03/11/2013
When Anna Schlotjes did a Fresh Talent piece on Auckland band Black River Drive back in NZM's Dec/Jan 2011 issue she described ...
READ MORE >29/10/2013
Asked to describe her band in five words or less, Annabel, the guitarist of Grrlfriendz, pauses for a moment, before laughing ...
READ MORE >Familiar as one of the Teacups’ trio and as an eye-catching, if shy, live backing vocalist to various break out acts including ...
READ MORE >28/08/2013
It may not seem glamorous, but there’s good money to be made with music tailored to children. Successful kid groups ...
READ MORE >Not many (if any) other Kiwi rock acts of recent decades have swept all before them in the way that Blindspott did with their ...
READ MORE >Mix a bit of math rock with post punk, a few good friends and a lack of vowels, and you've got HDSPNS. This experimental ...
READ MORE >03/07/2013
Without doubt New Zealand’s most successful live drum’n’bass act, Shapeshifter have come to be one of our most enduringly ...
READ MORE >09/05/2013
The first Superturtle album, 2008’s ‘Freeride’, was essentially a solo project for Darren McShane, formerly guitarist ...
READ MORE >"I think with every record I’ve judged its success just by whether I got to make another one. So says The Veils’ Finn ...
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