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Breezy New Zealand indie pop group the Brunettes feature the core duo of multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and producer Jonathan Bree and multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Heather Mansfield, alongside as much as 8 auxiliary members who help create the group’s Phil Spector-esque wall of sound. The band’s revolving membership contains Lil’ Main labelmates …

The literate and dramatic New Zealand guitar pop music group the Verlaines formed in 1981; led by vocalist/guitarist Graeme Downes, the group’s initial roster also included guitarist Craig Easton, keyboardist Anita Pillai, bassist Philip Higham, and drummer Greg Kerr. Both Easton and Pillai quickly exited, as well as the Verlaines …

At 21, Auckland-born Anika Moa may be the initial unidentified New Zealand musician to ever end up being signed to a significant label (Atlantic). Not really a bad begin for the Christchurch-raised vocalist/songwriter who recently performed in the Smokefree Rockquest competition. On the trunk of her solitary Younger, the label …

The Ruby Suns combine psychedelic indie pop with world music influences, sketching inspiration in the travels from the group’s only permanent member, Ryan McPhun. Although blessed and elevated in California, McPhun’s thirst for experience ultimately drew him halfway throughout the world, where he ventured into Africa and Thailand before settling …

An unsung hero from the acoustic piano, Alan Broadbent is an extremely lyrical and melodic bebopper/post-bopper that has cited Costs Evans, Wynton Kelly, Tommy Flanagan, Nat “Ruler” Cole, and Red Garland as a few of his beloved pianists. Elevated in New Zealand, he shifted to Boston in 1966 to review …

Flight from the Conchords, New Zealand’s self-proclaimed “fourth most widely used guitar-based digi-bongo a cappella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo,” initial took form in Wellington. Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement (musician/funnyman and funnyman/musician, respectively) began crafting their particular, two-man humor mélange in 1998, as the two had been living jointly as university roommates. …

Mike Nock is definitely among the best contemporary jazz keyboardists to emerge from his area of the globe. Nock began acquiring piano lessons from his dad when he was 11. He started gigging four years afterwards with 18 shifted to Australia. After proceeding a trio that toured Britain in 1961, …

Pumice may be the long-running, endlessly inventive task of New Zealand local Stefan Neville, whose shambolic music is equally similar to Kiwi pop groupings like the Clean and High Dwarfs along with the country’s experimental noise-rock rings like the Deceased C. Largely documented single by Neville on junky products, his …

b. 3 January 1939, Taranaki, New Zealand. Smith is really a self-taught saxophonist. He performed in rock and roll, dance and jazz rings in the home and in Australia before arriving at Britain in 1964, when he initial used Alexis Korner’s Blues Included (1964-65). In the past due 60s he …

Luke Buda, Conrad Wedde, and Samuel Flynn Scott are 3 men from New Zealand who have grew up hearing Pantera, Slayer, and Sepultura and made a decision to type a band. Nevertheless, the music group they shaped, the Phoenix Base, suggested they still left almost all their adolescent affects at …