WOMAD 2010

WOMAD returns to Taranaki from 12-14 March 2010 for an exhilarating weekend of rhythms, sights and sounds in the lush surroundings of Brooklands Park & TSB Bowl in New Plymouth. Get ready for a whirlwind trip around the world and discover performances from so many artists - but if you can't make it - tune in to Weekday Breakfasts as we feature WOMAD 2010.� ...

Goran Bregovic

Goran Bregovi� is a Bosnian-born, self-declared Yugoslav musician and one of the most internationally known modern composers of the Balkans. He currently lives in Belgrade, Serbia, where he settled down after the Yugoslav Wars.� Bregovi� has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Ces�ria �vora. He rose to fame playing guitar with his rock band Bijelo dugme, but ...

Avett Brothers

The Avett Brothers combine bluegrass, country, punk, pop melodies, folk, rock and roll, honky tonk, and ragtime to produce a sound described by the San Francisco Chronicle as having the "heavy sadness of Townes Van Zandt, the light pop concision of Buddy Holly, the tuneful jangle of the Beatles, the raw energy of the Ramones."The band is made up of two ...

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Rodrigo S�nchez, lead guitar, and Gabriela Quintero, rhythm guitar, met in Mexico City while playing in a thrash metal band called "Tierra �cida".

Turning to flamenco they gained a reputation by playing in the pubs and bars of Dublin, and despite their unusual style, gained a cult following. Recent visitors to New Zealand, Rodrigo y Gabriela's new release "11:11" ...

BB King

This week we look back to 2005, and feature B.B. King & Friends' album� "80".� The title refers to B.B. King's 80th birthday occurring in 2005, and the album features duets with Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Sheryl Crow, The Eagles’ Glen Frey, The Who’s Roger Daltrey, Elton John and many more.

Also new this week - a big swag of great new Kiwi material ...

Eric Hutchinson

Eric Hutchinson has been widely acclaimed for his prowess as a pianist, songwriter, and performer. He has been called "one of the most talented singer-songwriters that Boston has to offer," with comparisons to Jason Mraz, Stevie Wonder, Ben Folds, Cat Stevens, Billy Joel, Squeeze, Neil Finn, and even The Beatles. We feature his recent debut ...

Salsa Around The World

Over the years, Latin music has become part of the fabric of mainstream music, its influences turning up in jazz, rock and pop. As this week's Feature Album demonstrates, it has infiltrated the world’s music as well. On Putumayo's Salsa Around the World one can hear salsa-influenced music sung in Greek, Arabic, Hindi, Papiamento,Wolof, Douala, and ...

Monsters of Folk

Monsters of Folk is an American supergroup, consisting of Jim James from My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes and solo artist M. Ward. The band was formed in 2004 when the members were on tour with their respective bands and solo projects. RollingStone.com said "Monsters of Folk are already being called this generation's ...

Bloodshot

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This week we feature the label Bloodshot Records - taking tracks from their current lineup of indie rock and alt- country bands and artists. Bloodshot Records is an independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois which specializes in roots-inflected indie rock, and a Chicago brand of outlaw country.� Among the label mates we're checking out are ...

Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are is a 2009 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Spike Jonze and adapted from Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book of the same name. Spike Jonze's ex-girlfriend Karen O, the vocalist of the New York art rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, wrote the film's soundtrack which is our Feature Album of the Week.� Karen O's ...

Away We Go OST

Away We Go is a 2009 comedy-drama directed by Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes and written by the husband-and-wife team of Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida. The soundtrack features ten tracks by Alexi Murdoch - British singer/songwriter heavily influenced by English folk musicians - notably the late John Martyn. Murdoch's music has featured in many ...

Christmas in the Heart

This week we usher in the Festive Season with a bunch of truly wondrous music from around the planet - featuring tracks from Cuba LA to Johnny Cash, Ensemble Choral Du Bout Du Monde to Teenage Fanclub, Rufus Wainwright to the Willard Grant Conspiracy.�

We've picked something interesting to feature too - � Christmas in ...

Grant-Lee Phillips

Grant-Lee Phillips is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known for his versatile voice, intense lyrical narratives and dexterity on the acoustic twelve-string guitar, a style that often sees him compared to Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. On October 13th, 2009, Grant released his latest album of new material titled " Little Moon", ...

Lonely Hearts Dub Band

Following the widespread critical and commercial success of 2003’s Dub Side of the Moon and 2006’s Radiodread, Easy Star Records announces the Easy Star All-Stars’ complete reggae re-imagining of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band.��Of the decision ...

