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David Merritt
Posted 4:50pm Sunday 6th April 2014 by Michaela Hunter
Landroverfarm Press It’s somewhat difficult to review just one of David Merritt’s works, considering they tend to come in a one-poem format (speaking of which, this is the way I personally think most poetry ought to be absorbed). However, it is possible to purchase his e-books or works Read more...
MOAMOA
Posted 4:50pm Sunday 6th April 2014 by Zane Pocock

Dunedin Public Art Gallery Exhibited until 27 April The first survey exhibition of Korean-New Zealand artist Seung Yul Oh, MOAMOA is presented as a decade-spanning retrospective. Aptly, the title translates to “gather gather” or “gather together” in Korean, and engages an eclectic array of Read more...
Richie Boyens - Clothes I've Made
Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Hannah Collier

Last week i met with Richie Boyens, a Dunedin-based designer who started the brand Clothes I’ve Made, which is being shown in the capsule collection at iD. With Richie’s ambiguous design choices, combined with the use of various floral, striped, paint-speckled and tie-dyed fabrics, and his latest Read more...
Liars - Mess
Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Adrian Ng

Rating: A- Over their 14-year career, Liars have embodied various musical guises. Originally a cerebral art punk unit which formed around the time of the alternative-dance-rock revival, the band have managed to rearrange themselves into a different musical configuration with each proceeding Read more...
Download of the Week: Astro Children - Proteus (NZ)
Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Adrian Ng

Dunedin’s Millie Lovelock and Isaac Hickey craft atmospheric noise pop. Sometimes tranquil but spliced with vicious spurts of dilemma and rage. Proteus is available for name-your-price download at astrochildrenmusic.bandcamp.com. Read more...
New This Week
Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Adrian Ng
Ben Frost - Venter A beautiful, atmospheric, heavily percussive track, which builds up and collapses into itself with an awe-inspiring climax. Tune Yards - Water Fountain Merrill Garbus returns with the first single of her upcoming album. “Water Fountain” is Read more...
Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Peter McCall

Rating: B+ On Cloud nothing’s latest Lp, frontman Dylan Baldi is learning to “focus on what [he] can do [himself].” One thing he can clearly do is write a bunch of powerful, catchy, guitar-driven songs. Once claiming that he approaches guitar more like piano, Baldi’s playing is complex Read more...
Frankie Cosmos - Zentropy
Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Loulou Callister-Baker

Rating: B+ Sunlight passing through a prism, creating a stretched rainbow across the floorboards. Waking up to an old pet cat purring on your face. Early morning family road trips past infinite power-poles and vast fields. Faded glow-in-the-dark stickers covering the ceiling in your old Read more...
TitanFall
Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: A- We are living in the Multiplayer era. Five years ago it was the MMORPG that was dominating the gaming landscape and the conversations of gamers. Now, however, it is time for the First Person Shooter (FPS) Multiplayer to shine. The last couple of years have been exciting with the Read more...
Asian Lettuce Cups
Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Sophie Edmonds

This is the Asian and skinny equivalent of mince on toast. Mince on toast is actually something I have never had. Or maybe I have, but I was drunk and it was late at night and I probably stole it off someone else; so it doesn’t really count. Make the most of the cheap iceberg lettuce at the Read more...
The Monuments Men
Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Andrew Kwiatkowski

Rating: D- The story about the preservation of precious art during the Second World War is fascinating as a page in history, but as an all-star Hollywood war epic, it’s simply appalling. Ironically, it is very preachy about the innate value of cultural products (such as films. Yes, George Read more...
Clueless (1995)
Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Rosie Howells

Cult Film This month, 1995 smash hit Clueless has well and truly been shoved back into the pop culture consciousness, through Iggy Azalea’s sassy-as-hell homage in her new music video for “Fancy.” Azalea has ensured that no one will be forgetting the brick cell-phones, yellow tartan and Read more...
300: Rise of an Empire
Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: B The biggest benefit of this generation’s trend towards adapting graphic novels is how it lends a vast array of interesting visual styles for directors to experiment with on the big screen. This was used to great effect in Zack Snyder’s 2007 adaptation of Frank Miller’s 300, with its Read more...
Hannah Arendt
Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Ashley Anderson

Rating: A It was the year 1961. In jerusalem, nazi Adolf Eichmann (as himself) was on trial for being involved in the war that brought the world to its knees. As an SS Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel), he sent Jews to concentration camps and was thus an integral part of the Read more...
Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Book Store
Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Imogen Davis

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore is the debut novel of American author Robin Sloan. Originally written as a short story on his blog, he soon expanded and developed the story into a novel. Sloan is a writer for today; a self-styled media inventor, his book is a gripping mystery set between discourse Read more...
Zine of the Week
Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Staff Reporter

By Paul Lukas Available at Blackstar Books ABeer Frame is when all bowlers in a frame of ten-pin bowling get a strike except for one person. By tradition, the person who didn’t get a strike then has to buy everyone else a round of beer. Beer Frame is also a zine. Originating in Read more...
Work and Play
Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Zane Pocock

Orira to be performed at Blue Oyster Gallery, 6pm Thursday 3 April. I met Samin Son at the gallery on the Friday morning following the opening show from his performance series. Having heard much about him from a mutual friend, I had wanted to make his acquaintance, or at least see him Read more...
Interview: Marie Strauss
Posted 5:30pm Sunday 23rd March 2014 by Hannah Collier

I’ve realised, in the midst of my daily routines, that there seems to be this generalised idea that art and fashion coexist, and it has left me wondering – with fashion becoming the focus of an increasing number of exhibitions and shows (i.e. iD Fashion Week), is the distinct line that once Read more...
Download of the Week: Lontalius - The World Will Never Know About Us (NZ)
Posted 5:30pm Sunday 23rd March 2014 by Adrian Ng

Eddie Johnston is a prolific music prodigy based in Wellington, also known also for his project Race Banyon. The World Will Never Know About Us contains some of his most beautifully crafted, electronic pop songs. Lush and mesmerising. Available for free download at lontalius.bandcamp.com. Read more...
The War On Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Posted 5:30pm Sunday 23rd March 2014 by Peter McCall

“It always gets so hard to see right before the moon,” sings Adam Granduciel, songwriter for The War on Drugs, halfway through their latest LP. It’s a new take on the old cliché, “it’s always darkest before the dawn,” but one that reflects more accurately the 35-year-old’s true longing. Granduciel Read more...