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The D4
Auckland garage rock four-piece The D4 spearheaded New Zealand’s part in the early 2000s garage rock revival, releasing 6Twenty on Flying Nun Records and touring the world before reuniting in 2018.
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The Incisions – Let Terror Rain
Wow, this is loud, caustic stuff. The 2nd album from the ever-changing Christchurch 3-piece The Incisions blow the current crop of rock'n'roll revivalists out of the water. Its pure fire in a recording, scratchy, loud, abrasive and rude - more in the style of Japanese noise merchants Guitar Wolf or (particularly) Teengenrate than The Datsuns (who seem positively polished in comparison).
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The Palace Of Wisdom
Underground rock'n'roll lifers from Christchurch fronted by enigmatic and sometimes confrontational front-man (and downhill Mountain Bike enthusiast) Andrew 'Ox' O'Connell. A long cast of supporting characters and a handful of rough-and-ready recordings - all self-released.
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The Datsuns – The Datsuns
2002, V2, V2CP143 With all the hoopla and excitement over the new gee-golly-gosh retro-cool selection of rock’n’roll revivalists going on – it must be…
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Trucker
Biography Waikato-based rock band caught somewhere between indie-rock (think Super-chunk) and early New York punk, based around singer-songwriter Jamie Stone. Trucker released the full-length…
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The Datsuns
Biography emerging out of hamilton in the mid 90s, originally as the more pop ‘trinket’, the datsuns soon became the epitome of raucous rock’n’roll.…
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The Brunettes – Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks
2002, Lil’ Chief, LCR001 Sunny pop, sing-along melodies, and carefree grooves. Not something that pops up too often in New Zealand music, but The…
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The D4 – 6Twenty
2001, Flying Nun Records, FNCD449 The garage rock explosion of recent times has given way to the world again discovering rock’n’roll outside the borders…