The Cavern, The Kaiserkellar, CBGBs. Legendary sweaty urban cesspits which were breeding grounds for developing musicians and their budding fan base. And so, it appears with Whammy and Wine Cellar, the underground of St Kevin’s Arcade. Seventeen acts lined up for this Deep Dive Festival. The only music festival on the planet since everyone being […]
Better late than never, here’s Obscura Hail with our new song of the day, Doomer.
Karangahape Road festival The Others Way announces a line-up that digs deep into the rich vein of pure gold that is New Zealand’s alternative music scene. The line-up features artists of the moment JessB, Reb Fountain and Finn Andrews, with Beastwars bringing their immense sludge metal sound to the festival, and The Golden Awesome playing […]
Here’s Dan Sperber and his band performing at The 13th Floor. Dan is celebrating the release of his new album, Think On Your Feet with a show at Auckland’s Wine Cellar on Thursday, July 30th.
Here it is, the second installment of our 13th Floor interview with former Stiff Records owner Dave Robinson where he discusses running Stiff, then moving on to Island Record where he was overseeing the release of the Bob Marley album, Legend.
Fathe & The Sweetos – more cool local music that would most-likely be overlooked if it wasn’t for the dearth of international acts.
One of music’s most influential and enigmatic guitarists, Peter Green, has died at the age of 73.
The Art Terrorists Wax Chattels transform the Whammy Bar into the Large Hadron Collider for an hour and bombard the audience until we’ve all had our synapses rearranged and minds suitably blown. In a great way.
If you are of a certain age and got into punk in the late 70s, you no doubt had a few Stiff Records – on the roster – Elvis Costello, The Damned, Nick Lowe, even Motorhead. The co-founder of the label was Dave Robinson. Still active in the music biz he is busy promoting a […]
With a new album on the way, Come All Ye Faithful is the latest track to be released from The Psychedelic Furs.