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Grow Up Magazine

I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass

About Me

I am a magazine from Auckland City.

www.growupmagazine.com

My Interests

music, drugs, comics, photos, sunglasses, beer, biting satire, good films, shit films, breasts, cherry cola, late 19th century eccentrics, hot girls, hot boys, graffiti, old sneakers, three stripes, urban design, gigs, parties, art shows, art hos, polaroid, second-hand vinyl, hip-hop, britpop, punk rock, op shops, beat box, sweet shops, pop rocks, and you don't stop, never early, always late, first thing you learn is that you always gotta wait, clearing the gutters, getting by, looking ahead till the day you die.

I'd like to meet:

Discerning readers and advertisers. And cool muthafuckas, natch.

Music:


!!!, ? and the Mysterians, 13th Floor Elevators, the 3-Ds, Add N to (X), Afrika Bambaataa, Animal Collective, Another Sunny Day, Apples in Stereo, Arcade Fire, Art Brut, At the Drive-in, Bad Brains, Bailterspace, Syd Barrett, Beat Happening, Belle and Sebastian, Beta Band, Big Star, Bikini Kill, Birthday Party, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, Kurtis Blow, Blur, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Boo Radleys, David Bowie, Bow Wow Wow, Billy Bragg, James Brown, Tim Buckley, Bush Tetras, Buzzcocks, Cabaret Voltaire, John Cale, Camper van Beethoven, Can, Captain Beefheart, Johnny Cash, Cat Power, Nick Cave, James Chance and the Contortions, Cheap Trick, the Chills, Chromeo, "Ciccone Youth", The Clash, the Clean, Clinic, Leonard Cohen, John Coltrane, Sam Cooke, Cornelius, Elvis Costello, Graham Coxon, Crass, the Crystals, The Cure, Cut Copy, Cybotron, Miles Davis, Dead Kennedys, DFA 1979, Delta 5, Devo, Dexy's Midnight Runners, the Dictators, Die! Die! Die!, Dinosaur Jr., DNA, Nick Drake, the Drifters, Duran Duran, Ian Dury, Bob Dylan, Echo & the Bunnymen, Eels, Elastica, Brian Eno, Erase Errata, ESG, The Faint, The Fall, Faust, Felt, The Field Mice, The Fiery Furnaces, Fischerspooner, The Flaming Lips, The Folk Implosion, Franz Ferdinand, The Free Design, Funkadelic, Serge Gainsbourg, Galaxie 500, Gang of Four, Garageland, Marvin Gaye, The Go-Betweens, The Go! Team, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Gordons, Grandaddy, the Great Unwashed, Guided By Voices, Guns n' Roses, Woody Guthrie, Happy Mondays, Francoise Hardy, PJ Harvey, The Hidden Cameras, The Hold Steady, The Hollies, Buddy Holly, Lightnin' Hopkins, Hot Chip, The House Of Love, The Human League, Husker Du, I Am Kloot, Interpol, Joe Jackson, The Jackson 5, The Jam, Jane's Addiction, The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Joan Jett, Calvin Johnson, Robert Johnson, Daniel Johnston, Joy Division, Kaiser Chiefs, Kid 606, King Loser, The Kinks, The Klaxons, The KLF, Kraftwerk, The La's, Ladytron, Langley Schools Music Project, LCD Soundsystem, Le Tigre, Leadbelly, Led Zeppelin, The Left Banke, Jens Lekman, Les Georges Leningrad, John Lennon, Liars, The Libertines, Lightning Bolt, Liquid Liquid, Little Eva, Look Blue Go Purple, Love, Low, M/A/R/R/S, Madness, Madonna, The Magnetic Fields, Manic Street Preachers, Mastodon, Matmos, Maximo Park, Curtis Mayfield, The Maytals, The MC5, Mercury Rev, Minor Threat, The Mint Chicks, Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Moby Grape, The Modern Lovers, Mogwai, Morrissey, Mos Def, Mott The Hoople, The Mountain Goats, Moving Units, Mu, My Bloody Valentine, Neu!, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, New Pornographers, New York Dolls, Nico, Nilsson, Nirvana, The Normal, Oasis, ODB, OMD, OMC, The Only Ones, OOIOO, Orange Juice, The Pastels, Pavement, Peaches, Pet Shop Boys, The Pixies, Iggy Pop, The Pop Group, The Postal Service, Primal Scream, Prince, Public Enemy, Public Image Limited, Pulp, Queen, Queens Of The Stone Age, Queensryche, Radio 4, Railroad Jerk, The Raincoats, The Ramones, The Rapture, The Raspberries, The Raveonettes, The Records, Otis Redding, Lou Reed, The Residents, The Replacements, Ride, Rites Of Spring, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Rolling Stones, The Ronettes, Roxy Music, The Runaways, Run DMC, Schooly D, Sebadoh, Sex Pistols, The Shangri-Las, The Shins, The Shirelles, Shocking Blue, The Shocking Pinks, The Shoes, Shonen Knife, Shop Assistants, Silver Apples, Silver Jews, Skeptics, Slade, Slayer, Sleater-Kinney, Sleeper, Slint, Slits, Slowdive, Sly And The Family Stone, Small Faces, Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith, Patti Smith, the Smiths, Snapper, Sneaky Feelings, Soft Cell, Sonics, Sonic Youth, Sonny & Cher, Jimmy Soul, Soulwax, Soviet, Spacemen 3, Sparklehorse, Spelling Mistakes, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Spiritualized, Split Enz, Spoon, Bruce Springsteen, Squarepusher, Stereobus, Stereolab, Stereo MCs, Stereo Total, Sufjan Stevens, Stiff Little Fingers, Elliott Smith, The Stone Roses, The Stooges, The Straightjacket Fits, The Strokes, Suede, Sugar, Sugarcubes, Sugarhill Gang, Sugababes, Suicide, The Sundays, Sunn O))), Super Furry Animals, Superette, Supergrass, The Supremes, The Sweet, T. Rex, Talking Heads, Tall Dwarfs, Talullah Gosh, Tapes n' Tapes, Teenage Fanclub, Television, Television Personalities, TV on the Radio, Test Icicles, Tindersticks, Tortoise, Trans Am, Tubeway Army, The Turtles, The Undertones, The Unicorns, The Vaselines, The Velvet Underground, The Verlaines, Tom Waits, Scott Walker, The Wedding Present, Whirlwind Heat, The White Stripes, Jackie Wilson, Wire, Wolf Parade, Stevie Wonder, Robert Wyatt, X, X-Ray Spex, XTC, Xanadu, Xiu Xiu, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo, Young Marble Giants, Frank Zappa and the Zombies. Eat that.

