Alternative / Indie CDs

HEAVENLY POP HITS: THE BEST OF brings together 16 of the finest recordings from popular 1980s New Zealand group The Chills such as "Doldrums" and "Double Summer."

Following on from her multi-award winning, critically acclaimed, self-titled debut, Ladyhawke presents her second album, 'Anxiety'. The new album was recorded in New Zealand and France earlier in 2012 by producer and long-time collaborator Pascal Gabriel and features ten new songs, including firs...

'Love Demolition' will feature the singles 'Smash It', 'Broken Machine' and the new 'My Calculator' plus much more Zowie awesomeness.

NZ's most successful independent label turns 30, and says Happy Birthday to itself with this comprehensive two-disc set! Featuring Flying Nun artists from long ago and right now, it'll tickle the fancy of fans and noobs alike.

Devonports favourite sons The Checks return with album no. 3 DEADLY SUMMER SWAY, produced by the band and grammy award winning producer Bassy Bob Brockman. In early 2011 THE CHECKS took up residence in a semi-abandoned building in the neon guts of Auckland's CBD. Office space was converted to rec...

It's not easy to hit a target when you aren't sure what exactly your quarrylooks-or sounds-like. Don't misunderstand:Liam Finn knew what he and co-producer Burke Reid wanted to accomplish, with FOMO, the follow-up to the New Zealand dynamo's 2008 breakout Til Be Lightning.But they also recogn...

New Zealand born, London based group The Veils return with their highly anticipated second album, 'Nux Vomica' -- the follow up to the critically acclaimed 2004 release 'The Runaway Found'.   The Veils original band line up for their debut album split two months after the record's release, ...

Fly My Pretties - A Story is a conceptual extension of the previous two Fly My Pretties via a narrative that connects music, illustration, animation, charity and a message of change into one audiovisual experience.   The selections on the CD and DVD represent the best takes from the unfo...

I Am Giant present their highly anticipated debut album ‘The Horrifying Truth’ Features the #1 Rock airplay singles ‘City Limits’, ‘Neon Sunrise’ and ‘Living The Crash’ (as featured on the gold selling City Limits EP) New single ‘And We’ll Defy’ promises to be their biggest yet - already added to...

Having just signed to Flying Nun Records, 'We build our own Oppessors' is the first single for noisy Auckland trio Die! Die! Die! upcoming album, Form. Writen while holed up in winter in Dunedin's infamous Chicks Hotel, both the single and the album have plenty of the Die! Die! Die! style and cat...

Legendary and multi-award winning Drum & Bass/Dubstep DJ/Producer BULLETPROOF releases his new single ‘Dub Me Crazy’ featuring the stunning Jessie G out today. The track is an onslaught of bass that would satisfy all true Dubstep fans, it has already been picked as the 2011/2012 summer anthem. Click...

Big World is the 3rd album from vastly under-exposed singer-songwriter Tim Guy, released on Monkey Records.Drums & bass glow in the dusk with a countrified-R&B feel like Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac or Big Pink-era Band,a bliss-bath of woozy Wurlitzers & Rhodes, with guitars like satellites...

'Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox' features songs of Chris Knox's performed by local artists such as Shayne Carter, David Kilgour, The Chills, The Mint Chicks, The Checks, Boh Runga, Don McGlashan, Sean (SJD) Donnelly, Jordan Luck, The Finn Family, The Bats, The Verlaines, The Nothing, Tall Dwarfs and m...

A psychedelic mix of guitars, drum machines and genres, Sam Moore, Coco Solid, Trixie Darko and J.Suave make up this trippy quartet.

Auckland songstress Lydia Cole releases her debut album (she first caught attention and ears with her Neil Finn endorsed debut 2009 EP Love Will Find A Way.) A live reputation cemented on tour with Brooke Fraser and appearances at Parachute, Rhythm‘n’Vines, and on the Winery, Acoustic Church and ...

Time To Go explores the early history of Flying Nun from 1981-86, a ‘heroic period’ of lo-tech recording, handmade covers and ‘extended play’ 45s. Rather than being simply a ‘greatest hits’ from this period, the compilation brings together a collection of tracks from key South Island bands that w...

The Clean includes: David Kilgour, Hamish Kilgour, Robert Scott, Peter Gutteridge. What the critics say... Spin (3/03, p.120) - 8 out of 10 - "...New Zealand's the Clean played surf rock like it was a winter sport, expanding jangle pop into boundless exotica..." Entertainment Weekly...

“A Fistful of Doo-Riffs” is the next instalment from Auckland's favourite intergalactic surf punk hillbillies, The Drab Doo-Riffs. This limited edition, special CD digipak release led by charismatic frontman Karl Steven (ex - Supergroove) is the band's third release after their first two, hugely ...

The Sami Sisters are Madeleine, Anji and Priya Sami. Three singing, Guitar playing, coffee coloured songstresses of Irish and Indian descent born and bred in Auckland, New Zealand. After nearly two years in the making, recorded in bedrooms and lounges, between studios and day jobs, The Sami Siste...

Mulholland is a way for the world to hear all the great music Jol has composed over the years and continues to write.

