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01/07/2016

Moments Like These: Upper Hutt Posse’s Te Kupu aka Dean Hapeta

At the 2016 Taite Music Prize Awards held in April Upper Hutt Posse were announced as recipients of this year's Classic Record ...

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16/05/2016

Tigi Ness: The Values Of Unity

The band name is a reflection of its multi-island make up on the one hand, and its musical sense of purpose on the other. ...

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19/04/2016

Alex Moffat Selection: Archive

Vocalist/guitarist Alex Moffat has been making music, in various guises, since the 1980s. After meeting bass player Glenn ...

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15/04/2016

Whāia and the Māhician: Whāia

Listening to Whāia I heard whakaako ora passed down from generation to generation, through whakapapa. And a picture of how ...

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05/04/2016

Fat Freddy’s Drop: Bays

BBQ’s! Reggae! One can immediately anticipate the naysayers with an oversimplified derision to two things that Kiwis actually ...

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14/03/2016

Night Gaunts: So Not Afraid

With their flaming, high energy cocktail of sing-a-long punk, pop, ska, reggae and hip hop, Night Gaunts might just be Auckland’s ...

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11/03/2016

Tunes Of I: Sounds Like A Kiwi Summer

Wairarapa-origined neo-dub act Tunes Of I were able to raise enough funds through a Kickstarter campaign to record their ...

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28/02/2016

Tomorrow People: Bass & Bassinets

It‘s hard to be dismissive of a band like Tomorrow People. Especially when you grew up around your parents’ musical diet ...

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15/12/2015

Left Or Right: Trippy

Jimi Hendrix, 10CC, Bob Marley and The Beatles walk into a bar in Dunedin and start jamming. Not quite, but Left Or Right ...

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