Post Punk
A revisionist summer with Public Image Ltd
Music correspondent Graeme Downes has been looking back this summer as he downsizes his music collection. He joins Kathryn for a look at English post-punk band Public Image Ltd. Graeme Downes is a… Audio
NZ punk pioneer Buster Stiggs, remembered by Simon Grigg
Buster Stiggs, a pioneer of the NZ punk and post-punk scenes died this week. He was a member of Auckland bands The Suburban Reptiles and The Swingers. His friend, and sometime manager Simon Grigg… Video, Audio
The Mixtape: Jed Town
Jed Town is the saw-toothed musician from gothic experimental band Fetus Productions, post-punk Auckland band The Features and the revived X Features, and now country/psych trio Ghost Town. He's also… Audio
Hikashu: Experimental sounds from Japan
Since 1978, Koichi Makigami has been making music with Hikashu, a collective who have taken in post-punk, new wave, krautrock and free jazz. With techniques and sounds borrowed from various indigenous…
Hikashu: Experimental sounds from Japan
Since 1978, Koichi Makigami has been making music with Hikashu, a collective who have taken in post-punk, new wave, krautrock and free jazz. With techniques and sounds borrowed from various indigenous… Video, Audio
The Saints' Ed Kuepper
Ed Kuepper, from Australian punk and post-punk bands The Saints and Laughing Clown, speaks to Kiran Dass ahead of his shows in NZ this weekend. Audio
Viet Cong
Calgary, Canada art-rock quartet Viet Cong, might not be making music under their chosen name for much longer because of accusations of cultural appropriation. Still named 'Viet Cong' - for now, at… Audio
John Lydon - What The World Needs Now
The online and uncut version of Trevor Reekie and John Lydon talking about everything from mortality and natural history. Audio
The Mint Chicks - F--k The Golden Youth
On 13 August 2004, The Mint Chicks' Kody and Ruban Nielson, Michael Logie and Paul Roper retreated to a secluded bach at Oakura Bay, Northland to begin a two-week recording session for what would be… Audio
The Return of The Pop Group
Formed in Bristol in 1977, The Pop Group was at the forefront of the post-punk movement, carving out an influential niche for themselves that has seen them name dropped by the likes of Nick Cave… Audio
Trust Punks - Discipline
Alexander Coker Grant and Lliam Powell of Auckland's Trust Punks on their debut album Discipline, and the intense imagery that accompanies it. Audio
Introducing - The Violet Ohs
The Violet Ohs, with their song Vent, from their Demos EP. Audio
The Sampler: Josef K, The Only Fun In Town
Kiran Dass take a listen to the literate post-punk of Josef K on The Only Fun in Town. Audio
Die! Die! Die!
After their most difficult album, local trio Die! Die! Die! are back this month with their fifth album, Swim. Joe Nunweek speaks with Andrew Wilson, Michael Prain and Michael Logie about feeling like… Audio
DZ Deathrays
Raucous Australian rock duo DZ Deathrays were in town last week to perform with local partners in crime Die! Die! Die! at Auckland's Kings Arms. Joe Nunweek chats to bandmembers Shane Parsons and… Audio
The Sampler: Record Store Day 2014 Reissues
Nick Bollinger takes a listen to some of the special NZ reissues on offer for Record Store Day, which celebrates these shrines to physical product. Featuring: Spelling Mistakes, La De Da's and… Audio
The Spies
Wellington in 1979: A fairly unlikely bunch of musicians, artists and vagabonds went almost unnoticed in the squats of Wellington's Bosworth Terrace, playing and recording together, loosely grouped… Audio
Wire
UK quartet Wire put out three albums that shattered the boundaries of what punk rock could represent in the late 1970s, but if you stopped there, you'd be missing out on another three decades of… Audio
The Mint Chicks - Live at The Transmission Room, 2007
Captured just prior to moving to the United States in 2007, this Merry Christmas swansong from energetic rock quartet The Mint Chicks was the last show with bass player Mike Logie before his brief… Audio