Treevenge

In light of it being Christmas Eve and all... here is a short film about Christmas from the trees perspective.

Hivemind

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I've been meaning to chuck this up for ages.

Hivemind is my current band. This is our demo. Download it. We recorded it at Zeal, West Auckland with Chris Horry. Chris also did guest vocals on the track 'Polar'.

Since recording this we have gained a new member who goes by the name of Jono. He also plays guitar in Parents. He's cool.

We will be doing a whole heap of stuff throughout summer including playing shows. So come along.

Caskgrinder

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Track List:
1.Self Abuse
2.Caskgrinder
3.Haiku Metal Punks
4.Ice Cold Mixup
5.Trout Stephens


Auckland Dbeat/Grind band Caskgrinder have chucked their tape up for digital download. They're mean as cunts that play mean as metal.

Pillage - Fuck Brian Tamaki

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Auckland Powerviolence band, Pillage have just released this Demo/EP thingamabob. Enjoy.

Jurassic Penguin

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Jurassic Penguin are a bunch of young dudes from West Auckland that play a dark style of hardcore. Check them out.

NVMBSKVLL

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Numbskull are a new thrash influenced hardcore punk band from Wellington. Check out their demo tape!

Natural Glow

Young, Gifted, & Fat

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Natural Glow is a Wellington band named after Suzanne Paul's skin care product. It has thousands of luminous spheres.

Pillage

Pillage are a reasonably new Powerviolence band from Auckland City. They've recently been doing some recording and have a 6 track demo/EP on the way. You can check out some of these tracks on their Myspace page.

Crawler

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Crawler are an Auckland based HC Punk/Sludge band. They have put up their self titled tape for download on Sams blog, Ratking Zine

You can also order a physical copy from:
http://www.myspace.com/dosomecrimes
http://sites.google.com/site/taphephobiaprod/release/bell004-crawler-nz---s-t-ep-tape
http://shop.nowayout.co.nz/detail.lasso?product=13658&p=1

Congratulations VOID!

Hamilton's own All Ages Hardcore/Punk venue has recently won an award in Hamilton City Councils Recognyz Youth Awards. Void took out the Innovation category and the overall award for establishing the all-age music venue.

Checkout the full article here


Void.org.nz

Schifosi

Download Schifosi's Half Lit World 7"(2004) and Ill Winds From Outopia LP (2003) in one easy to download file!

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Schifosi was a female fronted, dark sounding crust punk band from Melbourne, Australia. They were formed in 2001 and they ended in 2008. They toured the U.S in 2005 and New Zealand in 2006 (Where I first heard about them/saw them).

Kia Kaha Kids

Kia Kaha Kids was a band I was in from 2009-2010. We played GG Allin and Misfits covers plus an Eye Of The Tiger cover and Party Hard by Andrew W.K. We first started to play a one off set at our friends house party for Halloween. We decided that the band was too fun and we didn't wanna leave it at just one show. So we went on and played heaps of really fun, crazy and sometimes really awkward shows. We also wrote a few originals which were recorded just before our drummer (Rory) left the country.


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Track List
1. Don't Die A Pussy
2. Down On Dogs
3. Fun Guy
4. 8% Or Die








This is footage of Kia Kaha Kids playing Last Caress at our last show at Cassette#9... Where a flying glass hit the stage and put a gash in my leg during the first song.

Crimes

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Track List
1.Ignorant Fucks
2.Wasted Days
3.Disgust
4.Oppression
5.Cold Veins
Crimes are a fast and aggressive hardcore punk band from Palmerston North. They've released a 5 track demo/EP on Bandcamp for free download. Check em out!

Filthy Lucifer

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Download Filthy Lucifer - Demo 2010

Track List
1.Cannibal Holocaust
2.Sex Slave For Satan
3.Mutant Putas
4.Electrified Suicide
5.Boneheads Put to Good Use

Filthy Lucifer are an Auckland based Black Metal/Dbeat band consisting of members of Cask Grinder, Inside Arkham, and Tentacles of Destruction. They supported Mayhem on their recent visit to New Zealand.

Punkfest '10

Every year some of New Zealands best punk and hardcore bands come together in Wellington to play music and party. Punkfest occurs every Labour Weekend over 3 days.

PUNKFEST


Labour Weekend Friday 22 Oct – Sunday 24 Oct.
Wellington Car Club, Russell Tce, Newtown.
Weekend Pass $25. That’s less than $1 per band.
Lineup may be subject to minor changes. Bands listed in no particular order.

FRIDAY NIGHT Oct 22: $10
Doors open 7.30pm
First band 8.30pm

Hate Wanx (Chch)
Shortlived (Wgtn)
Teen Hygiene (Wgtn)
Natural Glow (Wgtn)
Malevolence (Ak)
Foe (Dunedin)
Crawler (Ak)

SAT ARVO Oct 23: $5
Doors open 1pm
First band 2pm

Sleeping Dogs (Wgtn)
Double Ya D (Wgtn)
The Vrill (Hmltn)
Shock Futuro (Wgtn)
Electric Mayhem (Hmltn)
Jelly Weez (Wgtn)
Cask Grinder (Ak)

(The hall will be shut for a couple of hours once the afternoon show has finished)

SATURDAY NIGHT: $10
Doors open 8pm
First band 8.30pm

Conniption (Dunedin)
Oilbarons (Ak)
Basura Blanca (Nelson)
Wasteland (Hmltn)
Rogernomix (Wgtn)
Meth Drinker (Wgtn)
Filthy Lucifer (Ak)


SUNDAY ARVO Oct 24: $5
Doors open 1pm

Schemie (Wgtn)
Numbskull (Wgtn)
Domestic Violence (Palmy)
The Heathen Collective (Wgtn)
Lager Louts (Ak)

Stuff you should know…(comments from the organisers)
The central city Liquor Ban Zone has been extended to Mt Cook and Newtown. However the Car Club Hall is actually just south of the Newtown/Berhampore boundary so the Liquor Ban Zone ends at Herald St, which is about 150m north of the hall. The police do enforce the Liquor Ban Zone in Newtown, so bear that in mind if you are walking to the hall with alcohol.

