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16 March 2010

Music Details:

Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (Drag City, DC390CD)
In California
Easy
Have One On Me
Occident
Good Intentions Paving Company
‘81
Kingfisher (all Newsom)

Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City,DC263CD)
Three Little Babes (Newsom)

How To Kill - Like Angels (Failsafe, Safe099CD)
Burning Ships
Respublica
And Death Shall Have Dominion
Bad Day At Black Rock
Embers
(all How To Kill)

Salon Kingsadore - Mountain Rescue (Sarang Bang, SBR021)
Lunch With Jan Hammer
Cocky Over-confident Cocaine Border Crossing
Spear Gun, Scuba Tank, Explosion
Project Wolf
Mountain Rescue
The Gold Stereo
High Orbit Catastrophe

Johnny Cash - American Vi: Ain’t No Grave (American, 2733149)
I Corinthians (Cash)
For The Good Times (Kristofferson)
Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream (McCurdy)
Redemption Day (Crow)
Can’t Help But Wonder (Paxton)
Ain’t No Grave (Trad.)

Johnny Cash - The Sun Years (Rhino/Sun, R270950)
Get Rhythm (Cash)

9 March 2010

Music Details:

Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back (Real World, 509960850720)
The Boy In The Bubble (Simon)
Heroes (Bowie/Eno)
Listening Wind (Byrne/Eno)
I Think It’s Going To Rain Today (Newman)
Flume (Vernon)

The Hotrats - Turn-Ons (G&D, LC23398)
I Can’t Stand It (Reed)
(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right To Party (Beastie Boys)
Queen Bitch (Bowie)
E.M.I (Rotten-Jones-Matlock-Cook)

Pop Mechanix - Now-Then: One Hit Windows (Failsafe, SAFE09)
Now (Scott/Mason/McLennan/Moore/Emmett)
Jumping out A Window (Scott/Mason/McLennan/Moore/Emmett)
Brains Are Dumb (Scott/Mason/McLennan/Moore/Emmett)
Art School Bop (Scott)

Pop Mechanix - Splash Alley: Let’s Get Started (Failsafe, SAFE09)
Kamikaze Man (Scott)

The Fourmyula - The Complete Fourmyula (EMI, 50999 6265042 7)
Nature (Mason)
If I Had Time (Mason/Richardson)
I’ll Sing You A Song (Mason/Richardson)
Green B Holidays (Mason/Richardson)
Since We (Hope)
Take Me (Mason)
Wrong Or Right (Parry)
Up Country City Down (Hope)

2 March 2010

Music Details:

Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (Universal/Dew Process, Dew90025)
Little Lion Man
Timshel
The Cave
Winter Winds
White Blank Page
(all Mumford & Sons)

The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You (Sony, Promo)
Head Full Of Doubt
January Wedding
Ill With Want
The Perfect Space
And It Spread
Tin Man (all Avett Brothers)

Midlake - The Courage Of Others (Inertia, SNSCD0065)
Acts Of Man
Winter Dies
Small Mountain
Rulers, Ruling All Things
Core Of Nature
The Horn
(all Tim Smith)

23 February 2010

In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger talks second-line parades and transvestite rap with members of New Orleans band Galactic; and reviews a set of sounds from the Wellington suburb of Newtown along with the astonishing debut album of Connan Mockasin.

Music Details:

Connan Mockasin - Please Turn Me Into The Snat (Rhythmethod, CM001)
Megumi the Milky Way
Egon Hosford
Unicorn In Uniform
Forever Dolphin Love
Grampa Moff
It’s Choad My dear
Please Turn Me Into the Snat
(all Connan Mockasin)

Galactic - Ya Ka May (Anti- E87002 2)
Boe Money (Galactic/Corey Henry)
Bacchus (Galactic/Allen Toussaint)
Double It (Galactic/Kocani Orkestra)
Katey Vs. Nobbey (Galactic)
Heart Of Steel (Galactic/Greer)
Cineramascope (Galactic)
Wild Man (Galactic)
Dark Water (Galactic/Boutte/Sanchez)

Various - Sounds Like Newtown (No Code)
Everybody (Hunuki-Hemopo)
The Barnyard (Mantarays)
Ray Ray (Fat Freddy’s Drop)

16 February 2010

Music Details:

The Ruby Suns - Fight Softly (Li’l Chief, Lcr027)
Cinco
Mingus and pike
Haunted House
Cranberry
How kids Fail
Closet Astrologer
Dusty Fruit (all McPhun)

Te Vaka - Haoloto (Spirit Of Play, WMCD1008)
Kaluve Pepe
Tui Moana
Tauasa
Toe Fataui
Well You Lied
Katakata Mai (all Foa’i)

Miho Wada - Postcards To Your Bed (No Code)
Be My Girl
Fursuato
Nonde Ma
Piss Off (Such A Loser)
(all Miho Wado)
Simple Song (Hunter)

Rosanne Cash - The List (Manhattan, 509996 965762 7)
Miss The Mississippi and You (Heagney)
Motherless Children (Trad. Arr. Cash/Leventhal)
Heartaches By The Number (Howard)
%00 Miles (West)
Girl From The North Country (Dylan)

9 February 2010

Nick Bollinger reviews a sadder, deeper second album from British singer Corrine Bailey Rae; a new disc from Northumberland folk sisters The Unthanks; and the latest offering from the musical cocktail that is Pink Martini.

Music Details:

Corrine Bailey Rae - Corrine Bailey Rae (Emi,Promo)
Put Your Records On (Corrine Bailey Rae/John Beck/Steve Chrisanthou)
Corrine Bailey Rae The Sea (Emi, 5099960851024)
Are You Here
I Would Like To Call It Beauty
Closer
The Blackest Lily
The Sea
(all Rae)

The Unthanks - Here’s The Tender Coming (Shock, CTX540CD)
Betsy Bell (Trad.)
Annachie Gordon (trad.)
Living By The Water (Briggs)
Flowers Of The Town (Anon.)
The Testimony of Patience Kerr (Higgins/Unthanks)
Lucky Gilchrist (McNally)
Sad February (Miles)

Pink Martini - Splendor In The Grass (Inertia,IR5229CDX)
Ohayoo Ohio (Faehnle)
Ou Est Ma tete? (Marashian/Forbes/Lauderdale)
And Then You’re Gone (Marashian/Rieth/Forbes/Lauderdale)
But Now I’m Back (Marashian/Lauderdale)
Splendour In The Grass 9Marashian/Lauderdale)
Piensa En Mi (Lara/Lara)

2 February 2010

Music Details:

Blakroc Blakroc - Dollaz and Sense (TBK/RZA/Monch)
Hard Times (TBK/NOE)
Stay Off The F***ing Flowers (TBK/Raekwon)
Tellin’ Me Things (TBK/RZA)
Coochie (TBK/ODB/Ludacris)
Why Can’t I Forget Him (TBK/N. Wray)
Ain’t Nothing Like you (TBK/Mos Def/J. Jones)
On The Vista (TBK/Mos Def)

Ojos De Brujos - Aocana (Warner Bros. 2564691346)
Todos Mortales
Baraka
Rumba Del Adios
Busca Lo Bueno
Correveidile
Donde Te Has Metio
Llvuia
Una Verdad Incomoda
(all Ojos de Brujo)

Black Joe Lewis - Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is! (Lost Highway, 0602517953543)
Sugarfoot
Gunpowder
Bobby Boshay
Big Booty Woman
Master Sold My Baby
I’m Broke (all Black Joe Lewis/Honeybears)

26 January 2010

Nick Bollinger reviews Vampire Weekend’s mix of indie rock and tropical rhythm; the West African and Mississippi tones of Britain’s Les Triaboliques; and the first album in a decade from former Husker Du drummer Grant Hart.

