A packed Powerstation saluted three New Zealand groups with roots in the ’70s on Saturday night.

After a year playing shows around the world and on the eve of their return to our shores, Thom Powers and Alisa Xayalith sat down for a yarn with Volume about tall poppies and living up to the hype.

A column in which Duncan Greive scours the world's charts in the hope of finding, if not the perfect beat, then something worth whistling at least.

Each week Volume magazine pitches two personalities - opposing or complementary - together in conversation. This week Matthew 'Recloose' Chicoine and Christchurch-born producer Isaac Aesili.

Beastwars’ Matt Hyde saw The Hellacopters play Squid in Auckland on 20 October 1998.

John Rowles, the half-Maori/half-Irish Kawerau Kid blessed with a commanding stature and physique, film idol looks, dandy style and that voice, skyrocketed to the top of the world music scene in 1968.

Flying Nun’s new signing defies all convention, throwing stoned guitar and wry hip-hop into a heady lo-fi brew. So really, Badd Energy are where they should be.

After an amazing resurrection from near death, New Zealand's venerable independent label Flying Nun Records celebrates its 30th anniversary next month in fine style.

Journalist Richard Langston and Flying Nun's Roger Shepherd talk street press for Talking Heads.

With an amazing ability to bring together different streams of music, vibraphone master Mulatu Astatke is recognised as the orginator of his own invention: Ethio-jazz. Ahead of his first New Zealand show, Volume talked to the Godfather.

Cairo Knife Fight's Nick Gaffaney and Aaron Tokona talk about the dynamic that defines their two-man army.

James Lowe was hit by falling plaster when Mint Chicks and Yeah Yeah Yeahs played the St James in Auckland on July 12, 2006.

“It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.”

With these words, Noel Gallagher announced his departure from the British rock institution he and his brother founded and fought over.

While Liam was quick to form Beady Eye with Oasis’ Gem Archer and Andy Bell, Noel exited the media spotlight, but he returns this week with his solo debut, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.

Ex-pat broadcaster Chris Tubbs got an audience with Gallagher Senior in London. (Part 3 of 3)

“It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.”

With these words, Noel Gallagher announced his departure from the British rock institution he and his brother founded and fought over.

While Liam was quick to form Beady Eye with Oasis’ Gem Archer and Andy Bell, Noel exited the media spotlight, but he returns this week with his solo debut, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.

Ex-pat broadcaster Chris Tubbs got an audience with Gallagher Senior in London. (Part 2 of 3) Watch Part 3

“It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.”

With these words, Noel Gallagher announced his departure from the British rock institution he and his brother founded and fought over.

While Liam was quick to form Beady Eye with Oasis’ Gem Archer and Andy Bell, Noel exited the media spotlight, but he returns this week with his solo debut, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.

Ex-pat broadcaster Chris Tubbs got an audience with Gallagher Senior in London. (Part 1 of 3) Watch Part 2

Photos of Cairo Knife Fight and Beastwars during the second Sundae Session at York Street Studios on August 28, 2001.

Stormy, atmospheric, a velvet glove with barbs - and that’s just the guitar. Why is Laneway 2012 visitor Anna Calvi embarrassing men in what tends to be their six-string province?

Kimbra took the honours at the recent Critics’ Choice Prize, before jetting to Los Angeles to begin work on the follow-up album. She got together with 95bFM’s Charlotte Ryan for Talking Heads to talk vows of all stripes.

Bo Diddley was the originator – without him there’d be no Beatles, Mick’n’Keef, no Pistols, no rap. Big call? Yes. Is it true? Absolutely.

You knew this was going to be fun. With 60 per cent of the band in dinner jackets and the salty whiff of yacht rock in the air, Fabulous/Arabia are jovially enjoying a glass of bubbly on stage before kicking things off.

It is on rare occasions like this that a quiet Auckland Wednesday night turns into an explosion of energetic noise.

This particular Bachelorette performance was always going to be weighted by sentimentality.

It's been 14 years since Portishead last performed in New Zealand, but they're ready to make up for lost time. The band's Adrian Utley chats to David Carroll.

Chiptune and synth-pop wunderkind Disasteradio is on the final stretch of his 80 Dates Around-the-World tour this month, completing a run of shows that have seen him criss-cross Europe. He documented his adventures in sound for Volume.

Vicky King reviews a concert by her son, Kiwi rapper Tourettes, and remembers what got him started rapping in the first place.

Chris Cornell plays the first of two acoustic shows at the ASB Theatre in Auckland. Photos / Ukiah Brown

Dunedin City Councillor Neil Collins was compere when the Rolling Stones played two shows in Dunedin on February 3, 1965.

Dubstep artists Nero, Diplo and Magnetic Man took over Vector Arena for a night of bass-heavy revelry. Photos / Nick Kingstone

Katy B might have been a no-show but bass heavy dubstep acts Magnetic Man, Diplo and Nero made up for at Vector Arena in Auckland.