Mermaidens are a Wellington trio formed in 2013 whose decade-long career has spanned self-released beginnings, two Taite Music Prize-nominated albums on Flying Nun Records, and a critically acclaimed self-titled 2023 album recorded independently with producer Samuel Flynn Scott.
Tiny Ruins are an Auckland indie folk ensemble founded in 2009, evolving from a solo project by Hollie Fullbrook into an internationally touring four-piece whose 2014 album Brightly Painted One won Best Alternative Album at the New Zealand Music Awards and whose four studio albums have each been shortlisted for the Taite Music Prize.
Fazerdaze is the Wellington-born, Auckland-based solo project of singer-songwriter and producer Amelia Rahayu Murray, crafting intimate dream pop and shoegaze-influenced music since 2014; the project reached international audiences with the viral single “Lucky Girl” from her acclaimed 2017 debut album Morningside on Flying Nun Records.
This Is Heaven was the solo project of Auckland musician Paul Luker, founder of the Industrial Tapes cassette label, releasing the limited-edition 200 Variations EP on Flying Nun Records in 1985.
Dunedin bassist, guitarist, and songwriter at the heart of New Zealand’s underground music scene since the late 1970s. Co-founder of the Every Secret Thing cassette label and fanzine, bassist in The Clean, and frontman of The Bats.
Auckland garage rock four-piece The D4 spearheaded New Zealand’s part in the early 2000s garage rock revival, releasing 6Twenty on Flying Nun Records and touring the world before reuniting in 2018.
Auckland all-female punk outfit Fatal Jelly Space were one of the most ferocious live acts in the early 1990s New Zealand music scene, releasing the Hole EP on Flying Nun Records in 1990.
Neo-folk and dark pop artist from Gippsland, Australia, based in New Zealand. Their trio of albums — The Licking of a Tangerine (2021), Dog (2023), and I Want to Rock and Roll (2025, Flying Nun) — trace a path through visceral, haunting folk music and bold psychedelic pop.
FLASHBACK to January 2012 — six galleries of photos and a full write-up from Day One of Camp A Low Hum 2012 at Camp Wainui, Wainuomata.
Ngāpuhi singer-songwriter whose alt-folk, country, and Pacific pop-tinged music is rooted in the Kaipara and her whakapapa. Her two Flying Nun albums — Venus Is Home (2022) and Not Your Cupid (2023) — established her as one of Aotearoa’s most distinctive voices.
New Zealand sister duo Clementine and Valentine Nixon — great-granddaughters of Scottish folk musician Davie Stewart — whose devotional dream pop spans Not Not Fun Records and Flying Nun. Albums: Eternal Delight (2016) and Perfumed Earth (2019). Now also recording as Clementine Valentine.
Christchurch-born singer-songwriter James Milne recording under the name Lawrence Arabia. Indie pop shaped by 1960s classicism, wry storytelling, and sophisticated arrangements. APRA Silver Scroll winner (2009, ‘Apple Pie Bed’) and inaugural Taite Music Prize recipient (2010, Chant Darling). Five solo albums on Lil Chief, Honorary Bedouin, Bella Union, and Flying Nun.
Wellington post-punk/ska band active 1981-1987, founded by Jon McLeary. Blended angular ska-punk with gothic-folk influences, releasing the celebrated ‘Fishing’ EP on Ripper Records. Their song ‘Your Body Stays’ became TV personality John Campbell’s all-time favorite NZ song.
Auckland post-punk band formed in late 1979 by Jed Town and James Pinker (ex-Superettes) with Karel Van Bergen and Chris Orange. Drawing from PIL, Wire, and no-wave, they provided the stylistic delineation between punk and post-punk in Auckland before disbanding in 1980.
Biography Formed while the trio were still students at Northcote College around 1983, the Auckland group embraced a poppy, jangly sound—a style far removed from the fiery intensity guitarist Dave Mitchell would soon become famous for in Goblin Mix and… Read More »Exploding Budgies