This is less of an album review than it is a public service announcement. In celebration of twenty years of the release of the Grandaddy album ‘Sumday’, they have released the album’s four-track cassette demos as its own standalone collection.

​Read our review at the link - > HERE <-.

"Bitter Defeat’s second EP is a quick-fire, four-track affair that adds nicely to what the band started with 2021’s Minor Victory. Happily, it shows off a couple of new tricks as well...".
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We review the bands new EP, 'Terrific Effort", -> HERE <- !

Southern Tribe is the downbeat electronic project of Andrew Newth. Active since the mid-1990s, Southern Tribe has recently released 'Retrospective’, a compilation of early songs - some you may have already heard on compilations, while others have never previously released. We talked to Andrew about the shift from Love & Violence to Southern Tribe, changes in the technology he has used through time, the future of Southern Tribe, and more!   

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We threw five easy questions at Die! Die! Die! frontman Andrew Wilson just so you could get a taste of where the band's at before they play Never Project Space next week. 

It's a quick read that you can...no, MUST!...find -> HERE <-

Dylan Dolby just wants to get the shopping done, but his acquaintances have other ideas. 

Do you like shopping, or nightclubs, or listening to what radio announcers have to say? Well, there might be something in here for you! We take a look at the three experimental synth-based, largely spoken-word albums released to date by the Dolby Brothers. 

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“The time has come to open thy heart/wallet” Bandcamp tells me, as I listen freely to Belladonna’s ‘Total Eclipse of my Brain’ EP one too many times. We have been a bit quiet at HUP recently, with seemingly little happening in the music scene to keep us excited, but here is an EP that has pulled me out of my unintentional slumber. 

​We review Belladonna’s latest wonderful EP -> HERE <-​

Another Christmas means another book to read, and happily so - as few music autobiographies I have read have been as good as this one. We review Will Sergeant's (of 'Echo and the Bunnymen'-fame) "Bunnyman - A Memoir".

Read our review -> HERE <- 

HUP wrote a review of ‘Synth from the Dawn of Time’ by Wellington dino synth project ‘Thagomizer’ a few weeks ago, and described it as "Mesozoic mood music". Then, in November – in a move that got us straight in the feels – they released a new EP titled... "Mesozoic Mood Music"! We tracked down Thagomizer’s Caspar Kneale to discuss the Wikipedia rabbit holes the songs can take you down, the micro-genres of dino synth and dungeon synth, the most appropriate situations someone should listen to Thagomizer in, and more! Read about it -> HERE -<

In July, Auckland's Anecdata set out to publish 52 new songs in 52 weeks. These are currently stalled at 16 songs after the first 16 weeks, with lockdown causing some issues with his productivity. But, what better time than now to look back over the Anecdata's music, to choose my five favourite songs from past albums, as a gateway for potential listeners to what is quite an extensive back-catalogue!

​Read the article -> HERE <-