My Blog

Urban Mythbusters

Urban Myth #16: "Did you go to the club last night?""Yeah, it was fucking gay. It was full of pretentious hipsters with blazers and $200 haircuts that look like they just cut it themselves."Bullshit...
Posted by Grow Up Magazine on Tue, 01 May 2007 05:33:00 PST

Oldie/Goodie

God-damned pain-in-the-arse MySpace won't let me embed a Quicktime video
Posted by Grow Up Magazine on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:54:00 PST

Documentary: The Rise and Fall of The Smiths

Part OnePart TwoPart Three...
Posted by Grow Up Magazine on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:17:00 PST

Drinking: Big and Clever - Surgeon General

Drinking: Big and Clever - Surgeon GeneralSHOCK FINDING:  Binge drinking makes you more interestingSCIENTICIANS working at an Onehunga pub have released surprising findings this week which direct...
Posted by Grow Up Magazine on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:49:00 PST

Grow Up's Guide to the 1980s

Here's 141 bands you should listen to:A Certain RatioAfrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic ForceAltered ImagesAztec CameraBad BrainsBauhausBeat HappeningBig BlackThe Birthday PartyBlack FlagBlondieThe ...
Posted by Grow Up Magazine on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:18:00 PST

Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe ...

... is a show on BBC Four where notoriously sharp-tongued tv critic/misanthrope Charlie Brooker ( www.tvgohome.com) talks about TV and shows clips 'n shit. It's rather good.Here's an episode, in thre...
Posted by Grow Up Magazine on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:29:00 PST

Top Ten Radio

This week James and I decided we'd only play songs that had been top ten singles in either the US or the UK. Here's the playlist:The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now (#2 UK, 2004)Jimmy Soul - If You W...
Posted by Grow Up Magazine on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 06:09:00 PST

Who the f*** is Pete Doherty?

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Posted by Grow Up Magazine on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 03:26:00 PST

This seems to be the thing to do these days ...

Since everyone else seems to be doing this, and since I'm bored up at the station, here's what I'm playing on my radio show today:Desmond Dekker & the Aces - IsraelitesThe Hold Steady - Stuck Betw...
Posted by Grow Up Magazine on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:48:00 PST

Album of the month

YO LA TENGOI Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass9/10Indie rock is very trendy these days.  Fashion designers and actresses sing Interpol's praises, the cool kids at school all list...
Posted by Grow Up Magazine on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:23:00 PST