Love This Giant David Byrne and St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) collaborate in a delightfully eccentric, oddball collection of upbeat and downright fun dance-floor ready songs. Following on...
Cop Song Taka Honda, best known as the ever-smiling drummer for the now defunct Little Red, has certainly taken a different direction, adopting frontman (and at times...
God Forgives, I Don’t Five albums into his career and Rick Ross must’ve done something right with God Forgives, I Don’t as its managed to get him the hip...
Total Loss If that title didn’t give it away, Tom Krell aka How To Dress Well’s new album isn’t the easiest one to listen to. Taking its...
New Hot Nights Inspired by the infamous Karangahape Road, Luger Boa’s latest release New Hot Nights drives your sensibilities to the edge. Don’t reach for this LP in...
I Bet On Sky Forming in 1984 out of a love of speed metal and soft, jangly guitar tunes, Dinosaur Jr. have been one of alt-rock’s most enduring and...
America In musical terms, the phrase ‘hardcore’ has a variety of connotations from gut-wrenching discordant punk rock to nose-bleeding techno. Often vilified by pastel-clad balladeers, Hardcore...
Searching For Sugar Man: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “I’ve played every kind of gig there is to play now/I’ve played faggot bars, hooker bars, motorcycle funerals, in opera houses, concert halls, halfway houses”...
Defeater In a genre as overly saturated as hardcore is, few bands really stand out by pushing the envelope. Tonight, the Corner Hotel was playing host to...
Gary Clark Jr. If you were to ingest every bit of hype surrounding Gary Clark Jr., you’d be inclined to believe he is the Second Coming; a divine...
The Amity Affliction Australia’s hardcore music scene is booming at the moment, but some are making it bigger than others. Without a doubt one of the former would...
Mia Dyson Humbly warming into the evening was Courtney Barnett. Sat on the uselessly low Corner Hotel stage, with her eyes just above those of the swarming...
