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06/03/2025

Awesome write up! Thanks UTR! If you haven’t checked out the new Transistors album yet, maybe now’s your moment? 😉

Rangiora garage punk champions play next week with Guitar Wolf and The D4.

28/02/2025

Happy release day to Transistors! We celebrate the long-awaited release of the new Transistors album, “Everything Will Never Happen Again” today with the album being available to stream in full on your favourite service… and also a video for Country Music assembled from footage taken from the Transistors’ extensive VHS collection of home videos! Check out our latest reel or head along to MIC’s YouTube channel to see it.

There are only a handful of LPs left (seriously only 50 in existence!) so be quick if you want to spin this disc of solid gold at 33 rpm on your phonograph thingy.

28/02/2025

Transistors’ 3rd album “Everything Will Never Happen Again” out TODAY!

Grab your copy on vinyl over at https://meltedicecream.bandcamp.com/ or stream it wherever you like!

A treat for all fans!

"This may come to you as some surprise: this is what country music sounds like!" Legendary Rangiora garage punks Transistors' third album 'Everything Will Ne...

07/02/2025

15/12/2024

Listen to Uncle Quentin talk to on RNZ’s Music 101 about “SINGS BALLADS AND BLUES”. Awesome interview, thanks Tony! Link in bio!

14/12/2024

14 track album

14/12/2024

Transistors are back with single number three from their highly anticipated album Everything Will Never Happen Again! If that wasn’t enough, pre-orders are now open for you to secure a copy on coveted limited edition vinyl. Here’s some backstory on the Ogden City Mall…

Forget the Hanging Gardens of Babylon or the Pink and White Terraces, Ogden City Mall is a homage to the world’s greatest lost landmark, the now demolished shopping centre in the beating heart of cosmopolitan Ogden, Utah. The site’s hallowed halls were the setting of the 20th Century’s single most significant moment, the music video for Tiffany’s “I Think We’re Alone Now”.

The power trio pays loving tribute to this humble hub of heartland America from all the way down in its antipodean “sister city” of Rangiora, NZ. With a relentless rhythm section and lacerating guitars, the song casades to a caterwauling conclusion after three and a half chaotic minutes. Sit back, turn it up and travel back in time to when callous consumer capitalism was still experienced collectively by the callow and curmudgeonly alike within the confines of bricks and mortar.

02/12/2024

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15/11/2024

Happy Welcome To Concrete day! MIC are stoked to be releasing a limited run of cassettes of the “Seeing” EP and it odd now available on all good streaming services. Check out out now!

Welcome To Concrete is the long-running solo project of NZ musician Al Humphreys. Founded c.2009 in a basement in Auckland’s notorious Tawari Street, Kingsland, after the disintegration and dissolution of several musical endeavours, the multi-instrumentalist found himself recording lo-fi demos in that very Tawari Street basement. That hovel was a known spot for many an Auckland act (think Rackets, Boyfriend, Beach Pigs, Sidewalk Meese, High Society, Shoutin’, Preachin’, O’Lovely, Mason Clinic).

Whilst recording the first demos, an apartment block construction site with excavators, cranes and trucks filled the view from the westerly facing basement window. The name Welcome To Concrete was partly inspired from this scene and inspired the early moody track ‘God Bless the Foodcourt’.

After several MySpace era demos, Welcome To Concrete became a live 4-piece act for 1-2 years between 2010 – 2012. An early self-titled EP of sorts was released in 2011 followed by self-released full-length ‘Distant Viewer’ (2016).

Welcome To Concrete releases new EP ‘seeing’ on 15 November through Melted Ice Cream records. This EP sees Humphreys returning to songwriting after a 7 year child-rearing hiatus. It contains the emotive fuzz and melodics of old and welcomes a new era for the project.

18/10/2024

Playing with Fazed on a Pony at Auckland's Audio Foundation on 19th October.

27/09/2024

Happy release day to Best Bets! We’ve been looking forward to this one for a while.

Best Bets’ second album, “The Hollow Husk of Feeling” is a reflection on a world gone mad that dares to ask if it’s the mirror that’s broken or is it the cracks on us that are starting to show? These 12 songs manage to be simultaneously rousing and ruminative, propelled by bouncy bass, driving drums and guitars that crackle and chime. Stream this album now on all good streaming services be sure to order your copy of the toxic algae bloom green vinyl on Bandcamp.

👉 http://bestbets.bandcamp.com