Neil Macleod and Oscar Keys are both ambitious, talented and incredibly nice. I had a conversation with them about their new ambitious visual album 'I Need A Battle' and its Boosted crowdfunding campaign amongst other topics.

Donate to the Boosted campaign for I Need A Battle here - https://www.boosted.org.nz/projects/i-need-a-battle

Here's my weekend recap ft music and audio excerpts from my time spent at three gigs in three nights - including A Night With Buda and the Ōtautahi festival 'Better Living IRL' 

I caught Violet Hirst and collaborator Reuben Scott (Salt Water Criminals) before their Christchurch show to talk about the new Violet Hirst album 'Donegal'

Enjoy music from the bewitching and beautifully-crafted album alongside my interview and discussions on Central Otago, vulnerability and finding sustainability in the music industry.

Part audio-diary, part solo-podcast, Weekender is the continuation of an experiment in podcasting that I started with the FODRPODR on tour with my band FODR.

Listen to what I got up to this weekend in music world alongside relevant audio clips I collected from the events I'm describing!

This episode features Violet Hirst, the Fazerdaze solo show + opener Pickle Darling and an all ages show organised by high school band Stonechild.

The best music event I've been a part of is back and hitting Wellington for the first time at the wonderful Vogelmorn Bowling Club.

Tickets from UTR

"at our venue it's been exclusively comedy festival all through music month"

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In an effort to reconnect with my southern roots I followed Soft Plastics from Christchurch down to Dunedin and had a lovely time.

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Soft Plastics are a three-piece shoegaze / indie rock band from Wellington that put beautiful vocals up-front, fill the middle with lush atmosphere and finish it all off with big bombastic rock-outs.

I chat to the band about recording, track-listing, approaching the live sets and the challenges of being an independent band between tracks from the wonderful debut record 'Saturn Return' out now.

https://softplasticsband.bandcamp.com/album/saturn-return

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My personal philosophy for selling digital music in the modern music industry and how streaming platforms fit into it.

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The Pōneke based two-piece chat about atmosphere, friendship and their latest release 'Four' out now.

My semi-weekly newsletter featuring everything you need to know in music and culture cut up into tasty little chunks for a nice afternoon tea treat.

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RIOT GULL are a four-piece band from Ōtepoti.

As their Bandcamp description states they “make what they want, because they want to, because they can.” 

Listen to the band chat about the creation of the album & sustaining a band amongst tracks from the record itself.

Purchase 'SCABBING' here - https://riotgull.bandcamp.com/album/scabbing

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The context and mindset behind the article, what I hoped to achieve and the 'caustic' first draft.

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I chat about my new band FODR, the UNSCENE photography project I've just launched, my upcoming radio show and ofcourse my favourite new music of the week.

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The audio accompaniment to my latest newsletter 'Finding Play', I expand on my journey with creativity and reference the themes of Rick Rubin's latest book 'The Creative Act'.

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Stay hydrated!

Hahko catches The Soakies for a quick outdoor beer and chat about their debut album 'Working Title', out now on Dot Dash Recordings

Hahko chats to Deafheaven frontman George Clarke, who has just completed tours of the continental US, UK, Europe & Asia, on the state of touring infrastructure and what has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stream the latest Deafheaven record 'Infinite Granite' now.

Soft Plastics, the Wellington based trio, make moody & lush shoegaze inspired indie-rock.

Hear the tunes and the chat from the band themselves, on this episode of Hahko FM.

In the first of a new series, Hahko is joined by UK born, NZ based music journalist Alex Cabré to discuss the relevant topics of the music world.

In this first episode we talk about St. Jeromes Laneway Festival, it's history, who its for and if this next lineup is actually any good.

Hahko connects with Bianca Bailey aka Wiri Donna to discuss rollouts and release strategies from the perspective of an artist who is on the verge of completing the most comprehensive of their career.

Touching on topics like PR, radio, live tours, intentions and goals this is an insightful conversation filled with insights you can only get from someone on this inside living it.

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