28/08/2024
In 2004 a young Glaswegian stepped off the plane onto the tarmac of Auckland Airport with the hopes of making a name for himself in the graphic design arena of the NZ music industry. Now, 20 years and hundreds of local album ...
16/07/2024
Having just won the 2024 Taite Music Prize, as a self-proclaimed underdog among a number of what could be called modern classics of Aotearoa music, Vera Ellen Williams remains charmingly grounded. Ideal Home Noise by Vera ...
24/01/2024
All the Nadia Reids, Aldous Hardings and Tiny Ruins start somewhere in small venues across Aotearoa. Picked up by student radio, fellow musicians' whispers, and word-of-mouth would carry reviews of their extraordinary talent ...
12/05/2022
Wellington three-piece Soft Plastics have embraced a new shoegaze style whilst still paying homage to their garage-pop beginnings. Their ironic latest single Day Job is very relatable, and comes accompanied by a similarly ...
23/02/2022
Having not long completed a music degree at Massey University in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Freyja Appleyard is seemingly keeping well busy with a number of projects, like indie bands King Fish and Sure Boy. In late January ...
21/04/2020
A long-lost Chills video of the band’s 1982 debut single Rolling Moon has risen out of unfinished obscurity. Veteran cinematographer Peter Janes, who in the early 1980s filmed many of the first wave of Flying Nun bands ...