Biography danny butt, brian crook, kim peiters and peter stapleton – brilliant superband, putting out an album on high-profile u.s. indie kranky, and 3 follow ups on their own smaller metonymic imprint in the mid 90s. arising fromt he ashes… Read More »Flies Inside The Sun
Biography an accomplished violinist and a naturally talented song-writer (who cut his teeth in his mid teens with the brilliant but under-recorded the rip), galbraith has quietly gone about producing a number of excellent solo albums through a long, consistant… Read More »Alastair Galbraith
Biography stoner rock lo-fi solo project from joed out‘s micheal brennan. Discography picks in bold eliminator mini-album [2004 powertool records PT024] Members Phonoss Links
Biography Originally performed as Art and Duty, a name borrowed from Wellington band Beat Rhythm Fashion‘s song of the same name. The band comprised of Andrew Naylor, Rob Kitson (also Of Clients), Rob Mayes (Dolphin, Throw, Springloader), Rick Tindall (Johnnies)… Read More »AD
Biography Discography Rusty Nail EP [1981 Sausage] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr Members
Biography Wellington 5-piece in the rock/metal/prog vein (not to be confused with the British electronic act of the same name) who self-released their debut EP in 2000. Members Discography Links
Biography craig bracken, darrin kennedy, daniel salmon and troy shanks. Discography picks in bold who’s that girl ep [1987 onslaught CNT002] Members Links
Biography a brash but likeable auckland-based pop outfit based around the vocal talents of milan borich and tim arnold, who built up a large following through-out new zealand in the early 00s. keyboardist mattias jordan and former head like a… Read More »Pluto
Biography notorious comedy-rock-punk cum-head like a hole parody act mobile stud unit are a hamilton institution, and actually managed to outlive their comic target. head up yr’ hole was a tremendously funny pistake of the wellington hard-rockers and an underground… Read More »Mobile Stud Unit
The Leper Ballet burnt so brightly and so quickly that it’s astonishing they didn’t garner wider acclaim. Like Iggy and his Stooges during the epochal hey-day, the group were a writhing, for-the-moment ball of energy, engulfing rooms with pulsating sound… Read More »Leper Ballet [April 2005]
Biography dunedin sonic 3-piece (tristian dingermans, dino karlins and neil phillips) in the mold of a louder, younger mogwai, born out of metal influence and small-town frustration, their startling sophmoric higher ep [1997] was given the remix treatment sound after… Read More »High Dependency Unit
Biography grayson, john, steve and broc. Discography picks in bold ebola cola ep [1995 word of mouth / mediate music] Members Links
Biography Discography Saduction EP [1982 Jsa2] Lilac Dan And The Underworld Ep [1983] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr Members
Biography ‘Swagger Jack’ is something else entirely. Jacks my hillbilly-punk songwriting character (a hard-drinking embittered feral/hippy idealist who records occasionally ‘rattly’ and violent, but often ‘pretty’ (in a melancholy way) acoustic numbers on battery powered 4-trks in doc huts and… Read More »Swagger Jack
Biography an acoustic singer-songwriter solo artists from the hawkes bay (now based in wellington) with connections to monkey records (an emerging ambient and electronic label with several releases from key members of the mink / cloudboy collective). fultons’ debut featured… Read More »Ben Fulton