There are still a lot of things that can be done with guitars and songs that haven't been attempted before. More

Bailterspace: the sound of three men supplying more power than the average nuclear power plant. More

Betchadupa are Liam Finn, Matt Eccles, Chris Garland and Joe Bramley - a New Zealand rock band that's all about the music. "Aiming for Your Head" is their eagerly awaited... More

Auckland, New Zealand guitar-pop band Bike was led by singer/guitarist Andrew Brough, previously known for his tenure in the Straitjacket Fits. More

Bird Nest Roys, an Auckland six-piece that blazed their own path while keeping pretty much within the limits of the so-called "Dunedin Sound." More

Early New Zealand punk band, started by Shayne Carter when he was 15 and still in high school. More

Right from the opening calypso swing of "Palm Singing", Bressa Creeting Cake kick into the playful pop inventiveness that stands as this album's major mood. More

Musician, critic, illustrator, author Chris Knox has become something of a living legend in this country. Since the Invercargill born misfit started Dunedin's first punk band the Enemy in 1977,... More

The Double Happys first formed sometime in 1983 when former Bored Games vocalist, Shayne Carter, joined forces with The Stones' Wayne Elsey. More

Fiona McDonald broke into the musical world in the early 1990s as a singer for Headless Chickens. More

Since forming in Auckland, New Zealand in 1994, Garageland have taken their hook-laden guitar rock 'n roll from college to commercial radio, and into the ears of music fans around... More

Ghost Club have toured New Zealand in April, with dates in
Wellington, Auckland and Dunedin.

Hailing from the murky swamps of Palmerston North, Grayson Gilmour began his solo recordings at the tender age of 16, with the '02 release of 'Abstract Arrival', following it up... More

A contentious Battle of the Bands winner, the Headless Chickens emerged in the 80's to offer the NZ public, music that both isolated and engaged. More

From their 1986 debut EP to October 1992's Breathe EP and their forthcoming Bleeding Star album, the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience have created some of the most lasting and downright grooving... More

King Loser defied pigeonholing during their illustrious and colorful career. More

PanAm's Paul and Cole may have launched their musical careers playing Nirvana and Black Sabbath covers, but the Auckland three-piece's highly anticipated, self-titled debut album is a timeless, kick ass... More

A short-lived super-group of sorts featuring Martin Phillips, David Kilgour, Noel Ward, Alan Starrett and Mike Dooley. More

Bass player for The Clean, guitarist and singer with The Bats, Robert Scott has seen alot since first band Electric Blood was formed in 1977. More

Noisy Flying Nun rock act from the early 1990s. More

The Skeptics were a postpunk/experimental band from 1979 to 1990. More

Band formed by Peter Gutteridge, previously in The Clean, The Chills and The Great Unwashed. More

Straitjacket Fits bowed out on the mainstage at Auckland?s Big Day Out in 1994 but the group's legacy and influence has grown with time and they are acknowledged as one... More

Formed in 1995 More

Surf Friends are a new indie band drawing from the influences of Flying Nun bands such as The Clean. More

The kings of the lo-fi aesthetic the Tall Dwarfs began with the demise of singer/songwriters Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate's former band Toy Love. More

The Chills were formed in Dunedin 1980 from the remains of a two year old High School "punk" band named The Same. More

Auckland rock'n'roll legends. More

They came, they saw, they deafened. More

Coming on the back of yet another Clean break up in 1983, Hamish and David Kilgour were joined by Peter Gutteridge (from the original 1979 Clean line up) and formed... More

This ballsy two piece have cut a path through the NZ music landscape since their forming in 1997. More

The Shocking Pinks hail from Christchurch and at one time featured ex-members of bands such as The Brunettes and Solaa. These days however founding member Nick Harte has kept the... More

After only two recordings in the space of a couple of years The Subliminals were no more. More

The Terminals began in the late '80s in Christchurch from the ashes of amazingly obscure experimental combos like the Pin Group and the Victor Dimisich Band. More

The Verlaines remain one of Dunedin's seminal bands from the city's first wave of young groups that rose to prominence along with their then Christchurch based record label, Flying Nun... More

"Toy Love tried to be a bit different, not as violently anti, more inclusive. God, we even did covers" - Chris Knox 2005 More

The release from The D4 that took them international. More

Fiona McDonald's solo album from 1999. More

Betchadupa's debut album More

From rarities to the songs that made their name. From four track recordings to polished studio albums. From Dunedin to London. This double disc anthology is the ultimate Clean collection. More

The MInt Chicks EP More

Rhythm tracks recorded to analogue at The National Grid studio, Christchurch with John Kelcher and Paul Kean. More

Bailterspace: the sound of three men supplying more power than the average nuclear power plant. More

In 2000 Chris Knox released this album of varied pop based tunes. More

THIS RELEASE IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT

First release from the now established four piece.

