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Concert review: Feastock 2012, Dunedin

Elbow, The Powerstation

Photos of Elbow performing at The Powerstation in Auckland.

SXSW: Big things from Electric Wire Hustle

Fresh out of their first SXSW experience, Electric Wire Hustle will be basing themselves in Berlin for six months with three main goals: getting more shows in Europe, releasing their second album and having a decent crack at America.

SXSW: Cairo Knife Fight - The secrets of sin

Tooled up with an arsenal of drums, guitar, synth bass and loop pedals, Cairo Knife Fight brought the noise to SXSW for a week of shows and Texas barbecue, and survived to tell the tale. Here’s their blow-by-blow account of one week in Austin.

Sound of the Overground: The X Factor takes the top spot again

Each week Duncan Greive performs some low grade analysis on the week’s New Zealand Singles Chart and reviews a few new release pop singles.

Concert review: Nas' Illmatic, Austin, Texas

History made: SXSW 2009, Austin, Texas

David Dallas travelled to Austin Texas in 2009 to play SXSW

Concert review: Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Trusts Stadium

Talking Heads: Andrew McLeod and Nick Johnston

For <i>Talking Heads</i>, Beck's collaborators Andrew McLeod and Cut Off Your Hands' Nick Johnston talked about partnership.

Concert review: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Kings Arms (+photos)

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Kings Arms

Photos from Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti show with Geneva Jacuzzi and Poor You Poor Me at the Kings Arms, Auckland.

Elbow: Cast of thousands

After 20 years of skirting the fringes of mainstream in the UK, it finally seems that Elbow’s days of being treasured by a few and ignored by many are over.

Sound of the Overground: It's a brand new era, but it feels great

Each week Duncan Greive performs some low grade analysis on the week’s New Zealand Singles Chart and reviews a few new release pop singles.

Wooden Shjips: Aquarian time

Psychedelic spacemen Wooden Shjips have a prevailing fascination with the West Coast of the United States. Frontman Ripley Johnson talks to VOLUME before their New Zealand shows.

Concert Review: Roky Erickson, The Powerstation

History made: Revisiting Jesse Harper, London 1969

Doug Jerebine travelled to the UK in the late-sixties, changed his name to Jesse Harper, and recorded one of the great lost psych-guitar masterpieces.

Talking Heads: Hallelujah Picassos and Trevor Reekie

Concert review: 95bFM Summer Series, Silo Park (+photos)

Music, food and most importantly, no liquor bans. Despite an unusual location change this year, the gods of free musical goodness at bFM have delivered once again.