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Auckland satirical country and western outfit whose one album, Adrenal Glandy (Flying Nun, FN048), was recorded live in 1986 with a baked-beans-recruited audience. Featuring the young Don McGlashan performing under a pseudonym, it sold approximately 40 copies.
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Vaporwave solo project of Luke Rowell (Disasteradio) from Lower Hutt, Wellington. The 2015 album Buy Now is regarded as a classic of the global vaporwave movement, and became the subject of a 33⅓ Oceania book in 2025.
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Biography England-based trio of well-known ex-pats Dave Mitchell, Liz Matthews and Rod McLellan (aka Roddy Pain). Members Discography
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Wellington indie rock singer-songwriter on Flying Nun Records. Winner of the 2024 Taite Music Prize for Ideal Home Noise. Albums include It’s Your Birthday (2021), Ideal Home Noise (2023), and Heaven Knows What Time (2026).
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Earth Tongue is a Wellington heavy psych duo comprising Gussie Larkin (Guitar/Vocals) and Ezra Simons (Drums/Vocals), known for their fuzz-driven two-piece sound and their 2019 release The Well Of Pristine Order on UK label Stolen Body Records.
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Biography Formed while the trio were still students at Northcote College around 1983, the Auckland group embraced a poppy, jangly sound—a style far removed…
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'Gleefully Unknown' Wellington-based New Plymouth-raised lo-fi homebrew musician releasing material under his own name (on his own fiffdimension mail order label), under the fiffdimension or Dave Black aliases, as well as in collaboration with other like-minded artists. #nzmusic #daveedwards #fiffdimension
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Exceptional Christchurch-born (now NYC based) singer-songwriter Hannah Everingham is just about to release her 2nd album on local label Leather Jacket Records. Here's a short bio i've put together so far, including a video link for new single 'Giving up the Dog', filmed at the Botanic Gardens. #nzmusic #hannaheveringham
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Electric Blood was the formative group of Robert Scott; forming the group with his brother in 1978, and featuring any number of local friends and family members on extremely lo-fi DIY recordings.
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The Enright House was the not quite pop, not quite post rock, brain-child of German born Mark Roberts. The live band consisted of Roberts along with Thomas Lambert on guitar (also of A Flight to Blackout), Simon Gemmill on Drums and Evan Schaare on synths.
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Youthful New wave pop group who put out an album in 1987 on Auckland label Ode Records before disappearing. Frontman Neil de Jong would resurface in another short-lived group (Voodoo Love); however the most well-known group he's associated with would be Alien Weapony, as brothers Henry and Lewis de Jong are his songs, and he's assisted as a live sound engineer and manager for the group.
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Biography Short lived flying nun band who contributed a brilliant track to the last rhumba compilation (a live single-night recording on flying nun), and…
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Biography aka richard francis – half of small blue torch, a new zealander now living in japan who deals in experimental electronic manipulations. Discography…
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Biography fielding pop-rock outfit thats made a big splash in australia in 2003-4, touring with other mellow (and somewhat girly) pop-rock bands such as…
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Biography Hugely popular West Auckland metal act that managed to come very close to topping the new zealand album charts with their 2nd album…
