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Mac McCaughan’s Kissa Playlist from New Zealand

July 14, 2015 by rockfishstew

 

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Mac at the turntables. Video from Big, Bent Ears on the back wall.

Last Thursday night July 9 at CAM Raleigh‘s underground Big, Bent Ears kissa, a collaboration with Rock Fish Stew, Mac McCaughan, the musician (Superchunk) and record label co-owner (Merge Records), spun a two-hour set of vinyl tracks by bands from New Zealand.

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Where else in America could you have heard these tunes last week?

  • Dead C – Driver UFO
  • Skeptics – Never Tire of Looking At the Stars
  • This Kind of Punishment – out of my hands
  • the Great unwashed – Duane eddy
  • Toy Love – Swimming Pool
  • the Verlaines – Death and the Maiden
  • Garbage and Flowers – catnip
  • Goblin mix – the winter song
  • The Chills – Rolling Moon
  • The Strange Loves – Turn Your Light On
  • Sneaky Feelings – Better Than Before
  • Chris Knox – Not Given Lightly 12″ Mix
  • David Kilgour – Shivering
  • Alastair Galbraith – As In A Blender
  • Alpaca Brothers – The Lie
  • Bailter Space – Glass
  • Renderers – A Million Lights
  • Look Blue Go Purple -Safety In Crosswords
  • The Bats – Made Up In Blue
  • Bill Direen & the Bilders – Gin Trap
  • Able Tasmans – Hold Me
  • The Clean – Getting Older
  • Straitjacket Fits – So Long Marianne
  • Jono Lonie + Peter Jefferies – Tarantella
  • Snapper – Dark Sensation
  • 3ds – Beautiful Things 7″ version
  • Tall Dwarfs – Nothing’s Gonna Happen
  • Alf Danielson – Mary Had a Steamboat
  • Birds Nest Roys – Batcave
  • The Cake Kitchen – Silence of the Sirens
  • The Chills – Heavenly Pop Hit
  • Dead C – Love Is Now Hell

Photographs from the evening by RFS’s graphic design consultant, Natalie F. Smith.

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A glance at the Big, Bent Ears installation, featuring videos on perpendicular walls.

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