Biography paul mclaney’s solo material, put together after the demise of the avalanche trio, and in a widely encompassing electronic form. generally pretty good stuff, and featuring contributions from vast amounts of talented kiwis. in 2004 a new gramsci line-up… Read More »Gramsci
Biography Christchurch-Based home-studio duo Geoff Cox (drums, bass, keyboards, writing and production) and Karl Jensen (guitars, bass, vocals and writing). Their ‘Anamalia’ EP features Poppy songs with jazzy overtones and is a promising debut independent release.Discographypicks in bold Anamalia EP… Read More »Powerlounge
Biography High-profile first wave Auckland punk outfit (archivists declare them THE original New Zealand punk outfit) who actually evolved out of the 1b Darlings, a glitter and glam r’n’b cover act dating back to 1976 comprised of Michael Simmons (soon… Read More »Scavengers
Biography 4-piece girl-pop group (with a token bloke thrown in to manly it up a little) formed during rockquest days in raglan, before relocating to the big smoke and releasing an ep on the new tea set records, with production… Read More »Duchess
Biography greig blanchett, debbie chin, shelley pratt, carol varney and kim willoughby. Discography picks in bold the gurlz ep [1982 rtc GURLZ001] Members Links
Biography Word on the street is that this Palmerston North 4-piece metal-core / punk outfit comprised of Ted Moriarty, Andy Campbell, Shaun Anderson and Sophie Burgess are just about the best up and coming band in the country. All four… Read More »Cathedra
Biography Auckland 3-piece indie group who featured on Fast Food Records ‘Christmas On The Rocks’ compilation, as well as putting out an EP in 2003 which was subsequently remixed and released on the Pink Air label. Known for their quirky… Read More »Xanadu
Biography recorded live to air on radio massey in june 1998, this was only just captured on tape by the astute bongo bunny. tapes, ocarina, guitar and bass played by noctuary (who has a solo 8″ on headshy) and pht… Read More »Gafia
Biography highly political, yet brilliantly melodic and evocative all-maori band focused on pacific style guitar and percussion (and ever changing line-up included dilworth karaka, charles, tumahai, thom nepia, morrie watene, tama lundon, gordon joll and tama renata). infamously released the… Read More »Herbs
Biography Completely unknown presumably-experimental recordings that involve Glory Fckn Sun member (and now UK resident) Ben Spiers in some capacity (Guitar? Violin?). Members Ben Spiers (Cave of One) Discography Creative Theory Submission CDr (2003, Cave of Tongue Productions) Links
Biography k-group is paul toohey, previously of noted nz geological drone ensemble surface of the earth, who also has a solo album under this name on corpus hermeticum– bruce russell toohey is also part of the new zealand guitar orchestra,… Read More »K-Group
Biography a short-lived bill direen project. Discography picks in bold feast of frogs ep [1983 prototype publications PR2025] Members Links
Biography Brash and noisy Flying Nun Records rock act from the early 1990s. Discography ‘Breakdown Town’/’Slo’Gin’ 12″ Single [1990 Flying Nun Records Fn132] Sour Mini-Lp [1990 Flying Nun Records Fn133] Gnaw [1991 Flying Nun Records Fn198] ‘Creep’/’Recliner’ Cassette Single [1991… Read More »S.P.U.D.
Biography Dating way back to the early 80s when still in university, Voom have been the duo of Andrew Buzz Moller and Andrew Mac Mackaskill. It took a heck of a long time before much actually emerged from the band,… Read More »Voom