Fresh from tours of the United States and Europe, Auckland pop outfit The Ruby Suns make their first Dunedin appearance since 2010 in support of their brand-new album, Christopher.
Formed after ex-Thundercub guitarist Lee Nicholson met drummer Josh Nicholls (A Distant City) while running guitar pedal workshops at the Amped Music Project, a youth mentoring programme for young bands, Space Bats, Attack! stems from a DOS game and a lengthy summer.
Despite now being based in the same city where Graeme Downes turned a ditty about love, death, and Rimbaud into his band's most internationally recognised hit, and a high-water mark of the New Zealand alternative canon, Dunedin trio Death and the Maiden were initially oblivious to any connection with the 1983 Verlaines classic with which they share their name.
Currently working on a follow up to their well-received self-titled debut album, Auckland post-punk trio God Bows to Math are taking a break from recording to play 10 dates across New Zealand and Australia.
When Dunedin songwriter Kane Strang's debut album, Flower Before the Bulb is Blown, was released last year, it immediately stood out as an excellent listen: wonderfully written, unique and poetic.
Villainy's album Mode. Set. Clear. debuted at No 1 on the New Zealand Top 40 chart when it was released last year and features three massive corporate rock radio hits, The Answer, Gather Yourselves and the No 1 single Alligator Skin.
Lines of Flight, New Zealand's longest-running experimental music festival, is set to hit Dunedin next week as part of the 2013 Dunedin Fringe Festival.
Liquid funk wunderkind Netsky is bringing his live band Netsky LIVE! to Dunedin next week for the biggest drum 'n' bass set the city may ever experience. The 23-year-old Belgian Boris Daenen first began producing electro and house tracks at the tender age of 14.
Contemporary music returns to the Dunedin Botanic Garden today for an esoteric afternoon.
A lot has changed for Auckland trio Popstrangers since Suitable Alternative last spoke with the band.
Dunedin psych-pop band Alizarin Lizard will celebrate the release of its second full-length album Do You Just Want Me To Watch You? next Thursday at Re:Fuel.
GPOGP stands for a pretty attention-grabbing band name, but since the ODT is a family publication, we'll have to stick to acronyms herein.
Mount Eerie is the name of the current music project of Anacortes, Washington state musician and artist Phil Elverum. Previously recording under the name The Microphones, building a dedicated independent fan base and strong critical reputation, Elverum has been producing primarily studio-based music since 1997.
For avant-metal troubadours El Schlong, music means a life on the road, and tonight the heavy touring band return home to Dunedin for the first time since 2010 to play Sammy's.
Here at Suitable Alternative, the aim is simply to introduce you, the unsuspecting Dunedin public, to the wealth of quality music almost constantly available here in the city.
Drifting in and out between waves of syrupy, down-tempo shoegaze and club-ready electro-pop beats, Paquin is the bedroom project-turned-band of a man usually found on the other side of a recording desk: music engineer Thomas Healy.
On their Facebook page, Dunedin band Fat Children list two of their interests as ''cigarettes'' and ''taking the piss''.
Most know David Kilgour from his role in the formation of seminal Dunedin trio the Clean or his membership in The Great Unwashed, but the Dunedin-born musician has also maintained an engaging and rewarding solo career since 1991's debut album Here Come The Cars, and more recently with his long-time backing band the Heavy Eights.
Relative newcomers on the Dunedin music scene, The Prophet Hens perform on the new stage at Chick's Hotel tonight.
Sometimes it's the size of a venue that enhances the magic of a live show. And sometimes, it's the heritage and history of the venue.
