Beck: ‘Now I get to just do what I do. I can just be myself’

Henry Oliver talks to Beck about guitars, Bruno Mars, and his new album Colors. Last weekend, I left the early-afternoon heat of Auckland City Limits to meet Beck, a seemingly ageless musician who’s been musically mutating for over 25 years now. In person, Beck is small, slight and smiley. He talks in a deep, mid-paced … Read more

‘Far, I’m so nervous eh’: scenes a-plenty at the first ever MTV Unplugged NZ

In an attempt to reclaim their position atop the music industry, MTV are going back to basics and reincarnating their most iconic series. Don Rowe attends the first ever MTV Unplugged in New Zealand.  Back in a time when the M in MTV stood for music and not ‘mediocre reality shows for munters’, the channel was … Read more