Congratulations to Pierce from ThePress, who seems to have scored the fastest time in last week’s quiz. This week, your challenge is to categorise albums by their decade of release. I thought there was one marginal inclusion – an album…
General elections are held every three years in New Zealand and they’re due soon. Our electoral system is known as Mixed Member Proportional (MMP for short). Everyone gets two votes – one for a party and one for an electorate…
Before he became Patti Smith’s lead guitarist, Lenny Kaye compiled the 2 album set, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era. Released in 1972, the two-LP set covered American garage rock and psychedelia from the years 1965-1968 and was…
Welcome back to this week’s music quiz. Congratulations to everyone who scored 28/28 last week. It looks like Rich Kamerman scored the fastest time! This week your challenge is to sort albums into genres. Even if you don’t know them,…
Two more female solo artists this week, and again they’re quite different from each other. Jessy Lanza, from Hamilton, Ontario, is back with another record of classy adult synth-pop. California’s Olivia Rodrigo just dropped one of the most anticipated pop…
Olivia Isabel Rodrigo came to prominence as an actor, appearing in Bizaardvark and High School Musical. She signed a recording contract in 2020, and quickly become a pop superstar. Debut single ‘Driver’s License’ debuted at number one on Billboard, while third single ‘Good…
Rage Against the Machine’s debut album was a slow-burn success. Their debut single ‘Killing in the Name’ was initially released in 1992, and became the Christmas #1 single in the UK in 2009. Parent album Rage Against the Machine didn’t…
Welcome back to this week’s music quiz. It was a tough quiz last week, but Max from powerpop.blog and Rich Kamerman tiee with 18 This week, we have a sorting gallery of classic rock albums for your pleasure. Sorting gallery…
Two very different female artists this week – a classy singer-songwriter record from Julie Byrne, and an attitude-fuelled rock album from Blondshell. Julie Byrne The Greater Wings 2023, 8.5/10Buffalo-born singer-songwriter Julie Byrne was hit by tragedy in 2021. Her former…
Before he became Patti Smith’s lead guitarist, Lenny Kaye compiled the 2 album set, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era. Released in 1972, the two-LP set covered American garage rock and psychedelia from the years 1965-1968 and was…
