Wellington music scene mainstay Sandwiches is closing down amid major concerns over earthquake strengthening for their Kent Tce building.
Wellington music venue mainstay to close
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Nielson heads into the unknown
Back in 2007 guitarist Ruban Nielson decamped from Auckland to Portland, Oregon, with his brother Kody Nielson and Paul Roper, all members of popular Kiwi indie punk band The Mint Chicks. The move came after the band, founded in 2001, cleaned up at the New Zealand Music Awards that year, winning five categories including album of the year for Crazy Yes! Dumb No!
Emmy nominations leave snubbed shows, stars behind
That cliche about awards says it’s an honour just to be nominated. But what about all the worthies Emmy overlooks each year Are they being dishonoured by Emmy’s neglect It was a question raised by Emmy’s latest round of snubs as this year’s nominees were announced.
Glass artist uses words as window into loss
The sudden loss of loved ones and the consequences of such events are recurring themes in a just-published collection of short stories by Hamilton writer Elizabeth Cunnane. Titled After, the book will be launched tonight at Aesthete Gallery in Hamilton
Album review: One True Vine – Mavis Staples
ONE TRUE VINE Mavis Staples (Warner) The second collaboration between soul great Mavis Staples and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, like the first, owes as much to Tweedy’s deft guidance and production skills as it does to Staples’ power-punch vocals. He manages to plug into the emotional centre of a singer bought up on gospel, who became a powerful voice for the US civil rights movement.
The Fifth Estate trailer: First look
Do we need another WikiLeaks film That is the question that the first trailer for
Crowds welcome Benny Tipene home
Palmerston North’s favourite rocker has wowed fans who packed out a popular venue to see The X Factor finalist.
Album review: Live At York St – Jed & Hera
LIVE AT YORK ST Jed & Hera (Fledge) Being big in Iceland must, on a global scale, be about the same as being big in Christchurch. Hera Hjartard
Boston mayor lashes out at Rolling Stone
Boston’s mayor has written an angry letter to Rolling Stone magazine slamming it for putting marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its cover, as some US stores refuse to stock the music rag.
Celebrity hells not like real world
OPINION: History will judge all things, including Pippa Middleton’s breathtakingly wonderful bottom Historians will wonder why the rear end of this woman, holding the wedding train of her sister, so energised the world when she was first seen on live TV that she has been fodder for women’s magazines and tabloids ever since. When snapped by the paparazzi, she’s been portrayed as revealing the gamut of human misery when in reality she was probably just thinking about lunch