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February 9, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: February 2021

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. I’ve been doing it for about five years now. Most months. This was my first time in for 2021. I didn’t review a whole lot of music over summer – but I did get hooked on some things, especially things […]
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December 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: December 2020

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so this most recent session probably marked five years. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], 20/20, Afternoons, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, Album Reviews, Albums, BILLIE, Billie Holiday, December, December 2020, Doco, Documentary, I Only Have Eyes For You, Jesse Mulligan, Lady in Satin, M. Ward, Music Reviews, Radio, Radio NZ, Radio NZ National, Radio Reviews, RNZ, RNZ Reviews, RNZ Reviews: December 2020, Simon Sweetman, Soundtrack, Think of Spring, You Don't Know What Love Is ·

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November 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: November 2020

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into  it or so… For […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Afternoons, Album Review, Albums, Cover Versions, Covers, EP, It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry, Jesse Mulligan, Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In), Lockdown, Music, November 2020, Radio, Radio New Zealand, Radio NZ, Reviews, RNZ, RNZ Reviews, RNZ Reviews: November 2020, Sharon Jones, Sleepless Night, What Have You Done For Me Lately, Yo La Tengo ·

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October 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: October 2020

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into  it or so… For […]
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September 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: September 2020

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into  it or so… For […]
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June 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

A Vinyl Affair: 5th Birthday (Saturday, July 20, 2019)

A Vinyl Affair – Wellington’s Record Fair – turns five years old this July. And to celebrate there’ll be a meet at The Rogue and Vagabond from 10am-4pm, Saturday July 20. As always there’ll be thousands of new and used records for sale – DJs will be playing vinyl all day and there’s great food and drink. Under […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 10am-4pm, 2019, 5, A Vinyl Affair, A Vinyl Affair: 5th Birthday, Albums, Bar, Buy, DJ, DJ Set, Drink, Fifth Birthday, Food, July 20, LP, Record, Record Collectors, Records, Rogue and Vagabond, Saturday, Trade, Vinyl, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 23, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Completing the 1001 Albums Challenge 

I had the 2005 version of the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die – I’d owned it for years and had a flip through the pages, but never really studied it. And then someone asked me how many of the albums I had heard – was it half? Was it all? I figured the […]
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April 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 142: Destiny’s Child – “Survivor”

Though you couldn’t escape the big singles from this at the time – and I didn’t – it appears you could escape the album. I survived without hearing it in full right up until 2019. Beyonce is everywhere, or was until recently, and will be again no doubt. And the thing that launched her was Destiny’s Child – and though […]
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December 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

2018: My Year in Review

Adapting. That’s the goal of the music and arts journo now. Has been the case for a few years. But never more so than right now. I started 2018 wondering if there was much point in writing or if there were any readers left for me at all even. I then decided it was about […]
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December 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Neil Young’s Archive Is Online – FREE

It’s not always the best day in the world to be a Neil Young fan – some albums come with a huge clang – but today must count as one of the better days. The much-teased Neil Young Archives exists now, for free, online. Go there and search – and hear – over 50 years […]
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November 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Back To The Future: The DVD Player as CD Player – Strange Revelation

Last night I found an old DVD player – I remember buying it a few years back, using it for a while, but it wouldn’t play any multi-zone discs and so it was tucked away in a cabinet. I bought an even cheaper model ($19.99 in a supermarket) and that one works brilliantly; plays everything. […]
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September 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 19 – Album-Length ‘Songs’

It’s been a while – and since the big news for a lot of people this week was the announcement that Sleep will be playing NZ shows next year (for the first time ever) I thought, in honour of the album Dopesmoker we could look at four single-track albums; album-length songs. So here goes…
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