Music Details:

Vampire Weekend - Contra (XL, XLCD429)
Run
Holiday
California English
Cousins
Taxi Cab
Diplomat’s Son
White Sky
(all Baio/Batmangliji/Tomson/Koenig)

Grant Hart - Hot Wax (High Spot HSR008)
Khalid
My Regrets
Charles Hollis Jones
You’re The Reflection
Sailor Jack
Barbara
Schoolbuses Are For Children
Narcissus
(all Hart)

Les Triaboliques - Riverrmudtwilight (World Village, 468088)
Crossing The Stone Bridge (Adams/Edmonds/Mandelson)
Afsaduni (Adams/Edmonds/Mandelson)
Shine A Light (Adams/Edmonds/Mandelson)
Rivermudtwilight (Adams/Edmonds/Mandelson/Keyloch)
Ledmo (Adams/Edmonds/Mandelson)
Hora Anicuta Draga (Trad. Arr.Adams/Edmonds/Mandelson)
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood (Benjamin/Marcus/Caldwell)

Nick Bollinger's  favourite releases of 2009

The Beatles - Please Please Me (Apple, 0946 3 82416 2 1)
I Saw Her Standing There (McCartney-Lennon)
The Beatles A Hard Days Night (Apple, 0946 382413 2 1)
Any Time At All (Lennon-McCartney)
The Beatles Revolver (Apple, 0946 3 82418 2 1)
She Said She Said (Lennon-McCartney)
Wilco Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch, 7559798496)
You Never Know
Deeper Down (all Tweedy)

Richard Swift - The Atlantic Ocean (Secretly Canadian, SC183)
The Original Thought
Atlantic Ocean
The Ballad Of Old What’s His Name (all Swift)

Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl, PRC160)
Nonpareil Of Favour
Gallery Piece
For Our Elegant Castle (all Barnes)

Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me (Rough Trade, RTRADCD481)
This Time Dad You’re Wrong
Time Away
Eli (all Russell)
Levon Helm Electric Dirt (Vanguard, 79861 2)
Tennesse Jed (Hunter-Garcia)
Golden Bird (Traum)
Grwoing Trade (Helm-Campbell)

Tourettes - Who Says You Can’t Dance To Misery? (Breakin’ Wreckwordz, BWW10)
Almost Out Of Water (Hoey/Kircaldy/Coddington)
Asshole (Hoey/Barrett)
The Company (Hoey/Barrett)
Helper Monkey (Hoey/Kircaldy/Coddington)

Pie Warmer - The Fearsome Feeling (Li’l Chief, LCR023)
The Fearsome Feeling
Before He Passed Away
God Help Me Aunt Daisy
Never Mention Eyes (all McWilliams)

Bachelorette - My Electric Family (Particle Hill, PT003)
Instructions For Insomniacs
Where To Begin
Dream Sequence (all Alpers)

David Kilgour & Sam Hunt - Falling Debris (Arch Hill, Ahr039)
Chord
Everytime It Rains Like This
First One Hit
(all Kilgour-Hunt)

Various - Stroke: Songs for Chris Know (AMAJ002)
Nothings Going To Happen (Knox-Bathgate)
Lapse (Knox)
It’s Love (Knox)

Don Mcglashan & The Seven Sisters - Marvellous Year (Arch Hill, Ahr038)
C20006P1 Make Yourself At Home (McGlashan)

15 December 2009

Music Details:

The Gladeyes - Psychosis Of Love (Li’l Chief, LCR026)
The Light
Monika
Your Address
There He Goes
(all Farley/Norcliffe)

Haunted Love - Darkness In Diamond City (Haunted Love, HL001)
Darkness In Diamond City
Into the Night
Lonesome Doves In The Family tree
Sweet Baby
(all Haunted Love)

Loudon Wainwright III - The Charlie Poole Project (2nd Story Sound, 161003)
The Deal (Trad.)
I’m The Man Who Rode The Mule Around The World (Trad.)
Awful Hungry Hash House (Trad.)
The Man In The Moon (Wainwright/Connette)
Didn’t He Ramble (Handy)
Took My Gal out Walkin’ (Unknown)

Tom Waits - Glitter & Doom Live (Anti-, E87053 2)
Lucinda
Goin’ Out West
Get Behind The mule
Such A Scream
Singapore
Lucky Day
Metropolitan Glide
(all Waits/Brennan)
Live Circus (Waits/Brennan/Yves/Graud)

8 December 2009

Bap Kennedy - Howl On (Longtime Listener, LISN82037)
America
Cold War Country Blues
The Blue One
The Heart Of Universal Love
Irish Moon
(all Bap Kennedy)
Hey Joe
(Rose)

The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love (Capitol, 50999 2 14710 2 5)
The Wanting Comes In Waves
The Hazards Of Love
The Rake’s Song
Isn’t It A lovely Night?
Margaret In Captivity (all Meloy)

Al Green - Lay It Down (Blue Note, Promo)
Lay It Down
Just For Me
You’ve Got The love I need
No One Like You
(no credits on sleeve)

Al Green - I Can’t Stop (Blue Note, 7243 93557 2 6)
I Can’t Stop (Green-Mitchell)

1 December 2009

Music Details:

Richard Swift - The Atlantic Ocean (Secretly Canadian, SC183)
The Atlantic Ocean
Already Gone
Hallelujah Goodnight
R.I.P.
A Song For Milton Fehr
The Ballad of Old What’s His Name
(all Swift)

Dave Rawlings - Machine A Friend Of A Friend (Acony ACNY0908)
How’s About You
It’s Too Easy
Ruby
Bells Of Harlem
Sweet Tooth
(all Rawlings-Welch)
To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High) (Rawlings-Adams)
Method Acting/Cortez The Killer (Conor Oberst) (Neil Young)

Toy Love - Cuts (Flying Nun, FNCD473)
Pull Down The Shades (Bathgate-Dawson-Dooley-Kean-Knox-Walker)

Various - Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox (A Major, AMAJ002)
Pull Down The Shades (Bathgate-Dawson-Dooley-Kean-Knox-Walker)
Inside Story (Knox)
It’s Love (Knox)
Becoming Something Other (Knox)
Growth Spurt (Knox)
My Only Friend (Knox)
Rebel (Bathgate-Dooley-Kean-Knox-Walker)
Bodies (Knox)

