12/05/2016
Let’s start by getting this out of the way. OpenSide’s members Possum Plows (vocals), George Powell (drums), PJ Shepard (guitar), and bassist Harry Carter are not die hard footie fans. “PJ got OpenSide from Harry ...
25/02/2016
Since the time he joined The Human Instinct (one of Aotearoa’s most distinguished ‘underground’ bands) Zaine Griff has been on an amazing musical journey that saw him recording and touring in the UK and Europe as well ...
17/12/2015
Incredibly the story of Ill Semantics runs over more than two decades – albeit with an eight year break ahead of their getting back into the studio to record their third album. With that length of history and the association ...
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, ...
23/06/2015
Talking up the 'Cairo Knife Fight II' EP back in NZM's August/September 2011 issue, Nick Gaffaney had this to say to writer Mark Bell. "I think there's a strong chemistry between Aaron and I that neither of us understand, ...
