Interviews
Wellington (via Dunedin, Auckland and Berlin) musician Timothy Blackman has built a reputation with his two earlier EPs. He has played with the likes of Scout Niblett, Alexander Tucker and the Mountain Goats overseas, and his music touches the same ground as some of music's great solo performers like Bill Callahan and John Darnielle. His debut album I've Never Lived is out today (30th August 2010), and is a beautiful collection of spare, emotionally moving music – suggesting that the less is more approach can pay off when it comes to ... read more
Recent Interviews
Best Coast
Best Coast is the project of former child prodigy/advertising actor turned singer and songwriter Bethany Cosentino
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BARB
New Zealand’s latest supergroup BARB, tries to tread where few New Zealand supergroups have attempted to tread – by
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Full Moon Fiasco
Full Moon Fiasco is the new band of Will Rattray from Wellington psychedelic outfit Thought Creature. Together with a
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Roy Irwin
When a musician sites Jay Reatard and Darcy Clay as influences, it gives you a pretty good idea of what you’re in
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Broken Social Scene
A couple weeks ago I spoke with Andrew Whiteman, core member of Broken Social Scene, the Canadian collective that
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Magic Eye
We catch up with Brian Feary from Christchurch band Magic Eye.
First of all, introduce yourselves & your
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Die! Die! Die!
Dunedin formed three-piece Die! Die! Die! are arguably New Zealand’s best live band, with an energy and precision which
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The Magnetic Fields
Fame for the Magnetic Fields came by an unlikely route. Having toiled away for over a decade, releasing well regarded
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