24 November 2009

Zig Zag - Zig Zag (DVD, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, BRAI021)
D Is B
Something Else
Ruby Africa
Exotyic
Shoe Of My Mind
Len’s Drums
(all Donaldson/Henderson/Long/O’Connor/Roche/Roddick)

Greg Malcolm - Some Other Time (DVD, Kning Disk KD059)
Swimming In It
Last Dance
Staring At the Sun
(all Malcolm)
Ramblin’ Man (Williams)

Jonathan Zwartz - The Sea (www.myspace.com/jonathanzwartz)
The Sea
Epic
Chester
Travelling Song
Hummingbird (all Zwartz)

Leonard Cohen - Live In London (DVD, Columbia 88697405039)
Bird On The Wire (Cohen)

Leonard Cohen - Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970 (Columbia/Legacy, 8869760063 2)
Bird on The Wire
So Long, Marianne
Tonight Will Be Fine
Sing Another song, Boys
(all Cohen)

17 November 2009

The solo debut of Strokes’ singer Julian Casablancas; a new set from art/sound innovator Yoko Ono; and the latest from Amer-indie trio Akron/Family, including an interview with Miles Seaton, the group’s multi-instrumentalist.

Music Details:

Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young (RCA 8869748421 2)
Left & Right In The Dark
Out Of The Blue
11th Dimension
Four Chords Of The Apocalypse
Ludlow Street
Tourist
(all Casablancas)

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band - Between My Head And The Sky  (Chimera)
Between My Head and the Sky
Calling
Waiting For The D Train
Ask The Elephant
Memory of Footsteps
Watching the rain
I’m Going Away Smiling
(all Yoko Ono)

Akron/Family - Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free (Spunk, URA288)
Set ‘Em Free
MBF
Many Ghosts
Gravelly Mountains Of the Moon
Everyone is Guilty
River
(all Akron Family)

Music Details:

Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk (Unspk, Promo)
Man Named truth
Baby Boomer
Say Please
Whole Lotta Losin’
Dear God
Temazcal
The Right Place
(all Monsters Of Folk)

Flight Of The Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky (Sub Pop SPCD800)
Hurt Feelings
We’re Both In Love With the Same Girl
I Told You I Was Freaky
You Don’t Have To Be A Prostitute
Rambling… (all McKenzie/Clement)
Carol Brown (McKenzie/Clement/Bobin)

Bob Dylan - Christmas In The Heart (Columbia, 88697 57323 2)
Here Comes Santa Claus (Autry/Haldeman)
Must Be Santa (Fredericks/Moore)
Little Drummer Boy (Davis/Onerati/Simeone)
I’ll Be Home For Christmas (Kent/Gannon/Ram)
Winter Wonderland (Bernard/Smith)
Christmas Blues (Cahn/Holt)

27 October 2009

New albums from pioneering African-American rockers Living Colour and new South African quartet Blk Jks (prounced Black Jacks); and a gospel tribute from a panoply of American stars and the debut album of Auckland-based choir Jubilation.

Music Details:

Living Colour - The Chair In The Doorway (Megaforce)
The Chair (Living Colour/Count)
Behind The Sun (living Colour/Count)
Bless Those (Wimbish/Bandez)
Deca Dance (Living Colour/Cimfe/Stewart)

Various - Oh Happy Day (EMI 509995128622)
I Believe (John P. Kee)
Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder)
Keep The Faith (Bon Jovi/Sambora/Child)
Presence Of The lord (Eric Clapton)

Blk Jks - After Robots (Secretly Canadian, SC197)
Molatadladi
Lakeside
Banna Ba Bodimo
Standby
Cursor (all Blk Jks)

Jubilation - Shout And Never Get Tired (Ode, JUB001)
Nobody’s Fault But Mine (Willie Johnson)
Come On Up To The House (Waits/Brennan)
Bright Morning Star (Trad.)
Learn To Forgive (Bryant/Tenbensel)

20 October 2009

This week Nick Bollinger talks to veteran British rocker Nick Lowe about the tour with Ry Cooder which will bring him to New Zealand next month; and reviews albums by Mexican-American synth-popster Juliette Commagere, and Bahamian minstrel Blind Blake.

Music Details:

Nick Lowe - Quiet Please (Proper PRPCD036)
Fool Who Knows (Lowe-Hiatt-Cooder-Keltner)
People Change (Lowe)

Nick Lowe - At My Age (Proper, PRPCD030)
The Club (Lowe)

Nick Lowe - Party Of One (Reprise, 26132 2)
Gai Jin Man (Lowe)

Ry Cooder  - The UFO Has Landed (Rhino, 8122 79891 9)
Feelin’ Bad Blues (Cooder)
Crazy ‘Bout An Automobile (Emerson)

Juliette Commagere - Queens Die Proudly (Aeronaut 009)
Your Ghost
All Your Days
Hearts
Where I Go
Overcome
Nature Of Things
Queens Die Proudly (all Commagere)

Blind Blake - Bahamian Songs (Megaphone, CDMEGA22)
John B Sail
Delia Gone
Go Down Emmanuel Road
Foolish Frog
Never Interfere With Man and Wife
Love Love Alone
(all trad. Arr. Blind Blake)

6 October 2009

Nick reviews the mix of Malian melodies and European electronica that is The Very Best; the debut of Leonard Cohen’s longtime collaborator Sharon Robinson; and the sophisticated sophomore release of local pop singer-songwriter Miriam Clancy.

22 September 2009

Nick reviews an album from rapper Q-Tip, released at last almost a decade after it was made; a new album by conflicted southern rockers Drive-By Truckers and a solo set from their founder, Patterson Hood; an album that reassesses the ‘70s, by ex-Bangle Susannah Hoffs and partner-in-harmony Matthew Sweet.

Music Details:

Q-Tip - Kamaal The Abstract (Jive, 88697555192)
Make It Work (Fareed/Rosenwinkel)
Do You Dig You? (Fareed/Sholar/Katz)
Blue Girl (Fareed/Barrett/Sholar)
Abstractionisms (Fareed)
Barely In Love Fareed/Kats)
Heels (Fareed/Sholar)
Feelin’ (Fareed/Sholar)

Drive-By Truckers - Live From Austin Tx (New West, NW6168)
The Righteous Path (Cooley/Hood/Morgan.Neff/Tucker)
Let There Be Rock (Hood/Cooley/Morgan/Hicks/Malone)
Perfect Timing (Cooley/Hood/Morgan.Neff/Tucker)

Patterson Hood - Killing Oscar (And Other Love Songs) (Ruth St. Records, CTX497CD)
Polyanna (Hood/Cooley)
Murdering Oscar
Grandaddy
I Understand Now (all Hood)
The Range War (Rundgren)

Matthew Sweet & Susannah Hoffs - Under The Covers Vol. 2 (Shout/Shock, CTX508CD)
Hello It’s Me (Rundgren)
You’re So Vain (Simon)
Everything I Own (Gates)
I’ve Seen All Good people (Anderson/Squire)

15 September 2009

Nick Bollinger reviews a new album from Wellington singer-songwriter Tommy Benefield and his latest group the Fallen Horses; talking to the soon-to-tour Nashville singer Justin Townes Earle; and assessing the latest reissues from the Beatles.

