Recent Interviews

HEALTH

HEALTH, Los Angeles industrial noisebrokers, are coming to obliterate some ears this summer. Nicely. But forcibly. Fresh off their pretty blistering sophomore record Get Color, packed with stop-start juggernaut riffs, pulsating electronic beats and their trademark disaffected vocals, their tour down under will see them hit up all main centres in their first visit to our shores.

KillaQueenz

Formed in a casual sort of way back in 2000, KillaQueenz began when Kween G and Belizean Bombshell met while dancing at the Sydney Olympics. Making fast friends, they bonded together over the arts of rhyme, recording, music and dance.

The Eastern


Image: Duke Mule 2007

Rustic purveyors of grizzled ramshackle backpack folk, The Eastern are one of the hardest working bands in the country. Performing up to six nights a week, they’re taken their distinctive sound across the globe.

Telepathe & Ponytail

Sweet double interview with Ponytail and Telepathe!

Why?

People sometimes have somewhat of a familiar kind of way of talking to me. Which is cool. I don’t mind it. I think that’s kinda neat in a way. Obviously they don’t really know me. If they did, they wouldn’t want to.

Lightning Bolt

Entering into a kind of “early man/berserker rage” and then returning to reality loosens you up, it cuts through certain illusions the world puts forth.

Beans

I used to dress up as Rick James and Kiss and use a tennis racquet as a guitar and force my family to sit around in a circle and sing ‘Superfreak’.

Samari & Jem the Misfit

Samari and Jem the Misfit return to Wellington with Kill Me DJ for the Gun Metal tour, this Saturday at Good Luck.

Best Coast

‘I hate the ocean. I will not swim in it, but I think the beach is one of the raddest places ever’

Nevernudes

Today we’re going to learn about Nevernudes. Sole recording so far, ‘Grade F Meat’ is awash with messily recorded harmonies, choruses that are more complaints, and brutally simple guitar lines that pretty much demand ‘why the fuck aren’t more bands messing around like this?’.