Flight of the Conchords

I Told You I Was Freaky is the brand new second studio album by Flight of the Conchords. Made up of tracks from the latest series, I Told You I Was Freaky showcases the Conchords' finely crafted parody skills with tracks such as Fashion is Danger, Sugalumps, and the razor-sharp Hurt Feelings.....

"Some people say that ...

Oh Happy Day!

"Some of secular music's top acts -- among them Queen Latifah, Jon Bon Jovi, Joss Stone and 3 Doors Down -- take a walk on the spiritual side for Oh Happy Day: An All-Star Music Celebration."

Featuring tracks from Clapton's Blind Faith, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Bob Marley and Sam Cooke, Oh Happy Day is a fresh ...

the Pretenders

This week we feature the 9th studio album by the Pretenders - Break Up the Concrete.� Fronted by the irrepressible Chrissie Hynde, the group has had a long and significant career. From their early days to the big hits ["Brass in Pocket"], the Pretenders have consistenly produced fresh and vital rock music. We feature them this week, along with a ...

Elvis is Back

Secret, Profane & Sugarcane is the 2009 studio album by Elvis Costello. It was recorded in Nashville with American songwriter and producer T Bone Burnett,�and released on June 9th 2009 on the Hear Music label. The album features bluegrass, Americana and country music along with Costello's familiar garrulous lyrics. Uncut magazine ...

Gin Wigmore's Holy Smoke

Holy Smoke is Gin Wigmore’s debut full length album, recorded with The Cardinals of Ryan Adams & the Cardinals fame. The first single from the album, "Oh My", debuted on the New Zealand Singles Chart at number twenty-one, moving to number seven the following week. This week her star is shining a whole lot brighter as Gin’s debut ...

Tim O'Brien

Hailing originally from Wheeling, West Virginia, Tim O'Brien is one of the most respected bluegrass musicians and song writers performing around the world today. As well as having "one of the most fluid and recognizable voices in Bluegrass", O'Brien is also a virtuoso player on the Mandolin, Guitar, Fiddle, Banjo and Bazouki. His songs have been recorded by the ...

The Felice Brothers

The Felice Brothers are a folk rock/country rock band formed in 2006 in Upstate New York .They sing songs about love, murder and drinking - and they're putting the outlaw spirit back into country music. Check out their album Tonight at the Arizona, along with classics from The B52s and the Small Faces, Neil Young's latest album ...

7 Worlds Collide

7 Worlds Collide is a musical project by New Zealand singer/songwriter, Neil Finn. The project brings together Finn and other musicians in support of Oxfam. The project's second release, which we feature all this week, is titled The Sun Came Out. The album was recorded in Finn's Roundhead Studios and featured all-new material, with singing and ...

Revolver !

The entire Beatles catalogue has just been re-released in sympathetically and lovingly digitally remastered form. We mark the occasion by featuring the critics’ choice of the Beatles back catalogue�- Revolver. Revolver is the seventh album by The Beatles, released in August 1966. Many of the tracks on Revolver are marked by an electric guitar-rock sound, ...

Louisiana Gumbo!

This week we feature one of the latest releases from our friends at World Music label Putumayo Records - Louisiana Gumbo. This collection is called Louisiana Gumbo because this Creole stew is a perfect metaphor for the blend of musical elements found in the music of Louisiana - the primary ingredient in this southern casserole is the blues, ...

Robert Cray Band

This week we feature multiple Grammy Award winner Robert Cray, and the Robert Cray Band's brand new album This Time .� Cray rose through the Blues scene in the 80s, having by the age of twenty seen his heroes Albert Collins, Freddie King and Muddy Waters in concert and decided to form his own band. More recently he has appeared with many big names ...

Camera Obscura

Camera Obscura are an indie pop band from Glasgow, Scotland. They began as� a lo-fi indie-pop band with heads full of classic pop radio. Over time, they have shifted their emphasis toward crafting classic-sounding songs in various Western pop idioms. We're featuring their brand new release My Maudlin Career -� you'll hear traces of 1950s beach music ...

Tahuna Breaks

In the two years since the release of their acclaimed debut Reflections, Tahuna Breaks has been criss-crossing the country, writing and recording. They celebrate their new album's release with yet another national tour!� This week we feature their new LP - Black, Brown and White - tune in all week for your taste, along with new tracks from Dimmer, ...

Ben Harper

White Lies for Dark Times is the brand new album by Ben Harper and Relentless7.� It was released on May 5, 2009 and is Harper's first album with the Texas-based backing band Relentless7, who have certainly woken Harper from his previous laid-back style of blues/soul. White Lies for Dark Times is a riff-laden Blues workout that will ...

