DIY
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
Patty Schemel
Live Through This, the breakthrough album for Courtney Love-Cobain's band Hole turned 20 earlier this year. Drummer Patty Schemel was in NZ this week with her new group Upset, and relived those crazy… Audio
Kraus Synth Workshop
Melody Thomas heads along to a synthesiser-building workshop with Auckland-based musician and electronic music device-maker Pat Kraus (aka Kraus). As well as learning fantastic new terms like… Audio
Introducing: Shunkan
Shunkan, with Wash You Away, from her EP Honey, Milk, and Blood. https://artishardrecords.bandcamp.com/album/honey-milk-and-blood 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
NZ Society- Kiwibots Vid
Five hundred young robot builders from throughout New Zealand have just spent three days doing battle in the National Robot Championships or "Kiwibots" as they're called. This year the event's been… Audio
Music Tech Fest 2014
This week musicians and tech heads came together for Music Tech Fest- a good old fashioned hackathon organised by Andrew Dubber, professor of Music Industry Innovation at Birmingham City University… Audio
Woodsman
Brooklyn-via-Denver group Woodsman make woozy psychedelic sounds allergic to structural guidelines, and inspired by altered states of consciousness. Emma Smith speaks with Trevor Peterson, guitarist… Audio
The DIY Touring The World Handbook
Tour manager and music festival organiser Ian Jorgenson, a.k.a. Blink, has written a practical guide for NZ bands touring overseas. Blink talks about his experiences on the road, and the little things… Audio
The Trons on Musical Chairs
On a quiet street in the leafy 'burbs of Hamilton, mad scientist and music fanatic Greg Locke set about building The Trons, a touring band of robots made out of old Meccano, number 8 wire and nuts and… Audio
Retrobots
Take one excitable Welshman with a dash of pure vision, plus a few hours of drilling, screwing, grinding and cutting, and you've got -what, exactly? A Retrobot, that's what. Spectrum goes back to the… Audio
Kevin Blechdom
One woman whirlwind Kristen Erickson AKA Kevin Blechdom shares her troubled relationship with all things pop with Emma Smith. Audio
Punkfest 2009
Jamie Morris heads to Punkfest one of the country's longest running DIY festivals, for a lesson on homemade hell raising. Audio