Music Details:

Tommy & The Fallen Horses - Isolation Is The New Party (Rhythmethod, TRB001)
On The Beach
Dead Poet
Stay By The Water
Houston
Babe I’m Just Scared
Cushions
(all Benefield)

The Beatles - Please Please Me (Parlophone 0946 3 82416 2 1)
I Saw Here Standing There
Please Please Me
(McCartney-Lennon)

The Beatles - Revolver (Parlophone, 0946 3 82417 2 0)
And Your Bird Can Sing (Lennon-McCartney)

The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night (Parlophone 0946 3 82413 2 4)
If I Fell (Lennon-McCartney)

The Beatles - Yellow Submarine (Parlophone Promo, 50999 6 8441 4 2 5)
Hey Bulldog (Lennon-McCartney)

Justin Townes Earle - Midnight At The Movies (Bloodshot, BS160)
What I Mean To You
Poor Fool
Someday I’ll Be Forgiven
They Killed John Henry
Mama’s Eyes
Midnight At the Movies
(all Earle)
Can’t Hardly Wait (Westerberg)

8 September 2009

Nick Bollinger reviews the first album in eight years from influential Dunedin trio The Clean; a final part of a trilogy by Texan troubadour Sam Baker; and three new releases from Willie Nelson.

Music Details

The Clean - Mister Pop (Arch Hill, AHR042)
Are You Really On Drugs
Back In The Day
Simple Fix
Asleep In The Tunnel
Loog
In The Dreamlife You Need A Rubber Soul
Tensile
(all Kilgour-Kilgour-Scott)

Sam Baker - Cotton (Music Road, MMRCD104)
Dixie
Cotton
Mennonite
Angel Hair
Palestine II
Snow
Signs
Bridal Chest
(all Baker)

Willie Nelson - Lost Highway (Lost Highway, 2713931)
Bubbles In My Beer (Walker-Wills-Duncan)
The Harder They Come (Cliff)
Maria (Thomas)
You Don’t Know Me (Walker-Arnold)
Cowboys are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other (Sublette)

1 September 2009

Nick reviews new CDs including Seven Worlds Collide: The Sun Came Out, the two-disc set recorded last summer by Neil Finn, his family and friends; a new set of sonic and spiritual explorations from the Seattle-based Six Organs Of Admittance; and the debut of glam rock revivalists Amazing Baby.

Music Details:

Amazing Baby - Rewild (V2/Shock, Vvr705865)
Headdress
Bayonets
Invisible Palace
Pump Your Breaks
Knakra
Dead Light
Old Tricks In Hell
(all Amazing Baby)

Six Organs Of Admittance - Luminous Night (Spunk, Promo)
Actaeon’s Fall
Anaesthesia
Bar Nasha
Cover Your Wounds
River of Heaven
(all Chasny)

Various Seven Worlds Collide: The Sun Came Out (Sony, Promo)
Learn To Crawl (O’Brien/Marr/Finn/Finn)
Reptile (Germano)
Too Blue (Marr/Tweedy)
Boddisatva Blues (O’Brien/Finn)
Ties that Bind Us (Selway)
Long Time Gone (McGlashan)
Black Silk Ribbon (Tunstall/Runga)
You Never Know (Tweedy)
All Comedians Suffer (Finn)

25 August 2009

Nick Bollinger reviews a satirical and musically eclectic new album from Dunedin veterans The Verlaines; the debut of earnest Los Angeles rockers The Airborne Toxic Event; a tribute to the late George Harrison from My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James; and a new anthology of Harrison himself.

Music Details:

The Airborne Toxic Event - The Airborne Toxic Event (Island, 602527033709)
This Is Nowhere
Wishing Well
Gasoline
Does This Mean You’re Moving On?
(all Airborne toxic Event)

The Verlaines Corporate - Moronic (Dunedinmusic.Com)
Rootless Cosmopolitan
The Situation Is Hopeless, Not Serious
Paratai Drive
Paraphrasing Hitler
The Way I Love You
Forever and a Day
Tomorrow Without You
Socrates For A Day (all Downes)

Bachelorette - Isolation Loops (Electroplate Recording)
And The Earth Knew Absence (Alpers)

Yim Yames - Tribute To (Rough Trade/Ato, RTRADCD520)
Long Long Long
Behind That Locked Door
All Things Must Pass
Love You To
(all Harrison)

George Harrison - Let It Roll (Parlophone/Apple, 50999 965019 2 4)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
This Is Love
Blow Away
Give Me Love Give Me Peace On Earth
(all Harrison)

18 August 2009

This week Nick Bollinger reviews the stand-up power-pop of Art Brut and the desert blues of Tinariwen, and speaks to former Felice Brother Simon Felice about his new duo The Duke & the King.

Music Details:

Art Brut - Art Brut Vs. Satan (Cooking Vinyl, COOK492)
The Passenger
Mysterious Bruises
Alcoholics Unanimous
Slap Dash For No Cash
The Replacements
What A Rush
(all Art Brut)

Tinariwen - Imidiwan: Companions (Indipendiente, FM039)
Tenhert (Abdallah Ag Alhoussenyi/Mohammed Assori Ahmed)
Tahult In Alhassane Ag Touhami)
Enseqi Ehad Didaggh (Ibrahim Ag Alhibib)
Imidiwan Afrik Tendarm (Ibrahim Ag Alhibib)

The Duke & The King - Nothing Gold Can Stay (Shock, Promo)
Suzanne
Still Remember Love
The Morning I Get To Hell
Summer Morning Rain
Union Street
One More American Song
If You Ever Get Famous (all Felice)

11 August 2009

Nick Bollinger reviews new local albums from Dimmer and Pie Warmer and a smart set of British dance-pop from Little Boots.

Music Details:

Dimmer - Degrees Of Existence (Warner Music, 5186551402)
Can’ty Cut Through
Degrees Of Existence
Comfortable
Cold Water
Wrong Bus
Bless
(all Dimmer)

Little Boots - Hands (Atlantic, 2564689603)
New In Town (Hesketh/Kurstin)
Remedy (Hesketh/Redone)
Mathematics (Hesketh/Kurstin/Goddard)
Stuck On Repeat (Hesketh/Kurstin/Goddard)
Ghost (Little Boots)
Earthquake (Hesketh/Kurstin)

Pie Warmer - The Fearsome Feeling (Li’l Chief, LCR023)
The Fearsome Feeling
I Love Everything
God Help Me Aunt Daisy
I Broke All The Rules
The Motorway
Crappy Street
Never Mention Eyes
Left Here Waiting
Before He Passed Away
(all McWilliams)

4 August 2009

In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger will be reviewing the latest opus from Brooklyn quartet Grizzly Bear; a new album of anarcho-folk from Nashville’s Todd Snider; and the local retro soul of Opensouls.

