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23/05/2016

Threat.Meet.Protocol: Hypocrisy Of Consumption

‘Way back in 2011, Threat.Meet.Protocol thought they were pretty original. Being a combo consisting of just bass and drums ...

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04/04/2016

Jazz Tuis 2016 Winners

This year's winners of the NZ Jazz Awards in Tauranga were Phil Broadhurst and Callum Allardice. Awarded on Easter weekend ...

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17/12/2015

Fragile Colours: Tickled Pink

With a few more radio hits it could be the album story of the century – well two centuries actually, given that it was ...

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15/12/2015

Fragile Colours: Southern Utopia

Fragile Colours' 'Southern Utopia' is a pop album with many shapes – ambient, rock, country and folk all working together. ...

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Sean Bodley: Pitchblack

Following up 2014's 'Balance' Sean Bodley's fourth album sees the Tauranga local polishing his sound and instrumentation, ...

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02/11/2015

B2KDA: Abbreviated Fusion

We’ve been dancing happily to them for a decade but now Batucada Sound Machine is no more, the band instead formally acronymed ...

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15/06/2015

The B-Side Band: Fast Forward

Now on their sixth record and with most recent addition Blair Williams (drums) providing some youthful enthusiasm, The B-Side ...

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13/11/2014

Liberated Squid: Double EP

Liberated Squid, the brainchild of Mike Baxter and a studio project up until now, the intent is clear from track one of this ...

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12/11/2014

Phil Rudd: Head Job

Phil Rudd has, of course, spent most of the last 20-odd years as drummer for one of the world’s most enduring rock’n’roll ...

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