I’ve been recently reading about Rockism and Poptimism, two different schools of music criticism. It’s been interesting for me, both to understand my own personal biases and the biases behind other people’s music writing. The term Rockism was coined in…
The most interesting news story to emerge from New Zealand this weekend was an attempted monkey burglary at Wellington Zoo. Thieves broke into the squirrel monkey enclosure with bolt cutters, but were fought off by the small primates. Despite only…
I think last week’s Beatles quiz had a record number of entirely correct entries – well done Chris, introgroove, Geoff, Rich, Jim, and Bruce who all scored 100%. I for one found this week’s quiz a lot tougher – it’s…
It’s already Easter Sunday in New Zealand today, so it seems appropriate to cover a piece of music that I associate with Church. As soon as Church is over each Sunday, the vicar likes to hook his phone up to…
Congratulations to Rich (), who scored the only 100% in last week’s quiz. This week’s quiz requires you to complete famous lines from Beatles’ songs. I scored 28/28 – can you join me on 100%?
The Replacements are one of my favourite bands of all time, with their rough and ready bar band sound contrasting with Westerberg’s sensitive insightful lyrics, and creating some terrific college rock. After making one of my favourite trios of albums…
Last week’s unusual quiz format threw a few people, and we had a lot less entries than usual. Congratulations to Geoff and Aaron who were able to figure the format out, correctly guess the first three songs from U2’s The…
Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg had a controversial career – he was a modernist who embraced the 12 tone scale, and the Nazis labelled his music as degenerate. There are plenty of famous deaths in 20th century music; Buddy Holly’s plane…
Congratulations to Tony () who scored the sole 100% in last week’s Metallica and Wiggles quiz. This week’s quiz requires you to randomly guess words, figure out what three songs they’re from, and finally guess the album and artist that…
Paul Simon has enjoyed a long, worthwhile solo career since Simon and Garfunkel‘s breakup in 1970. A musical chameleon, he launched his post-duo career with an acoustic record that fitted into the singer-songwriter movement of 1972, then moved into jazz-inflected…