Music Details:

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warrp, Promo)
Two Weeks
Southern Point
All We Ask
Ready, Able
Dory
Fine For Now
Foreground
(all Grizzly Bear)

Todd Snider - The Excitement Plan (Aimless/Shock, CTX495CD)
America’s Favourite Pastime
Slim Chance
Greencastle Blues
Unorganised Crime
Money, Compliments, Publicity
(all Snider)

Opensouls - Standing In The Rain (FTC/Dirty, FTC011)
Standing In The Rain (Toy/Matthews)
Prayer (Hammond/Toy)
Walk Away (Hammond/Toy)
Leave The Light On (Hammond/Toy)
Telephone song (Dyne/Toy/Davey/Hammond)

28 July 2009

This week Nick Bollinger will be reviewing the debuts of American alt-rock supergroup The Dead Weather and 7-piece Wellington combo The Family Cactus; and speaking to Dunedin-born,  Melbourne-based country rocker Matt Joe Gow and discussing his first album.

Music Details:

Family Cactus - Come Howling (Distributor/Sony, 88697539762)
Kingmaker
Mariachi Stomper
In Transit
Barbed Tongue
No Magic
Coal Town
Come Howling (all Adam Ladley/Family Cactus)

Matt Joe Gow - The Messenger (Liberation/Essence, LMCD0049)
Come To Mama, She Say (Grant Lee Phillips)
At The Bar
I Let You Be
Come What May
Steady Life
Up On the Hill
At The Seams (all Matt Joe Gow)

The Dead Weather - Horehound (Third Man/Columbia, 88697539122)
Hang You From The Heavens (Mosshart/Fertita)
60 Feet Tall (Mosshart/Fertita)
New Pony (Dylan)
So Far From Your Weapon (Mosshart)
I Cut Like A Buffalo (White)
Will there Be Enough Water? (White/Fertita)
Treat Me Like Your Mother (Mosshart/Lawrence/White/Fertita)

21 July 2009

This week Nick Bollinger will be reviewing a musical saga of 19th century Karamea from Jordan Reyne; a retrospective set from Kiwi troubadours Glen Moffatt, Red McKelvie and Al Hunter; a CD/DVD package from Wellington guitarist and luthier Paddy Burgin; and the renaissance of Dunedin legends The Puddle.

Music Details:

Jordan Reyne - How The Dead Live (Sounz)
From Gravesend
The Brave
Ghosts
The Michaelangelo
The Dead
The Proximity Of Death
(all Jordan Reyne)

Glen Moffatt, Al Hunter, Red Mckelvie - Troubadours (SDL8044/2)
Somewhere In New Zealand Tonight (Moffatt)
Rachel (Moffatt)
Tearing My Old Heart Down (Moffatt/McCallum)
Ridin’ On Trains (McKelvie)
That’s What I Like (McKelvie)
Long Cold Winter (Hunter)
Paddy Burgin & The Wooden Box Band My Sweet Town (PB Productions)
The 100 Steps To Your Heart
Waikawa
My Sweet Town
Prince Jagger
Blackwood Bay
(all Burgin)

The Puddle - The Shakespeare Monkey (Fishrider Records)
So Good
You’re So Pretty
Seduced By Virgins
As It Was
One Romantic Gesture
The Shakespeare Monkey
(all George D. Henderson)

14 July 2009

Nick Bollinger reviews concept albums with canine themes from both Iggy Pop and Eels, a new release from Moscow-born, Bronx-raised Regina Spektor; and a gospel set from Naomi Shelton.

Music Details:

Iggy Pop Preliminaires (Emi, 50999 6985782 9)
I Want To Go To The Beach (Iggy Pop)
Les Feuilles Mortes (Kosma/Prevert)
How Insensitive (Jobim/Gilbert/de Moraes)
King Of The Dogs (Pop/Hardin)
He’s Dead, She’s Alive (Iggy Pop)
Party Time (Pop/Cragin)
Nice To Be Dead (Pop/Cragin)
Je Sais Que Tu Sais (Pop/Cragin/Amie)

Regina Spektor Far (Sire, 9362 49746 5)
The Calculation
Two Birds
Eet
Folding Chair
Blue Lips
Genius Next Door
Dance Anthem Of The 80s
(all Spektor)

Eels Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs Of Desire (Vagrant, VR537)
Prizefighter
Tremendous Dynamite
Fresh Blood
What’s A Fella To Do
The Look You Give That Guy
Beginner’s Luck
(all Everett)

What Have You Done, My Brother? Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens (Daptone, DAP016)
What Is This? (Morganfield)
Jordan River (Trad)
Trouble In My Way (Jeter)
I'll Take The long Road (Mann)
Am I Asking Too Much? (Mann)

7 July 2009

Nick Bollinger reviews concept albums with canine themes from both Iggy Pop and Eels, a new release from Moscow-born, Bronx-raised Regina Spektor; and a gospel set from Naomi Shelton.

Wilco - Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch, 7559798496)
Wilco (The Song)
You Never Know
You and I
Bull Black Nova
I’ll Fight
Country Disappeared
(all Tweedy)

Neil Young - Archives Volume 1 (Reprise, 175292 2)
Heart Of Gold
Bad Fog Of Loneliness
Aurora
I’m A Man and I Can’t Cry
I Wonder
Expecting To Fly
Cinnamon Girl
Tell Me Why
Everybody’s Alone
(all Young)

Ben Kweller - Changing Horses (Ato, AT00069)
Things I Like To Do
Old Hat
Sawdust Man
Gypsy Rose
Fight
(all Kweller)

30 June 2009

This week Nick Bollinger reviews new albums from two Elvises – Costello and Perkins – and the first solo outing in more than a decade by the reclusive architect of New Orleans pop, Allen Toussaint.

Music Details:

Elvis Perkins In Dearland - Elvis Perkins In Dearland
(Xl Recordings, XLCD401)
Hey
Shampoo
I’ll Be Arriving
Hours Last Stand
How’s Forever Been, Baby?
Send My Regards To Lonelyville
Doomsday (all Perkins)

Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
(Hear Music, 088072312807)
Down Among The Wines and Spirits
She Was No Good
Hidden Shame
Complicated Shadows
She Handed Me A Mirror
How Deep Is The Red? (all Elvis Costello)
I Felt The Chill (Costello/Lynn)
Changing Partners (Coleman/Darion)

Allen Toussaint - The Bright Mississippi
(Nonesuch, 480380 2)
Just A Closer Walk With Thee (Trad.)
West End Blues (Oliver-Williams)
Bright Mississippi (Monk)
Solitude (Ellington-Mills-DeLange)
Long, Long Journey (Feather)

Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights
(Reprise, WPCR 2592)
Southern Nights (Toussaint)

Irma Thomas - Time Is On My Side (Kent, CDKEND010)
It’s Raining (Neville)
In the Right Place  - Dr John  (ATCO 70182)
Right Place, Wrong Time (Rebbenack)

23 June 2009

In the Sampler this week Nick Bollinger will be reviewing a two-disc set of out-takes and rarities from prolific indie artist Sam Beam, better known as Iron and Wine; and he talks to Athens, Georgia cult hero Vic Chesnutt about songwriting, politics and his forthcoming New Zealand tour.

