The 20 best albums of 2013
By Nick Bollinger Jim Pinckney in Music
Issue 3839 2nd Dec 2013
Jim Pinckney and Nick Bollinger's picks range from Connan Mockasin to Kanye West – via, of course, Lorde.
By Nick Bollinger Jim Pinckney in Music
Issue 3839 2nd Dec 2013
Jim Pinckney and Nick Bollinger's picks range from Connan Mockasin to Kanye West – via, of course, Lorde.
By Nick Bollinger in Music
Issue 3835 31st Oct 2013
Janelle Monae stands out against the stereotypes of current black pop.
By Nick Bollinger in Music
Issue 3382 Listener Plus 8th Oct 2013
Lorde’s songs portray a persona immune to the prescriptions of parents, media or – for that matter – pop.
By Nick Bollinger in Music
Issue 3830 26th Sep 2013
After almost 40 years, New Zealanders, who know Television only from their three pristine records, finally get the chance to see the New York visionaries live.
By Nick Bollinger in Music
Issue 3829 19th Sep 2013
Free of histrionics in an age of oversouling divas, Ladi6 is her own woman.
By Nick Bollinger in Music
Issue 3826 29th Aug 2013
“Nobody” Willis Earl Beal has made an album as giddy with possibilities as it is fraught with pain and rejection.
By Nick Bollinger in Music
Issue 3823 8th Aug 2013
You don’t have to be in Dunedin to be true to the Dunedin sound.
By Nick Bollinger in Music
Issue 3820 18th Jul 2013
The former Brunette is solo in more than the musical sense.
By Nick Bollinger in From Our Archive
Issue 2880 8th Jul 2013
Remembering the life of the late, great Bruno Lawrence: musician, actor, anarchic icon.
By Nick Bollinger in Music
Issue 3817 27th Jun 2013
An album for your inner 13-year-old.