With the release of 'The Far Now' in early February, David Kilgour will have reached the impressive milestone of album number six. ...more

My how Káren Hunter has changed. Gone is the shaven head visage that matched her singer/songwriter lesbian feminist persona - giving way to dark, tight curls highlighted with splashes of grey. "People are saying that I have mellowed a bit and seem a bit more relaxed as a performer. And that my skills have increased - which they bloody well should have!" ...more

The off-K' Rd address of Monkey Records' shared office space is hardly salubrious, but the welcome from Nigel Braddock is warm. ...more

We initially found out that we might be playing at the Big Day Out whilst recording our first single at York St studios back in November. Lorraine Barry, our mentor since winning Rockquest, mentioned she was meeting with the festival's booking agent to see what she could do about securing us a spot on the bill. ...more

"We live in boxes. We live in houses that are boxes; drive cars that are boxes; the way people make music now on computers is boxes - they visually pile up the boxes in the computer and say 'I'll have three of those for the verse and two for the chorus'," says Nigel Gavin. ...more

Enjoying a civilised drink over calamari, sashimi and salmon at a noisy Manakau Road restaurant, Jason Kerrison ascribes the purposeful title of Opshop's sophomore album, 'Second Hand Planet' to the inspiration of drummer Bobby Kennedy. It should have fallen to Kennedy to offer the explanation behind it but as he wasn't dining with us Jason, the group's singer/guitarist, and most recognisable face, stepped up to the challenge. ...more

If there's one thing that strikes me about Auckland's Revolver it's that this group of five guys certainly live in the now. ...more

The Great Garage Revival that did so much for The Datsuns and The D4 certainly didn't do any harm to The Have. Sure, these young protégés of retro-rock were not long out of school, or their native Wanganui, when the guitar revivalist wave swept through the UK, so were perhaps left feeling a little high and dry. ...more

When choosing a band name there are just so many things you have to consider. It’s got to be catchy, it should be relatively simple to spell, it perhaps needs to intrigue enough to make the right people come along to a gig and, most importantly, it needs to be unique - particularly in a country as small as New Zealand... ...more

Lazing around on a once-was-red rock couch out the back of the music shop where guitarist Marc Royal works, yakking to the founding members of Christchurch rockers The Valves, is not a bad way to spend a rainy afternoon. ...more