Nadia Reid and Ivy Rossiter (a.k.a. Luckless) Interview

Nadia Reid and Ivy Rossiter (a.k.a Luckless) recently performed at the iconic and allegedly haunted Chicks Hotel in Port Chalmers as part of their Ballads and Badlands national tour. Brittany Mann went along for the whiskey and good times. The girlsBallads and Badlands is Nadia Reid and Ivy Rossiter’s first major collaboration. Described by Reid as an exercise in “abrasive folk,” the Badlands tour was conceived of at the beginning of 2013 but...

Gambit

Rating: 1/5 I had low expectations for this film. Just by looking at the poster, I could tell what kind of movie it would be (a bad one). I wasn’t disappointed. Starring Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Cameron Diaz, and a variety of lazy national stereotypes,...

Edward Scissorhands

Edward (Johnny Depp) is an artificial creation who has croutons for hands. (Just kidding, they’re scissors!) He lives high on a hill with his father/inventor who intends to give Edward real hands in due time. But when his father dies unexpectedly, Edward is...

Phoenix - Bankrupt!

Rating: 3.5/5 Similar to the Ouroboric case of Gary Numan influencing Nine Inch Nails, who in turn went on to influence Gary Numan (see 2011’s Dead Son Rising), you simply can’t ignore how much The Strokes sound like their old imitators Phoenix these days....

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