For many, Bird Dog, is considered to be the Verlaines' best work. Released in 1987, it was the bands' second full-length album and is filled with
delicate pop and subtle...

This was the last album from the JPS Experience, recorded in 1993. It includes the title track and what was to be their most successful hit 'Breath'. More

Following on from their debut album 'Stunt Clown' comes this platinum selling album from 1991. More

An album of flair, depth and meaning, as well as an enthralling 1996 debut from two of NZ's young & enigmatic pop songwriters - Edmund McWilliams and Geoff Maddock. More

The sixth album from 1997 by the now New York-based group is also their most radical reworking of their familiar sonic barrage. More

Released in 1996 through Flying Nun and recorded in December 1995 into the summer of 1996 in Auckland city. More

A new compilation of material plucked from throughout the Headless Chickens' recording career. More

THIS CD HAS BEEN DELETED BY WARNER MUSIC NZ AND IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. Collection combines the two records made by the Great Unwashed into a single package, fully annotated... More

A compilation of their first three FLyning Nun EPs. More

Originally released on cassette in 1987,
Compiletely Bats gathers together this great New Zealand band's first three EPs - By Night (1984), And Here Is Music For The Fireside (1985)...

From 1995 comes this pop laced gem from one of the great Flying Nun bands. More

Crazy? Yes!Dumb? No! was produced by Ruban and Kody Nielson, and mastered by the legendary Howie Weinberg (Nirvana, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The White Stripes, Beastie Boys, Gorillaz) at Masterdisk in... More

This 1998 album, a follow up to 96's 'Sum Of The Few', confirmed HDU's unique existence on the musical map. More

Toy Love? 40 tracks? 25 years later? There is a god! More

The 1987 debut album from New Zealand indiepop pioneers The Bats, Daddy's Highway has now been re-issued and remastered. More

The 1987 debut album from New Zealand indie-pop pioneers The Bats, Daddy's Highway has now been re-issued and remastered on 12" LP. More

The follow up to 1997's Last Exit To Garageland'. More

This 7" release, Don't You Rise, gathers up four tunes from 1998-2003, helping to complete the discographical
picture leading up to their most recent album, The Guilty Office.

Jam-packed full of pop hooks, Ends Run Together features everything from squalling guitar rock (On The Lake, Too Early), dreamy pastoral folk (Days
Run Together), through to the driving krautrock-ish...

This is uncompromisingly great music, and will only ever suffer from not being played loud enough. More

From 2001, this is HDU's latest offering on the Flying Nun label. More

After twenty five years Flying Nun release their first ever box set, containing 4CD's and a 100 page coffee table book. More

This is the re-mastered re-issue of the brilliant 1991 album by our dynamic duo, which also includes their classic EP 'Dogma' from 1987. More

Masterfully produced and recorded by Nick Roughan (The Skeptics), Form is Die! Die! Die! like you have never heard. More

Following a handful of five-star reviews
and a top 20 chart placement - Form is now available on 12" LP.

Titled Free All The Monsters, the band's eighth album shows them in top form. More

The critically acclaimed 2011 album from The Bats is now available on 12" vinyl. More

Latest album from legendary Dunedin band. More

After a series of singles and an EP, Hallelujah - All The Way Home was the Verlaines 1985 debut album. More

The Phoenix Foundation bring us Happy Ending, which was recorded and produced by Lee Prebble at The Surgery Studio in Newtown, Wellington. More

All of The Chills best known songs on one essential New Zealand album. More

This is an essential collection of the 1st five Tall Dwarfs EPs; 3 Songs, Louis Likes His Daily Dip, Canned Music, HairyBreathSlugbucket & Throw A Sickie. Totally brilliant, totally essential & totally... More

Released in 1992, Hellzapoppin was the 3Ds' first full length album. Opening with the giddy crunch of Outer Space, it sets the tone for an album that is both thrashing... More

Released in 1992 and available again on smile inducing vinyl, Hellzapoppin was the SDs' first full length album. More

Recorded in 1986, this early collection from the Christchurch foursome combines the band's first album 'Love Songs' and their self-titled debut EP, along with the "I Like Rain" single. This... More

Juvenilia is a compilation of the Verlaines' brilliant early singles and EPs. First released in 1987, and
reissued in 1993 with bonus tracks, it documents the band's early history and...