If you have any stuff that you distro then you can set a table up in the hall on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. The evening shows tend to be packed so there is no room for distro tables then.

Note the new price of the Weekend Pass. After 10 years at $20 we have had to put the price up to $25. We’re also well aware of people who buy a Weekend Pass on Friday and then turn up the next day claiming they have lost it, while their friend who didn’t buy a Weekend Pass the night before suddenly produces one to gain entry. Our costs are often in excess of $5,000 so don’t try to rip us off cos that will mean you’re a dick!

Freak Of The Week

Late notice I know but you should come to this show. It will be fucking cool.

Update

Haven't posted anything for a while and for that I'm sorry. I have a whole bunch of great shit I'm going to chuck up in a short while but in the mean time check out my boy Grants awesome blag - http://sorryzine.blogspot.com/.

Take care

Make Your Move

Download Make Your Move - Think Twice Demo

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Make your move is an Auckland based Hardcore band containing members of Every Man For Himself, Bilge Rats and Hivemind. Download their demo!

HIVEMIND

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My band.

Freak Of The Week

CRAWLER - http://www.myspace.com/crawlerhc
MAKE YOUR MOVE - http://www.myspace.com/makeyourmovehc
BUZZKILL - http://www.myspace.com/buzzkillhc
PILLAGE
CASKGRINDER




Come along! some sweet bands including my band, Buzzkill. Only $5. Oh I did the poster too btw.

Join the Freak Of The Week Facebook group!!! click here

Entrails

Download Entrails - 2008 Demo

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Demo recorded in 2008 by Wellington band - Entrails. It wasn't released till recently (as a free download too). It's fucking good. For fans of His Hero Is Gone & Cursed.

Cry Wolf/Make Your Move

Cry Wolf & Make Your Move North Island Tour.

(I did the Auckland and Hamilton posters :P)

Kia Kaha

Hamtown Smakdown

Every year a bunch of NZ's best hardcore acts get together to play over two days in what is probably NZ Hardcore's biggest show of the year.

This year we see the return of Twenty-one Guns!! we also get to experience a Brick Vs Face party one last time before they call it quits for good *sadface*.

only $10 each night.

Parents

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Parents are an Auckland based band. Formed from members of Malenky Robot, 1000 and Snake Run.

They're releasing an EP soonish apparently.

8 Foot Sativa

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STEP UP STEP UP STEP UP FOR SATIVA. STEP UP STEP UP FOR 8 FOOT SATIVA!

VOID - 651 Victoria Street, Hamilton

Void is a newly opened all ages venue in Hamilton, NZ. Void is run by local kids who wanted to create a safe, drug and alcohol free environment for all age hardcore and punk shows in Hamilton, something that had seemed to be lacking in Hamilton for a few years.

www.void.org.nz

contact: booking@void.org.nz

The Chase

Download The Chase - Sirens EP

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Track List:
LOST
PILLS AND BLOOD
SIRENS
DENIAL
WEEK

The Chase are a Melodic Hardcore band from Auckland, NZ. This is their 3rd release, an EP called Sirens. Enjoy.

Vice Grip

Recorded at 12am this morning (02/02/10) at an impromptu drunk jam onto tape.


Download Vice Grip - Drunkenfucking Demo

Bandicoot

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Download "Bandicoot - Happy Talking EP"

Yet again I find myself posting about a band full of high school kids... that doesn't take away from the fact that Bandicoot are really fucking good. They play spazzy, noisy, punky, pop that is full of energy, with influences like Mint Chicks, King Brothers, Die! Die! Die!, Wu-Tang, HEALTH, At the Drive-In, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Lightning Bolt, and So So Modern, what more would you expect?

Their live shows are quite fun and often have a few hip hop covers thrown in there (which are pulled off surprisingly well.)

With opening Big Day Out 2010, topping the Radioscope National Alt.Radio charts and the 95bFM Top Ten with their single "Emotional and Dirty" and playing at Camups A Low Hum, Bandicoot are doing really well for them selves.

Their new EP - Jurassic Warfare has been freshly released (actually the EP release show is on the night of me writing this, I will be there). Support these young dudes and girl by picking up the EP where you can and attending shows.

Gee Gee.

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Download Gee Gee's EP Demo Tape Thingy



Gee Gee is a young dude (17 in fact) from the UK, now living in New Zealand. He makes rad beats and cool lyrics.

I've been meaning to make a post about this guy for a while but haven't been able to obtain recordings (haven't tried very hard). But today he posted a link to his EP on his Facebook page so I took the opportunity and posted it here as well.

I've seen him live twice and both times were amazing. His set really makes you want to move about and have a boggy.

For fans of The Streets, M.I.A and Santogold.

Happy New Year

Welcome to 2010. Two more years till it's over. make the most of the time we have left. The end is near.