Music Details:

Iron And Wine - Around The Well (Sub Pop Spcd808)
Dearest Forsaken
Morning
God Made The Automobile
Arms Of A Thief
Carried Home
Trapeze Swinger (all Sam Beam)

Simon & Garfunkel - Live 1969 (Columbia, 88697 41306 2)
Sounds Of Silence
Homeward Bound
The Boxer
Bridge Over Troubled Water
59th Street Bridge Song (all Simon)

Vic Chesnutt - Ghetto Bells (New West NW6071)
Little Caesar
Ignorant People (all Chesnutt)

Vic Chesnutt - Dark Developments (Promo Only)
Mystery
The Mad Passion Of the Stoic
Phil The Fiddler
We Are Mean (all Chesnutt)

16 June 2009

In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger will be talking to singer-guitarist Buddy Miller about his work with Robert Plant, Emmylou Harris and his wife Julie Miller; and spending some time with the second studio offering of Capital City dubsters Fat Freddy’s Drop.

Music Details:

Buddy & Julie Miller - Written In Chalk (New West, NW6158)
Ellis County (Julie Miller)
Gasoline & Matches (Buddy & Julie Miller)
Long Time (Julie Miller)
What You Gonna Do Leroy (Mel Tillis)
Don’t Say Goodbye (Julie Miller)
June (Julie Miller)
One Part, Two Part (Dee Ervin)
Hush, Sorrow (Julie Miller)

Fat Freddy’s Drop - Dr Boondigga & The Big Bw (Drop DRP013)
The Raft
Shiverman
Big BW
Boondigga
The Camel
The Nod (all Fat Freddy’s Drop)

9 June 2009

This week Nick Bollinger reviews Steve Earle’s tribute to the late Texan songwriter Townes Van Zandt; a  set from Conor Oberst and his democratic new band; and a compilation  surveying the works of idiosyncratic Scottish duo The Vaselines.

Music Details:

Townes - Steve Earle (New West, NW6164)
Poncho & Lefty
No Place To Fall
White Freightliner Blues
Lungs
Colorado Girl
To Live Is To Fly
Marie
(all Townes Van Zandt)

Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York (Geffen GED24727)
Jesus Doesn’t Want Me As A Sunbeam (Kelly/McKee)

The Vaselines - Enter The Vaselines (Sub Pop,SPCD  810)
Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam
Molly’s Lips
Teenage Superstars
Rory Rides Me Raw
You Think You’re A Man
Monsterpussy
(all Kelly-McKee)

Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band - Outer  South (Spunk, URA296)
Spoiled (Oberst)
Slowly (Oberst-Walcott)
Cabbage Town (Oberst)
To All The Lights In the Windows (Oberst)
Difference Is Time (Boesel)
I Got The Reason (Oberst)

2 June 2009

This week Nick Bollinger reviews Green Day’s new album and tries to figure out why it is the biggest-selling album in the US; meets local artist Bachelorette and her electric friends; and watches a concert DVD of roots-rock boundary breakers Wilco.

Music Details:

Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (Reprise, 9362498021)
21st Century Breakdown
Know Your Enemy
Last of the American Girls
Last Night On Earth
Before the Lobotomy
American Eulogy
(all Green Day)

Bachelorette - My Electric Family (Particle Tracks, PT003)
Long Time Gone
Technology Boy
The National Grid
Where To Begin
Instructions For Insomniacs
Dream Sequence
Her Rotating Head
Donkey (all Alpers)

Wilco - Ashes Of American Flags (Nonesuch, 7559 79938 1)
You Are My Face (Tweedy-Cline)
Side With the Seeds (Tweedy-Jorgensen)
Monday (Tweedy)
Kingpin (Tweedy)
Impossible Germany (Tweedy

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19 May 2009

Nick Bollinger reviews a collection of cautionary songs from Bonnie Prince Billy; the avant-dance debut of Telepathe (pronounced ‘telepathy’); and a smart set of local pop from Dictaphone Blues.

Music Details:

Telepathe - Dance Mother (VVR932197)
So Fine
Devil’s Trident
Chrome’s On It
Can’t Stand It
In Your Line
Lights Go Down
(all Gagnes/Livaudais, BZML)

Dictaphone Blues - On The Down & IN (Blah-Lah- Lah, BLL001)
Spooky Room
You Put It In Me
100 Suns Inside My Lungs
I’ll Be Damned
Pale Shade Of Blues
Your Eating Is You
The Receiver
(all Castelow)

Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware (URA279)
You Can’t Hurt Me Now
My Life’s Work
I Am Goodbye
Beware Your Only Friend
Without Work You Have Nothing
Death Final
You Don’t Love Me
I Don’t Belong To Anyone
(all Oldham)

12 May 2009

In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger will be assessing the new Bob Dylan album, along with the latest from eclectic English quintet Gomez and the solo debut of Phoenix Foundation percussionist Will Ricketts.

Music Details:

Bob Dylan - Together Through Life (Columbia 8859743893 2)
Beyond Here Lies Nothing
If You Ever Go To Houston
Life is Hard
Forgetful Heart
Shake Shake Mama
It’s All Good (all Dylan/Hunter)
My Wife’s Home Town (Dylan/Hunter/Dixon)

Muddy Waters - The Best Of Muddy Waters (Chess CHD31268)
I Just Want To Make Love To You (Dixon)

Wild Bill Ricketts - John Dryden (Wbr002)
New J (Ricketts/TK)
Coconut Tree (Ricketts)
Mangi Mangi (Ricketts/TK)
Siamese Dream (Ricketts/Hosford)
Why Some Of Them (Ricketts/TK)
Jaw Bone (Ricketts/TK)
Shoe Gazer (Ricketts/TK)

Gomez - A New Tide (ATO, ATO0070)
Bone Tired
If You Ask Nicely
Win Park Slope
Little Pieces
Sunset Gats
Mix
(all Gomez)
Airstream Driver
(Gomez/Rutili/Hurley)

5 May 2009

This week Nick Bollinger reviews a recent collaboration between iconic poet Sam Hunt and Dunedin guitar hero David Kilgour; a reunion of Jayhawks founders Mark Olson and Gary Louris; and topical new album from Neil Young.

Music Details:

David Kilgour & Sam Hunt - Falling Debris (Arch Hill, AHR039)
They Are Clouds
Chord
I Throw You Flowers
Every Time It Rains
Friend To Many
Summertime Blues For Tom
First One Hit (all Kilgour/Hunt)

Mammal  - Beware The Man (Red Rat)
Sandshoe Shuffle (Hunt-McDonald)

Neil Young  - Fork In The Road (Reprise, 936247872)
Just Singing A Song
When Worlds Collide
Cough Up The Bucks
Fuel Line
Get Behind the Wheel
Fork In The Road (all Young)

The Jayhawks  - Tomorrow The Green Grass (American, 7432123680 2)
Blue (Louris-Olsen)

Mark Olsen & Gary Louris  - Ready For The Flood (New West, NW6162)
The Rose Society
When The Wind Comes Up
Bicycle
Saturday Morning On Sunday Street
Turn Your Pretty Name Around
Life’s Warm Sheets
Chamberlain SD
(all Olson-Louris)

28 April 2009

This week in The Sampler Nick Bollinger will be reviewing a new Neko Case album inspired by natural forces; the return of Hammond organ exponent Booker T in a grunge-funk fusion; and local offerings from Wellington folk duo Rosy Tin Teacaddy and Auckland garage-dwellers Los Hories.

