On this day in 2001, Anika Moa's debut album 'Thinking Room' went to No. 1 on the Aotearoa Music Chart. As a teen she signed to US label Atlantic Records: the first Kiwi to sign to a major international label before releasing an album at home. www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/anik...
"Pluto immediately had success on student radio with 2 poppy acoustic tracks, 'She's Jive' and 'Hey Little'. Yet their real aim was the multi-layered rock sound they achieved on their second album, Pipeline Under The Ocean (2005)..." www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/pluto@garethshute.bsky.social
"Pluto immediately had success on student radio with 2 poppy acoustic tracks, 'She's Jive' and 'Hey Little'. Yet their real aim was the multi-layered rock sound they achieved on their second album, Pipeline Under The Ocean (2005)..." www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/pluto@garethshute.bsky.social
The things you find. This is the first profile of a wee indie label I set up once upon a time. They were such unique and new things in NZ that the writer had to explain how they worked—45 years ago (gulp)...
Nominees for the 2025 Aotearoa Alternative Awards have been announced, and AudioCulture is thrilled to be sponsoring Te Whiringa Toa 2025 ki a Te Pou Hononga/The SRN Top 10 of 2025 award :) Also, you can vote here for the People's Choice award: srn.nz
APRA AMCOS Aotearoa have announced that the Music Director of the 2025 APRA Silver Scroll Awards | Kaitito Kaiaka (held on October 29) is the singular singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arts laureate, and producer/svengali, Delaney Davidson. Cool! www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/dela...
Congratulations to The Warratahs, who will be inducted into the NZ Music Hall of Fame at the APRA Silver Scroll awards on October 29. AudioCulture has several pages devoted to the band, and its original members... www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/the-...
Congratulations to The Warratahs, who will be inducted into the NZ Music Hall of Fame at the APRA Silver Scroll awards on October 29. AudioCulture has several pages devoted to the band, and its original members... www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/the-...
Ōtautahi Christchurch friends, this is cool! The Art of A Low Hum (Triple Book Release) is on tonight at Space Academy, with some great acts poerforming.
...was the committee’s verdict on Hank Ballard, while Little Richard’s ‘Tutti Frutti’ was declared a “coarse and ugly performance, words always difficult to hear and often unintelligible”, with the final insult: “Play Pat Boone version only.” 2/2 www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/ban...
Happy naughty Friday? Start your day with Nick Bollinger's great story about songs banned from the radio. (Chris Knox alert in the image!) "It could be the sound as much as the lyrics that kept records off the airwaves. “Noisy, coarse and crude”... 1/2 www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/ban...
It's release day for Not Given Lightly, Craig Robertson's biography of Chris Knox, and we're thrilled to share an excerpt. "Songwriting was partly a physical process, he told Russell Baillie..." We're also giving away a copy in next week's newsletter...1/2 www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/chr...
...so if you would like to enter the competition, you might like to sign up to the newsletter now, so it will land nicely in your Inbox next Friday (October 17): 2/2 www.audioculture.co.nz/newsletters/...
It's release day for Not Given Lightly, Craig Robertson's biography of Chris Knox, and we're thrilled to share an excerpt. "Songwriting was partly a physical process, he told Russell Baillie..." We're also giving away a copy in next week's newsletter...1/2 www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/chr...
I had a fun time digging out some of the more ridiculous reasons for certain local songs/videos being banned over the years. Though the vid for Timberjacks's Come to the Sabbat' did get one airing on TV in the 70s and I doubt they'd show it now...
