Biography one of new zealands most successful singer/song-writers, dave dobbyn has been involved in a plethora of bands (the swingers, dd smash et all) and released a number of acclaimed albums of his own material over the last 30-odd years,… Read More »Dave Dobbyn
Biography Tight instrumental (drums and guitar) outfit in the High Dependency Unit or Jakob vein based around Dunedin-born brothers Rob and Adam Falcolner. 2 years after the release of their debut EP ‘White Light’ in 2005 the group recorded a… Read More »Operation Rolling Thunder
Biography brian crook has had a long and varied career in the new zealand underground scene. initially as a guitarist in seminal christchurch post-punk outfit scorched earth policy in the early to mid 1980s, then with the max block, and… Read More »Brian Crook
Biography An alias of Apoplexy‘s Peter Wright, utilized during the late 90’s (often for treated guitar pieces). Members Peter Wright (guitar / production / electronics, Atonal Death, Beautiful Losers) Discography Olympic / Duress (Parts 1 & 2) 7″ Lathe EP… Read More »Atonal Death
Biography The alias of soul vocalist Jason Leslie Hall, a Hokianga vocalist who has collaborated with the likes of DLT, Manuel Bundy etc, along with contributing his own songs to the first two Sugarlicks compilations. ..But it was at Wellington’s… Read More »Brother J
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 Discography Rusty Nail EP [1981 Sausage] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr Members
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 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
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