Max Johns talks with Andrew Wilson about AW, his kind-of-solo project that definitely isn’t Die! Die! Die! and which is touring a fascinating new album. Oh, and there’s a huge Hamilton connection to the whole thing as well.

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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!

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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.

There's a lot going on for Cowboy Dan right now, as you'll see when you read
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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. 

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