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January 27, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
10 New Albums I Want To Hear (January 2022)
In no particular order I can’t wait to hear more from these records, or files, or streams… Deap Vally, Marriage From Wikipedia: “Deap Vally has been described as ‘a scuzzy White Stripes-meets-Led Zeppelin rock and rull duo who play hard-riffing blues-rock’” – um, yes please! I don’t know heaps about them, but I did like […]Archive
August 17, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Belated Half-Time Report: Some of the Albums I’ve Loved This Year
These days I try not to write music reviews. I figure the world doesn’t really need them. Every Friday you can refresh your browser and get the new releases. Every Friday most of the new albums in the world appear on Spotify – and/or other streaming services. This is not a whinge – just an […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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. […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
December 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman