Podcasts about The Mint Chicks

This week's show was exclusively 100% New Zealand music in celebration of NZ Music Month. From Troy Kingi to the Mint Chicks and everything in between, Sam has you covered.   

1. Wet Willie 2. Warren Zevon 3. Matt Joe Gow And Kerryn Fields 4. Son Volt 5. Nancy Sinatra And Lee /Hazelwood 6. Pearl Jam 7. Coldplay 8. Vika And Linda 9. Straitjacket Fits 10. Lonnie Donegan 11. Chris Isaak 12. Mint Chicks 13. Neil Young 14. Jimi Hendrix 15. Devilskin 16. Primal Scream

Unknown Mortal Orchestra are coming home to New Zealand to play in February, Ruban from the band called up to talk Jimi Hendrix, reggae and whether there'll be a Mint Chicks reunion when he's back in Auckland. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this thrilling episode our heroes dive into the vocoded world of Mint Chicks, a band that soundtracked Stefan's golden youthful year. He walks us through his fondness for a vocoder, whilst Jake analyses the validity of using the same surf rock beat and riff in each song. Of course along the way the guys throw in their trademark, off the wall and “esoteric” humour and head off on wild tangents. Head over to www.asoundpurchase.com/shop to see our range of merchandise, we want to keep both the regular pod and bonus pods free of cost, and you can help that to continue by purchasing some of the mugs, hoodies or shirts we have on offer.Your support of this podcast is hugely appreciated, you have been vital to the sanity of our heroic podcast hosts. You can continue to show your support when you like us, review us, share us, and subscribe to us. Whilst you are at it, why don't you get a little something for yourself by becoming a ‘friend of the show'; you will gain instant access to exclusive bonus podcast episodes (like the famous full length interview with Miguelito from the Cuban Brothers), blog posts, and you can visit the hall of ‘top 10s'. We are also rolling out a monthly watch party that explores the entire filmography of the great Austrian Oak, Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger. It won't cost you a penny to sign up, yet you gain so much! Sign up now at www.asoundpurchase.com/fots

"Unknown Mortal Orchestra" is the musical project from singer, guitarist and songwriter Ruban Nielson.Ruban was born in Darwin Australia, but moved to New Zealand when he was a child. His first artistic inclinations were towards illustration, being influenced by comic books ranging from Spiderman to Spawn. Despite having parents that were heavily into music, it wasn't until Ruban turned 19 that he finally decided to learn the guitar. He formed a band with his brother called "The Mint Chicks" and eventually went on tour, supporting well known artists, such as The White Stripes.It would be a decade later, after moving with his family to Portland Oregon, that Ruban would eventually create the "Unknown Mortal Orchestra" moniker. A project spawned from working away in his basement home recording studio, and leading to a surprising turn of events that would land him a record deal.This is a fascinating story, and probably one of our longest episodes so far. We hope you enjoy the conversation."Roots to Grooves" is a production of SIGNL.https://www.signlradio.comhttps://www.instagram.com/signlradiohttps://www.twitter.com/signlradiohttps://www.facebook.com/signlradiohttps://www.mixcloud.com/signlhttps://open.spotify.com/user/96mhz6qfjoztxbl2dpm0uj903?si=aAZpsoEnRAKdx85kr1QWhg

From five weeks of all Australian music into a monster bash from across the ditch! Stoked to have mates Ciarann Babbington & Jamie Gordon from the New Zealand born, now Melbourne living, Bakers Eddy on the show to chat two albums very close to their heart and home ~ Shihad 'The General Electric' vs. The Mint Chicks 'Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!'. We talk about their early meetings with the bands, their upcoming debut album, and even a bit of wrestling. Enjoy!Listen to Bakers Eddy here - https://spoti.fi/3DoYyhwFollow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/recordroyale/Buy one of our Tote Bags here: https://www.recordroyale.com.au/shop Follow us on the socials:Will - https://www.instagram.com/willstclaire/Brad - https://www.instagram.com/bradbradnotgood_/Adam - https://www.instagram.com/adamlindsay__/https://www.recordroyale.com.au/

This week, Sam and Geneva take a look at Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! the second studio album from the Mint Chicks. Released in 2006, this album became an indie classic and introduced the Mint Chicks to the mainstream.  Tracks played - Welcome to Nowhere  - You're Just as Confused as I Am - Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!

