Patsy Riggir interview, ChaCha 1984
The Prime Minister is obviously a little … tipsy … "Now this is the kind of music I can relate to.” Muldoon leers and chuckles, looking for all t...
Space Waltz
The Hardcore/Punk Scene in Auckland and Hamilton - part 2
AudioCulture's earlier piece on the hardcore/punk scene in Auckland and Hamilton focused on the central thread of events that took place between 19...
LOOP Magazine
A predecessor of the LOOP Recordings Aot(ear)oa label, LOOP was an important magazine for the Wellington music scene during the late 1990s and earl...
UK squeeze: OE in the 60s and 70s
From time immemorial, New Zealand musicians have heard the sound of London calling. But the occasional expatriate seeking their fortune – among the...
AudioCulture Quiz
Welcome to the weekly AudioCulture Quiz. Clue: answers are on the site or, for those in a hurry, at the link below. AudioCulture Quiz, October 18,...
Playdate on the Scene, 1963
Car Crash Set
Loop Recordings Aot(ear)oa
Maree Sheehan
Cassette
Rock & Roll Rendezvous: Herbs
Herbs and Joe Walsh Life in the fast lane takes its toll. Joe Walsh of the Eagles could hear the bell tolling in the late 1980s, but was struggl...
Bruce "Phantom" Robinson
Hirini Melbourne, kaitito
Greetings to all iwi, all languages, all people everywhere. Hirini Melbourne (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu) was a composer (kaitito), singer, univer...
Hirini Melbourne
Songwriter's Choice: Maree Sheehan
It was hard to narrow my song choice to just 10 songs, but these songs continue to be on my playlists. I like a real variety in music genres. If I ...
Ngahiwi Apanui
Rob Ruha
Aotearoa: He Waiata Mo Te Iwi
Wellington, 1987: Heads turn when Aotearoa strike up their rendition of Nina Simone's 'Young, Gifted and Black'. Ngahiwi Apanui, the Wellington...
Big Day Out memories
Big Day Out was the biggest annual musical event on the New Zealand music calendar during the 1990s and 2000s. Aside from international superst...
Big Day Out in pictures
A selection of photos of New Zealand acts – and their fans – performing at the annual Big Day Out music festival in Auckland, between 1994 and 2014...
Big Day Out: New Zealand bands on the bill
Poster for Big Day Out 1994. "Hello Auckland!" Saturday, February 5, 1994 Straitjacket Fits Loves Ugly Children Headless Chickens The 3Ds H...
Alannah Currie
The Chicks: Teen Beat exclusive
The Chicks revealed their personal tastes in popular culture in the October 1966 edition of the Wellington pop magazine Teen Beat. Which Chick ...
Ten more moments in New Zealand drumming
It must be at least four years since AudioCulture first asked me to put together a list of 10 New Zealand drum tracks. A lot has happened since the...
Rock & Roll Rendezvous: Alannah Currie
Alannah Currie and Lou Reed He was a rock'n'roll animal who took no prisoners, but all journalists were prisoners in the presence of Lou Reed. I...
Auckland nightlife: the 1960s in colour
A selection of photos, mostly from the Rykenberg Collection at Auckland Libraries, that show some after-hours possibilities for adults during the 1...
The Hi Diddle Griddle
Menu from the Hi Diddle Griddle, 1959. Situated at 507 ("food from heaven”) Karangahape Road, the Hi Diddle Griddle was once considered Aucklan...
Jackie Bristow
Bic Runga on Bic Runga, 2012
Bic Runga has been a mainstay of the New Zealand music scene since she was 20 years old, when she released her chart-topping album, Drive. In 2012,...
Max Cryer
Ten house hits of the early 2000s
New Zealand clubs really started booming in the 1980s and 1990s, but the party people were mainly grooving to imported tunes – with a few notab...
Rock & Roll Rendezvous: Tex Morton
Tex Morton and Gene Autry When it came to yarn spinning, Tex Morton's aim was true. So many characters populated his colourful life that it's a ...
Monitor magazine
Emerging from the chrysalis of The Book Of BiFiM and lasting a little over two years, Monitor magazine reflected an Auckland that was increasingly ...
Dave Maybee
Raze the Roof
AudioCulture's first gallery of Brian Murphy's images of Auckland's alternative music community is anchored in the mid-1980s and at places like the...
Farmyard
Aldous Harding
Rock & Roll Rendezvous: the Moahunters
Moana & the Moahunters and the Neville Brothers When the Dave Brubeck Quartet first visited Wellington in 1960, riding high on 'Take Five', ...
Wellington catches rock’n’roll fever
When Don Richardson framed up his first "festival of jazz” in 1955, little could he have known that his live concerts would become the vehicle – le...