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The five-piece Mamaku Project visits the South next week as it promotes its second album.

Sammy's plays host to a circus tonight featuring an internationally acclaimed performer and a host of local talent.

About a decade ago, Stinky 69 was a band with a nose for local fame, and as close to fortune as many Dunedin bands get while playing around Dunedin.

"I can't wait to get back to DUD!" So says Andrew Wilson, frontman of Die! Die! Die!, which returns to Dunedin this week.

Most weekends in Dunedin, there is a good handful of gigs. This weekend is no exception, with everything from drum 'n' bass to punk rock and everything in between.

Dunedin duo Haunted Love - Rainy McMaster (guitar, vocals) and Geva Downey (organ, vocals and percussion) - have been entertaining crowds around town for a few years now, but have been taking it quiet for a while.

Back in the dark ages, well, the 1990s, The Hasselhoff Experiment blew around New Zealand several times, then, just gradually, the two-piece fell apart.

Indie rocker Sandra Bell is teaming up with a friend she met in Germany to take the stage in Dunedin in the coming week before heading off around the country.

In these days of '80s retro - anyone wearing fluoro, I'm looking at you - there is at least one individual in Dunedin who is still firmly in the 1970s.

After Dunedin band Ritalin moved to Wellington a couple of years ago it played a few tours, and kept going for a while, but hasn't been heard of lately.

The beat boffins at Radio One have put together a line-up of dubstep artists those in the industry say are the cream of the current crop.

Dunedin's Delgirl is off on a 29-date tour through New Zealand.

Dunedin rock bands Incarnate and Made In China are taking their big rock sounds to some of the region's smaller places, as well as heading for one of Christchurch's favourite venues.

Streetwise Scarlet has returned to headline its own show in Dunedin tonight, after recently opening for the Elemeno P and Dejavoodoo tour.

It is not often that gigs are promoted six months in advance, but tonight those who are even remotely thinking about going to Phat 09 can get a sample of what the event will hold, as the Phat 09 Taster Tour rolls into the University of Otago Union Hall.

The third instalment of Radio One's Onefest features New Zealand dub-reggae outfit Dubwize.

Anika Moa is based in Melbourne these days but the nomad-at-heart is back in New Zealand on tour.

Experienced rockers Elemeno P and Deja Voodoo play Dunedin tonight on the last date of their nationwide tour - which is not to say there won't be baby steps.

In a couple of weeks, Dunedin's population will swell as all the fun of the footy hits town.

Dunedin's Blistering Tongues have been through a lot - line-up changes and serious injuries to two of their number.