These sets at Prima Roastery really are a place where rock and electronic collide! This show features tunes from Nirvana, Brian Jonestown Massace, David Bowie, The Mint Chicks, Jimi Hendrix, The The, Human League, The Flying Lizards, The Orb, Orbital, Opus III, Lionrock, Chemical Brothers and oh so much more.Many thanks to Prima Roastery and Earthlove for the good vibes! ★ Support this podcast ★

It's another Perfect Pop Week! Elizabeth Stokes and Jonathan Pearce of the Beths make their picks. Liz goes with a classic from Crowded House, and Jonathan tells us about a "batsh*t crazy" song from the Mint Chicks. Episode editor: Samantha Reed Become a Rockin' the Suburbs patron - support the show and get bonus content - at Patreon.com/suburbspod (http://patreon.com/suburbspod) Subscribe to Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Play, SoundCloud, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com (http://suburbspod.com/) . Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes and share it with your friends. Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com (http://suburbspod.com/) Email Jim & Patrick at rock@suburbspod.com Follow us on the Twitter, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984. Theme music by Quartjar. Visit quartjar42.com (http://quartjar42.com/) (c) Artie S. Industries LLC

The ’15 Years A Podcaster: Music Edition’ episode featuring the music of Saul Williams, Bloom, Kaiser Chiefs, The Heatseekers, The Mint Chicks, Crown City Rockers, Gnappy, The Shapeshifters, No Luck Club, Tegan & Sara, Decibully, The Turbo AC’s, Electric Eel Shock, The WPP, John Doe with Neko Case, Daniel Johnston, Devil In A Woodpile, Kings […]

Featuring some great music from ACDC, The Mint Chicks, Porno for Pyros, Cream, Puscifer and more

NZ Music Month Kiwi LP In Retrospect: The Mint Chicks - 'Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!' by Jamie Green on Radio One 91fm Dunedin

NZ Music Month Kiwi LP In Retrospect: The Mint Chicks - 'Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!' by Jamie Green on Radio One 91fm Dunedin

