11/02/2015
It proved to be a rare rainy Saturday afternoon in January when Chip Matthews met up with The Funky North, DJ Definite and MC Blaksword. Making it doubly ironic, the two musicians in focus hail from Kaikohe in the ‘winterless ...
17/12/2014
Nadia Reid has an evident penchant for giving meaningful titles to her song collections, her new album ‘Listen To Formation, Look For The Signs’ following ‘Letters I Wrote and Never Sent’, the EP that introduced her ...
17/12/2014
Within just a few months after they formed in late 2011, Dunedin band Summer Thieves were supporting hip hop royalty De La Soul. Singer guitarist Jake Barton attributes this coup simply to performing in the right place at ...
17/12/2014
Although conceived as more of a recording act, Death and the Maiden have been playing their intriguing brand of gothic techno-electronica around Dunedin for the last few years. On a suitably gothic Dunedin day (rain, hail ...
23/10/2014
Mixing equal parts of tequila, vodka, gin, galliano and lemon juice with four measures of orange juice will get you pretty much Freddy Fudd Puckered. More healthily you could search out the former Dunedinite oddball folk-punk ...