Right now I’m recording the final songs for the second Teen Fortress album. This is my mic stand: I have a text file with a great plan in it to get it done and released by the 12th, but BBE comes first and I think we’re mixing next week so there’ll be more waiting.
Alright, I feel like I spend most of my days and nights ripping on bands and music for not being good enough which makes me feel like a NEGATIVE CREEP (some kind of ’90s reference in there to stay current. Still with me? Alright:) so here is some stuff that isn’t by Dove that I’m [...]
I’m sick of hearing New Zealanders sing like Americans and I’m sick of this song sitting around on my hardrive collecting corrupted sectors or whatever. This is my debut rap release. It’s called “Fuck Freddy’s Drop” and I’ve released it as Never. DOWNLOAD “FUCK FREDDY’S DROP” (RIGHT CLICK) DOWNLOAD A .ZIP FILE WITH THE IMAGE [...]
This is the release of the year, nothing can touch this. A art by A art You can figure out what A art is about, I mean, it only takes a listen. “Each Word” and “Bloome” are my favourite tracks. OK, I don’t like to define bands by other bands but if you haven’t clicked [...]
Click the image below for a ZIP file of the four songs I played at The Great Depression on the weekend. I recorded, mixed and mastered them today.
Last Saturday night at The Great Depression XXXX and XXXY hosted Futurnari’s last show in Christchurch before he skips to Melbourne. I started things off with the most down-beat performanceless charade of my life. My favourite part of my set was when I said “I had to balance how much I wanted to watch you [...]
Futurnari has released a Sega Megadrive (16-bit for the hip kids) EP entitled DNA Computing and it’s there <- for free. The piece (I like to pretend it’s one 9:55 song) builds in intensity and complexity, climaxing with this: If you don’t think it’s long enough try the repeat button on your media player. You’ll [...]
I wrote most of the TF stuff really fast like a song a day kind of thing. Ever hear about MGMT just singing sounds over their music and then writing the lyrics to the sounds? I sometimes do that kind of thing. I think it’s important to have some kind of melodic idea. I wrote [...]
Last night Dove and I played the first ever Teen Fortress show with Tommy Ill and 47 Diamantes. It was super sick, there were heaps of people and I had heaps of fun. This is my favourite photo from the night (Thanks, T’Nealle): You can see the rest in
Yo – 47 Diamantes have just released Still Friends and a video for Armageddon Ready (feat. Tommy Ill)! Go buy their album for anything (even nothing!). Here it is: Here is the video: Brian made this video. He is the bestest. Remember: 47 Diamantes and Tommy Ill with Teen Fortress support at Goodbye Blue Monday [...]