Archive for December 2009

OK Go and Passion Pit remix it up free MP3 style   18/12/09

Those crafty, well-choreographed boys from OK Go have offered up a very special MP3 over at NME.com ahead of their February release of the album Of the Colour of the Blue Sky. Passion Pit have remixed the album track ‘This Too Shall Pass’ with a really light touch and something slightly wistful. In other words, this isn’t your [...]

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Coldplay Fire Sale!   17/12/09

God bless those Coldplay fellas, they are having an ‘End of Decade Clearout Sale’ to help raise money for the charity Kids Company. From December 17 to December 31 on eBay the band will sell everything from instruments and stage equipment, to costumes from the ‘Viva La Vida’ tour, to signed platinum discs, posters and much more… [...]

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Dai Henwood’s Myspace Secret Show   16/12/09

Check out an interview with Dai Henwood – plus some footage from his Myspace Secret Show in Auckland, on Monday! Henwood’s ‘Dai Another Day’ CD/DVD is in-stores now! Myspace Secret Show – Dai Henwood Secret Shows New Zealand | MySpace Video

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These New Puritans – We Want War   16/12/09

Holy smoke, this video is A-mazing!!! We Want War is the bombastic, epic (read seven minute) new single from These New Puritans’ forthcoming brilliant new album Hidden, out January 18. Crazy video, crazy song and played LOUD, it’s like some indie industrial orchestral aural attack with BIG DRUMS and BIG SWORDS! Yes peeps, BIG FREAKING DRUMS – [...]

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Keith Urban – Escape Together Australian Tour Review   16/12/09

I’ve watched Keith Urban’s musical career from almost the start. From the early Tamworth Star Maker win in 1990 to his first album, his release as part of The Ranch and then the solo albums that followed. I’ve been lucky enough to see his career go from strength to strength in the live arena as well. In Brisbane [...]

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Robbie Williams’ duet on X-Factor   16/12/09

After returning to the stage for the first time in three years to perform Bodies, Robbie Williams revisited X-Factor this week to perform a duet with Robbie’s declared favourite finalist Olly Murs to perform Angels… always a winner. The pair did the crowd proud – bro-hugs, pyrotechnics, crowd-chanting, and two handsome chaps in suits. When in Australia [...]

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Nick Cave and Warren Ellis score “The Road”   16/12/09

It’s about time for another bleak and slightly disturbing cinematic epic in the vein of The Proposition and Jesse James… and this calls for none other than the Kings of Audio Menace: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. The Road is the tale of a father and son’s survival and journey across a barren, post-apocalyptic (and sometimes cannibalistic and [...]

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