Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013

Though never previously a fan of Justin Timberlake and his music, I always considered him to have a lot of potential. Admiring his vocal talent and the reverence with which he channels his influences (namely Michael Jackson and Prince), I hoped that one day the planets would align and he would come Read more...

Autechre - Exai

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013

Anybody familiar with Mancunian duo Autechre will know they make some of the most complex, unconventional, inaccessible electronic music in the world. Their trademark sound is of stranded synth melodies, eerie digital drones, and pieces of electronic shrapnel ricocheting off one another to form Read more...

Hail Brittennia

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013

From 12-24 April the Department of Music is hosting a festival to celebrate the centennial birthday of the renowned English composer Benjamin Britten. Britten was a key figure in twentieth-century British classical music, composing music for opera, film scores and more. The festival, directed Read more...

The Strokes - Comedown Machine

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013

At this point in their career, The Strokes really don’t have much to lose. After releasing two near-perfect, critically-acclaimed albums in quick succession, the New York quintet stumbled on their overlong third LP First Impressions Of Earth, and have since failed to reignite the music world’s faith Read more...

David Bowie - The Next Day

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013

Upon learning that David Bowie was to release his twenty-fourth studio album this year, my expectations weren’t altogether very high. With Bowie recently entering his sixty-sixth year on this planet, my mind instantly feared a lifeless and desperate-sounding record, the sound of an old man trying in Read more...

Six60 Interview

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013

Six60 is everybody’s favourite New Zealand roots band. Born and bred right here in Dunedin, the whanau-loving, roots-remembering bunch of bros have recently been enjoying some international success, with audiences in the US and UK reportedly finding them “amazing,” “awesome,” and “incredible” Read more...

How To Destroy Angels - Welcome Oblivion

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013

For me, Trent Reznor’s music has never really surpassed guilty pleasure status. As much as I love and get a kick out of Nine Inch Nails classics like The Downward Spiral and The Fragile, the pubescent angst that permeates those records takes away from how thrilling they are musically; I always walk Read more...

Kronos Quartet (USA)

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013

Legendary classical ensemble Kronos Quartet have been called many things in their lifetime – passionate, intense, experimental, exhilarating. With 40 years’ touring experience and almost as many albums under their belts, they are among the most prolific and influential classical musicians of the Read more...

Devendra Banhart - Mala

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013

Devendra Banhart was at one time among the strongest, strangest voices in psychedelic folk. He was discovered around the turn of the millennium by Swans frontman and Young God Records owner Michael Gira, who took the then-homeless Banhart under his wing and released a trio of albums that are Read more...

Atoms For Peace - AMOK

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013

For those of you who are not already aware, I am an enormous Radiohead junkie. At any given moment you can probably catch me listening to them, forcing them onto the unfortunate folk around me, or possibly fantasising about one of the members. But as unhealthy as my addiction to Thom Yorke and his Read more...