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Munkey Kramp
Biography Poppy Dunedin-based 4-piece featuring future Cloudboy vocalist Demarnia Lloyd. The excellent scattering of recordings bassist Pete Gorman has archived on Youtube show the…
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Don McGlashan
Auckland multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and film composer Don McGlashan — frontman of Blam Blam Blam, The Front Lawn, and The Mutton Birds — has been one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed musicians for over four decades, inducted into the NZ Music Hall of Fame in 2023.
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Marsha
Post-punk four-piece from Ōtautahi Christchurch, formed 2018. Their 2024 debut album In Circles established them as one of the most compelling voices in the contemporary New Zealand indie scene.
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Model Home
Christchurch indie rock quartet, formed in Woolston. Released debut album …And Nobody Made A Sound in 2023 through Papaiti Records and False Peak Records.
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Mestar
Biography Mëstar are a pop/rock trio formed in 1996 in Dunedin, New Zealand. The band came together after vocalist and guitarist John White and…
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Mermaidens
Mermaidens are a Wellington trio formed in 2013 whose decade-long career has spanned self-released beginnings, two Taite Music Prize-nominated albums on Flying Nun Records, and a critically acclaimed self-titled 2023 album recorded independently with producer Samuel Flynn Scott.
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Jazmine Mary
Neo-folk and dark pop artist from Gippsland, Australia, based in New Zealand. Their trio of albums — The Licking of a Tangerine (2021), Dog (2023), and I Want to Rock and Roll (2025, Flying Nun) — trace a path through visceral, haunting folk music and bold psychedelic pop.
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Minisnap
Christchurch indie-pop trio formed in the early 2000s by three-quarters of The Bats, with guitarist Kaye Woodward stepping up as principal songwriter and vocalist. Rooted in the jangle-pop of the Dunedin Sound. Debut album Bounce Around (2008, Pocket Music); a follow-up album is mastered and awaiting release.
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Marching Orders
Gisborne-based chirpy synth-pop 4-piece featuring the vocals of future comedian / television personality Jackie Clarke and F Star Records' Martin Kirk. Thanks to an association with Doug Hood (who engineered their recording) the group put out an obscure 12" single on Flying Nun Records, before disbanding. #MarchingOrders #NZMusic
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Marie and the Atom
Marie and the Atom were an experimental pop group created as a performance and song-writing vehicle for Gill Civil. The group released 3 boundary-pushing EPs in the mid 1980's and are best remembered for their song 'Isol'. #nzmusic #marieandtheatom
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Mr Big Nose
Recorded in a typically DIY fashion and released straight to cassette in 1989, this rucous live album features a stellar band line-up. Bob Scott was joined by future 3D Dave Saunders (just arrived in Dunedin), Australian guitarist / vocalist Ken Stewart, former-Chill Alan Haig on the drums, and billed as a special guest on organ; Peter Gutteridge - just prior to the release of his incredible solo album 'Pure'. #mrbignose
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Marginal Era
Marginal Era were a synth and based-driven pop act formed in 1981 by song-writer Warwick Paul Agar (ex Vivid Militia). Probably best known for 'This Heaven', originally an instrumental track that would later become the theme to the popular 'Radio with Pictures' television show. #nzmusic #marginalera
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Magic Eye
3-piece indie-rock group formed by the Melted Ice Cream label's Brian Feary in August 2009. Though connected to the label the trio never recorded and released any material, with Feary playing in a whole swag of other groups. #nzmusic #magiceye
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Molly Says Go
Molly Says Go were a young, frenetic and super-productive Christchurch-based Ska-Punk who formed in 1996, and played all around Canterbury and some shows in the North Island. Split an album with Wellington's Channel Thirteen in 2001 or Palmerston North punk-focused label Stakeout Records, and the group split up in 2002. Guitarist Toby Retallick went on to Ill Received. #nzmusic #nzpunk #mollysaysgo
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Matt Alien
Matt Alien is the long-standing nom de plume of Matt Johnstone; a multi-instrumentalist born-frontman from the likes of Christchurch groups The Hitone Destroyers and The Black Panthers, Auckland group Slavetrader, and most recently Melbourne group Levitating Churches. Harnessing the swagger of early Aerosmith or AC/DC, but with a great deal more noise and the feeling that things might just fall apart at any moment. #nzmusic #mattalien #hitonedestroyers