Stuart Pearce: the piano has been thinking
Stuart Pearce recounts some of the memorable moments of his more than four decades in the New Zealand music industry, including playing on and cont...
Aly Cook
Mikey Havoc
Peter Madill, guitar maker
Guitar playing did not figure in Peter Madill's life until he went to a mid-1960s Peter, Paul and Mary concert in Dunedin at the age of 18. There h...
Arthur Pearce
Des Britten
Ten hero guitars
The recent return of the "long lost” guitar that graced the cover of the era-defining AK79 album had the AudioCulture boffins abuzz about other unu...
Graeme Allwright
Coconut Rough
Valhalla: hole in the wall, hall of the fallen
154 Vivian Street is today something of a Wellington live music institution, though that has not always been the case. Initially constructed in 192...
Bob Smith
Disjecta Membra
Bike
Straitjacket Fits
The Mutton Birds
Denys Mason
Redeye
Rachel Dawick
Ebony
Stuart Pearce
Johnny and The Contacts
Shanley Del
Walter Sinton
Johnny Volume: The Scavengers and the early days of NZ punk - part one
Ken Cooke's place in New Zealand rock 'n' roll history is assured, as is that of the band he formed in 1977: The Scavengers. Ken is probably better...
Aotearoa Punk Timeline 1976-81
Johnny Volume: The Scavengers and the early days of NZ punk - part two
Part two of an interview with Ken Cooke, aka Johnny Volume – guitarist, songwriter and driving force behind early Auckland punk rock band The Scave...
Rip It Up
The vitality of the contemporary New Zealand music scene is unthinkable without the commitment of Murray Cammick as the co-founder, editor and ...
Beatles invade New Zealand, 1964
In 1964, on a sunny Sunday afternoon in mid-winter, 7000 Wellingtonians made their way to Rongotai airport to greet four Liverpudlian musicians...
TrueBliss revisited
Before "Our image is kind of like naughty but nice.” Once upon a time in 1999 Peter Urlich sat sipping wine in one of Auckland's "better esta...
Christmas in the Sun
The history of Christmas songs recorded in New Zealand for commercial release only starts in 1949 after the establishment of Tanza Records. At the ...
Inside the Hair tribe, 1972
I was a teenager with my head in the clouds and Dylan songs on my brain and guitar when I first heard this chorus on the radio: "Gliddy glub gloo...
Aotearoa Reggae Timeline
The Dedikation
8 Foot Sativa
Sara-Jane Auva'a
Radio With Pictures: history 4
Perception of local videos Although some bands disliked being put through the Avalon mill, appearing on Radio With Pictures via a video clip s...
Francisca Griffin
Peter Blake
Song of a Young Country
In 1971 singer, composer and folksong collector Neil Colquhoun released a concept album of songs by – or re-creating the experience of – the Pa...
