Hard News by Russell Brown

Further viewing: a good George FM profile of Jess B from a couple of weeks back.

Also: a public screening in Auckland of Simon Ogston's Bill Direen: A Memory of Others on Saturday August 5.

And The Builders play Golden Dawn the night before.

Ahhh loving some new Ladi 6....

New Ladi 6 is fab!

A shout out for some more new music released today - Oyawa (from Waiheke Island) have just released their album "I don't recall ordering ordinary".
The band features 2 ex members of 90's Wellington band Short
iTunes
https://itun.es/nz/eharkb

Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/4WkDOYWnI5AmATnCY9CnDW

And there's a release gig in Wellington tonight at San Fran... with Bachelor of Architecture, and Kosmo O in support
http://sanfran.co.nz/gigs

Blair Strang the actor from Shorty St?

ASMR: I get that. never knew other people did.
Off to the internets...

Lorde does give me ASMR. And so does a whole lot of my favourite music.

It seems to be rugby and music week.

Grant Gillanders at AudioCulture:
http://www.audioculture.co.nz/scenes/on-the-ball-new-zealand-rugby-songs-part-one
http://www.audioculture.co.nz/scenes/paint-it-black-new-zealand-rugby-songs-part-two

Blair Strang the actor from Shorty St?

Ha ha, no! Kane Strang. Thanks for the heads-up. I clearly had Blair on the brain.

Lorde does give me ASMR. And so does a whole lot of my favourite music.

Like I said, I'm not quite clear on the relationship between ASMR and spine-angling music, but she seems to do both.

Jess B was great at the KA last week...

My god that noodle bag video. And 900,000 people have watched it. Or 900 people have watched it a thousand times more like.

My god that noodle bag video.

I swear I've sat in front of that woman at the movies...

There was a "Would I lie to you" - "This is my" segment that was quite interesting.

ASMR! Lorde does it for me too. And Queens of the Stone Age, LCD Soundsystem... I never knew it was a thing!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/apps/94160128/music-streaming-service-pandora-shuts-down-in-new-zealand
NZ and Oz to lose Pandora - so no hope left in the box then...