Ed Kuepper goes mail order for new LP

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By The Barman

The Barman

04 March 2014

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The King of Reinvention, Ed Kuepper, is at it again. The ex-Saints and sometime Laughing Clowns guitarist recorded his first truly solo album in the mid-‘90s – just himself myself and a couple of acoustic guitars.

• saints
• ed kuepper
• mailorder
• bridegroom
• laughing
• clowns

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Open Your Eyes to Smoke - Nunchukka Superfly (Citadel Records)

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By The Barman

The Barman

02 March 2014

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It’s their fifth studio album and it’s tempting to say the lines have become blurred between Nunchukka Superfly and the Hard-Ons, from which two of its three members are drawn. That’d be convenient but also wrong.

• Citadel
• rock
• blackie
• nunchukka
• superfly
• open
• smoke
• ray
• ahn
• progressive

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Wolf Party - Various Artists (Voodoo Rhythm)

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By The Barman

The Barman

02 March 2014

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A compilation of 17 of the most bent, raucous and screwed up lo-fi musical artists from New Zealand? Sounds like a concept worth bottling and who better than Switzerland’s Voodoo Rhythm to bring it on?

• punk
• rock
• beat-man
• garage
• voodoo
• rhythm
• new
• party
• stink
• magnetic
• tape
• man
• wolf
• zealand

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Television turns workaholic

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By The Barman

The Barman

01 March 2014

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Sublime guitar band Television re-awakened after years of inactivity in 2013 with gigs all around the world - including its first in Australia. 2014 looks even busier with the band embarking on what looks like a world tour.

• television
• tom verlaine
• tour

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Straight James leads Iggy-less Stooges through new album

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By The Barman

The Barman

28 February 2014

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Iggy and the Stooges guitarist James Williamson is releasing a single as a precursor to an album’s worth of lost songs recorded by the Stooges with a range of guest vocalists.

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The Story of CK32111

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By Bob Short

Bob Short

07 August 2009

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I'm going to tell you about a little quest of mine; a search for the (not so) Holy Grail. It's a mountain size molehill of my own making and I admit it. But in these dire days of corporate mediocrity - where the alternative has been bought up by the same guys who brought you the thing you were supposed to be the alternative to – a man is defined by his obsessions.

• the
• iggy
• stooges
• raw
• power
• and
• bowie
• ck32111
• mainman

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The Living Eyes - The Living Eyes (Z-Man Records)

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By The Barman and Robert Brokenmouth

The Barman and Robert Brokenmouth

04 January 2014

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Like what we all think of as ‘the '50s’, ‘the '60s’, as far as I can see, lasted from about 1963 to 1969. Unlike the preceeding decade, the breadth and scope of the musical landslide was so utterly extraordinary that bands are still borrowing and leaching off the period today.

• 60s
• z-man
• living
• eyes
• geelong
• mikey
• young

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Dig It Up! Live at The Enmore Theatre – Sunnyboys

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By The Barman

The Barman

26 October 2013

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There are reunions and there are reunions. The short story is that this DVD is well worth the fuss. One of Australia's best-loved bands of the 1980s, reconvening in full for the first time in 21 years in emotionally-charged circumstances, would be a good enough excuse to watch this show, just for curisoty's sake. That they nailed it with their original spirit, enthusiasm and energy intact is the icing on the proverbial baked product.

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CBGB (Directed by Randall Miller)

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By The Barman

The Barman

26 October 2013

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It's not often for me that a movie meets expectations so exactly but this is one. I should have known. Those ubiquitous T-shirts commemorating the place being worn in their millions (hey - I owned one in the '80s before it was cool) and that scary story, just after it closed, that the place was destined to be relocated to Las Vegas. Plus, there's Foo Fighter in it. Despite best intentions, "CBGB" is the "Waterworld" of punk rock biopics. It is a train crash. It tells the story of Hilly Krystal (played by Alan Rickman), the owner of the world's most renowned musical shit-hole, without any regard to historical facts, chronology, plot, character development or the possibility that its target audience might just have functioning brains. All good cretins go to heaven but sitting through this is hell.

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