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Popular Hip-hop duo coming out of Opawa, Christchurch. Jody 'The Earl' Lloyd and Eli 'The Eel' Foley started performing together while still in high school, and with the help of brilliant debut video, the duo became something of a cult of personality with the ethos of the single 'Zeal Man'.
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Auckland black metal group lead by bassist/vocalist Rigel Walshe. From 1997 till 2017 the group went through several line-ups and produced a number of well-received, polish albums; touring across the world.
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Totally under-the-radar stoner rock band that formed in 1992 in Hamilton. They were a trio comprised of Craig Williamson (bass and vocals - now performing in a solo capacity as Lamp of the Universe), Brent Middlemiss (guitar) and Jon Burnside (drums), and that they released 2 albums of drawn-out stoner-psych jams on the unknown Cranium label, and actually reissued on U.S. label Brainticket.
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Desperate Measures were Christchurch's answer to pop punk, a couple of years after the whole Sex Pistol thing, but they were fun and had a few good songs for all the punk posturing. They had a reasonably heavy following, or it seemed so at the time. - Rob Mayes
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Auckland trio Drill were formed in 1989, featured on the 1st 'Freak the Sheep' (bFM Kiwi radio station) compilation, put out the single 'Happy Home' and a self-titled album -all on Flying Nun Records in the mid 1990's. The songs were collected from sessions going right back to 1990.
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The early 2000's recording outfit of Jordan Reyne. Built around Reyne's strong vocals and a variety of musicians, mostly of the studio-pro variety (which currently includes Trinity Roots' Rikki Gooch).
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Yuri Frusin and Helen Johnstone (also both of Garbage and the Flowers) with Pianist Kristen Wineera (The Idle Suite, The Drugs, The Blueness). Both members have since reunited with GATFs guitarist Paul Ling in the Melbourne-based Minit.
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Since forming their first band in High School back in Dunedin, the duo of Michael Prain and Andrew Wilson have been consistently at the forefront of New Zealand independent music. Die! Die! Die! formed in 2003 as an Auckland-based post-punk group with an explosive, propulsive sound and excellent songs.
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An Iggy Pop and the Stooges obsessed proto-punk outfit from the early 80s. After recording New Zealand's very first full-length punk LP (1981's 'Let there be noise') the group morphed into The Henchmen.
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Wellington based garage surf-punk band headed up by Marty Squire (guitar/vocals) wit brothers Dave (drums) and Luke Benge (keyboards), and Jules Desmond (bass). Formed from the ashes of Letterbox Lambs. Had one catchy single 'We Ride Tonight' released as a New Zealand On Air music video
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Formerly Auckland-based abstract artist who produced a string of lathe cut releases in the late 1990's - 2000's on Circle Records and the Luxus imprint.
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One of the longest running mythic underground figures of New Zealand rock who has worked (and commanded) such significant figures in the New Zealand music scene as Chris Knox, Peter Stapleton, Maryrose Crook, Dave Mitchell, Malcolm Grant - the list goes on.
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Biography auckland hip-hop crew with heavy ‘community-based’ funding and advertising that ended up sending their debut to the top of the new zealand charts…
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Biography west-coast based (though containing christchurch and wellington located members) rock’n’roll revivalists with a surf-edge. the real stuff – short on distortion, high on…
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Biography richard kennedy, jean and tony mcmaster and john mitchell. Discography picks in bold the drongos ep [1985 wea] small miracles [live recording 1985…
