Mac McCaughan’s Kissa Playlist from New Zealand

 

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.

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.