Inspired, chaotic, and unfortunately short-lived Auckland musician. please read my review of his seminal live document Songs for Beethoven for more detail on his tragic life-story. virgin music (NZ) have recently compiled his only two EP’s into an anthology (though… Read More »Darcy Clay
Biography Skin-hitter, accordionist, synthersizist, guitarist, bassist, trombonist, harmonica-player, musical saw-player, singer, songsmith, chef, painter & explorer…Delaney Davidson is not very well known in his homeland of New Zealand. This eccentric world traveling troubadour left our shores as a teenager, came… Read More »Delaney Davidson
black metal hardcore act from the pits of paeroa. noisey, gritty and very rawrn- club bizarre Discography picks in bold eternal antichrist cassette [self-released] nothing is forever [self-released]
Biography Another fantastic release from Splash (ex Vext) delivering us another fine and deafening slab of hardcore attitude and brutal noise sculpting and angst ridden sickness. second track in has the main man himself in full frightening vocal form a most wicked… Read More »Bloodbox
Biography Blenheim-based underground experimental musician of notorious repute: Outdated synthesizers, delay pedals and tape loops to shape plastic signal patterns and oblique modulations to evoke sprawling voids of nightmarish emptiness Jim Haynes in the Wire issue 223 Has recorded on… Read More »Omit
Biography Marlborough born singer songwriter Sarah Brown released her self-titled debut album in 2006. Her first single “hands” marionette like music video received plenty of airplay on local music television. The album was recorded at the same DIY Shed used… Read More »Sarah Brown
popular up-and-coming wellington hard rock band. Discography picks in bold reset speed [2002 hey harry HHR02]
Wonderfully named Dunedin indie-pop outfit. Formed in 2002, the band features the comically named members Sifty Chris, Angry Antwon, Slammin’ Stu, and Logan Valentine. Discography What To Do? Ep [2004 Extremely Loud Productions Elp01] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on… Read More »Sifty Chris And The Gladeyes
long-standing christchurch singer / song-writer, blair parkes has been a fixture in local indie-pop bands, from all fall down in the early 1980s, through little dead things, the letter 5, swim everything, creeley, and range. these bands saw releases through… Read More »Blair Parkes
The Sneakies were a young and naive pop band discovering the world of music from a distinctly dunedin perspective. In original member Matthew Bannisters’ Positively George Street book, which describes their experience and neglectance to accept the ‘Dunedin Sound’ that… Read More »Sneaky Feelings
forming in 1996 but taking (an appropriate) 8 years to get their debut out, eight none the less have been courting major-label interest for a couple of years, since the release of the shift ep back in 2003 (which included… Read More »Eight
…nz underground solo artist shay j klink, combining hard hitting well composed drum machine programming, some well structured dark experimental mood intensities and pounding death/dark metal guitars – sampled and played. check it out – club bizarre Discography insainium [self-released]… Read More »Offline
Biography Palmerston North 4-piece with a single EP to their name. Vocalist Boekman would go on to the Bananamen. Members Leonard Carney (Drums, 1986) Elenaor Boekman (Vocals/Bass, 1986) Sean O’Conner (Guitar, 1986) Jonathan Collins (Guitar/Saxophone/Vocals, 1986) Discography The Only One EP… Read More »The Cement Garden
[profile thanks to rob mayes]arising from the distant ashes of blue flesh syndrome and cell, lurch were a combination of british shoegazing and semi-industrial riffing, with a touch of early goth. the band consisted of: layton davies – vocalist /… Read More »Lurch
Biography Previously known as Nimrod and then Nimrodiabolique, this Dunedin indie-rock group took the name Suka after their first official release in 1995 (switching the album name for the band name). Suka – Dancing to Tibet Members Discography Links