in with the cool kids. The Hairdos have been going quietly about their business, playing a few live shows in venues and house parties throughout Auckland. We caught them a few months ago playing what was apparently their first real show and were very impressed with their energy and band dynamic. With...
So So Modern live photos
So So Modern Friday, January 30, 2009 Cassette #9, Auckland Photos by Sam Conaglen Sam Conaglen now lives in Auckland and he kindly took these photos for us from Friday night’s So So Modern show. Once again Cassette #9 had massive lines outside and people had problems getting in, but you’ve probably grown to realise that by now. It was only So So Modern’s second show in...
Bandicoot- Jurassic Warfare
  Bandicoot- Jurassic Warfare 8/10 Stepping into the footprints left by Be Your Own Pet, Bandicoot’s bratty punk rock sounds ever so similar to the Tennessee teens. The difference is that Bandicoot actually sound like a genuine punk band; rough, unpolished and with loads of teenage angst. Be Your Own Pet, while fun, sleazy and chic, always sounded like they were faking it, just a...
Bonaparte live photos
Bonaparte, Over The Atlantic, Little Pictures and The Ribbon Friday, February 27, 2009 Cassette #9, Auckland Something about Cassette #9 makes people go crazy, perhaps it’s because a lot of them don’t go to gigs all that often, who knows? But I think Bonaparte could make a crowd anywhere go nuts. I heard after the gig from someone that he thought the Auckland crowd wasn’t...
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Bow Arrow
Life & Debt Back in June our friend Matthew Scheurich was shot with a bow and arrow while living in the Papua New Guinean jungle. The attack made international news headlines. He’s now back living in Auckland, New Zealand, recovering from his traumatic experience. In an email today he said, “chest pains flare up from time to time”, but that his “lung capacity...
God Bows To Math/TFF interview
Double Happiness Released on Monday, November 23, MUZAI Records presented two bands on one split CD. First is Auckland hardcore punk outfit God Bows To Math, with four tracks of spitting aggression and spiralling feedback. Then it’s TFF, the Dunedin teenagers who craft long, noisy jams using high pitched guitar screeches and crooked saxophone playing. I had a chat with both bands about...
DOWNLOAD: The Ruby Suns - Closet Astrologer
  (Photo: Amee Robinson) The press release for the new Ruby Suns album, Fight Softly, mentions a few different recording locales–Seattle, a farmtown in Hungary called Szeged, and the band’s home base of Auckland, New Zealand. That the album gestated in these different zones makes complete sense when you hear "Closet Astrologer," a song that almost sounds...
Moron Says What?!
Moron Says What?! has just released their debut EP, but they’re having a bit of trouble understanding the whole music business thing. We had a few laughs together over some cupcakes and found out a bit more about the band’s future plans, fans and the Pop Up EP.  For a band whose music is the type that makes you want to shake, sing along and laugh out loud, Moron Says What...
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Laneway Festival 2010: Review
Laneway Festival February 1, 2010 Britomart Square, Auckland Last week our Melbourne friends told us that the Laneway Festival is one of the least respected festivals in Australia, we were surprised, but it meant we entered the first Auckland Laneway festival with a hint of scepticism. We’d been told stories of forty minute-queues to see bands, poor facilities and an even poorer...
Camp A Low Hum 2008
Venue: Tatum Park, near Levin, New Zealand Teaser: Dave Taylor brings us this review of what is, quite possibly, the best music festival in the world. First para: If seeing Lord of the Rings or those big green tempting posters on the tube has made you consider a trip to New Zealand, make sure your holiday coincides with Camp A Low Hum. It’s quite possibly the best...
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  • Bully For You

    Gorgeous Bully From: Plymouth, United Kingdom The more sanitised, synthetic and computerised mainstream music becomes the more the discerning music lover yearns for something a little more...

  • Johan Reinhold - Shoot Me Down Remix EP

    Having already garnered quite a following in his native Sweden, Johan Reinhold is introducing himself to our ears with his indie-electro-pop sensibilities in the form of a remix EP. Music after the...

  • Corpse Lights: A Curdled Churn

    Woe betide any unfortunate soul who suddenly has a flash of inspiration and records one of the most brilliant songs of the year in mid-December: it simply won’t even get heard amongst all...

  • The King Khan Experience

    I Love The Way You Howl King Khan recently retired The Shrines and The BBQ Show and started a new project – The King Khan Experience. He’s been getting compared to Jimi Hendrix his...

  • Secret Diaries: Parcel Delivery

    Secret Diaries have one of those supremely satisfying band names that make you wonder why no-one has thought of it before. I love it when that happens. And speaking of ‘supremely...
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  • Let's Talk Daggers - Blankets EP

    Hardcore usually bores me. Think of hardcore and over-thin teenage boys wearing loose fitting clothes doing strange windmill motions with their arms immediately springs to mind. It’s easy for...

  • Rob Heron and the Tea Pad Orchestra

    Here’s something a bit different from what I usually cover on here. For all of you partial to a bit of old time gypsy-swing folk music, it can be difficult to find contemporary artists...

  • The Victorian English Gentlemens Club - Watching The Burglars

    Three years is far too long to wait for something new from a band as good as The Victorian English Gentlemens Club. (The lack of apostrophe is intentional, for you grammar nazis out there). ‘...

Photos

  • In Pictures: FOE

    Photos from a recent FOE gig - a friend of our friends Hold Your Horse Is - she’s gonna be big!!! Read the gig review after the jump.

  • In Pictures: Avett Brothers

    Shots of North Carolina’s folk-rocking Avett Brothers’ stop in Glasgow - 22.08.11 Read the review of the gig here.

  • In Pictures: Latitude Festival 2011

    Take a look at the acts and art on offer at this year’s Latitude Festival in Suffolk. Included are the likes of Fight Like Apes, Lykke Li, Sea of Bees and Seasick Steve. Photos from our own...

  • In Pictures: Bad Guys at the Old Blue Last

    Good time with Bad Guys. Photos from the May 29th gig at the Old Blue Last. Read the review by the Bad Guy himself, Stuart London after the jump.  

  • In Pictures: White Lies and Crocodiles at Shepherd's Bush Empire

    Artrocker.com exclusive: for fans of White Lies and Crocodiles we’ve got some fresh pictures from their UK show at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire earlier this month, courtesy of Alessandro...

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