Dick Move performed a killer In My Room session for Rolling Stone AU/NZ, to celebrate their inclusion in our Future of Music series.
The exciting punk band were one of 25 ANZ acts included in the 2026 edition of our flagship series.
“Punk is all about speaking truth to power, and Dick Move do it better than most,” we wrote of the Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland group. “With Aotearoa contending with an election in a few months’ time, there’s never been a better time to blast their angry (but hopeful) anthems.”
Across their latest album, Dream, Believe, Achieve, Dick Move, thrillingly led from the front by the impassioned Lucy Suttor, took on toxic men, capitalist politics, and patriarchal systems with lacerating honesty. Standout tracks were strewn throughout the album, particularly “Nurses”, a snarling attack on the strategies of neoliberalism governments, and “Fuck It”, an equally loud and uncompromising rejection of outdated systems.
“Most of our music is a call to action directly influenced by the fuckery happening around us, and knowing that people from outside of our bubble connect with it feels pretty unifying,” they told us earlier this year. “I guess when we write it can feel quite personal, or maybe specific to Aotearoa, but what we hope is that the message can be transferable to other contexts too.”
Read the full interview here.
Dream, Believe, Achieve made it all the way to No. 2 on our year-end New Zealand albums list of 2025, and nominations at the Taite Music Prize and Aotearoa Music Awards followed this year.
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Tomorrow night (August 29th), the band – along with Lucy Gray, Frank Booker, Jaycee, Jim Nothing, and more – are playing a fundraiser gig at Auckland’s Double Whammy, raising funds to support live music venues to better advocate for their protection – and to support Green party candidates running in this year’s election. See all the details here.
Check out their In My Room session above.
