09/12/2015
"We've actually known each other since about 2006 when we played shows together in Auckland as members of Save Tom's Dog and Midnight Trio," remembers Alex Ferrier, aka Alex Elvis, guitarist of progressive Auckland ...
09/12/2015
With a playing history that encompasses the diversity of French For Rabbits, Glass Vaults and The Wellington City Shake-Em-On-Downers, Hikurangi Schaverien-Kaa has in recent years been establishing himself as one of the ...
13/11/2015
A quarter century past now, the much talked-over ‘Dunedin sound’ left the city with a number of resident musical heroes, surely none more enigmatic and reluctant than The Chills’ Martin Phillipps. A new, really new, ...
02/11/2015
We’ve been dancing happily to them for a decade but now Batucada Sound Machine is no more, the band instead formally acronymed to B2KDA. Characterised by its repetitive style and fast pace, Batucada is described as ‘a ...
27/10/2015
The quirky, colourful and heavily detailed hand-drawn artwork adorning The Shifting Sands ’ new album brings to mind those art-rich Flying Nun releases of yore, and musically it comes as little surprise to learn that the ...