An Andrew Wilson gig without Die! Die! Die!? THE NERVE!
THE NERVE by AW, released in December, is a deceptive album. You can listen to it seven or eight times and come away with seven or eight different impressions. It’s an album of poetic fragments, lyrics that echo heavily but are worth straining your ears for. It’s a guitar album…
Home grown legends The Datsuns are coming to Hamilton for Homegrown. Makes sense.
If you’re old enough to remember back when The Datsuns launched like a rock n’…
“There’s no revolution without a bit of party”: Dick Move’s album launch comes to Raglan this weekend
The third album from Aotearoa’s foremost socialist party punks, Dick Move, is out on Friday.…
Album review: Dreams That Feel Like Falling, by Cowboy Dan
Cowboy Dan formed in 2015, released EPs in 2017 and 2021, pressed those EPs onto…
Album review: Bots, by Pickle Darling
To wrap your head around Bots, start at either end. Opening track ‘Obsolete’ is a staticky, artful scene-setter. Samples, synthesisers, and…
Pickle Darling’s new album, Bots: “A lot of my life leaks into the recording”
On September 5, Pickle Darling (Ōtautahi’s Lukas Mayo) has a new album coming out. It will be their fourth in…
Chonked through The Waltoniser: A Q&A with The False Waltons
Many of us who witnessed the reassembled Watershed in Hamilton recently, fronted by Marcus MacRury, saw them as a highlight…
EP REVIEW: Dog Years, by Purple Dog
Look, I don’t know how well you know the team here at Hamilton Underground Press,…
Cowboy Dan finally have an album coming out! And heaps of other news!
Cowboy Dan, those fine jangly happy-sad rockers who have been on our favourites list for…
Rememories of Throw’s ‘All Different Things’ video, with Greg Page, Justin Harris and Kirstin Marcon
A couple of weeks ago, Failsafe Records re-released the magnificent 1995 ‘Rememory’ album by Christchurch…
Contact 89FM Reunion: Four Hours That Brought It All Back
It was officially four hours, but it felt like more. Not because it dragged—because it…
‘Synthesiser Nut’: A Q&A with Sean Lister/Arcology/DJ Arc
Many might remember Sean Lister under the name of DJ Arc from the ‘Liquid Radio’…
Talking with MSU before Contact’s 50th birthday party
Like that one friend who’s great at parties but who you’d never let into your…
Movie Review: When the Cows Come Home
‘When the Cows Come Home’ was released into cinemas a couple of years ago, but I hadn’t managed to catch it until this week, with…
The eighth stop on Troy Kingi’s ten album odyssey: Californian desert rock
Today is New Album Day for Troy Kingi (Te Arawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui). Leatherman and the Mojave Desert is the eighth instalment in his 10-10-10…
Double Doom: Demons of Noon and Infinity Ritual team up for the Succession Tour
Thanks to our Quick-fire reviews of all 68 albums nominated for the 2024 Taite Music Prize, loyal HUP readers will already know that Demons of…