27.Jan.2012 PAIRS – interview with Cheese On Toast
Courtesy of Cheese On Toast.
26.Jan.2012 PAIRS VENUE CHANGE FOR DUNEDIN SHOW
Chinese two piece PAIRS, who are currently underway with their New Zealand tour (playing Wellington’s Mighty Mighty this evening and Auckland’s Lucha Lounge tomorrow night) have announced a change in venue for their forthcoming Dunedin show, taking place Wednesday February 1st.
The band will now be playing The Crown Hotel, 179 Rattray Street,
Support from this show comes from Heka and Opposite Sex. Entry is koha… so dig deep because they’ve come all the way from Shanghai…
The band’s show in Christchurch’s darkroom is unchanged.
For more on Pairs, visit www.facebook.com/pairsaredograts or listen to them at pairs.bandcamp.com
25.Jan.2012 The Dograts have Landed
TOUR DATES:
JANUARY:
25th – HAMILTON – Static Bar (with god bows to math, Grass Cannons and Tied on Teeth)
26th – WHANGANUI – ARC Theatre (with god bows to math and guests)
27th – WELLINGTON – Mighty Mighty (with god bows to math and Jetsam Isles)
28th – AUCKLAND – The Lucha Lounge (with Sharpie Crows and god bows to math)FEBRUARY:
1st – DUNEDIN – The Crown Hotel (Support to be announced)
2nd – CHRISTCHURCH – Darkroom (guests to be announced)
3rd – AUCKLAND – **Secret Show** (Flashmob Koha Fun Time Event)
22.Jan.2012 Oh hey 2012 – We’re MUZAI, and we’re “Independent Fighting Spirit”
A hoy hoy everyone out there…
Here we are once again, the start of a new year. 2011 proved to be an interesting one in many respects; we had some great accolades with Wilberforces, god bows to math and Sherpa all making headway in the music “biz” and we’re now two and a half years old. Still learning, truth be told.
But leaps and bounds have occurred since we last wrote to you, the general media in New Zealand (and for some of you in the “blogosphere”). Benjii Jackson is now part of the IMNZ board and perhaps the youngest member on there, Sherpa are opening this year’s Laneway Festival in Auckland as Wilberforces opened the final Big Day Out just his past Friday. god bows to math finally dropped their debut album to mass acclaim not just at home but abroad, and Cat Venom decided to bite the bullet and rope in a drummer for 2012. By now also you’ll know that Pairs will be in the country this week for their first tour outside the Asian continent. Why New Zealand we have no clue…
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21.Nov.2011 Pairs coming to NZ in 2012…
13.Nov.2011 god bows to math – Slow Decline – Video
Video for “Slow Decline”, the first single from god bows to math’s debut album, god bows to math, available now.
Directed and edited by A SOFT CARESS
Video – Diana Rozz – Iron Woman
The long awaited video for “Iron Woman” by Diana Rozz. Directed and edited by Brian Hainsworth.
We will also have a fresh stock of Diana Rozz EP’s for the new year. Honest.
24.Oct.2011 god bows to math – “god bows to math” – November 14th 2011
After a steady number of EPs and splits, across a wide variety of formats, Auckland’s best noise merchants and long-time MUZAI act god bows to math are finally ready to release their first full length album.
The eponymous release, out November 14th is three years of hard work from the group finally come to fruition. In true god bows to math fashion though, it wasn’t an easy process…
Originally recorded with regular MUZAI engineer Daniel Speight, the album was intended to be release in early 2011. One hard drive failure and Speight’s return to the U.K. found the band once again at a loose end.
Picking themselves back up saw the group turn to, of all places Whanganui to re-record the album with Warner Emery (Double Ya D, ex-Phoenix Foundation). It proved a priceless experience, with the region’s rich history of noisy guitar bands emboldening them to strip back their sound a little more.
Where Whanganui may not have been an obvious choice initially, getting the album mastered by the hallowed Chicago Mastering Service (run by Bob Weston and Jason Ward) was a long-standing goal of the band. It was the indelible touches from Jason Ward that truly gave the band the polished (or rather, suitably rough) quality they have long aspired to attain.
It shows; god bows to math meshes the group’s latest works such as the moody “Slow Decline” and “Paper Trails” (featuring vocals and guitar from Postures front-man Michael Havell) with their older work from previous releases. An amalgamation of the tried and tested with the new and exciting, which has allowed the band to proverbially stretch their legs – allowing for tracks you may not have expected the emerge from the group.
god bows to math is available on CD and digitally from November 14th through MUZAI Records (distributed by Rhythmethod NZ).
TRACK LISTING:
1) Slow Decline
2) Blues for Blind Lemon
3) Yr Kids Aren’t Special But I Am
4) The Ship That Sank A Thousand Faces
5) Paper Trails
6) How to Beat Your Dad at Chess
7) Sixty Degrees of Separation
8) Details on How to get “DONCAB” on your License Plate
9) Small Victories
10) New Designs for Hip Kids
11) Teenagers is Lazy Journalism
12) Smile & Nod
09.Oct.2011 god bows to math – “Slow Decline” released digitally today.
With a mere month until the release of their eponymous debut, Auckland three piece god bows to math look to whet the appetites of many today as “Slow Decline”, the first single from the album, is released through iTunes, Amplifier and digiRAMA.
The single, which incidentally is the opening track of god bows to math, is a slight removal from the nihilistic blasts many have come to expect from the group; instead, “Slow Decline” is a moodier, menacing and ultimately more atmospheric track from the group’s catalogue. Although it still retains it’s reference points to their trademark sound (having forged this throughout their three year tenure as a band), “Slow Decline” is something a little more removed from their previous release, Solar Lights Don’t Work At Night.
The band have recently finished shooting a video for the single with upstart music video makers A SOFT CARESS, who has previously created works for Mellow Grave and MUZAI artists Cool Cult.
god bows to math is released through MUZAI Records on November 14th 2011.
“Slow Decline” – iTunes
“Slow Decline” – Amplifier
“Slow Decline” – digiRAMA
“Slow Decline” – Marbecks Digital
20.Sep.2011 Cool Cult – Tomorrow – a video by A Soft Caress
We know that some of you are jonesing for a Cool Cult fix. We are too – and we’re eagerly anticipating Mate’s return from his European vacation (a well earned one at that). But in the meantime…
Cool Cult’s debut video has finally been released. “Tomorrow”, the final track of the magnificent album Try Crunch (available online and at Real Groovy in Auckland), has been captured and impressively sewn together by A Soft Caress, who have previously been responsible for the mind-blowing video from electronic-duo Mellow Grave.