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Joe Dodgshun // 12 Oct 2009
Well, well, well. Looks like I made it through to the end of the year. I’m not just talking about this column, but while I’m at it, thanks for coming along for the ride anyways. I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I. No, actually I was talking about lethal ice, airport grievances, death-cabbage [...]
... More!The Checks By Moonlight
Joe Dodgshun // 05 Oct 2009
Technology is a funny thing. You never realise how much you depend on it until it turns on you and bites you in the ass. Hence my frustration when, having the chance to interview the leading man of one of New Zealand’s most entertaining rock bands, the conversation was cut short about 8 minutes through [...]
... More!Best of British
Joe Dodgshun // 05 Oct 2009
It’s that crap I spent the entirety of the year Facebook stalking and now I must eat, sleep and wash in the Loft to have any chance of passing time of year again. Well, unless you’re the guy who actually appears to live in the loft, because for him it’s just another day. It’s no [...]
... More!Watch Me Fall
Joe Dodgshun // 28 Sep 2009
As you may expect from someone born with the name Jimmy Lee Lindsay, but who would rather be known by his childhood mantle of ‘retard’, Jay Reatard’s latest album is self-indulgent and ever so slightly crazy Then again, its also melodious and damn enjoyable to listen to – if you’re in the right frame of [...]
... More!Chart Disc 09, Vol 2
Joe Dodgshun // 28 Sep 2009
In celebration of the APRA Silver Scroll Awards being held in Christchurch for the first time (heck, the first time in the South Island, even), CHART, the Christchurch Music Industry Trust, have released the second installation of CHART DISC for 2009. On hearing the compilation was an alt-country, nu-folk themed edition, I recall myself visibly [...]
... More!Woman, Man, And Machine!
Joe Dodgshun // 20 Jul 2009
A crazy concept album about cyborgs muscling in on the women of Earth
... More!How can students possibly survive today?
Jon Andrew and Joe Dodgshun // 20 Jul 2009
The Recession: What would you do for money?
... More!Sick Section
Joe Dodgshun // 13 Jul 2009
Misty Frequencies takes a look at this Wellington indie-shock band
... More!Misty Frequencies: Tourettes
Joe Dodgshun // 21 May 2009
Tourettes is a relatively rare syndrome characterised by body and vocal tics, sometimes eventuating in the involuntary and often offensive outbursts normally associated with the condition.
Tourettes the artist, known otherwise as Dominic Hoey, while having overcome dyslexia and a rocky start to childhood is likewise equipped with an unstoppable mouth, though more through determination and [...]