The Dunedin Sound Archives

Album Review: Bicycle Thieves and Dunedin Dreams – Ōtepoti’s Bunchy’s Big Score top the league with ‘Wanda’s Bicycle’

Bunchy’s Big Score have one foot planted firmly in the storied soil of Ōtepoti and the other kicking gleefully at the future. On their second album ‘Wanda’s Bicycle’, the New…

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News: The Legendary The Bats are alighting in Australia.

Good news as the legendary The Bats are touring Australia – well, Sydney and Melbourne at this stage. Although do I note it’s around the time of Dark Mofo in…

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News: It’s our ‘Lucky Day’ as the legendary The Bats announce new album ‘Corner Coming Up’ through Flying Nun Records, with a glorious new single as a delectable amuse bouche.

The Bats are still swinging from the glorious imperious belfry as the legendary band announce the release of their new album ‘Corner Coming Up’ on 17 October, preceded by the…

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Track: Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Ringlets unveil second thundering single ‘Street Massage’ off their forthcoming album.

New Zealand’s Ringlets recently announced the release of their second album, endearingly entitled ‘The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time For Walkies)’ for 27 June 2025, and have unveiled the second…

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Track: The legendary The Bats swoop in with the shimmering fuzzy new single ‘Loline’, as a new record shapes up.

Surely the sun shines brighter the day we are blessed with another single from the living legends The Bats, one of the finest exports from Aotearoa, the land of the…

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Track: Sydney’s Daily Toll deliver an über cool spoken word track ‘Killincs’ ahead of debut album.

Sydney trio Daily Toll have announced the release of their debut album ‘A Profound Non-Event’ through Tough Love Records, and to give us a taste of what to expect, unveiled…

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News: New Zealand’s Office Dog announce signing to New West Records, unveil debut album ‘Spiel’ and entice us with the charming single ‘Big Air’.

Signed to the legendary Flying Nun label in the southern hemisphere and with genetic roots to that mecca of indie music, Dunedin, new outfit Office Dog have expanded their horizons…

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Album Review: Dead Famous People are back with a new album – the glorious shining ray of golden sunshine that is ‘Ballet Boy’.

A shimmering, blinding joy emanates from the new album by the enigmatic Dons Savage under the nom de plume of Dead Famous People. I’ve written before that there has to be…

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News: New Zealand legend Don McGlashan (The Mutton Birds) announces Australian tour on the back of the achingly beautiful single ‘All The Goodbyes In The World’ off the his album ‘Bright November Morning’.

Don McGlashan – singer/songwriter with legendary New Zealand band The Mutton Birds and a regular collaborator with Neil Finn – today announces a short run of Australian shows to take…

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News: New Zealand’s legendary Tall Dwarfs announce compilation box set and full discography stream through Merge Records

I’ve made no secret of my obsession with New Zealand’s iconic Flying Nun label and their jet fuel additives to the global indie music scene in the eighties and beyond…

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