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Our Favourite Artists Of The Decade: Die! Die! Die!
We continue our ongoing/never-ending 'special' series on our favourite artists of the past 10 years, with a polite head nod in the direction of the New Zealand wild punks - and probably the world's best live act - Die! Die! Die!
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Die! Die! Die!, DZ, The Mint Chicks, Tucker B's
Wedding Messages For Jonny
As some of you would already know, I got married about a month ago. Chief Editor and head of our Euro Department Mike Punch was the best man and, in an attempt to foil our strict 'no presents' policy, he organised a bunch of my favourite musicians to record special little wedding messages. The results are fairly spine-tinglingly lovely.
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Homebake via Twitter
Update (12:41): some more of the band's playing later today have now woken up and started updating.
Die! Die! Die! (and a few others) have been added to this year's Homebake line-up.
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Things we are looking forward to in 2009
World peace. An end to the world financial crisis. New Tucker Bs album.
The Guardian has given Die! Die! Die!'s Promises Promises a very nice little write-up. Yeah, bow down at their alter Bloc Party - you silly twats!
Articles
The biggest disappointments of 2008
Obama didn't pick Lil Wayne as his running mate, the total lack of new albums by Courtney Love and Ini Kamoze didn't beat down Girl Talk for not clearing his sample of Here Comes The Hotstepper.
Gig Reviews
Homebake @ The Domain
06/12/2008
Sun. Beer. Gin. Southern cross tattoos. Beer. Flying techno-heads. Brisbane grunge. Aging rockers.
Podcast
Episode 50
Homebake 2008
A whole bunch of songs by artists who are playing at this Saturday's Homebake festival.
Featuring: Homebake, You Am I, Tim Rogers, The Holidays, Headless Chickens, The E.L.F., Richard In Your Mind, Children Collide, Pnau, Bluejuice, Drapht, British India, Violent Soho, Die! Die! Die!, Gotye, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!, Mercy Arms, Karnivool
Gig Reviews
Die! Die! Die! + The Ripping Dylans + Ohana @ Spectrum
28/11/08
I was so pumped up after this show I needed to drink a bucket of liquor to bring me back down to earth. True story.
Articles
Our favourite Australian/New Zealand artists of 2008
Artists that touched us. Artists we touched. A big list of people we think you should try and touch sometime.
News
Die! Die! Die!, Violent Soho and Mercy Arms added to Homebake line-up
Homebake gets good? Hmm.. maybe just 'less shit'.
Die! Die! Die! have started work on the follow-up to their incredible 2007 Promises Promises album. The band are working on the new material at a rehearsal space in Newcastle, England, with the record expected to be released sometime early next year. We have also been informed that the band will be heading back to Australia in late November for a short tour.
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Super8 Diaries Sydney launch
A fantastic video project, capturing the true spirit of the local DIY scene, is having it's Sydney launch on June 8.
Gig Reviews
Die! Die! Die! + Talons + The Ripping Dylans @ Oxford Art Factory
19/04/2008
Drunk, sweaty, punk rock fun.
News
Die! Die! Die! are going to play some shows in Australia during April
Before they do this however they are going to do a quick lap around the world and visit SXSW, Brooklyn and Brighton.
Gig Reviews
Die! Die! Die! + The Scare + Disbelievers @ Oxford Art Factory
28/12/2007
A true story about how I went saw one of my favourite bands in the world play with two other bands.
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Our Favourite Albums of 2007
Just minutes before the year clocks out, gets embarrassingly drunk and makes out with their cousin we have a little list of the music we have enjoyed the most from 2007.
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2007 - A Mixtape
We have packaged together our favourite songs from the past twelve months as our gift to you for visiting our site this year. Enjoy!
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Die! Die! Die! end of year shows
The Dunedin trio are heading back to our shores for two shows before the year ends.
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Big Day Out second announcement
A handful of awesome acts have been added to the festival line-up, along with a whole bunch of ordinary ones.
Record Reviews
Die! Die! Die!
Promises Promises
Album of the year. Those four words are probably the most troublesome of all the holy phrases that can be uttered on 'the internet'. It's also something which, although not safe to utter anytime before August, seems fitting around this time of the year when web boffins are starting to make all sorts of 'best of' lists and clogging up the internet with their feelings towards the music that the year has offered.
News
Behind the scenes at the Die! Die! Die! video shoot, controversial title for Nas' upcoming album, new Saul Williams track etc etc.
That title is longer than the actual news item.
Gig Reviews
Die! Die! Die! + The Ripping Dylans @ Candy's Apartment
25/10/2007
Performing a set comprising almost 100% of songs from their new album Promises, Promises the New Zealand trio delivered a highly impressive show.
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Tonight! The Mint Chicks vs Die! Die! Die!
A battle royale is happening tonight with two of New Zealand's finest playing shows in Sydney.
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Australian release date for new Die! Die! Die! album pushed back
Promises, Promises was scheduled to be released here next month but now won't be in stores until February next year.
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Die! Die! Die! new album details
The new album is called Promises, Promises and will be released on October 8 in New Zealand and locally in November.
Record Reviews
Die! Die! Die! / High Dependency Unit
Split 7 Inch
As much as I love Die! Die! Die! and their frantic, chaotic approach to music making, it often seems all a little bit rushed. Although this is a key part of the group's charm (their debut album was only 22 minutes long) I have often pondered whether or not the lengthening of their songs, as they often do as part of their live shows, would add a whole new dimension to their music.
Gig Reviews
Die! Die! Die! + Fait Accompli + Talons @ Spectrum
02/02/2007
I am not 18 anymore and super late nights when I get home as dawn is cracking is well and truly behind me. This said, as I have confessed countless numbers of times in the walls of this literary playground, if Die! Die! Die! are playing within a 50km radius of my home then I am liable to do things that I would normally pass over as stupid and/or file under "not a great idea".
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MTV's The Lair or 'a chance to see Die! Die! Die! and Dappled Cities Fly play in the same room on the same night'
So, as the powers that be would have it, I ended up at the Metro Theatre last night for a filming off MTV"s new [hip, rad, eh..] television show The Lair. I had been told by birds and flowers and execs that Die! Die! Die! were going to be playing and it would a cold day in a town called Helltown before I turned down a chance to see them, especially in front of a room full odf collars-up MTV wanksters. It"s no secret that I heart the shit out of the New Zealand punking trio so whenever they even sneeze in Sydney I have someone emailing me to tell me all about it. It"s kinda nice.
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Our Favourite Albums of 2006
Ok, so in the past week or so we have been reading a lot about the 1000 greatest albums of the year and top 50 best singles that start with the letter 'H' etc etc.
Record Reviews
Die! Die! Die!
Locust Weeks
New Zealand neo-punksters, Die! Die! Die!, have mastered the art of leaving their audience craving more from everything they do. This EP, with a mere 4 tracks and clocking in at under 10 minutes is no different.
Gig Reviews
Die! Die! Die! + Children Collide + The Golden Age @ Spectrum
09/12/2006
The We HEART NZ weekend festivities came to a climax last night as Die! Die! Die! threw down a havoc wreaking show on Oxford St and brought, as they call it in the land of the long white cloud, "The Thunder".
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No regrets. No no none at all.
In fact you can only just see the weekend from Wednesday, it's waving and jumping up and although you can't make out the facial expression, you know that it's smiling like a drunken idiot.
