Auckland punk-pop trio formed in 2007 as Mean Street by Emily Littler and Billie Rogers. Known for their ferocious live performances, they won the inaugural Critics’ Choice award at the 2010 New Zealand Music Awards for debut album Means and the 2017 Taite Music Prize for Hauora.
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.
She’s Insane were a punk and alternative rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand, active throughout the 1990s, who won the Rejuvenation Battle of the Bands in 1997 and became the most requested band on Christchurch’s RDU radio station in 1998.
Dunedin-based free improvisation ensemble formed in August 1993, occupying a singular position in New Zealand underground music history across three decades of releases.
Psychedelic rock band formed in 2010 by Ruban Nielson (ex-The Mint Chicks) in Portland, Oregon. Originally from Auckland, UMO rose to international acclaim through lo-fi home recordings and five studio albums on Jagjaguwar.
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 vocalist and bassist Stefan Bray first met in a high school maths class, where they noticed… Read More »Mestar
The Transistors are a garage, punk and power-pop trio from Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand, active since the late 2000s and known for a prolific run of self-released and small-label vinyl, cassette and digital recordings across more than fifteen years.
Sandra Bell is a New Zealand experimental artist from the West Coast of the South Island whose career spans cassettes, vinyl, and CD releases from 1984 to the present, gaining international recognition through releases on Xpressway, Turbulence Records, and VHF Records.
Zen Mantra is a Christchurch-based project by Sam Perry (Yumi Zouma), releasing atmospheric recordings across underground labels before signing to Flying Nun Records for a self-titled vinyl album in 2016.
Doprah were a Christchurch electronic outfit formed in 2013 by producer Steven John Marr and vocalist Indira Force, whose psychedelic trip-hop sound drew international attention via Billboard, CMJ New York, and a support slot for Lorde, before releasing their debut album Wasting in 2016.
Golden Axe are an Auckland duo — CJ Cudby and Daif King — whose keyboard synthesis, waveform manipulation, and saxophone created some of the most inventive electronic music in Aotearoa during the 2000s and early 2010s.
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.
Tiny Ruins are an Auckland indie folk ensemble founded in 2009, evolving from a solo project by Hollie Fullbrook into an internationally touring four-piece whose 2014 album Brightly Painted One won Best Alternative Album at the New Zealand Music Awards and whose four studio albums have each been shortlisted for the Taite Music Prize.
Fazerdaze is the Wellington-born, Auckland-based solo project of singer-songwriter and producer Amelia Rahayu Murray, crafting intimate dream pop and shoegaze-influenced music since 2014; the project reached international audiences with the viral single “Lucky Girl” from her acclaimed 2017 debut album Morningside on Flying Nun Records.
This Is Heaven was the solo project of Auckland musician Paul Luker, founder of the Industrial Tapes cassette label, releasing the limited-edition 200 Variations EP on Flying Nun Records in 1985.