Music Details:

Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (Anti)
This Tornado Loves You
Magpie To the Morning
I’m An Animal
People Got A Lotta Nerve
The Next Time You Say Forever
Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth
Don’t Forget Me
Marais La Nuit

Rosy Tin Teacaddy - The Homeward Stretch (Earl Grey 002)
Visitors
Crosswords
Pickle Pot
Blackbird Revisited
Deliverance (Cummns/Ewens)

Los Hories - What’s The Time? (OTH 7060)
Nothing’s Wrong
Cardboard Box
Dynamite
Saturday Night (all Los Hories)

Booker T - Potato Hole (ANTI)
Get Behind The Mule (Waits)
She Breaks
Native New Yorker
Hey Ya

21 April 2009

The new album from The Veils is Sun Gangs, which explores darker places than the title suggests; Emmy The Great examines two sides of relationships - bad and worse - on her debut First Love; and The Horrors return from the crypt with a new sound in Primary Colours.

Music Details:

The Veils - Sun Gangs (Rough Trade)
Sit Down By The Fire
The Letter
Three Sisters
The House That She Lived In
Killed By The Boom
Larkspur
(all Finn Andrews)

The B.P.A. - We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat (Southern Fried)
Seattle ft Emmy The Great (Cook, Moss)
EMMY THE GREAT- FIRST LOVE (Close Harbour)
Bad Things Are Coming We Are Safe
M.I.A.
First Love
24
We Almost Had A Baby
(all Moss)
Dylan (Lau/Moss)

The Horrors - Primary Colours (XL Recordings)
Mirror’s Image
Do You Remember
Scarlet Fields
Three Decades
Sea Within A Sea
(all The Horrors)

7 April 2009

This week in The Sampler Troy Ferguson listens to the first solo release from Peter Doherty, and finds out what became of the likely lad; examines the latest mystic indie by the Mercury Prize-nominated Bat For Lashes; and welcomes the return of grime popster Lady Sovereign.

Music Details:

Peter Doherty- Grace/Wastelands  (Parlophone 960572)
Sweet By and By (Doherty)
1939 Returning (Doherty)
Sheepskin Tearaway (Allison/Doherty)
A Little Death Around The Eyes (Doherty)
Last Of The English Roses (Doherty)
Broken Love Song (Doherty/Wolfe)

Bat For Lashes – Two Suns (EMI promo)
Sleep Alone
Glass
Peace Of Mind
The Big Sleep
Daniel
(all Khan)

Lady Sovereign - Jigsaw (Midget Records 200056)
Let's Be Mates
Pennies
I Got You Dancing
Student Union
(all Harman)
So Human (Harman/Smith)

31 March 2009

This week in The Sampler Troy Ferguson listens to Morrissey's ninth solo album Years Of Refusal; an offbeat avant-pop release from classically-trained young Londoner Micachu; and Screens, the post-breakthrough album from NZ troublegum proponents The Mint Chicks. 

Music Details:

Morrissey - Years Of Refusal (Polydor SKL6012)
Something Is Squeezing My Skull (Morrissey, Alain Whyte)
When Last I Spoke To Carol (Morrissey, Alain Whyte)
One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell (Morrissey, Boz Boorer)
Black Cloud (Morrissey, Boz Boorer)
I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris (Morrissey, Boz Boorer)
All You Need Is Me (Morrissey, Jesse Tobias)

The Mint Chicks - Screens (Flying Nun FNCD505)
Red White Or Blue
I Can't Stop Being Foolish
Life Will Get Better Some Day
Screens
Don't Sell Your Brains Out, Baby
(all Nielson/Nielson)

Micachu - Jewellery (Rough Trade RTRADCD500)
Vulture
Lips
Curley Teeth
Golden Phones
Just In Case
Turn Me Well

24 March 2009

Nick Bollinger will be assessing sophomore sets from Japanese-American singer-songwriter Rachel Yamagata and Wellington roots rockers Cassette, and reviewing the heartland rock-meets Euro-techno of Canada’s Handsome Furs, including an interview with the duo’s Alexei Perry.

Music Details:

Cassette - The Jingle King (Promo)
Just A Dream
Our Dream
Shadow
Three Four
Instrumental
Say Goodbye (all Cassette)

Rachel Yamagata - Elephant/Teeth Sinking Into Heart (Warner Bros., 9362498371)
Elephants
What If I Leave
Little Life
Duet
Sidedish Friend
Accident
Pause The Tragic Ending (all Yamagata)
Faster (Yamagata/Durham)

Handsome Furs - Face Control (Sub Pop SPCD790)
Legal Tender
Evangeline
Talking Hotel Arbat Blues
I’m Confused
Nyet Spasiba
Radio Kaliningrad
(all Handsome Furs, Third Side Music)
All We Want Baby Is Everything (Handsome Furs, contains elements of ‘Temptation’, Sumner/Hook/Sumner/Gilbert, Be Music PRS)

10 March 2009

Nick Bollinger will be assessing the first U2 album in five years, along with an unexpected detour into electronica from self-styled gypsies Beirut, and a small-but-perfectly-formed offering from Bon Iver.

Music Details:

Beirut/Realpeople - March Of The Zapotec/Holland (Pompeii, POMP001)
La Llorona
The Shrew
The Akara
My Night With the Prostitute From Marseille
My Wife, Lost In The Wild
Venice
No Dice (all Condon)

Bon Iver - Blood Bank (Jagjaguwar, Jag134)
Blood Bank
Beach Baby
Babys
Woods (all Vernon)

U2 - No Line On The Horizon (Island/Universal, 1796035)
No Line On The Horizon
Magnificent
Unknown Caller
Moment Of Surrender
Stand Up Comedy
Cedars Of Lebanon (all U2/Eno/Lanois, pub. Universal Music Pub. BV/ Opal Music)

3 March 2009

This week Nick Bollinger reviews recent albums by this year’s WOMAD visitors – the Californian/Cambodian combo Dengue Fever and Nigeria’s Seun Kuti; plus New Orleans’ organ-playing one-man-band Quintron.

Music Details:

Quintron - Too Thirsty 4 Love (Goner Records,  42gone)
Dirt Bag Fever
Walk To The Harvest
The Boss Wants To Party With You
Grey Ghost
Model Ex-Citizen
Waterfall (all Quintron)

Dengue Fever - Venus On Earth (Real World/ Proper, M80)
Seeing Hands
Clipped Wings
Integration
Oceans Of Venus
Monsoon Of Perfume
Sober Driver
Mr Orange (all Holtzman/Dengue Fever, Troll Under The Bridge/1 Armed  
Crab Publishing/Chhom Chimney/Noonkey Music Ltd. PRS; Senon Williams  
Pub. Swop Songs (ASCAP)/Pacific Electric Pub. Co.)

