“I really want to platform new alternative music because I feel like the legacy has changed. I guess that’s what I’m trying to do. It’s fueled by this ‘build it and they’ll come’ mentality. I want to prove that there’s value in this, so people start to listen.”

JUNK FEST 2.0 is coming up this Saturday, June 7, across Double Whammy, Whammy, and Public Bar. The 2025 festival is stacked with artists from across the country, including Cabinet, Dropper, George Barney Roberts, Girls Factory, HŌHĀ, Office Dog, Pearly*, Ringlets, Salt Water Criminals, Scrambline, and Vera Ellen, with Twine and The Empty Threats making their way from across the ditch. It’s an undeniably good lineup and we’re so excited to boogie the night away. In the lead up to the festival Rosa chatted with organiser Lara to learn more about JUNK and all things NZ alternative music!

Letters from The Editors, is a sporadic column written by either Flynn Robson or Sam Elliott, discussing a way that New Zealand music has touched them in their personal life

After a 10 year hiatus, Camp A Low Hum returned for two special weekends for the very last time. Two attendees, Jade Lindsay and Lekhena Porter share their words and photographs from the exceptional weekend(s) filled with music, community and aroha.

There is a quote from Martin Phillipps for the Auckland Star in 1982; “The Dunedin Sound is the sound of honesty.” The Ōtepoti Music Compilation is a representation of that. Organised by Alex Huber of Hystera and Syrup Bois, The ŌMC is a compilation made of independent wāhine and gender queer artists from Dunedin. The compilation aims to shine a light on artists in the scene who do not yet have a voice or need their voices amplified to drown out the noise of the still male-dominated scene of Dunedin.