Since the release of Awning’s debut, My Friend Dog EP, recordings made between 2021 and 2023, singer/songwriter Christian Dimick has made significant strides, and I’m not just talking distance between Te Whanganui-a-Tara and Tamaki Makaurau.
Awning is Christian Dimick, originally based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, where Dimick was, not only making music, but also working part-time making coffee, toasting sandwiches, and studying Fine Art. All the while releasing songs on Bandcamp since 2023, before moving to Tamaki Makaurau and releasing the magnificent Gold Star EP in 2024.
Delaney Davidson is a well-dressed figure in Noir’ Country Music, as a troubadour he acts in the shadows, alone, in collaboration and as a guiding muse, creating music which reeks of theatre, vaudeville and infective uneasiness.
Mark Stewart was a giant of an artist (stature as well) vocalist for agit-pop anarchists The Pop Group, an English group that in four short years (1977-1981) traversed punk with dub, jazz and funk creating a sound that impressed Nick Cave, Mike Watt (Minuteman) and gained fans afar a field as Matt Groening (the creator of […]
Makin’ dirty mischief since at least 2012, releasing dirty records since 2016, Bloodbags the scion of past outfits Bloody Souls and The Dirtbags, after releasing wha 7”s and a split LP with US band Brain Bagz have finally released their debut album – Bloodbags.
Small Gods Taproom: Hidden near the Powerstation. below towering apartments, accessible by steep hills and pathways.
If you’d ever experienced the electrifying phenomenon of Tamaki Makaurau band Ratso live , you would likely agree that their edgy, vaudevillian spectacle, “A Good Night Out” was not only charismatic but also essential to the band’s profound impact.
Imperial Triumphant. Formed in New York (where they like Jazz) by Zachary Ezrin in 2005, avant garde, experimental, even transcendental in nature, Imperial Triumphant have in their rua decades of existence, edged the Black Metal genre out of the dark ages, into an intellectual realm that the vapid have revilled against, while the valorous have […]
Cosey Fanni Tutti is one half of industrial synthpop act Chris & Cosey, the two remaining living members of 70/80s groundbreaking Industrial act Throbbing Gristle. On her latest solo album, 2t2, the last being Tutti in 2019, Cosey has given us nine new compositions, composed, recorded and produced exclusively by her.
Love Party, are Poneke tāngata Kate Yesberg, Dayle Jellyman and Cory Champion, together, compositely, they have plethora of musical experience, including playing in teenage punk bands, whilst concurrently other acts including; Battle Ska Galactica, Clear Path Ensemble, Fvkvshima, and Floating Head jazz ensemble.
