Rock

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...

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...

Indie / Experimental / Rock
www.theenrighthouse.com www.myspace.com/theenrighthouse
Contact: Mark Roberts
info@theenrighthouse.com

This month we feature The Enright House, a Christchurch based post rock 4 piece that are one of the first signings to A Low Hum's new label. Described as an experimental indie-rock act with a twist of pop, singer/guitarist/front man Mark Roberts talks us through their history and future plans...

Rock
www.myspace.com/atlastheband
atlastheband.co.nz

It's not every day that three people from different parts of the world meet and immediately decide to form a band, but if your talking about New Zealand based band ATLAS, that's exactly what happened.

Country Rock
www.dukestheband.com www.myspace.com/dukestheband
contact@dukestheband.com

The Dukes play to make you move. Rock’n'rhythm. They like to think of it as brown sugar music. Formed in 2003, the band began touring immediately and in May 2005 released their debut album Lil’ Sunshine on small indie label Elite Recordings.

Hard Rock
www.myspace.com/thevalvesband
Contact: Marc Royal

Harking from the restless city of Christchurch, New Zealand, The Valves are an exciting new band who deliver a high octane rock sound. The band formed about two years ago, and were forged out of the fires of Wildside legends, Pumpkinhead and Slim. The band has been described as: “One of the most and interesting and passionate bands to explode on our shores.