Tomorrow, Sunday, is international Talk Like a Pirate Day. Yes, seriously.
Dunedin student radio station, Radio One is throwing one of its regular parties next week, with bands travelling from as far away as Auckland.
New Zealand reggae band The Black Seeds have recently returned from a world tour.
Refuel manager Scott Muir says in the five years during which the dunedinmusic.com website has been up and running, it has made a positive contribution to the local music scene.
French singer-songwriter Franck Monnet is coming to Dunedin.
Julia Deans returns to Dunedin tonight for a gig at Chicks Hotel in Port Chalmers.
Former Christchurch band the Feelers have copped a lot of flak for covering "that song" for the Rugby World Cup. However, drummer and founding member Hamish Gee says the band is not ashamed in the slightest.
Queenstown band the Skitzofrantiks begin a nationwide tour in Dunedin tonight.
Wellington's Spartacus R and Dunedin's The Puddle have teamed up for what they're promising to be a great night out.
Gold Coast-based band Not Ok has visited Dunedin frequently since 2004, and spokesman Justin Chatfield says they have been pretty busy lately.
Tonight A. J. Sharma takes the stage at Chicks, in Port Chalmers, along with The New Self and Death By Silo.
Tonight Carisbrook hosts its last All Blacks rugby test match, when the men in black take on Wales.
Tonight, 14 school bands from throughout Otago will battle it out to see who will represent the province at the nationwide final of this year's Smokefree Rockquest.
New Zealand Music Month rolls on with many performances this week.
New Zealand Music Month is in its second week and, true to form, the Dunedin music scene is busier than ever - yay!
Doug Jerebine, who rose to fame in the 1960s in bands including Human Instinct, was thought to have turned his back on music when he left New Zealand for India more than 30 years ago.
It is the first of May and with that comes New Zealand Music Month and the return of those shirts with the target on the front.
Former Dunedin musician Matt Joe Gow is now based in Melbourne and it's from there that he spoke to me.
Veteran New Zealand songwriter Don McGlashan returns to Dunedin for a boutique gig at St Martin's Hall on May 1.
Throughout Dunedin's history there have been street parties. Castle St has seen a fair few, and it's best not to mention Hyde St in university circles.