Peter McLennan writes about music from New Zealand and further afield, covering reggae, hiphop, funk, soul and more.

The story of the man, the music, the art, the attitude. Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly tells the story of one extraordinarily creative man's journey from the obscurity of punk rock to the heart of New ...

New Zealand First released a health policy on Sunday that is largely copy-and-pasted from a charitable trust called Make New Zealand Healthy.

It was easy to figure out Simeon Brown’s roading promises were a fantasy from the start. He still got an easy ride from much of our media....

Welcome to the weekly AudioCulture Quiz. Clue: answers are on the site or, for those in a hurry, at the link below. AudioCulture Quiz, 20 July 2026 Te Vaka with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson 1. Te Vaka p...

Deeply personal music about painful experiences have been scraped for parts....

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First-hand accounts of living with the rock band Dragon in 1970s Grey Lynn and the subsequent spiral into heroin addiction.

With Roger Perry, it’s a matter of where to start. His influence on Aotearoa’s cultural, club, DJ, and electronic music scenes from the mid-1980s onwards was immense and pervasive. It remains omnipres...

Crystal Chen with Ruby Fainaa on congas/percussion,  Michael Howell on bass, Joe Kaptein on keyboards. There are always two ways you can look at a situation: from the inside and from the outside. Both...

Preserve a core pillar of Tāmaki Makaurau’s music community.

Opinion from the University of Auckland: As society groans under the weight of wealth inequality, Dr Neal Curtis calls for a different slogan to ‘tax the rich’.

'We’re just Venn Diagramming our ways to where the parts of our wakas overlap.'...

Sounded compounded

Legend, lore and large large tunes

Independent artist and writers have been turning ever more to self-published or handmade small print publications, reflecting a love of paper in the digital era.

“That’s not democratic, so we’re fixing it,” Local government minister Simon Watts says.

The government is rushing nine stink bills through Parliament. Yeah Nah builds you a personalised submission on every one - quicker than a coffee.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has previously said New Zealand’s nuclear-free stance is “non-negotiable”.

Dr Tree · album · 1976 · 12 songs

Parliament is considering a five-line piece of legislation to formally recognise English as an official language, alongside te reo Māori and New Zealand Sign Language.

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