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12/12/2025

You heard ’em!

Aotearoa songwriter Peter McCall and band are touring nationwide.

06/12/2025

Out now! Martin Sagadin’s enigmatic debut album, Martin Iz Zgornje Bele, is sure to be one of the most talked about folk records in recent memory. Well known in New Zealand as a filmmaker and music video director with a poetic and surreal visual style, Sagadin’s music becomes an extension of their artistry, evoking vivid musical imagery executed with finesse and grace.

Sagadin was born in Kranj, Slovenia, but has lived in Aotearoa, New Zealand, for the past 19 years. In that time, they developed a reputation as the go-to music video director for artists like Aldous Harding, Tiny Ruins, Marlon Williams, The Bats and many others. With such worthy contemporaries, it’s all the more notable that Martin Iz Zgornje Bele sounds utterly different from any of those artists’ work.

The name of the album refers to the village in Slovenia that Martin grew up in. The choice to sing in their native Slovenian language was an intuitive pathway towards communicating rarefied and borderless emotions. The album paints a collection of delicate moments, sparsely arranged with fan organ, guitar, mandolin, recorders, cello and a small orchestra of instruments. Martin’s voice is frail and with faults, but has power through a rarely-heard sincerity and naïve presentation.

The album was produced by Brooke Singer (French for Rabbits) and features Ben Lemi (Trinity Roots, Bret McKenzie) and Xanthe Rook (Recitals) on the clarinet, Liz Stokes (The Beths) on flugelhorn and Charlotte Forrester (Womb) on cello, making it a completely unique sounding collection of songs. It was picked up by Ba Da Bing Records in the USA, while
Melted Ice Cream is releasing it in New Zealand and Australia.

Martin Iz Zgornje Bele calls through the years, piecing together fragments of sound into transcendent, glowing swells of emotion.

04/12/2025

Happy release day to Martin Sagadin with their album, Martin Iz Zgornje Bele. Stream it now on all good services and get yourself a copy at https://meltedicecream.bandcamp.com on vinyl. Thanks to Ba Da Bing! records for helping make this happen!

Martin Sagadin’s enigmatic debut album, Martin Iz Zgornje Bele, is sure to be one of the most talked about folk records in recent memory. Well known in New Zealand as a filmmaker and music video director with a poetic and surreal visual style, Sagadin’s music becomes an extension of their artistry, evoking vivid musical imagery executed with finesse and grace.

Sagadin was born in Kranj, Slovenia, but has lived in Aotearoa, New Zealand, for the past 19 years. In that time, they developed a reputation as the go-to music video director for artists like Aldous Harding, Tiny Ruins, Marlon Williams, The Bats and many others. With such worthy contemporaries, it’s all the more notable that Martin Iz Zgornje Bele sounds utterly different from any of those artists’ work.

The name of the album refers to the village in Slovenia that Martin grew up in. The choice to sing in their native Slovenian language was an intuitive pathway towards communicating rarefied and borderless emotions. The album paints a collection of delicate moments, sparsely arranged with fan organ, guitar, mandolin, recorders, cello and a small orchestra of instruments. Martin’s voice is frail and with faults, but has power through a rarely-heard sincerity and naïve presentation.

The album was produced by Brooke Singer (French for Rabbits) and features Ben Lemi (Trinity Roots, Bret McKenzie) and Xanthe Rook (Recitals) on the clarinet, Liz Stokes (The Beths) on flugelhorn and Charlotte Forrester (Womb) on cello, making it a completely unique sounding collection of songs. It was picked up by Ba Da Bing Records in the USA, while
Melted Ice Cream is releasing it in New Zealand and Australia.

Martin Iz Zgornje Bele calls through the years, piecing together fragments of sound into transcendent, glowing swells of emotion.

Also psssssst: It's Bandcamp Friday today, kicking in at 8pm NZDT. If you grab a copy then Bandcamp waive their fees. Lovely stuff.

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...

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.