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Biography Discography Tigers [1981 EMI EMX109] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr Members

Pumpkinhead

Biography Its hard to describe Pumpkinhead. Maybe riding off the likes of the Infectious Grooves, but with a mid-90s funk-metal edge (not as bad as it sounds) that distinguished them from just about everyone. Hugely popular through-out New Zealand for… Read More »Pumpkinhead

The Black Sheep

Biography Not to be confused with the U.S. hip-hop outfit, Black Sheep A Wellington-based Avante Garde Jazz Trio, based around the Donaldson brothers rhythm section with Stuart Porter on Saxophone/Clarinet. Members Stuart Porter (saxophone / clarinet, The Black Sheep) David… Read More »The Black Sheep

Lil Chief

at the forefront of new zealand independent pop in the 00s is lil chief records, a small, but firmly established label maintained by [the tokey tones] scott mannion and [the brunettes] jonathan bree. lil chief estasblished their name and chirpy… Read More »Lil Chief

Royce T Doyster

Biography ..A loose cowpunk outfit that played a mixture of originals and country covers. Royce T Doyster got compared to the Violent Femmes a lot, mostly because people couldn’t see past the stand up drums. The band played 15 gigs… Read More »Royce T Doyster

Kimo

Also known as Eskimo Biography Formed in 2004, Eskimo marked Dave Mulcahy‘s return to the Christchurch music scene, after playing in Superette and solo up north. Playing guitar and singing, Mulcahy was flanked by Rob Mayes (Dolphin, the Failsafe label… Read More »Kimo

Delphy

Biography delphy sprung into existence after members kevin stokes – guitar/vocals, rob mayes – bass/guitar, and tracy thompkins – drums, decided to change their name from dolphin due to the number of london based bands with that word in their… Read More »Delphy

Paranymph

Biography spooky punky pop from defunct palmerston north outfit on spotty dog. Discography picks in bold hard of hearing no. 3 cassette [1995 w/ dog tooth violet / vortex victims spotty dog 09 spots] Members Links

Nova Echo

Biography Auckland based post-punk outfit. After the group dissolved in 2005, 4 of their original members reconvened with guitarist Nick Johnstone now on vocals to become shaky hands, who eventually changed their name to Cut off Your Hands… Discography picks… Read More »Nova Echo

Room Noir

Biography Dark and electronic flaboured studio recordings from Hadley Cylkk and Geoff Ljiraq. With Ljiraq’s vocals, synth, piano, electronic and guitar textures, the duo released their debut album in 2004 with plans for a stripped down ep release to come.… Read More »Room Noir

Marineville

Biography partially improvisational rock outfit out of wellington comprised of foundation member mark williams, and currently joined by geoffrey trail and stephen clover. naming themselves after swell maps brilliant post-punk lp ‘a trip to marineville’ draws obvious conclusions, though the… Read More »Marineville

Mary Briefcase

Biography Electronic artist who put out a low-scale album and EP on their own label in 1982.   Members Mary Briefcase Discography Jupiter by Ridge EP (w/ Mingelp 1982, Old Age Records, OLDAGE001) Whisper of the Sheba Dawn (1982, Old Age… Read More »Mary Briefcase

Kara McKinney

Biography Discography picks in bold they rest not double cdr [w/ witcyst, hauraki root don lonie for cash rdl094] Members Kara McKinney Links