Seun Kuti & Fela’s Egypt 80 - Sean Kuti & Fela’s Egypt 80  (Disorient, SUSHICD 56)
Think Africa
Na Oil
Many Things
Mosquito Song (All Kuti, Pub. General Pattern/Lili Louise Musique)

24 February 2009

In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger will be reviewing the frank, funny and occasionally X-rated songs of Lily Allen’s second album; the Louisiana traditions of Cajun combo Beausoleil; and the 50th anniversary reissue of the best-selling jazz record of all time, Miles Davis’s Kind Of Blue.

Music Details:

Lily Allen - It’s Not Me, It’s You (Regal, 5099969427725)
Never Gonna Happen
I Could Say
Not Fair
Him
The Fear
Everyone’s At It
22
Back To The Start
(all Allen/Kurstin, Universal/Kurstin ASCAP; EMI April Music)

Beausolei - Alligator Purse (Yep Roc, Yep2185)
Reel Cajun (Denis McGee, Flat Town Music, BMI)
Bosco Stomp (Trad. Arr. Beausoleil, Dosai BMI, Admin. Bug Music)
Carriere Zydeco (B & E Carriere, Medley of Le Robe A Parasol, FlatTown Music BMI, and Zydeco de Carriere & Bebe Stomp, Tradition Music Co. BMI, Admin. Bug Music)
Marie (Trad. Arr. Doucet, Dosay BMI, Admin. BMI)
Rouler vet Tourner (Trad., lyrics Doucet, Dosay BMI, Admin. BMI)
I Spent All My Money Loving You (Bobby Charles, Music Patch BMI)
Little Darlin’ (Miller, Bughouse Music BMI)
Les Oignons (Trad., arr Doucet, Dosay BMI, Admin. BMI)

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 88697 43895 2)
So What
Freddie Freeloader
All Blues (all Davis, Jazz Horn Music Corp., BMI)
Love For Sale (Porter, Warner Bros. ASCAP)

17 February 2009

The Sampler reviews a celebratory new album by Bruce Springsteen; the North African soul of Amadou and Mariam, and hobo blues of Seasick Steve.

Music Details:

Seasick Steve - I Started Out With Nothin’ & I  Still Got Most Of It Left
Started Out With Nothin’
Prospect Lane
Chiggers
Walkin’ Man
One True
Thunderbird
Happy Man
(all Seasick Steve)
Just Like A King (Cave/Seasick Steve, pub. Mute Songs)
(Warner Bros. 2964694152)

Bruce Springsteen - Workin’ On A Dream 
My Lucky Day
Working On A Dream
Queen Of the Supermarket
Outlaw Pete
Good Eye
Surprise Surprise
The Last Carnival (all Springsteen, pub. Bruce Springsteen, ASCAP)
(Columbia, 88697413552)

Amadou & Mariam - Welcome To Mali
Djuru (Doumbia/Doumbia, pub. Reva Sons/Sony, ATV)
Sekebe (Bayayoko/Doumbia, pub. Reva Sons/Sony, ATV)
Sabali (Doumbia/Moureau/Albarn, pub. Reva Sons/Sony, ATV/Because
Editions/Chrysalis Music Ltd.)
Unissons Nous (Doumbia/Doumbia, pub. Reva Sons/Sony, ATV)
Africa (Bagayoko/Kienan, pub. Reva Sons/Sony, ATV)
Maseteladi (Bayayoko/Bayayoko, pub. Reva Sons/Sony, ATV)
Batoma (Doumbia/Doumbia, pub. Reva Sons/Sony, ATV)
Magosa (Doumbia/Doumbia, pub. Reva Sons/Sony, ATV)
(Because Music, 2564692787)

10 February 2009

Nick Bollinger reviews a provocative and hilarious set of sex-themed songs from Athens, Georgia band, Of Montreal; the latest release from transgender singer-songwriter Antony and his group The Johnsons; and Van Morrison’s 40th  anniversary reworking of his 1968 masterpiece, Astral Weeks.

Music Details:

Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)
A Eluardian Instance
Gallery Piece
For Our Elegant Caste
Wicked Wisdom
Women’s Studies Victims
And I’ve Seen A Bloody Shadow
Plastic Wafers
Mingusings
(all Barnes, Pub. Apollinaire Rave, BMI)

Antony & The Johnsons  – The Crying Light (Spunk, URA275)
Another World
The Crying Light
Dust and Water
Daylight and the Sun
Kiss My Name
(all Antony, Rebis Music, Koblt/ASCAP)

Van Morrison – Astral Weeks (Warner Bros. US17682)
Astral Weeks (Morrison, Van-Jan Music, BMI)
Madam George (Morrison, Web IV Music, BMI)

Van Morrison – Astral Weeks Live At The Hollywood Bowl (EMI, Promo)
Astral Weeks
Cypress Avenue
Beside You
Madam George
(all Morrison)

3 February 2009

In the Sampler this week Nick Bollinger reviews debut discs from Alabama rocker-turned-rustic A.A. Bondy and B-movie-besotted British band The Sugars; the jazz-soul of Devon’s Lizzy Parks, and the new musical directions of local sonic explorer Gianmarco Liguori (sounds sort of like John Mark O Lig – You – Ree).

Music Details:

A.A. Bondy  - American Hearts (Fat Possum, 1112 2)
How Will You Meet Your End
Vice Rag
Witness Blues
There’s A Reason
Black Rain Black Rain
No Man Shall
Rapture
American Hearts (all A.A. Bondy, no publishing details on disc)

The Sugars - The Curse Of The Sugars (Bad Sneakers, Badsneak17CD)
Black Friday
Monsters
Unnamed Duet
Heaven Knows
Fairytales Of Love
Gossip (all Wyatt/Greenaway/Bolton, Copyright Control)

Lizzy Parks - Raise The Roof (Tru Thoughts, TRUCD169)
Raise the Roof
Time
Forever and a Day
Soul Bird
Take Care (all Parks, Vosloo, Lamdin, no publishing details)
Seven Day Fool (Billy Davis)

Gianmarco Liguori - Ancient Flight Text (Sarang Bang 020)
Walking Beyond
Ascending Spirals
Under Investigation
Ancient Flight Text
Sphinx (all Liguori)

27 January 2009

In the first Sampler for 2009, Nick Bollinger will be reviewing the latest collaboration between English sonic innovator Brian Eno and idiosyncratic American David Byrne; a stylistic smorgasbord from The Fireman, better known as Paul McCartney and producer Youth; and a fresh serving of funk and soul from touring English R&B diva Alice 
Russell.

Music Details:

David Byrne & Brian Eno  - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (PODCD0728)
Life Is Long
Home
My Big Nurse
Everything That Happens
Poor Boy
The River
I Feel My Stuff (all Byrne/Eno)

The Fireman - Electric Arguments (TPLP1003CD)
Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight
Light From Your Lighthouse
Two Magpies
Sing The Changes
Universal Here, Everlasting Now
Dance ‘Til We’re High (all McCartney, MPL Communications Ltd.)

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