There is this moment in Beethoven’s 6th Symphony that just gets me.The strings cross down and up. The trumpets move in response, the horns sit and pedal, the woodwind goes high, and ten minutes of tension and pacing blooms into this magnificent passage.Duhhh duh duh duuuh, daaah dah dah duuuuh.I’m not doing Ludwig justice. But if you listen to the Ken Nagano and Montreal Symphony Orchestra recording, you can even fast forward to 10 minutes 32 if you want to be cheeky and enjoy the glory of that passage without all the build-up.  I know this because my Spotify tells me I’ve listened to nothing but Beethoven’s 6th symphony for about the last month.As you’re probably aware, music streaming services are the way most people my age listen to music these days. It’s just so easy. You can access any artist you want, any recording you want, without the need to fiddle around with a CD or a disk, or dare I mention it a vinyl record and a needle.Sure, the digital age might suck the romance out of playing your favourite album. There’s no tactile connection. No sleeve to read. No shelves of music for your friends to peruse. But for me, it’s a small cost for the freedom to explore the entire planet of music for 10 bucks a month.I have friends who leave it all to the algorithm. Spotify works out what they like, and compiles playlists of music that it figures will excite them or challenge them, or entertain them in some way. Imagine all the artists who might never be discovered otherwise. But if I’m totally honest, I don’t do that. I have this weird thing where I get one song in my head and I can’t play anything else for weeks on end. Am I a music snob? Not at all. For some reason, I’ve been kind of obsessed over the last few weeks with Romantic era classical composers. But before that I was thrashing System of a Down, the Armenian-American heavy metal band who write political songs about drug policy and Iraq. Before that it was the Mint Chicks, Crazy Yes Dumb No? Before that… a Spanish pop artist called Rosalia. Before that, Jamie XX, Rebel Rebel by Bowie. For some reason I play these songs many hundreds of times. I put Spotify on repeat. The tracks buzz through me before I go to sleep, as soon as I wake up. They’re the theme music to my day.Duhhh duh duh duuuh, daaah dah dah duuuuh.And as it turns out, I’m not the only one. Psychologists have recently studied why we listen to music on repeat. Obviously human beings are wired to appreciate familiarity. Radio stations have always known that. The Kiwi DJ Zane Lowe would even play songs twice in a row on air, sometimes. And be honest… when you go to see your favourite band in concert, would you rather they played their greatest hits, or their new experimental music?What’s interesting about the study though, is just how extreme we can be with our favourites. Even in this digital age, where you can choose from almost every piece of music on earth, 60 percent of the study participants admitted that if they really like a song at any one moment, they’ll listen to it at least 4 times on repeat.It follows something called the Wundt curve. It’s a bell curve. So the more you enjoy a song, the more you listen to it, the more you enjoy it, the more you listen to it, until you reach peak saturation,Duh duh duh duuuuuh duh duh duuuuh duh duh.And just as quickly as you become obsessed, you drop it.You move on from Ludwig van to Frank Ocean, and then Muse. The best three piece alternative rockers on Earth. Oh how Matt Bellamy’s falsetto sores, lingers, and haunts. Play it again! Play it again.Honestly it wouldn’t surprise me if after this month, I don’t listen to Beethoven’s 6th symphony for a decade.

Ruben from the UMO sits down for a coffee and a chat with Radd. Recorded live at the Ace Hotel, Shoreditch, London.

In this episode, we talk to John Buckley, a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Michigan. John is a member of the lecturer’s union at U of M, the Lecturers’ Employee Organization (LEO), and was on the bargaining team throughout the effort to negotiate a better contract with the University in 2017/18. We talk about the precarious situation of so many academic workers and what it tells us about the state of higher education today. We also talk about John’s family history and about growing up in Michigan always feeling, as he puts it, “on the bubble.” We talk about our religious upbringings and we talk about being a theater geek and almost joining the military. We also talk about the winding road that took him to the West coast, teaching in different kinds of schools and programs, and that eventually led him back to his alma mater in Michigan.   Additional links/info below... University of Michigan Lecturers’ Union website  Phil Christman, Inside Higher Ed, “A Season of Strikes”   Heather Ann Thompson, Detroit Free Press, “A Sad State of Affairs for Lecturers at the University of Michigan”   Grace Kay, Michigan Daily, “LEO Members Ratify New Contract after Months of Bargaining”     Working People goes to Harvard…  Sound Education conference website (https://www.soundeducation.fm/)  Ministry of Ideas podcast (https://www.ministryofideas.org/)    Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" The Prefab Messiahs, “College Radio”  Snake Oil Salesmen, “Sierra Nevada Torpedo”  The Mint Chicks, “Life Will Get Better Someday” 

Kane Strang on "Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!" by The Mint Chicks.

We would not be here without the help of Oliver Devlin, he recorded our first season and has always been happy to help with any recording or audio editing problems. So when the fundraiser show for Jean Sergent came along he was the first person on our list to ask.  Hear Oliver Devlin talk about his love of the seminal New Zealand band The Mint Chicks, one of the first bands he ever saw live and who have left a long lasting impression.

