Punk
Up The Punks!
Up The Punks project co-coordinator and photographer John Lake spent three months on an artist's residency in Beijing to record Beijing's growing punk scene with some very entertaining YouTube video… Audio
Introducing - Cool Runnings
Cool Runnings, with their song Blister http://cool-runnings.bandcamp.com/ 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
White Lung
Canadian group White Lung have a new album, Deep Fantasy. It's more melodic than their last album Sorry, and also much more metal. The group is fronted by Mish Way, a howling, take no prisoners front… Audio
From here to there - punk in New Zealand and modern day China
From 1970's London, punk spread around the UK, Europe, the US, and eventually, to New Zealand. Nick Swan is a founding member of political punk groups Life in the Fridge Exists and Riot 111 and John… Audio
The youth's revolting!
Queen's Birthday has been the long weekend of choice for punk rock to congegrate for a bit of anti-establishment action. Some saw the punks as the outcasts of society, while others feel it was the… Audio
Sherpa
During the past few years young bands from New Zealand and around the world have been rediscovering and reinterpreting the psychedelic music and culture of the late-60s. Among these is Auckland band… Audio
Liars
L.A.-based trio Liars stood out in the electroclash scene of the early 2000s, with their evocatively titled debut They Threw Us All In A Trench and Stuck A Monument On Top. It was dark, propulsive… 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
Wild Iron
Italian-American musician, Lorenzo Buhne settled in New Zealand with his wife Kedron Parker after a crazy life on the road with US punk band The Dickies. In a desire to discover more about his new… Audio
John Cooper Clarke: poetry and punk
An English performance poet who rose to prominence in the 1970s punk scene, John Cooper Clarke continues to entertain and has just announced he'll be visiting NZ in April. He had a good old natter… Video, Audio
Revolution Rock: The Clash in New Zealand 1982
Revolution Rock: The Clash In New Zealand documents the iconic punk band's 1982 tour of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Hear from the people who were there, including fans who would later… Video, Audio
Lorenzo Buhne - From Punk to Poetry on Musical Chairs
Lorenzo Buhne toured the world as the bass player for 80's punk bands The Dickies and Fear. In 2003 Lorenzo moved to New Zealand. Leaving the hectic LA scene has given him the opportunity to get in… Audio
AK79 Live (Part 2)
Featuring The Terrorways, The Spelling Mistakes and the X-Features. Audio
AK79 Live (Part 1)
Revisiting the influential Auckland punk rock scene of the late 1970s Proud Scum, The Scavengers. Audio
Barry Jenkin - Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs featuring Barry Jenkin, a.k.a. Doctor Rock – Renegade disc jockey, record producer, former Radio with Pictures host and committed punk. Audio
