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The Sampler: Best local albums of 2018
18 Dec 2018Nick Bollinger revisits some his favourite local sounds of 2018.
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The Sampler: Best of 2018 International
18 Dec 2018Nick Bollinger surveys some of the outstanding international sounds of the past 12 months.
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The Sampler: Best of 2018
18 Dec 2018In the final Sampler for 2018 Nick Bollinger revisits a few of the standout releases from the past 12 months.
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The Sampler: 11 December 2018
11 Dec 2018This week in The Sampler Nick Bollinger explores the music of sci-fi folkie Jane Weaver, the cosmic obsessions of Alabama outsider artist Lonnie Holley, and asseses the impact of new love, parenthood…
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The Sampler: Mith by Lonnie Holley
11 Dec 2018Nick Bollinger explores the space-fixated sounds of Alabama outsider artist Lonnie Holley.
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The Sampler: The Silver Globe by Jane Weaver
11 Dec 2018Nick Bollinger lends an ear to the science-fiction, folk and electronica of Jane Weaver.
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The Sampler: C'est la Vie by Phosphorescent
11 Dec 2018Nick Bollinger asseses the impact of new love, parenthood and a move to Nashville on the music of Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck.
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The Sampler: Dose Your Dreams by F'd Up
4 Dec 2018Elliott Childs reviews the new album from genre bending Canadian hardcore-punk band F'd Up
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The Sampler: Voyager by Yoko Zuna
4 Dec 2018Elliot Childs and Kirsten Johnstone discuss the dystopian second album from Auckland electro-hip-hop quartet Yoko-Zuna.
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The Sampler: I Need To Start A Garden by Haley Heynderickx
4 Dec 2018Kirsten Johnstone reviews I Need To Start A Garden, the debut album from Portland-based songwriter Haley Heynderickx, who investigates self-doubt, religious doubt and existentialism, but with a good…
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The Sampler: 27 November 2018
27 Nov 2018Nick Bollinger discusses a fiery collision between Chicago country stalwart Robbie Fulks and Louisiana piano pounder Linda Gail Lewis, a set of songs that consider the state of the union circa 1968…
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The Sampler: State of the Union
27 Nov 2018Nick Bollinger discusses an album that looks at the state of American Dream, circa 1968.
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Tyler Childers talks purgatory, pot and the POTUS
27 Nov 2018Kentucky singer-songwriter Tyler Childers tours here next year with John Prine. Nick Bollinger caught up with him in a Minneapolis carpark.
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The Sampler: Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis
27 Nov 2018Chicago country stalwart Robbie Fulks and Louisiana piano pounder Linda Gail Lewis team up for a rambunctious set of duets.
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The Sampler: The White Album Turns 50
20 Nov 2018The Beatles 'White Album' is 50 years old and there's a new 6-disc edition to mark the occasion. Nick Bollinger takes a deep dive.
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The Sampler: 13 November 2018
13 Nov 2018Nick Bollinger discusses the spine-tingling harmonies and modern-day field recordings of Mountain Man, and a revealing 6-disc document of the sessions that produced Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks.
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The Sampler : Magic Ship by Mountain Man
13 Nov 2018Nick Bollinger discusses the spine-tingling harmonies and modern-day field recordings of vocal trio Mountain Man.
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The Sampler : More Blood, More Tracks by Bob Dylan
13 Nov 2018Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks is one of the most celebrated albums in popular music. An exhaustive new 6-disc set lets us sit in on its construction.
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The Sampler: 6 November 2018
6 Nov 2018Nick Bollinger reviews a dance set from Julien Dyne; a companion album to a dodgy-soundingmelodrama from Connan Mockasin; and the familiar-yet-different sound of The Changing Same.
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The Sampler: Connan Mockasin
6 Nov 2018Connan Mockasin offers a companion album to his dodgy-sounding movie melodrama. Nick Bollinger has a listen.
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The Sampler: Creative Evolution by The Changing Same
6 Nov 2018Nick Bollinger finds something familiar and something different in the latest album from The Changing Same.
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The Sampler: Teal by Julien Dyne
6 Nov 2018Julien Dyne knows how to make the people dance, as Nick Bollinger discovers.
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The Sampler: 30 October 2018
30 Oct 2018Superturtle come from a place where it's always the early 80s; Darren Watson makes his home in the blues, and Neneh Cherry mixes slow jams and politics. Nick Bollinger listens.
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The Sampler: Student Flat Reunion by Superturtle
30 Oct 2018Auckland's Superturtle come from a place where it's always the early 80s. Nick Bollinger stops by for a listen.
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