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Christchurch electro-pop trio active 2006–2011, featuring Blair Parkes, Marcus Thomas, and Helen Greenfield. Their self-described 'pop-tronica' sound reached TV audiences nationwide through Outrageous Fortune and Go Girls placements.
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Gritty Christchurch garage rock band active from 2003 to around 2013, centred on Lisa Preston and a rotating lineup drawn from the Snort/Thee Tryhards scene. Regular performers at the Christchurch Media Club before the 2011 earthquakes.
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Biography Supported Swervedriver at The Edge in 1998, and played down at Arc Cafe in Dunedin with indie rock groups Lesley Speaker and Beckoning…
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Sleepy Age were a Christchurch indie pop band formed in 2009 by Josh Burgess, who went on to co-found the internationally recognised group Yumi Zouma. The band won the RDU Round Up competition within weeks of their formation and released music on Christchurch label Gold Sounds before dissolving around 2011.
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Sydney-based post-punk band formed by Christchurch veterans Jonathan Ogilvie and Michael Daly (both of YFC), active in the late 1980s. Their track 'Caboose' appeared on Failsafe Records' South compilation documenting the Christchurch alternative scene.
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Solo project of David Kilgour, co-founder of The Clean and one of the architects of the Dunedin Sound. Active since 1991, the Heavy Eights name covers his rotating collaborative band across nine albums, most released on Merge Records.
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Dunedin noise rock trio active 2010–2012, who played 45 shows and released free recordings of every one via Bandcamp. Their sole studio EP Falconer (2011) appeared on MUZAI Records and Monkey Killer Records.
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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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Christchurch disco/death metal with a long history and a vast array of albums. Formed by brothers Paul and Scott Harrison and Vaughn Richardson the…
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Instrumental post-rock group from Christchurch, formed in 2003 by Robert McLean, Stephen Mateer, Campbell Johnson and Simon Leigh-Mackenzie. McLean, Mateer and Johnson had previously played together in the post-hardcore group Disgraceland way back in the mid 1990s. #nzmusic #howtokill
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Indi is the solo moniker of musician and composer Indira Force, formerly co-writer and lead vocalist of Christchurch neo-trip-hop duo Doprah. Following Doprah’s disbandment in 2016, she relocated to Berlin and released her debut album Precipice (2018, Flying Nun Records), fusing electronic production with orchestral arrangements of trombone, violin, saxophone, and flute. Force has since released music as Aridni Orca.
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Dunedin noise-rock/post-rock trio formed in 1994. Signed to Flying Nun Records through manager Natasha Griffiths, HDU built a fearsome reputation with their intense, dynamic soundscapes blending dense noise with atmospheric beauty. BBC presenter John Peel once called them "one of the 10 best bands in the world you've never heard of."
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Cripple Mr Onion were a progressive metal band from Christchurch, New Zealand, formed in 1996 by Mike 'Fud' Fudakowski and Andy Woodd. Their name was borrowed — with Terry Pratchett's blessing — from the fictional card game in the Discworld novels. Active until 2016, they were known for a sound described as spellbindingly beautiful one moment and violently cataclysmic the next.
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Hard-working blues muso, heavily chronicled in the (brilliant) ‘Stranded in Paradise‘ book on kiwi music. Gamble was an English Immigrant who settled in Whangerei…
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Auckland noise-rock trio God Bows to Math formed in 2008 and quickly became one of the most active bands on the Auckland underground circuit, releasing two albums and multiple EPs on Muzai Records.
