Featured Artist

Indie Folk / Alt-Country
www.flipgrater.com www.myspace.com/flipgrater
Contact: Flip Grater
Maiden Records / Native Tongue Music Publishing

Flip Grater is a versatile singer/songwriter, with an acoustic guitar-based repertoire bridging dirty indie-folk and delicate introverted lullabies. and is CHART's Featured Artist for July 2008 and talks to Jeff Fulton about the anticipated release on 21 July of her 2nd album 'Be All And End All'...

Electro-Funk
www.myspace.com/thedeceiversnz
Contact: David Klein (Manager)
Young electro-funksters The Deceivers are the UCSA Battle Of The Bands champion and CHART's Featured Artist for the month of June 2008. The Deceivers are four boys with instruments, a hunger, a stunning live show and more energy than the Niagara Falls in monsoon season. Their sound has evoked descriptions of "dirty and dubby" to "like bathing with a toaster on 10". The boys cite Daft Punk, Foals, LCD Soundsystem and RHCP as the reason they play music...

Urban Jazz Hiphop
www.myspace.com/centralrecords
Contact: Oakley Grenell
Multi musical talent and son of the south Oakley ‘O.G.’ Grenell is CHART's Featured Artist for NZ Music Month 2008. O.G. released his stunning sophmore album Moving On on April 2008, the product of three years work, culminating in a solid 15 track record of some of the finest crafted NZ hip-hop, soul and jazz cuts...

Indie Dance Punk
www.myspace.com/thetigertones
Contact: James Grant
Dance punks Tiger Tones are CHART's Featured Artist for April 2008. Variously described as “bargain basement dance-punk” and “shoegaze meets extreme” Christchurch based Tiger Tones aren’t too sure what they are either. Since forming in early 2006 Tiger Tones have played on A Low Hum tours / camps, featured in articles in Real Groove and Rip it Up, and were nominated for...

Indie Pop
www.myspace.com/theolovelys
Contact: Laura Lee

Christchurch indie popsters The O'Lovelys are CHART's Featured artist for March 2008. At the core of The O'Lovelys is the dynamic duo of Laura Lee (vocals/synth) and Brooke (keys), collaborators since lunch money days at Hagley Community College. Laura Lee's opera-trained voice is...

Alternative Pop
www.myspace.com/insurgents4u
Contact: Will Edmonds

Christchurch alt-pop rockers The Insurgents are Chart's Featured artist for February 2008. As the darlings of the all-ages scene courtesy of their involvement with Out Of Kilter Music - an all ages focused record label and music community blog, they are rapidly gaining attention as a rocking live band with killer songs. Their influences range from the Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, Kings of Leon, The Cribs and The Beatles...

New Wave Electro
myspace.com/muziked
Contact: James Dann

In between studying for a PHD in biological sciences and hosting a breakfast show on RDU, James Dann becomes Ed Muzik. A vibrant indie-electro act that has picked up a large following among the Christchurch alternative music scene for his minimal keyboard beats which go with his clever lyrics about stalking school girls and party pills...