Category Archives: Music

>Tunes for a Tuesday – 10 June 2008

Posted on 9 June, 2008 by jb

>Shawn Mullins – We Could Go And Start Again from 9th Ward Pickin’ Parlor Elliott Smith – First Timer from New Moon Peter Bjorn And John – Objects Of My Affection from Writer’s Block Little Feat – Sailin’ Shoes from … Continue reading →

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>"You’ve got a RECORD PLAYER….?"

Posted on 6 June, 2008 by jb

>Seven year old Sophie from up the road dropped in yesterday to make sure we’re going to be at the Finals of the Regional Reading Contest on Saturday (for sure and I’ll be surprised if she doesn’t win by a … Continue reading →

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"A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun"

Posted on 5 June, 2008 by jb

Said Bo Diddley. Ellas Otha Bates created one of rock and roll’s bedrock rhythms. In its simplest form, the Bo Diddley beat can be counted out as a two-bar phrase: “One and two and three and four and one and … Continue reading →

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>Songs you have to work for

Posted on 29 May, 2008 by jb

>Some songs just turn up. Music blogs, Lastfm, whatever. Something’ll be playing in the background in a record store, you hear it, grab it and away you go. One more for the collection. There are some that’ll take you years … Continue reading →

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>So they cut open my leg instead…

Posted on 26 April, 2008 by jb

>Juke Joint [Listen] by Johnny Red Sovine Don’t Bogart That Joint [Listen] by Little Feat from The Last Record AlbumHigh Class Joint (live) [Listen] by Brinsley Schwarz from Live at The Top Rank, Cardiff, Wales, June 1974 Tags: Joint, hip … Continue reading →

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>Don’t ask me… (about Hip-Hop)

Posted on 25 April, 2008 by jb

>How very droll…. Here’s something to be going on with, anyway Oscar [Listen] by The Cool Kids from Thats Stupid / Re-Motivation Press Play [Listen] by Snoop Dogg from Ego Trippin’ She Said (Remix) [Listen] by J Dilla from Jay … Continue reading →

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>Fused

Posted on 20 April, 2008 by jb

> This is a gem. MCASD at La Jolla’s Soundwaves exhibition is a stunner and Sean Duffy’s installation of 2 fused turntables, with 2 tone arms offsetting the same record, is the pick of the litter. It’s dead easy to … Continue reading →

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>Roll with it

Posted on 19 April, 2008 by jb

>This is how Tim Bavington sees Oasis’s Roll with it . Each note has a colour, the length of the note defines the width and the bass line runs along the bottom. Part of the excellent SoundWaves exhibition at the … Continue reading →

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>East meets West

Posted on 10 April, 2008 by jb

>A wheat beer (nominally from Germany) and a Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc (guaranteed from New Zealand) rub shoulders on the patio at Moonshadows overlooking the Pacific in Malibu. If it just wasn’t for the bloody song. Couldn’t get it out … Continue reading →

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>This is Nelson

Posted on 24 March, 2008 by jb

>The “Windy City Strugglers” is a Wellington-based blues/roots band (one self-penned description is “The ZZ Top of folk music”) we saw at the Boathouse in Nelson at the end of 2006. They’re really good. Nick Bollinger who writes the music … Continue reading →

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