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Well, kinda. Raglan and Tauranga will be stops #2 and #3 on Dick Move's national tour, and it's going to be an absolute party. Vocalist Lucy Suttor fielded a few questions from us before the album drops this Friday. 
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 Cowboy Dan's debut album took its time to arrive, but as Max found it's neither a bare restatement of Cowboy Dan's appreciable past, nor an unneeded reinvention. Here's his full review.
 Ahead of the release of Bots, we talked with Pickle Darling (Lukas Mayo) about assembling music from fragments, an 8-bit game with music industry jokes, and why the album has already been renamed.
=> Here's the whole story, and a surprisingly relevant interlude in which robots smash each other to pieces <= Then after it was out, we reviewed the sound of someone alone in their bedroom, surrounded by ideas and deep feelings, reassembling them into beautiful and thoughtful things.  Many of us who witnessed the reassembled Watershed in Hamilton recently, fronted by Marcus MacRury, saw them as a highlight performance at the Contact 50th birthday party. In recent years, however, Marcus has been living in Tauranga, performing with (amongst others) The False Waltons, who on the 30th of August will be making the trip across the Kaimai Ranges to play Last Place with Bitter Defeat and Cowboy Dan. Little can be found about the enigmatic False Waltons online, so we attempted to mend the breach by questioning them about their relationship with the 1970s American TV drama ‘The Waltons’, the roles of the respective members, their forthcoming album, and more!
Read the Q&A -> HERE <-  When Dog Years came out yesterday, Max had never heard of them. Today, he was obliged to review this EP and fast as he possibly could. Why? It's all explained here.
Cowboy Dan's new single, new album, gig announcements, and thoughts on going punk for a minute24/7/2025  There's a lot going on for Cowboy Dan right now, as you'll see when you read
-->THIS<-- Rememories of Throw's 'All Different Things' video, with Greg Page, Justin Harris and Kirstin Marcon18/5/2025  A couple of weeks ago, Failsafe Records re-released the magnificent 1995 ‘Rememory’ album by Christchurch indie dreampop band Throw. Hamilton has a special connection with the release, with the video for their exquisite single ‘All Different Things’ having been shot here. So, to give a tangential Hamilton spin to mark the album’s 30 year anniversary re-release, we spoke with three former Hamiltonians about their memories of the making of the video; the video-maker Greg Page, and the central characters in the video, mad-scientist Justin Harris and love-interest Kirstin Marcon.
Read the interview --> HERE <--  "I've never been to a reunion before. Never wanted to. But I always said that if Contact ever had one, I'd go. And this was it".
Former Contact 89FM manager Adam Hyde gives us his personal reflections on the Contact 50ish! Read them --> HERE <--  Many might remember Sean Lister under the name of DJ Arc from the ‘Liquid Radio’ and ‘Biosphere’ shows on Contact in the 1990s. The now Wellington-based Sean has also long produced his own music under the ‘Arcology’ name, and at the Contact 50th he will be playing -- replete with drum machine, synthesizer and effects -- a live acid techno set. We talked to Sean ahead of the event about musical inspirations, synths, the importance of Contact, and more!
Read the full Q&A -> HERE <-  Rohan Marx and the rest of the Mobile Stud Unit are playing at Contact FM's 50th birthday party on Saturday, so we asked Marxi a few questions. If we didn't have a deadline to stick to, the tour stories would probably still be pouring out of him. --> Read 'em all HERE <--
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