In 2000, Tunde Adebimpe and Dave Sitek formed TV on the Radio, one of the most creative, inspired and influential bands of their era. Fifteen years, five albums and a whole lot of ups and downs later, they've still managed to preserve that energy and vision.  Which is pretty remarkable.   Unknown Mortal Orchestra's Ruban Nielson has also sustained a very long creative streak.  He'd played guitar in a hard-edged New Zealand post-hardcore band called the Mint Chicks, and when that ended, he found himself in Portland, Oregon, around 2010.  He began messing around with music again — making highly wrought, idiosyncratic basement recordings with an odd psychedelic feel.  This new project — Unknown Mortal Orchestra — got a record deal, and Nielson began touring and gathering crowds and critical praise.  The UMO sound has broadened and morphed over the course of three albums, right through this year's release, the acclaimed and addictively strange Multi-Love.   In retrospect, it's no surprise that Adebimpe and Nielson are huge fans of each other's music — they have a similar creative spirit — and they have lots of other things in common too, as you're about to hear.  But, aside from the Mint Chicks opening for TV on the Radio many years ago, they'd never really met.  What a great excuse to put them together and see what they talk about.  And the answer is: a whole lot of very interesting things, like, when you write a song that comes from a deep emotional place, how do you find it in yourself to sing that song on stage, night after night — and sometimes for year after year?  Where does inspiration come from?  What does success do to creativity?   And there's a lot more where that came from.  Give a listen.  

The last Musical Dynasty features some of New Zealand's top musical talent in the form of the Nielson family. Dad Chris has played horns with an array of acts, as well as jazz groups, including The New Fuse Box. Brothers Ruban and Kody co-founded seminal experimental punk band The Mint Chicks. Kody has gone on to work as a producer, and released records under his own name and as Opossum. Portland, Oregon based Ruban has had a lot of success in America, in his hard touring band Unknown Mortal Orchestra.

The Mint Chicks are an astounding band - over their eight years of existence they have been indie darlings, reached the finalists of the countries top song writing awards, and won a slew of Tuis. All the while they've been incredibly innovative and not afraid to try new things or turn expectations on their head. The Mint Chicks often have more ideas in one song than some bands do in an album.Download the Counting The Beat - Troublegum podcast

I was pleased to hear that Flying Nun founder Roger Shepherd has recently bought back the label from Warners Music who acquired it in 2005 from Festival Mushroom who Shepherd originally sold it to in 1999. Under Warners the label has languished. There have been a handful of new bands released under the label such as the Mint Chicks and a pretty impressive 5 CD boxset but the rich back catalogue has been largely ignored.I'm hopeful that with Shepherd back at the helm some of the great music recorded and released, often in pretty short runs, will again see the light of day so I put my mind to some of the Flying Nun releases, long unavailable, that I'd like to see re-releasedDownload the Counting The Beat - Nun Flies Home podcast

Hardly hot on the heels of our last effort, the very latest Session is ready for consumption below friends - best listened to when you're consuming your favourite beverage... (we recommend beer) Both Dodge and Shifty have had a hell a last few weeks and obviously have a lot to catch up on in this ever badly recorded obscure podcast where (between gulps of cold lovely beer) the guys discuss the following matters of upmost importance: Are all women in New Zealand wanton sluts? Obviously this has been a burning question ever since our first session - we deal with it once and for all:) We hear about the police questioning an entire town in the North Island about some missing war medals The recent result in the Aussie Elections also gets a wee mention - And finally Dodge manages to turn it all around and force Shifty into a discussion on the environment:) Wouldn't be a proper session otherwise right? Some links to the stuff we mentioned: That blog about the English family who we failed to catch up with can be found here: http://www.onewaynewzealand.com/And not forgetting our very good friends over at Kilos of Craic http://kilosofcraic.com/Check em out!Intro this time comes from Spoon (Me and the Bean) and Kiwi band of the month The Mint Chicks with Crazy Yes! Dumb No! (From album of the same name) Click below to start listening -Or right click on the link and select 'Save Target As' which will allow you to save the mp3 file to your machine......or subscribe through itunesDOWNLOAD PUBCAST SESSION 28talkback to nzpubcast@gmail.com