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Hot Donnas have released their second track of 2020 with Two Brains, a song about life’s many decisions and making choices about what to do next… The ultimate suggestion throughout the song being that whichever choice I make throughout my life, I will face the nagging pressure from both good and bad influences. And forever […]
This week’s Te Ahi Top 10 winner was Cold Shower with their track ‘Machete’ What began in the hopes that fame and success would help Colter pay off his subprime mortgage is now growing into something far more sinister. A shamed U.S. ex-pat, Colter is on lead vocals delivering paranoid lyrics with an all-American bite […]
We are so excited to announce the finalists for the 2020 Round Up Award at the RDU 98.5FM Magnets Radio Awards; an awards programme that champions and gives recognition to our local broadcasters and musicians from Åtautahi. The Magnets Awards will be held on Saturday 5th December at Wunderbar Lyttelton! Come along for a musical […]
We are so excited to announce the finalists for the 2020 Decknology Award at the RDU 98.5FM Magnets Radio Awards; an awards programme that champions and gives recognition to our local broadcasters and musicians from Åtautahi. The Magnets Awards will be held on Saturday 5th December at Wunderbar Lyttelton! Come along for a musical showcase […]
And$um releases his follow up EP âLate Nightsâ A regular on student radio stations, Christchurch based rapper And$um has released his sophomore EP âLate Nights.â Sparking a slight change in sound for the artist, âLate Nightsâ is a moody EP that explores thematic themes of relationships and breakups. âLate Nightsâ is a collection of six […]
Hailing from the working class back streets of Christchurch and practising in a storage unit in the Woolston badlands is Nervous Jerk. A power-pop trio settling into their fifth year as a band consisting of Tom Kerr, Brad Wright and Johnny Fast. Although having always been welcome in the New Zealand punk and hardcore scene, […]
This week’s Te Ahi Top 10 winner was Violet French with her track ‘Too Much Indie’ The song Too Much Indie was written by Violet French over the lockdown in her latest musical endeavour. I fucked around in the garage heaps during lockdown. Wrote a bunch of weird songs Too Much Indie by Violet French […]
Ten years in the making, When A City Rises â The Peopleâs Story, chronicles Christchurchâs most extraordinary decade. A sequel to the award-winning and much loved When A City Falls. How have we survived, thrived, changed? Who have we become? A film by us, about us, and for us. Our untold story. Our remarkable experience. Our city. The film […]
The Transistors burst on to the Åtautahi music scene way back in 2009 with the release of their first album Shortwave, supported by high-energy shows throughout the country. They released the Flux Pentaphile EP the following year and continued to tour heavily. In 2012 the band embarked on an extensive US tour supporting Japanese legends […]
Every week we welcome new tracks to the RDU 98.5FM playlist. Here are a few of the tunes hailing from Åtautahi that have graced the airwaves this week. Check out the RDU Gig Guide to spot when these artists are playing live locally! Alex TZ – Keep It Slow Dose – What They Say Glass […]
