Phillipps had been working on the newly-announced Spring Board record at the time of his unexpected passing in July.

Wire bassist Edvard Graham Lewis has announced new solo album Alreet? which will be out January 24 via Upp Records. His dark style is front and center on disquiting first single “Last Scene of All.” ...

New Zealand jangle-pop legend Martin Phillipps died unexpectedly in July at age 61. Before his passing, he had a 40-year run ...

Fire Records and The Chills whānau have announced a very special post-humous release of Martin Phillips unreleased early tracks — immortalised by his band and peers from the Aotearoa music family. Out ...

New Zealand jangle-pop band the Chills will release a new album of previously unreleased songs in February. The album, Spring ...

The New Zealand band’s late founder reimagined his songwriting juvenilia for Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs ...

The number of people killed in Sudan's civil war is far higher than previously thought, according to new research, as aid agencies warn that the conflict has created the world's worst hunger crisis ...

The number of people killed in Sudan’s civil war is far higher than previously thought, according to new research, as aid ...

In the years before his untimely death in July, The Chills frontman Martin Phillipps talked of how he was going back through his archive of early unrecorded songs and finally putting them to tape for ...

This rather finely painted Lute Player by Nicolas Tournier, plucking what I can see is a rather nicely detailed 10-course ...

After analyzing old surveys of forests in southeast Mexico, archaeologists have discovered a previously unrecorded Maya city.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells Host Carolyn Beeler about Suyanggae, South Korea, an archaeological zone that holds rare and precious relics of the peoples who first arrived there up ...