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Hey there team and welcome to our last Waitangi Day instalment of Kiwi greats with our friends at Little Fire MusicWorks, our own true blue kiwi music store. As I mentioned in the other posts the songs are only chosen as that’s where the cursor took me. I reckon I’ve got three absolute crackers to [

Sad to hear that country music star Charley Pride has passed away. Charley died due to complications from Covid 19 aged 86 in Dallas Texas. The super star certainly knew what it was like to grow up poor and make it to the big time. The Mississippi native picked cotton, served in the United States […

Hi there team…how’s the lead up to Christmas going for you? With our god friends at Little Fire MusicWorks we thought we’d see out the year with some top tracks from 50 years ago, 1970. Let’s start with what still has to be Simon and Garfunkel’s finest hour and still one of the standout albums […]

Hey there team. Hard to believe but true, OMC’s How Bizarre has just celebrated its 25th birthday. The catchy tune that came out of south Auckland was released on December 7th 1995 and soon became an international hit. Sadly How Bizarre was just one of those songs that couldn’t be beaten and it was

Three-piece alternative rock band ‘The Dense’ has its first album release this week, and they have chosen Invercargill to celebrate the milestone. The self-titled album will feature on Spotify and i-Tunes from Friday but the group is also coming home to where it all started, performing at Tuatara Ca

Guns N’ Roses made our collective rock’n’roll dreams come true with 2017’s Not In This Lifetime tour and now Paul Dainty AM, President & CEO of TEG DAINTY is thrilled to announce one of the greatest bands of all time will return to tour Australia & New Zealand in November 2021. As the first stadium

Hi there team, we’re in November so time to enjoy some songs that became hit TV shows. We’ll start with a couple from the early 80’s, one from Britain and one from the US. Both of these songs and the TV shows were winners here, Minder and The Greatest American Hero although from memory American […]

A Southland teenage musician who has just released his first single  says he’s using the region’s binge drinking culture for inspiration. Alex Dykes, of Central Southland, who is currently studying politics at Otago University, said while most young people were responsible in their alcohol consumpti