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Shocking Pinks

Biography Formed by Nick ‘Harte’ Hodgson in mid-2003, The Shocking Pinks are one of the most exciting and memorable bands to spring out of…

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The Mad Scene

Biography When Hamish Kilgour moved to New York in the early 90’s he immediately joined Bailter Space, but Mad Scene were to become his…

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Maud Gone Band

Biography Discography picks in bold the difficult third album lathe cut [self-released] Members Links

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Cynthia Should

Biography Discography Mutton [199? Yellow-Eye Eye010] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr Members

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Seht

Biography Stephen Clover – who also released lathe cut albums under the names Logstore and the Longshoremen. Yet another of the post H-Corp NZ…

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Balance

Biography Auckland hard-core / skate-punk outfit. Balance formed the ElevenFiftySeven record label as an effort to raise the profile of Auckland hardcore, organizing tours…

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Ed Muzik

Biography Ed Muzik is James Dann; one of the strangest and most comical music acts to have emerged from Christchurch’s live electronic revival circa…

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Clowndog

Biography weird 3-piece punk outfit, originally from nelson who relocated to christchurch, won the dux band competition (charming the crowd with such stunts as…

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Rumblefish

Biography Former Wellington hair-rock outfit who put out some of the earliest recordings on Murray Cammick’s Wildside recordings. Discography Pull Up To The Bumper…

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The Legionnaires

Biography emerging out of hello sailor in the early 80s, graeme braziers legionnaires went through a number of line-up changes, taking in dave mcartney,…

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Cornerstone Roots

Biography whaingaroa-based downbeat reggae / roots combo led by brian mcmillian (vocals / guitar / songwriting), with a rhythm section featuring naomi tuao (bass)…

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Stefan Wolf

Biography Wolf has been a member of the short-lived Stiff Herbert, Bizu and Madding Crowd, along with releasing several albums under his own (comical)…

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Pagan

long-standing corporate label, home of a bevy of mainstream artists in a wide swag of commercial genres, with a catelogue stretching back to 1985…

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The Stumps

Biography The Stumps are the New Zealand superspawn of Antony Milton (Pseudoarcana, The Nether Dawn, Etc), Stephen Clover (Seht), and James Kirk (Sandoz Lab…

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La Gloria

Biography la gloria original surfaced as the debut lp of empirical – aka marcel bear. this was a well-liked drone-piece contructed around bear’s unusual…