"Cook me some legs..." - in Kiwi black comedy Fresh Meat , Temuera Morrison turns cannibal to take on the role of Dr Hemi Crane, an "Associate Professor" looking for choice cuts to stock his family's Churton Park human…

1. photos Talking Heads: Temuera Morrison and Dominic Corry (5 photos)

While he didn't take out the title in the eighth season of American Idol , glam-pop purveyor Adam Lambert parlayed the profile it afforded him into something much bigger, collaborating with Queen, teaming with hitmakers…

1. video Adam Lambert talks to Newstalk ZB's Susan Wood (9:22)

The driving force behind The Gunslinger's Ball and host of 95bFM's Border Radio , Bernie Griffen is the voice and songwriter of The Grifters, a band that brings together his life-long love of Old, Weird America - folk…

1. photos Talking Heads: Bernie Griffen and Adam McGrath (5 photos)

"It's the music that has always kept the band alive" says The Warratahs ' frontman Barry Saunders. "We are always looking forward and creating new material or reworking old material. If we weren't doing that, there would…

1. Talking Heads: Ray Columbus and Delaney Davidson

The songs on AIO , the new double LP from musician and fluent te reo Maori speaker Maitreya are split between Maori and English versions, allowing the Christchurch-born MC to flex his reo skills alongside guest vocalists…

1. photos [PHOTOS] Talking Heads: Maitreya and Te Awanui Reeder (5 photos)

Since the release of the debut Dear Time's Waste LP Spells , visual artist Veronica Crockford-Pound has overseen the presentation of Claire Duncan 's solo project with album artwork and photographs, the videos for…

1. Talking Heads: Ruban Nielson and Henrietta Harris

In 1981, Te Arawa crooner Deane Waretini knocked John Lennon off the top of the pop charts with The Bridge, New Zealand's first te reo Maori No. 1. Maori Television series Now is the Hour follows Dean as he makes…

1. Herbs: Cultivating fame

Ahead of the 2012 APRA Silver Scroll ceremony, APRA's Director of NZ Operations Anthony Healey and music critic Nick Bollinger talked about the award's storied legacy.

Watercolours - the alias of Chelsea Jade - and Artisan Guns ' Jonathan Pearce have known each other since primary school, and the old schoolmates have worked together across a host of musical projects, including the…

1. video [VIDEO PREMIERE] Watercolours, Pazzida (3:52)

For Talking Heads, Iva Lamkum and Six60 frontman Matiu Walters talked source material.

1. R&V;: Kimbra a 'guaranteed winner'

In 2000, The Verlaines' Graeme Downes took up a position as a lecturer at Otago University overseeing their Contemporary Music Performance programme, a return to the university where he gained his BMus and later his PhD.

1. photos [PHOTOS] Talking Heads: Veronica Crockford-Pound and Claire Duncan (6 photos)

For Talking Heads, Concord Dawn's Matt Harvey teamed with fellow basshead, State of Mind's Patrick Hawkins, to talk about the release, Harvey's life in Vienna, and speaking pidgin German.

1. Album review: Air Chrysalis - Concord Dawn

Home Brew/Team Dynamite producer Haz Beats and The DHDFDs' frontman Scott Brown faced off to talk about putting bodies on the line at shows, the merits of Papatoetoe vs Pt Chevalier, and saveloy party tricks.

1. video Sundae Sessions: Home Brew, Good God (4:59)

Die! Die! Die! is back with a new studio album, Harmony, and a new bass player in the form of former Mint Chick and F in Math mastermind Michael Logie.

1. video Sundae Sessions: OPOSSOM, Girl

Independent musicians Tommy Ill and Edward Castelow both inked distribution deals with EMI for their latest albums New Hat and a Haircut and Beneath the Crystal Palace, but the major label connection hasn't altered their…

1. video Sundae Sessions: Dictaphone Blues, Cliche

In her original incarnation as Bionic Pixie, Zowie performed alongside a musician wielding a Chapman stick – her Dad, Johnny Fleury, a veteran player and teacher at MAINZ whose history includes playing with The Idles, Dave…

Pop fiends Janine and the Mixtape and Kidz in Space's Ashley Hughes have joined forces on a soon-to-be-revealed project that they've called '80s in Harlem . For Talking Heads, the duo talked about their pop life. …

Musicians/producers/DJs Mark de Clive-Lowe and Andy ‘Submariner’ Morton’s shared history stretches back to school days at Auckland Grammar School alongside other musical alumni like Zane Lowe and Rob Salmon.

"Record label, tour manager, booking agent, festival organiser type guy" - by his own admission, Camp A Low Hum festival mastermind Blink is a man who wears many hats.

1. video Talking Heads: Lawrence Arabia & Mike Chunn (16:45)

Ahead of Dimmer's farewell shows at the Kings Arms in Auckland on Thursday May 24 and Bodega in Wellington on Saturday May 26, Robertson and the politically-minded, perennially good looking Carter got together at Auckland's…

1. video Talking Heads: Savage & Che Fu - Mayhem & Miracles

NZ On Air is now seven rounds into MakingTracks, the music funding scheme established to increase diversity in local music by funding individual songs and connecting them with an audience via broadcast and digital platforms…

The late, great New Zealand music journalist Dylan Taite put his body on the line to get a scoop, going above and beyond to secure classic interviews with the likes of Bob Marley, Lou Reed and the Sex Pistols.

1. video Taite Prize 2012: The Bats

For Talking Heads , Beck's collaborators Andrew McLeod and Cut Off Your Hands' Nick Johnston talked about partnership.

1. History made: SXSW 2009, Austin, Texas

For Talking Head s, Beck’s collaborators Gavin Hurley and Parallel Dance Ensemble’s Robin Hannibal talked PDE’s Juices , the song that frames their collaboration.

For Talking Heads , we got Julien Dyne and Chris O'Connor to come together and chew over the strange duality of the drum kit, the intersections of melody and noise, and the rejuvenating power of playing live. …