Released on Flying Nun Records – 1986. More

Garageland's debut album, featuring the student radio classics 'Fingerpops' and 'Come Back'. More

The Shocking Pinks have written and recorded an album full of harmonic and layered pop tunes about relationship make ups and break ups – in short, love songs that work... More

Originally released in 1994, Modern Rock was The Clean's second studio album. More

As Roy Colbert's liner notes say, the Double Happys were a memorable band, and Nerves is going to be a fine way to remember them by. More

No Constellation was written over the course of 2009, and recorded in various locales from bedrooms to studios to his mum's house. All up, it is a culmination of ideas... More

Grayson Gilmour's No Constellation is now available as a limited edition 12" LP. More

2003 EP release from The Mint Chicks. More

The long awaited follow up to 2001's '6Twenty' is finally here. A sweltering mass of an album. Includes the hits 'Sake Bomb' and 'What I Want'. More

Kick arse debut album from Flying Nun artist, released to rave reviews, even a five star one from the crusty old Herald More

Released similtaneously with Matthew Bannister's book of the same name. More

It's been ten years since The Verlaines last release, outside 2003's best of, Your Just Too Obscure For Me. But finally, their new studio album is upon us, eleven new... More

The latest and most acclaimed album of their careers. More

The Mint Chicks are back with their follow up to the award winning Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! More

This was Chris Knox' second album after the 'eclectic oddity' of 1981's Songs For Cleaning Guppies. Released in 1988 it is regarded as his first album proper. More

A compilation of remastered tunes from Shocking Pinks' two 2005 albums for New Zealand label Flying Nun, Mathmatical Warfare and Infinity Land. More

Opening with the acidic Jesus What A Jerk, Some Disenchanted Evening was the Verlaines' third album and has all the brilliance of the band's previous Bird Dog. More

This self titled 1998 album is a must have for any New Zealand music fan, and is in essence a Straitjacket Fits Greatest Hits singles collection. Featuring She Speeds, If... More

An album that packs passion, fury and fun into songs that are at times a bit like drinking tequila in a churchyard. More

Submarine Bells is an absolute classic New Zealand album. Released through Flying Nun in 1990. More

Most of 1994's Sugar Mouth was recorded in a farmhouse near Waiuku, just south of Auckland. The album builds on that warm sound and feel so familiar to fans of... More

Latest release from Ghost Club. More

The foreboding title of this disc is a bit deceptive. While Scott's minimalist pieces can often be moody, they aren't the horror movie soundtrack you might expect. More

This is the CD re-issue of the Gordons terrifyingly original self-titled 1981 release. More

This 1998 debut by the Wellington twosome was first released on vinyl under guitarist and vocalist Andrew Tolley's own label, KATO MUSIC; and later released onto CD by their new... More

This 2002 release sees the Tall Dwarfs featuring a variety of musical instruments, either sampled or played by humans. These instruments include looped vocals, cello, clarinet, Korg analogue synth, Casiotone... More

This 1993 album has all the silliness, insanity and in-your-face guitar blasts from the band's previous release, Hellzapoppin. More

This LP from the wall of sound three piece was recorded at Wellington's famous Writhe studio in 1990, with then engineer, Brent McLachlan at the controls. More

The CD collection contains two unreleased tracks never heard by fans before and has seventeen tracks in total, a massive amount of Bats material, spanning their entire career to date. More

Originally seeing the light of day on the Flying Nun label in 1985 (3Vs) is a broad canvas of sound, there's no other album so chaotic, so brilliantly cacophonous and... More

The complete recorded works of Superette More

Their one and only full length album was recorded at a Northland beachhouse in May 2000 by Tex Houston (3d's, Able Tasmans, Verlaines) on the mobile Fish Street Recording Studio... More

This album was recorded and mixed in two sessions when Hamish Kilgour returned to New Zealand from his New York home in 1996. More

Since forming in Christchurch in 1987, Bailterspace have been without doubt one of New Zealand's heaviest exports. More

Here we have the re-mastered re-issue of the 1990 masterpiece by legendary local band, Tall Dwarfs, complete with a beautiful 20-page booklet. More

Released in 1999 More

This is the career retrospective of The Verlaines material, lovingly packaged with heaps of photos and 19 great, great songs. More