WASTE PAPER

04/11/2019

Damn this is good!

8 track album

10/08/2019

Revisit our November 1993 on Chicago's Drag City Records.

30/06/2019

On Vintage Cuts this week.. here comes Chch indy alumni Matt Bullimore with an imported crate of the good stuff to load into the Vintage Cuts Hit Machine!
Vintage Cuts on RDU Sunday 1-3pm
tune in to RDU 98.5 FM or listen online http://www.rdu.org.nz/player.html

15/06/2019

anyone see the new spotify logo 😎

30/04/2019

18/03/2019

Damn this sucks!

We've lost another one. Andre Williams was one of the great musical characters of the last 60 years.

22/02/2019

Bow down: 90s rock royalty Royal Trux are back with White Stuff, their first studio album in 19 years. Frontwoman Jennifer Herrema, who flexes her art tendencies as much as mic prowess, runs through her favourite maestros

20/02/2019

14/02/2019

Cheap Trick’s debut record was unlike anything else upon its release in 1977

28/01/2019

From the Dead Moon tribute night at the Embankment in Christchurch New Zealand on .18 Jan 2019.

02/01/2019

This sucks

25/11/2018

Just because you're married to a nasty sucker from the sewer . . .

There doesn't seem to be a better way to describe Shaft than John Pain's opening words on his new profile, so let's use them:

Shaft is the name of the band, and Bob Cardy is the main man. They have been rockin’ around New Zealand since 1992, playing gigs both soft and wild and making country-tinged bubblegum and psychedelic garage rock’n’roll records that feature a changing roster of musicians which, while not as populous as other bedsit/garage/basement armies like The Fall or Guided By Voices, is still an honour roll of indie legends who have all contributed to one sweet body of work.

We had an older profile of this great band but we've just given it a massive update and added images and much more.

Shaft at AudioCulture: https://www.audioculture.co.nz/people/shaft

13/11/2018

02/11/2018

Get it tonight at Hell Fire if you have the hardware to play it!

16/10/2018

“Cheap Thrills” by Big Brother & The Holding Company. Groovy cover by Robert Crumb.

12/10/2018

Post earthquake leaning tower of rocking' pisa takers !

MAG59 - GRAND CHANCELLORS - BURIED EARLY FROM THE ALBUM 'GRAND CHANCELLORS' RELEASED OCTOBER 13, 2018AD STINK MAGNETIC RECORD CO.

09/09/2018

Look out Cheechnya!

26/08/2018

08/08/2018

This is going to be great.

Hey! We're releasing a 20 track compilation of genuinely excellent previously unheard Christchurch music this Friday. It's called 'Sickest Smashes From Arson City: Legacy Edition'... Because what's more quintessentially Christchurch than a burnt out Subaru Legacy?

21/07/2018

Dark & filled with energy it's COAL!

19/07/2018

11/07/2018

Christchurch super dirty garage pop band featuring members of the Ruling Elite, Salad boys, the palace of wisdom, dance asthmatics, T54 & a pipe band!

22/06/2018

11/06/2018

The Stones were not around for long but as Andrew Schmidt says, every music scene needs someone like The Stones. They were abrasive, challenging, ruffled feathers, had a wicked sense of humour and mischief – and made several great records.

Wayne Elsey, Jeff Batts and Graeme Anderson were part of the first wave of Flying Nun bands - their recording debut came with four superb songs on the legendary Dunedin Double EP in 1982.

They then released one EP under their own name (Another Disc Another Dollar) before splitting in 1983. Wayne, of course, went onto the Doublehappys and died tragically in 1985.

We have some wonderful and evocative images of this important band on our detailed profile.

Andrew's profile of The Stones: https://www.audioculture.co.nz/people/the-stones

08/02/2018

What Ox said.

One of the great things about the New Zealand music scene is the way we've always embraced the left of centre and whilst the creators have not always made a living from this, it has allowed all sorts of people to make music successfully and often sell it around the world.

