Th' Dudes: photos by Murray Cammick
In the early days of Rip It Up when these photos were taken, Auckland lived in the shadow of Hello Sailor. They were suave, sophisticated rock musi...
Off the Rails: 10 New Zealand Train Songs
Greg Fleming at The Lab Recording Studio. - Photo by Ted-Baghurst The train has had a long and storied history in American blues and rock'n'roll...
Suburban Reptiles
I Am Giant
Dinah Lee
Knightshade
Rykenberg: mystery musicians
Identifying the full range of musicians photographed by John Rykenberg and his staff is a difficult task. Some are famous; many combos are ensemble...
Rational Records
Jenny Morris
Barry Linton
Wide Mouthed Frogs
Blindspott
Rykenberg: Auckland by night
Weddings, parties, anything: photographer John Rykenberg captured Auckland life in the 1950s and 60s, and many of his photographs feature musicians...
Skylord
The Warratahs
Deane Waretini
All the Young Dudes
Should you ask me to put a date on when Th' Dudes began, I'd point to a Saturday afternoon sometime early in the Auckland summer of 1975. If the pa...
Lorde
Bill Lake
The Rockets
Nola Mills
Songwriter's Choice: Jenny Morris
It's impossible to pick just 10, but here is a mixture of old songs and not so old songs, in no particular order of preference. Juice – Headless C...
Blair Parkes
The National Banjo Pickers' Convention
At first the notion of a national banjo festival taking off in New Zealand seems as unlikely as a family of hillbillies striking oil and taki...
Kids of 88
Banjos at Dawn
The National Banjo Pickers' Conventions were about a lot more than the instrument that gave the event its name. In a 1968 Listener feature, Auc...
Duelling Banjos
Mandolinist Graham Lovejoy would join The Hamilton County Bluegrass Band in time ...
Collision
Tami Neilson
Songwriter's Choice: Dudley Benson
Dragon Swirl – Stef Animal From the 2018 album Top Gear. Stef is a Dunedin-based producer whose work I feel staunchly proud of, and whom I...
Timmy Schumacher
Connan Mockasin
Savage
Fast Crew
Cityfolk Record Co
Fur Patrol
Aotearoa Hip Hop Timeline
Barnaby Weir
Ian Magan
Radio With Pictures: history 2
The move to Avalon Radio With Pictures opening titles, 1984. For several seasons in the early 80s the theme music was Marginal Era’s ‘This Hea...