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What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office

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Today at Flavorpill, we learned that you can use your Nintendo Wii console to throw a swinger’s party. We were stunned by this surreal footage that Logan McMillian shot just minutes after New Zealand’s catastrophic earthquake. We wanted to be half as cool as Winona Ryder’s 1985 yearbook photo. We realized how bad people used to be at explaining the Internet. We watched James Franco take a cat nap. We caught up with the bullies from The Neverending Story, 20 years later. We got schooled on the history of the Academy Awards. We found out it surprising that Eminem is now more popular than Lady Gaga is on Facebook. And finally, we wished that there was some truth to the whole “Dr. Dre started Burning Man” conspiracy theory, but we refuse to believe that Dre’s handwriting looks like that.

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Exclusive: The Bats Frontman and the Clean Bassist Robert Scott Talks the Return of Kiwi Rock

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New Zealand-bred pop is on the uptick, albeit a few decades after the movement’s original era. And, in the wake of the recent rediscovery of acts like the Clean, the Bats, Tall Dwarfs, and the Chills, two of Kiwi-land’s best-loved bands are ready to return.

Known for wistful, understated guitar pop, the Bats will release The Guilty Office in June. A few years older and a bit more experimental, the Clean will unleash Mister Pop this September (it’s their first release of new material since 2001’s Getaway). In anticipation of this sudden surge in Antipodean creativity, we rang up the Bats singer/songwriter and the Clean bassist Robert Scott to talk Flying Nun, fallen stars, and what it’s like to juggle two seminal underground acts.

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