Added on April 28, 2016
Mike Turner
2016 , Elephant 6 , Flying Nun , Mandy , Mike Turner , Olivia Tremor Control , Ptolemaic Terrascope , Sidi Bou Said , Song of the day , Throwing Muses
This song of the day came to me via their PR company. I usually just find my own songs without trying, but this track found its way into my inbox, and without a press person pitching this I’d probably never have heard it, and that would have been a real shame. Mandy is the band […]
Added on January 9, 2015
Everett True
Everett True , Flying Nun , Melbourne , Song of the day , The Pastels , Twelve Cubic Feet , Twerps
I’m more familiar with this type of music than I ought to be, but that’s hardly Twerps fault. Which leaves me in somewhat of a quandary. How should I describe this, without resorting to a list of names that would bore even me? (Some way too obvious, some The Pastels, one Twelve Cubic Feet.) That doesn’t […]
Added on April 4, 2013
Ben Green
2013 , Al McKay , Al Montfort , album review , Ben Green , Calendar Days , Chapter Music , Dick Diver , Flying Nun , Love Positions , New Start Again , Ru Edwards , Steph Hughes , The Go-Betweens
They don’t describe forests, or even trees, but the feel of bark and the sound of leaves and then leave the rest for you.
Added on March 8, 2013
Everett True
Brisbane , Everett True , Eversons , Flight Of The Conchords , Flying Nun , Seja , The Clean , The Wedding Present
Imagine Flight Of The Conchords in a long passionate embrace with a dazzling diaspora of Clean fans.
Added on January 12, 2013
Everett True
Everett True , Flying Nun , Seattle , Song Of The Day , The Bats , Zebra Hunt
It’s like having your own personal Bats, your own personal Clean, your own personal Jesus, in your living room
Added on December 11, 2012
Erika Elizabeth
Banditas , best of 2012 , Burnt Palms , Crooked Bangs , Erika Elizabeth , Evening Meetings , Flying Nun , Outside World , Pop Singles , Scott & Charlene's Wedding , Sightlines , sourpatch , Terry Malts , The Trypes
I have a total soft spot for the Breeders-patented formula of sweet female vocals over crunchy guitars
Added on March 22, 2012
Everett True
coasting , Everett True , Flying Nun , Look Blue Go Purple , The Vivian Girls
We’re talking The Vivian Girls stripped of the 60s West Coast stuff and with layers of mid 80s Dunedin stuff added in its place.
Added on February 27, 2012
Scott Creney
coasting , Electrelane , Flying Nun , Scott Creney , The White Stripes , Whitney Houston
If The White Stripes had been obsessed with Flying Nun instead of the blues and Led Zeppelin, it would have sounded like this. For someone like me, it’s absolute heaven.
Added on March 11, 2011
Everett True
ATV , Best Coast , Blank Realm , Brisbane , Dunedin , Eddie Vedder , edgy , Eternal Soundcheck , Flying Nun , Hamish Kilgour , MGMT , Neu! , Panel Of Judges , Pavement , post-punk , Robert Scott , Songs , Sonic Youth , Spiral Stairs , Tally Ho , The Bats , The Clean , The Clientele , The Deadnotes , the Dunedin Sound , The Go-Betweens , The Laughing Clowns , The Legend , The Thin Kids , The Velvet Underground , The Vine , The Zoo , Turn It Up , Yo La Tengo
I doubt if there’s a single person here who undervalues The Clean’s beauty, their vivid guitar storms punctuated by trebly guitar excess and bursts of down-home, deprecating humour.