Wilco by Wilco

Wilco was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo. Their music has been inspired by a wide variety of artists and styles, and has in turn influenced music by a number of modern alternative rock acts. The band continued in the alternative country of Uncle Tupelo on its debut album A.M. (1995), but has since introduced more ...

The Bads "So Alive"

Evading all kiwi music stereotypes to present a wonderfully realised and beautifully crafted arrangement of alt-country ballads, The Bads are set to breathe a breath of fresh air into the NZ music scene.� This week we feature their brand new album So Alive, along with other new Kiwi material from Minuit, James Duncan, Liam Finn and Eliza Jane, Pitch ...

God Help the Girl

God Help the Girl is a� film due to be shot in 2010, written by Stuart Murdoch, frontman of Scottish indie pop band Belle & Sebastian. The film will feature new songs written by Murdoch, along with two Belle & Sebastian songs. Murdoch held open auditions in which members of the public could send in videos or audio clips of ...

Steve Earle "Townes"

“Townes” is the new album by American country-rock singer Steve Earle, widely known as "the hardcore troubador", due in part to his well-documented troubles with the law, drug addiction and his uncompromising viewpoints. The album consists entirely of reworkings of songs by his late friend� and country music legend Townes Van Zandt, with whom ...

Rhythms del Mundo Classics

Rhythms del Mundo Classics is the follow-up album of the internationally successful Aabum Rhythms del Mundo, which also fused Western pop and rock artists with Latin-American beats. Classics pairs the Rhythms del Mundo band with The Killers, Amy Winehouse, Keane, Fall Out Boy, The Editors, Cat Power and more.� Check out the results, along ...

Paul Simon

Paul Simon is best known as half of the popular folk-rock duo Simon and Garfunkel�- recent visitors to our shores.� Simon has however enjoyed a prolific solo career, incorporating elements of Jamaican styles in his early releases ["Mother and Child Reunion"], political and social commentary, and deeply personal confessions on celebrated albums ...

Boh Runga

It's all about Kiwi music ! This week we feature “ Right Here”, the new album from Kiwi songstress Boh Runga.� Boh is of course the lead singer and guitarist in New Zealand rock band Stellar, and comes from a very musical family - both her sisters are, or have been, in bands - her youngest sister, Bic, has a successful solo career, and Pearl has ...

The Mamaku Project present their second album, Mal de Terre. Taking inspiration from their homebase on the West Coast of Auckland and from their frequent trips to France, on the simply gorgeous Mal de Terre, The Mamaku Project weave French bohemian roots, Pacifica dub and scents of the Middle East into a captivating musical concoction. A bi-lingual forage into ...

March of the Zapotec

Beirut is an American band that began as the solo musical project of 23-year-old New Mexico native Zach Condon, and later evolved into a band led by Condon. The music combines elements of Eastern European and folk with Western pop music. March of the Zapotec, Beirut's latest release is packaged on CD with Holland by Realpeople, ...

The Very Best of Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Crow is an American singer-songwriter and musician whose music blends rock, country, pop and folk, into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards. She has performed with the Rolling Stones and has sung duets with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton and Kid Rock, but it's her successful solo career that we feature this week, including her big ...

I Started Out With Nothin and I Still Got Most of it Left

Seasick Steve is an American bluesman, although he prefers to be called "a song and dance man". He plays guitars (mostly personalized), and sings, usually about his early life living rough and doing casual work. I Started Out With Nothin and I Still Got Most of it Left is his third album, released September 2008, and features guest musicians Ruby Turner, Grinderman ...

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WOMAD 2010

Goran Bregovic

Avett Brothers

Rodrigo y Gabriela

BB King

Eric Hutchinson

Salsa Around The World

Monsters of Folk

Bloodshot

Where the Wild Things Are

Away We Go OST

Christmas in the Heart

Grant-Lee Phillips

Lonely Hearts Dub Band

Flight of the Conchords

Oh Happy Day!

the Pretenders

Elvis is Back

Gin Wigmore's Holy Smoke

Tim O'Brien

The Felice Brothers

7 Worlds Collide

Revolver !

Louisiana Gumbo!

Robert Cray Band

Camera Obscura

Tahuna Breaks

Ben Harper

Wilco by Wilco

The Bads "So Alive"

God Help the Girl

Steve Earle "Townes"

Rhythms del Mundo Classics

Paul Simon

Boh Runga

March of the Zapotec

The Very Best of Sheryl Crow

I Started Out With Nothin and I Still Got Most of it Left