Exit Through the Gift Shop | Review

Exit Through the Gift Shop | Review

09 July 2010

Exit Through the Gift Shop could be Banksy’s biggest prank yet. But would you expect anything less from the stencil master who snuck his own paintings into the Tate, painted escape routes on sections of the West Bank, and dropped a fake Guantanamo prisoner into a ride at Disneyland?

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Mint Chicks Bad Buzz EP Review

Mint Chicks Bad Buzz EP Review

05 May 2010

The Mint Chicks’ latest offering, Bad Buzz EP screams nostalgia. For a band who has largely built themselves up on playing in the immediate now, it’s amazing to see how well they manage to mine the past for something new and hopelessly addictive.

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Dylan Storey – Out of the Soup

Dylan Storey – Out of the Soup

17 March 2010

Auckland based musician Dylan Storey is quite the man about town, if psychedelic blues and country rock are are your thing.

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WOMAD | March 12-14 2010

WOMAD | March 12-14 2010

08 March 2010

WOMAD is a festival that really needs no introduction. The ‘World of Arts, Music and Dance’ was founded in 1980 by the esteemed Peter ‘Sledgehammer’ Gabriel, Thomas Brooman and Bob Hooten.

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Calico Brothers | Tell it to the Sun

Calico Brothers | Tell it to the Sun

03 August 2009

From the harmonica bursting through the shimmery opening track, past the lilting loveliness of sleeper tracks such as ‘Lost on the Motorway’ and onto the lengthy meander of the closing track ‘Could Not Be More Wrong’, the Calico Brothers could not be more right.

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