Music

As 2011 was SUCH a good year for music, our music writer Theo Sangster had great joy in compiling this top 10 records of the year. He couldn’t rank them so here they are instead in alphabetical order…

Highlife threw their annual charity party on Saturday 10th December with a great line up of DJs and by the end of the evening they had raised $15,000 worth food, presents and donations for Auckland City Mission…

In a recent interview on the Colbert Report, Chris Martin smoothly brushed off jibes about Coldplay’s tendency to “reference” other artists with the simple quip: “We may not be as good musicians as Radiohead, but we are much better looking"

M83’s new album, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, has tracks with a heartbeat-raising live quantity to it that I assume will convert to a huge live set when M83 grace our shores at Laneway Festival on January 30th…

Kiwi band Fly My Pretties are known for the music but perhaps now for their stage costumes as well, with a colab with fashion labels Cybèle and MisteR designing outfits for their current Oct/Nov 2011 tour…

Well, what can I say, St Jerome’s Laneway Festival is coming back, and they’re about to out-do themselves, bringing some of the world’s most fashion-forward music to our shores this summer…

Spring is here! – which means spring-cleaning, old Bruce Springsteen records and a bit more spring in your step. Here are some of the more optimistic releases currently tickling my ear buds, says Theo Sangster…

The Dodos – No Color sounds like a Jack Kerouac novel. The Dodo’s rambling folk-rock has always journeyed through the proverbial countryside and each of the songs on the record have an earthy consistency to them…

I’m not convinced the band Cults are as good as everyone is making them out to be. Like the strips of magnesium you used to burn in 5th form Science; they are bright and fun and everybody comes over to take a look…

It seems he’s been a New Zealand favourite since he began his career as a jester in 2001. For two consecutive years he won the People Choice Award and since then and he has kept coming back – last year 15,000 Kiwis went to his show!