At about 3:30pm yesterday afternoon, the staff at MTV New Zealand were told that the company would be closing it’s doors in December and the New Zealand network which launched in 2006 also announced that they were making 23 staff redundant, not including well-know presenters Amber Peebles and Jay Reeve. […]
Kittentank, the noisy self-proclaimed “trash-diva garage pop outfit” from Wellington are heading to Auckland this weekend for a few shows including an all-ages one and a live-to-air at the Red Bull Studios. The band started off as Frank Eggleton’s solo project in 2006 but has since expanded into a six-person […]
There’s something oddly special about about Auckland’s favourite elitist magazine, Metro, calling bullshit on this years music awards. Gary Steel’s column titled ‘The Blah Awards’ in the October issue of the magazine, cleverly takes shots at Dane Rumble (“…Rumble came on like 90’s rapper Vanilla Ice on milk biscuits. The […]
There’s something oddly special about about Auckland’s favourite elitist magazine, Metro, calling bullshit on this years music awards. Gary Steel’s column titled ‘The Blah Awards’ in the October issue of the magazine, cleverly takes shots at Dane Rumble (“…Rumble came on like 90’s rapper Vanilla Ice on milk biscuits. The […]
So the Big Day Out 2011 rumour mill (including us), which had this thing looking like 1992 with grunge acts Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots and Hole lined up as the headliners, did not happen. The official announcement went down this morning at 8am but because of the Australian announcement happening […]
PRESS RELEASE: Public Enemy are coming to New Zealand in January to perform their seminal Fear of a Black Planet album on its 20th anniversary.
PRESS RELEASE: Public Enemy are coming to New Zealand in January to perform their seminal Fear of a Black Planet album on its 20th anniversary.
We had our hearts broken when young up-starts Bandicoot broke-up back in June, but we were quickly relieved to see the Muzai Records roster fill up with even better bands that have been emerging from the same scene. The Postures, Full Moon Fiasco, God Bows To Math and now Kitsunegari […]
There are a couple less local artists heading over to the CMJ Music Marathon this year, and the six that have been chosen (possibly five if Street Chant don’t make it over) will play a showcase at Le Poisson Rouge on Tuesday October 19. Alongside Street Chant, there will be […]
I’ll just come clean and tell you that I was not looking forward to reviewing Knives at Noon’s latest offering, Glitter Guts EP, in fact I only agreed to do it out of desperation. Everything I’d heard about the Dunedin foursome suggested that they were not for me, that they […]
I’ll just come clean and tell you that I was not looking forward to reviewing Knives at Noon’s latest offering, Glitter Guts EP, in fact I only agreed to do it out of desperation. Everything I’d heard about the Dunedin foursome suggested that they were not for me, that they […]
PRESS RELEASE: The Frontier Touring Company are thrilled to announce the return of The Smashing Pumpkins to NZ this October for one show only at the Town Hall in Auckland on Tuesday 19th October.
We’re still a little beside ourselves after seeing Street Chant play in the corner of the tiny Hitch Bar on Fort Lane last night, but that’s just the sort of evening it was. ARC’s second Community Projects show ‘The Circus Downtown’ showed Auckland how they do with performances from Street […]
UPDATE: First show sold out and a second additional show for January 13 has been added. Pre-sale tickets available now.
PRESS RELEASE: After winning the hearts of New Zealand audiences in 2008 with their incendiary performances at WOMAD in New Plymouth, soul-funk sensations Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings are returning in December to play two dynamite shows in Auckland and Wellington.
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