One of Flying Nun Record’s first new signings, Grayson Gilmour, has teamed up with the relaunched label for his latest album No Constellation. Hailing from Palmerston North, Grayson Gilmour began his solo recordings at age 16. As one quarter of New Zealand band So So Modern, Grayson has spent ...

Little Bushman are back with their second album, 'Pendulum' -- a musical journey that swings through our past, present and future, with the full band laying down rhythm tracks live to capture that special energy, (in the same way they did on their 2006 debut 'The Onus of Sand').

This specially priced CD is a comprehensive collection, covering the best-known tracks and hits by New Zealand '80s band, Mi-Sex, who were fronted by the late Steve Gilpin.

Annabel "Bachelorette" Alpers is still a space case, but since her last album she's definitely come back down to earth a bit. The tunes are still soaring high though. Take a trip up to the skies with her latest release, the self-titled Bachelorette. The project of Christchurch, New Zea...

Following on from the success of 'City' and 'The Wind Is Up', indie folk champions George and Queen release their third album 'Teenagers and Grownups'. With a stellar performance at BDO 2009 and a trail of Alt radio #1s since their last release, the husband and wife duo of Immi Patterson and Neil...

After 5 long years, Aussie legends the Hoodoo Gurus return with a brand new studio album. Purity Of Essence debuted Top 20 in Australia this week. Features the lead single ‘Crackin’ Up’ - currently impacting at rock radio. Album ships with a bonus DVD featuring 4 video epi...

'Epic' celebrates the summer festival season in New Zealand with 36 Essential Festival Anthems -- the biggest songs songs from some of the biggest acts to have ever performed live in New Zealand. Disc One kicks things off with 18 monster rock anthems from the likes of Faith No More (with the aptly...

It's been an exciting journey for The Checks since emerging from Auckland's North Shore a few years ago. Their creative energies fueled equally by vintage (rhythm &) blues sounds, pop classicism and similarly-minded acts of the 21st century like the Black Keys and Kings Of Leon, The Checks have ...

Isolation is the New Party is an alt-country record of finely crafted Americana and indie-pop. While it is an alternative record, indie in every sense, the raw ingredients of the album are simply good old fashioned rock, folk, pop, and country, with a 70's singer-songwriter vibe holding it all ...

The offspring of famous musicians always have a tough time establishing themselves, and Liam Finn, son of Crowded House mainman Neil Finn, certainly came to his debut album, I'LL BE LIGHTNING, with a lot to live up to. He acquits himself admirably, with a smooth, reedy singing style (admittedly a bi...

The New Zealand Herald called them: “Noisy, sexy, spastic, swaggering.” The bands debut album ‘F*** The Golden Youth’ was released in 2004 to critical acclaim and now comes the highly anticipated follow-up -- 'Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!' which is produced by brothers Ruban & K...

Buffalo is the eagerly awaited follow-up to the band’s 2007 gold album Happy Ending, which received huge critical acclaim in New Zealand and rave reviews in the UK after its release there late last year. The brand new FIRST SINGLE and title track - Buffalo - was released to radio in March, ...

After attending the Split Enz Vector Arena concert in March 2008, Murray Thom (the creator behind this unique project), turned to his son and said that they had just heard the "The Great New Zealand Songbook". That was the birth of a project, which from the outset, encapsulated more than j...

New Zealand’s vanguards of dark instrumental rock, Kerretta, are set to release their second album Saansilo on September 19th. The album features the new alternative radio single ‘A Ways To Uprise’. This blistering instrumental three-piece from the hinterlands of Auckland have been enchanting aud...

Bannerman is the brain child of Auckland’s Ritchie Setford. Dearly Departed follows hot on the heels of 2010’s debut, The Dusty Dream Hole, which was nominated for a Tui (best cover art) and a Silver Scroll ("She Was A Mountainside"). Dearly Departed is at turns, both thrilling and restrained....

3 CD set, full album plus This Machine and No Light EPs in a very special digipack previously only available in the UK. This very special 3CD package from The Naked and Famous -- featuring the full 'Passive Me, Aggressive You' hit album, plus 'This Machine' and 'No Light' EPs in a deluxe digpak c...

Pulling together some of Wellington's favourite musicians - 12 in total; Age Pryor, Andy Morley-Hall, Bek Coogan, Bret McKenzie, Carmel Russell, Daniel Yeabsley, Francis Salole, Gemma Gracewood, Megan Hosking, Nigel Collins, Sam Auger and Steve Jessup - who command the four-string like you've never ...

LUGER BOA are proud to announce the release of their second long player, NEW HOT NIGHTS. NEW HOT NIGHTS will be released on April 4th 2011 and serves up a slew of deliciously twisted tales from the concrete jungle...featuring the singles LAZY, PARALYZED, and NEW HOT NIGHTS. Recorde...

A new project from the Wellington scene. Melodies is the debut solo release from Lord Echo (aka. Mike Fabulous aka. Mike August aka. guitarist and producer for such bands as The Black Seeds, The Scribes of Ra and The Recloose Band).The album is a roaring romp through his crazy world of sound; a magi...

For over a decade, the name Bulletproof has stood for nothing less than the very best in the futuristic “Neurofunk” style of dance floor drum & bass. A relentless passion & devotion to Drum & Bass has established Bulletproof as one of New Zealand’s leading D&B DJ&rs...