Faith No More: Sol Invictus

Posted 1:55pm Sunday 17th May 2015

Rating: 5/5 Faith No More are credited with spawning the alternative metal genre. They fused metal with many other styles, including pop, funk and alternative rock, paving the way for artists like Nirvana and the Smashing Pumpkins. Though their 1990 single “Epic” still receives Read more...

Singles in Review

Posted 2:09pm Sunday 10th May 2015

Cheldea Wolfe - "Iron Moon" Californian sorceress, Chelsea Wolfe, has spent the last six years taking sounds from the worlds of doom, drone, black metal, electronica and folk to create a style uniquely her own. Her most recent album, Pain is Beauty, saw her expertly crafting gothic Read more...

Leviathan: Scar Sighted

Posted 1:59pm Sunday 10th May 2015

Rating: 3/5 Black metal has to be among the most preposterous and controversial sub-genres in music. It is difficult to separate the music itself from the satanic imagery in which it is dressed, not to mention the murders and church burnings that have occurred within the black metal community. Read more...

Singles in Review

Posted 1:59pm Sunday 3rd May 2015

Jamie xx - "Gosh" British producer Jamie xx is a master at making a handful of ingredients sound like a lot. Despite the understated style of his indie pop band, The xx, Jamie is able to take even their most diminutive compositions and make them sound vast. A good case in point is Read more...

Gorillaz Sound System

Posted 1:52pm Sunday 3rd May 2015

Rating: 1/5 As a big Gorillaz fan, I was intrigued by the curiously-titled Gorillaz Sound System coming to Dunedin. Sure, the name gave away that it wasn’t going to be a bona fide Gorillaz show, and I had no delusions that Damon Albarn might walk out onstage. The show was presented as a Read more...

Ufomammut Ecate

Posted 1:43pm Sunday 26th April 2015

Rating 4/5 Of all the music I have ever listened to, no band’s name and sound match each other better than Ufomammut’s. As good as “Radiohead” is at capturing a sense of millennial paranoia, or “King Crimson” at implying a sense of magic and majesty, the name Read more...

Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015

In the last twelve months, African-American identity has been debated particularly fiercely. Coinciding with the horrors of Ferguson, we have seen a distinct whitewashing of what was previously considered “black” music. More so than ever, African-American experience needs to be culturally documented Read more...

Daft Punk: Human After All

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015

Daft Punk’s third studio record, Human After All, recently celebrated its 10th birthday. After being praised as innovators in the dance-music world for the now-legendary albums Homework and Discovery, the French duo were met with mixed reviews for Human After All; the Guardian even went so far as to Read more...

Lightning Bolt: Fantasy Empire

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015

Lightning Bolt are a noise-rock duo from Providence, Rhode Island. Everything about the band sounds far-fetched: both members are called Brian and one of them plays drums and sings through a gas mask while the other shreds a bass guitar strung with banjo strings. Their music is a technicolour Read more...

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015

When The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was released in 1998, it was hailed by many as a masterpiece. Seventeen years later, it still regularly tops Best Video Games Of All Time polls. It has the same cultural legacy and enduring appeal in the world of video games as the original Star Wars movie Read more...