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March 5, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Folk-Punk Street Performer: Jason Webley returns to Wellington

Jason Webley is a talented musician – he plays a bunch of instruments, he writes songs that aren’t quite folk or punk but could be either. He has the skills of a circus performer, a mime artist, a busker – he was in fact discovered, in a sense, as exactly that: a street performer. He’s […]

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February 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Amanda Palmer: The Art of Asking

The Art of Asking or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Let People Help Amanda Palmer Grand Central Publishing As ghastly as her music, and therefore likely to be lapped up as being so soul-pleasing and profound as her music apparently is by her psychofan-sycophants. It’s full of the worst kind of false modesty, […]

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November 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 16 – Dresden Dolls, Wellington, 2013

When I first heard Dresden Dolls I quite liked it – that first album, I knew nothing about Amanda Palmer or the band. I never listened to the music a whole lot, but it had something – a novelty-factor perhaps. The tagline “Brechtian Punk Cabaret” bugged me – but hey. And then Amanda Palmer happened. […]

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April 16, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Jon Hopkins: How I Live Now [OST]

Jon Hopkins How I Live Now [OST] JustNow I haven’t seen the film – it’s based on a young-adult novel but this soundtrack suggests a lot of heart, a sincerity, something certainly sombre too. It’s easy to hear that slow-gorgeous build of The Album Leaf on The River and on shorter cues (The Hawk, Distant […]