Music

L.A.B – The New Kings of Kiwi Reggae

Posted 9:46pm Thursday 15th March 2018 by Joel MacManus

L.A.B. is a supergroup with about as much pedigree as it’s possible to have in the New Zealand music scene. Combining the legendary Kora brothers Brad (drums) and Stu (guitar, keyboard), with Ara Adams-Tamatea of Katchafire on bass, and young talent Joel Shadbolt on lead vocals and guitar, Read more...

Millie Lovelock on Her New Single, 'Beneath the Visible Surface'

Posted 8:58pm Thursday 8th March 2018 by Jessica Thompson

She’s been gigging since she was 16. She’s an academic and a writer. She did her dissertation on One Direction and her thesis on Djuna Barnes. And some might say she’s one of the ultimate queens of the Dunedin music scene. Millie Lovelock won’t stop making music. With 11 Read more...

The Studylink Hold Music Playlist Is Fire

Posted 5:59pm Thursday 8th March 2018 by Joel MacManus

As is tradition for students every February, I recently spent a good 10 minutes on hold with Studylink. Normally, that would infuriate me, but this time something was different. The hold music. It started out with Brooke Fraser – Arithmetic, a soothingly powerful tune I haven’t heard in Read more...

Baynk: Just a Kid Trying to Escape Chemical Engineering

Posted 5:49pm Thursday 8th March 2018 by Emma Lindblom

Fresh out of playing Down the Rabbit Hole in O-Week, Baynk is an act that you don’t want to miss. With hits like “What You Need” reaching over 15 million streams on Spotify, Baynk (civilian name Jock Nowell-Usticke) is sure to please. From humble beginnings as a chemical Read more...

THERE HAS BEEN A CRIME!

Posted 5:59pm Saturday 3rd March 2018 by Erin Broughton

A video that surfaced on Facebook’s ‘Cool Skit Group’ showed the first ever glimpse of famous vandal Banksy in the flesh, as he made his mark on a DCC commissioned powerbox artwork advertising Dunedin sound band The Chills. Banksy has long been known for his interest in justice, Read more...

Eno x Dirty

Posted 5:41pm Saturday 3rd March 2018 by Anastasia Manza

New Zealand music talent Eno x Dirty have come together again recently to drop their new album Evil Adventures & Happy Endings, the work of Eden Jouavel (Eno) and Manu Walters (Dirty). Eno and Dirty have been collaborating musically for over eight years. These guys were previously a part of Read more...

Chase & Status

Posted 4:50pm Saturday 3rd March 2018 by Chelle Fitzgerald

Saul Milton (Chase) and Will Kennard (Status) met at uni in London in the early 2000s. Fifteen years, four full albums, their own record label and multiple headlines later, they find themselves sitting happily as one of the biggest DnB acts in the world. OUSA managed to snag Chase & Status Read more...

The Meteoric Rise of Drax Project

Posted 4:05pm Saturday 24th February 2018 by Jessica Thompson

With over two million streams of their single “Woke Up Late,” two EPs, and a gig opening for Ed Sheeran this year, Drax Project are certainly doing well for themselves. It’s a long way from where they began, busking on the streets of Wellington. Drax (an amalgamation of the Read more...

Albion Place

Posted 3:59pm Saturday 24th February 2018 by Joel MacManus

Over the last seven years Dunedin student band Albion Place has gone from a group of high school kids busking on the street they named themselves after, to tearing up Spotify, playing major festivals and performing a successful international tour. Their chill, Read more...

Wind River

Posted 12:49pm Sunday 8th October 2017 by Callum Post

Rating: 4/5 Wind River is directed by Taylor Sheridan, who wrote the screenplay for Oscar nominated movies Sicario and Hell or High Water. This is only his second outing as a director, and the first with a budget bigger than my student loan. Wind River is a grim crime-thriller that centres on Read more...