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Goth Or Not?: 10 Bands With a Touch of Darkness
Words by Laura Studarus
Today is World Goth Day! (It is also Morrissey’s birthday; a fact that we have chosen to pretend is more than a happy coincidence.) A...
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Ghost Wave Crashes Into Your Mind
Name: Ghost Wave
Where They're From: Auckland, New Zealand
When They Started: 2010
Sounds Like: Jangle pop for brainy surfers
Most Similar: The Allah-Las,...
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The Dunedin Sound Lives On In Die! Die! Die!
The mid-sized city of Dunedin is like New Zealand’s Seattle. Or Seattle is America’s Dunedin, depending on your perspective. The city became internationally known in the...
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The Aussies Are Coming! 10 Game-Changing Artists From Down Under
By now you’ve surely heard “Somebody That I Used To Know,” the surprise hit by left-field Australian artist Gotye. After all, the video has racked up, at last count,...
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NZ’s Soulful Ladi6 Flows Like Water
A smooth soul sister from the deep, deep, deep South, Ladi6 is dominating New Zealand and coming for the rest of us. Her smooth voice, with just a touch of sexy rasp,...
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NZ’s Popstrangers Are Just Friends You Haven’t Met Yet
Yet another representative of the diversity in New Zealand's burgeoning music scene, Popstrangers are definitely worth getting to know. A far cry from the bright synth...
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All Eyes on New Zealand
New Zealand, whose popular music scene didn't take root until well after the British Invasion hit its shores in the mid-'60s, has made up for a late start in joining the...
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New Zealand’s First-Class Crossovers
When you make the far-flung continent of Australia look somewhat centrally located, you've got a serious case of geographic isolation going on. But New Zealand, whose...
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Jaded Psych Blues From NZ’s The Checks
The Checks' new track "Candyman Shimmer" is a culmination of about ten years. Ten years, a few labels, two chart-topping albums, tours, and shared stages with a few...
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Dance To Pikachunes’ Bedridden Disco
It's seems that for a lot of people, when they aren't skateboarding, making music comes in a close second, or vice versa. New Zealand's Miles McDougall was studying Jazz...
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NZ’s Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra Multiplies Joy
Ukulele orchestras are like brilliance sundaes with genius sprinkles on top. Acoustic covers of cheesy pop songs are generally amazing -- especially when pulled off as...
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Sola Rosa on Beer, The Macabre, and Island Life
After a week of heated voting, New Zealand's Sola Rosa earned their rightful place as MTV Iggy's Artist of the Week. Naturally, we were curious about this folk fusion...
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Jazz Up The Dance Floor With Auckland’s Sola Rosa
Sola Rosa is more than just a pretty name.
Every track on the Auckland group's recent album Get It Together is a tight blend of old and new. Head producer Andrew...
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Once Upon A Time, Princess Chelsea Scared Your Children
Move over 8bit video game revivalism -- Disney is the new electro-nerd sensation. Auckland's Princess Chelsea is hearkening
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Benny Tones Sculpts Perfect Sound
The best way to get across Benny Tones' electro-soul sound is to say that he took soul, stole its virginity and gave it copious drugs. Packed with ghostly vocal layers...
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Artist of the Week: New Zealand’s Unpredictable Leila Adu
The readers have spoken. This week, we stray away from conventional logic to honor New Zealand's jazzy, delightfully erratic alt-pop virtuoso Leila Adu, our new Artist...
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Plucky Little Guy: 10 Reasons Why Ukulele Rocks The World
Ukuleles first became popular outside Hawaii in the '20s when young thrill seekers discovered they were easy to play and small enough to tote along to roaring jazz-age...
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New Zealander Leila Adu’s Mercurial Keys
Leila Adu is an artist with the ability to strike endlessly fascinating balances. She is a classically trained pianist, with a graduate degree in composition, who plays...
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Bands We Like: Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Sunny Psych Rock
We've raved about "How Can U Luv Me," Unknown Mortal Orchestra's funky psych rock track that makes you want to rollerskate on a sweltering, graffitied boardwalk (please...
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Liam Finn — “The Struggle”
Liam Finn's "The Struggle" is a fun New Zealand rock 'n' roll hodgepodge with a Toadies bluesy bassline, a playful sung/shouted melody, and a foot firmly planted on the...