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September 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: the reviews of the reviews of the new tool album have not been very clear

as we bury ourselves deep in the machine searching for meaning, silently screaming you could remember that woody allen has done more good work than most. and that being a decent person was never a condition, not the requirement – always just a bonus. our own darkest moments are private thoughts, the scrutiny of others […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Dave Chappelle, fear inoculum, Poem, Poem: the reviews of the reviews of the new tool album have not been very clear, the reviews of the reviews of the new tool album have not been very clear, Tool, Woody Allen ·

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April 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Metal on Metal – That’s What I Crave: Ten ‘Gateway Drug’ Metal Albums In My Life

Recently I posted this – about “Ten important hip-hop albums”. I’m going to repeat the opening paragraph from that post: We all know that lists are subjective – that is the point of them. So I’ve decided to do a series of top 10 albums across genres. They’ll appear sporadically. And rather than call them “Top 10” […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged AC/DC, Ace of Spades, Aenima, Angel Dust, Appetite For Destruction, Black Sabbath, Crack The Skye, Cream, Deep Purple, Dirty Deeds Done DIrt Cheap, Faith No More, Guns n Roses, Heavy Metal, Iron Maiden, Lateralus, Led Zeppelin, Mastodon, metal, Metal on Metal, Metal on Metal - That's What I Crave: Ten 'Gateway Drug' Metal Albums In My Life, Motorhead, Paranoid, Ride The Lightning, Ten 'Gateway Drug' Metal Albums In My Life, That's What I Crave, The Number of the Beast, The Razor's Edge, The Real Thing, Tool ·

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October 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Bands With Fans I Hate: It’s Not Them…it’s THEM!

You can’t love everything. I’m not only dubious about and suspicious of people who claim to not hate any bands, I can’t value their idea of liking a band, if they like everything – or say that they do. I’ve always maintained the list of bands I love is longer than the list of bands […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Animal Collective, Archives, Bands With Fans I Hate, Bands With Fans I Hate: It's Not Them...it's THEM!, Blog, Blog Archive, Blog On The Tracks, It's Not Them...It's THEM!, Muse, Pussy Riot, Queen, Sigur Ros, Tommy Emmanuel, Tool ·

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August 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 28 – Jeff Boyle of Jakob

Welcome to episode 28 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. This one is a conversation with Jeff Boyle, guitarist and sonic wizard behind Jakob. The Napier-based three-piece has been an entity – with the same line-up, the same three friends – for nearly 20 years. I spoke with Jeff the day after […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Cabana, Ep.28, Hawke's Bay, HB, http://jakob.co.nz/, Instrumental, Isis, Jakob, Jason Johnston, Jeff Boyle, L'affare, Maurice Beckett, Napier, Phantom Billstickers, Podcast, Post-Rock, Russian Circles, Simon Sweetman, Sweetman, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 28 – Jeff Boyle of Jakob, Tool, Trio, Yeastie Boys ·

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July 29, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Collapse.Rebuild: Fail Again, Fail Better

Collapse.Rebuild Fail Again, Fail Better Fluttery Records I’ll try anything I find from Fluttery Records, which is how I arrived at this, the debut album by Milan-based post-rockers, Collpase.Rebuild. It’s billed as an album – but it occupies the space of an EP, 25 minutes and just five tracks. Its brevity is both its strength […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Collapse.Rebuild, EP, Fail Again, Fail Again Fail Better, Fail Better, Italy, Jakob, Milan, Post-Rock, Tool, Tristeza ·

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October 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Jakob: What’s so funny about injured hands, dissolving labels and eight years between records?

Jakob is set to return – in just a couple of weeks – with its best album and a tour to follow. This would be news anyway – it is news. Jakob is one of New Zealand’s greatest bands, despite, still, being a hidden weapon of sorts, a secret – a special story: three guys […]
Posted in Blog, Interviews · Tagged dissolving labels and eight years between records?, Hawke's Bay, Interview, Isis, Jakob, Jakob: What’s so funny about injured hands, Jason Johnston, Jeff Boyle, Maurice Beckett, Napier, New Album, October 17 2014, Post-Rock, Sines, Tool ·

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May 21, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

No Broadcast: No Broadcast

No Broadcast No Broadcast (Independent/Bandcamp) In theory I shouldn’t like No Broadcast, there’s a lot of the traits and tropes I’m often disappointed by: ethereal intros that lead to almost nowhere, toms that sound throttled as opposed to tuned, bass guitar that’s played like rhythm guitar only, but that’s all just surface stuff. For all […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bandcamp, Jakob, Mountaineater, Muse, No Broadcast, Post-Rock, Tool ·

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January 5, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

It Was The Best Gig Ever # 8: Melvins Opening For Tool, Wellington 2002

I don’t get a lot of gig-envy these days, I see enough things. You can’t see everything and you really wouldn’t want to – I wish I could un-see a lot of the frogs I’ve sat through all in the hope to hear Kiss by Prince. (And then when Prince did play somewhere near my […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged It Was The Best Gig Ever, It Was The Best Gig Ever # 8, King Buzzo, Melvins, Phantom Billstickers, Tool ·

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October 11, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Mountaineater: Mountaineater

Mountaineater Mountaineater Banished From The Universe Dunedin’s Mountaineater has a weight of expectation behind it, on top of it, all around it, some two years in the making – and finally we have the band’s debut self-titled full-length album. But Mountaineater arrived as a known quantity essentially, because this is the post-HDU project for singer […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bailterspace, Debut Album, Dunedin, Flying Nun, HDU, Jakob, Maggot Brain, Mountaineater, NZ, Pornography, Post-Rock, The Cure, The Gordons, The Skeptics, Tool, Tristan Dingemans ·

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August 29, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Lustmord: The Word As Power

Lustmord The Word As Power Blackest Ever Black As Lustmord Brian Williams has created a strain of industrial and dark ambient music that creeps along like a horror soundtrack one minute, then slowly, surely, it opens itself up – unfolding – to reveal the beauty (and still the darkness) of sublime classical music, of minimalism, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Brian Williams, Burial, Dark Ambient, Dead Can dance, Gorecki, Lustmord, Philip Glass, Scott Walker, Swans, The Word As Power, Tool ·

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