A Kiwi pop primer

There was something magical going on long before Peter Jackson transformed the rugged wilderness of New Zealand into Middle Earth. In the early 1980s, Dunedin music impresario Roger Shepherd founded Flying Nun Records. The rest is history, although it’s history that is surprisingly little known in the U.S. Perhaps it’s time to change that. Because from the mid ’80s through the early ’90s, Flying Nun Records put out the best music on the planet. And yes, I’m looking at you, Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder.

–Andy Whitman

Tagged as: Flying Nun Records, Garageland, Kiwi pop, New Zealand, Roger Shepherd, Straitjacket Fits, Tall Dwarfs, The Bats, The Chills, The Clean