David Bowie Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas 95) Parlophone UK The gates are wide open now, the David Bowie reissues and new releases are pouring. Some are very, very boring. Some didn’t need to happen. But there are some gems – of course. There’s gold in the vault, and probably a bit more to come […]
like a sculptor with a hangover i still get up early to take the edge off
This guy in Hawke’s Bay started this thing a while back called The Sitting Room Sessions – follow the page on Facebook. Check it out. House concerts, basically. Small gigs. Acoustic, primarily. A sitting audience. Waiting to be entertained, open to hearing anything, sure of quality due to the curation by their host. He’s trusted. […]
Joni Mitchell, Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter (1977) Joni Mitchell does blackface on this album – or at least on the album cover. It’s not “musical blackface” at all, but it is musical genius – some of her most difficult, challenging and rewarding music is here. When I first heard it I really only loved a […]
Sean Murray Avengement [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] Sean Murray I was watching Avengement the other day on Netflix. I’m a big fan of the Jesse V. Johnson / Scott Adkins vehicles where everything is solved through big barroom beat-em-ups and a bit of martial hurts actually hurts everyone in the end, and during the middle, […]
Paul Haslinger Austerlitz Artificial Instinct Paul Haslinger is an Austrian musician and composer based in LA. He was a member of Tangerine Dream through the last 1980s and has contributed to both the programming of and scoring for video games as well as making film and TV soundtracks and working with a range of musicians […]
There’s not a whole lot you need to know about this poem and you might feel like you know even less after reading it. And we can share the blame for that if you like. Which might be quite nice. Or it might be rather awkward. I’ll let you choose. Which might be quite nice […]
Darren Watson Getting Sober For The End Of The World Lamington Records / Real Deal Productions Wellington-based singer/songwriter Darren Watson has a new album out. And I’m pretty sure it’s his best. I thought that last time, admittedly. But I reckon Getting Sober trumps the also-wonderful Too Many Millionaires. And speaks, then, to the hallmark […]
Welcome to episode 231 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify […]
Neil Young The Times EP Reprise / Amazon Music Neil Young has been one of my favourite voices of lockdown – I quickly got bored with live-streamed house-gigs. Zooming in on musicians attempting to heal the world, make it a better place was fine in our first reaches of housebound panic but it felt, for […]
Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska (1982) I’ve been about as uninterested in Bruce Springsteen as can be lately – not regretting the years I was a fan or anything like that but just so wound up about it. He’s really a gurning clown. This has been on my mind a bit over the last couple of years […]
Ma$e, Welcome Back 2004 Mase. He was the new protégé after Biggie bought it. And back when Puff Daddy was blowing smoke up other people’s arses, not just his own. Mase hit in big with Harlem World and with his guest appearances in the late 1990s. Then he went soft. Welcome Back was his “comeback” […]