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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. […]Archive
June 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
From The Archives: The Todd Rundgren Interview
A few years ago Todd Rundgren toured New Zealand with a ‘blues’ show. It wasn’t very good – but the two-song encore (I Saw The Light and Can We Still Be Friends) was worth the price of admission. I wish he’d tour here again, maybe with his solo piano show, with anything in fact… I […]Archive
January 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Field Music (Measure): A Work of Genius
Field Music (Measure) is the third album by British band Field Music. The band is basically brothers David and Peter Brewis (with some occasional outside help). Have you heard it? Do you know about them? I’d heard the name before but I hadn’t heard the band’s 2005 debut Field Music, nor the follow-up from 2007, […]Archive
May 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Monkees: Good Times!
The Monkees Good Times! Rhino Records Perhaps no one expected that a new album by The Monkees in 2016 would get rave reviews, but Good Times! is deserving of a great gush. For a start it’s fun (with an exclamation mark to remind us – though it almost evokes that famous question-mark from those hippie-times, […]Archive
February 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 97 Post-Punk
The early eighties in Wellington was the best place and the soundtrack for me was what I suppose you would call post punk. It was a new type of music and I loved it – Echo and XTC, Furs and the Cure, Magazine and Joy Division, Dexy’s and Only Ones, Stranglers and Members, Japan and […]Archive
August 6, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Analog Birds: Anti-Presence (ep)
Analog Birds Anti-Presence Mount Valley/Bandcamp It’s Analog Birds’ first collection of all-new music since 2007, it’s just an EP, just 4 tracks (but also just $2 via Bandcamp) and it is a delightful set of songs – there’s more in the seven minutes of Exit Visa than in the full career of many bands. It’s […]Archive
July 15, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Veils: Time Stays, We Go
The Veils Time Stays, We Go Pitch Beast Recordings In just under a decade The Veils have offered four albums and a couple of EPs and the quality of this output has, for the most part, been high. It’s easy for some to get annoyed with the cute parts of the back-story, Finn Andrews is […]Archive
December 7, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1449
XTC, Skylarking (1986) “I had never had something as difficult as working with XTC. I was fully aware of ‘The Syndrome’ – which is to say, I was a fan. I listened to the records, I followed the band and I knew the band’s dynamic. And by the time I got to working with them Andy’s stage fright meant […]Archive
June 3, 2011 by Simon Sweetman