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15 Essential Tracks from the New Zealand Pop Underground

PopMatters Staff / 6 March 2020

Recorded for $60 in an island country near the bottom of the globe, "Tally Ho", the debut single by New Zealand's the Clean, was an unlikely candidate to be an international game-changer and a defining moment for a pop movement. Here's a sampling of essential tracks by 15 of New Zealand's finest acts.

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Sneaky Feelings: Send You

Juan Edgardo Rodríguez / 26 May 2015

This 1983 debut effort by under-appreciated Flying Nun band, who were in the vanguard of the famed Dunedin Sound, is the latest to get the Captured Tracks reissue treatment.

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The Best Album Re-Issues of 2014

PopMatters Staff / 15 December 2014

The music world saw reissues from all over the genre map, spanning classic rock titans to electronic music legends.

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Hamish Kilgour – “Smile” + David Kilgour – “Lose Myself in Sound” (videos) (Premieres)

Arnold Pan / 29 September 2014

This year saw new efforts by the first family of the New Zealand underground, the brothers Kilgour. PopMatters premieres new videos from Hamish and David Kilgour.