Matt Middleton is an example of that. He's forged out a three-decade-long career as a multi-talented musician, as Crude and with The Aesthetics, in both New Zealand and Australia and found an audience for his music globally, with fans including Thurston Moore (who has released Matt's work on his own labels).

Melbourne based for some years now, still with The Aesthetics, he's still recording and releasing - adding to a catalogue of some fifty albums.

Jon Chapman profiles Matt Middleton aka Crude for AudioCulture: https://www.audioculture.co.nz/people/crude

31/01/2018

A compilation of live bootlegs recorded in - or somewhat near - Christchurch, New Zealand. Originally broadcast on "Wiretap" for www.8k.nz.

16/01/2018

A Day in My Mind's Mind is a series of CDs encompassing the New Zealand psychedelic music scene from 1966 to 1972.� The first three volumes were released by EMI New Zealand between 2005 and 2008 while under the helm of Chris Caddick and Thierry Pannitie

08/01/2018

One of the great things done by the New Zealand music community in recent years was to right a wrong and give The Swingers the 1981 APRA Silver Scroll for 'Counting The Beat'. It was accepted by that band's drummer, Buster Stiggs (aka Mark Hough) with a wonderfully warm and very human speech.

Buster, as many know, had long been very unwell and indeed was struggling that night, but the same spirit and determination that drove him in the 70s and 80s was evident there. The spirit that gave us all that wonderful music ...

Sadly Buster passed away overnight in Perth, where he'd lived for many years. We will miss you a great deal Buster Stiggs, rest easy.

https://www.audioculture.co.nz/people/buster-stiggs

30/12/2017

This guy!!!!
Sheeeez!

By 15 he was playing drums around town in a metal covers band, then supporting Oregon garage punks Dead Moon and New Zealand hair-metal heroes Push Push with his band Arcane (formerly Putrid), and winning Southland Drummer of the Year. “I joined that band

23/11/2017

Centred around Cantabrians Brian and Maryrose Crook, The Renderers have been making extraordinary and quite unique New Zealand music since the 1980s, first via Flying Nun and then increasingly offshore via labels like Ajax Records, Siltbreeze and Ba Da Bing!

To quote Jon Chapman in his 2013 profile of the band (seen here with Michael Daly in 2006) they "invented a wheeling, wailing, New weird Zealand." The Renderers music is often dark, but alternatively equally joyous, complex and almost cinematic. Kind of like the musical equivalent of the Canterbury Plains, or the Western Plains in their adopted American homeland.

Our profile of this glorious band can be found here: https://www.audioculture.co.nz/people/the-renderers

17/11/2017

We are very sad to let you know that our old friend and band mate DikMik, (Michael Davies), passed away early this morning. He will be loved and remembered for his innovative contributions not only to Hawkwind, but to a whole musical genre of which he was an important pioneer...

Dave Brock...."I remember when DikMik joined the band, he bought himself an audio generator from Tottenham Court Road, got himself a Watkins Copycat echo unit, a fold up card table, (complete with green baize), and became one of the innovators of electronic music!

It was on DikMik's suggestion, and later persistence, that we got Lemmy to join the band and you know the rest!

Goodbye old chap your legend lives on......x"

11/11/2017

Fred Cole, a legend in the Portland music scene who, alongside his wife Toody Cole, fronted the punk-garage outfits Dead Moon and Pierced Arrows, has died. Cole was hospitalized last week for bleeding in his liver, according to Willamette Week, and earlier today Toody posted on the Pierced Arrows Fa...

10/11/2017

TMS pulls no punches here.
It's like TMS times the really real review to the power of six!

Lawrence of Arabia was a 1962 film filled with stunning action sequences, non stop excitement, a handsome charismatic lead and played for a 'I can't believe that was really 3 and a half hours' running time. An Evening Alone With Lawrence Arab...

07/11/2017

Dave Imlay's fronting these guys you bet I'll be there!
Rumours of winkelpickers also!

The Prodigies with one of their Super posters on Manchester St, Ōtautahi. They play Lyttelton on Friday the 10th of November.