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Widely known as the best in the business, Black Pineapple has extended its cocktail service to the at home crowd with their new fresh, pre-batched DIY cocktail kits. A beautifully considered and packaged range of ready to mix (and consume) drinks that are bound to impress your chums.
This week, popular fashion e-commerce store Rein opened their first permanent showroom in Parnell. We chatted with founder Gabby about the design of the new space, styling for strangers and how Auckland fashion compares to The Big Apple.
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Auckland-based collective BLKCITY are back at it again with their new single Flying. Featuring artists Raiza Biza, JessB, Mo Muse, Abdul Kay and Blaze The Emperor, the new track is accompanied by stellar visuals and a whole lotta energy.
Here at Counter Journal we’re always on the lookout for innovative businesses who are redefining the status quo of their industry. Introducing the new collection from Aotearoa’s own Harris Tapper, Self Portrait is available for preorder from today until July 14th via their website.
Kiwi brain drink Ārepa is sold all around the world. It's a type of nootropic, which is a smart way of saying brain food—like caffeine but without the side effects.
Barrel-aged wine is nothing new, though it's taken a while to gain traction in Aotearoa and is more common in international markets. But that might be all about to change if the new Chardy Jack from Waimauku’s The Hunting Lodge is anything to go by.
Larger-than-life puppets, full body costumes, dance, music, performance, it all comes together as BIG NAZO in spectacularly confusing yet entertaining fashion. We’d better let them explain.
JessB is an award-winning rapper from Tāmaki Makaurau, known for some seriously good tunes and her collabs with some of Aotearoa’s best and brightest. The visuals, the music, the songwriting and the delivery is a recipe that can’t be ignored, and with several hits to her name already, it’s up and up for Jess.
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” In Issue Four we look at careers; do you have one? How can you get one? What even defines a career?

Hailing from Atlanta, GA, Sage Koi is the talented artist behind new single EAT PRAY LOVE!—a vibrant track designed to be “loud and in your face”. The softer tone of the verse contrasts beautifully with the heavy hitting chorus, resulting in a punchy, impossible-to-ignore tune that feels as at home on your workout playlist as it would at your next socially-distanced house party.