Music
Light After The Dark
Albi & The Wolves are on tour with a brand-new album! Come fill your boots with soul and wear out the soles toe-tapping along at Old St Paul’s this November.
A giant singalong party
23 years after rocketing up the NZ charts with their debut album Silencer, Zed will drop a new single on the 10th of November with a national tour to boot. We chat with Nathan King and Andy Lynch about Future You.
The great rock ‘n’ roll synthesiser
GRAMMY® Award-winning American rock band The War On Drugs will play Wellington as part of Live Nation’s new On A Good Day outdoor music series. We caught up with lead singer Adam Granduciel ahead of the concert.
A deep nostalgic trip
20 years ago, The Phoenix Foundation released their debut album Horse Power. The inimitable indie rock band will celebrate with an anniversary tour and vinyl release this November.
The torso and the heart
Ōtepoti alt-rockers Julian Temple Band have just dropped their seventh studio album Tunnels, which encapsulates the sonic evolution of a band with nearly two decades of writing, recording, and touring to their name.
Rad festivities
Creeps Record Parlour is turning four! Or five! Who knows! The Newtown institution will celebrate whichever birthday it is with Rad Fest, featuring 13 “sick bands playing killer sets” across the suburb.
The songs you know in your bones
We interviewed legendary Kiwi musician Tim Finn of Split Enz and Crowded House fame about his tour The Lives and Times of Tim Finn, coming to the Michael Fowler Centre this September.
Sorry, I’m a Libra
Pōneke-based artist Danica Bryant and her out-of-this-world band will celebrate her new single Libra with The Astrology Tour, landing at Wellington’s very own space-themed bar, Moon, this September.
Today’s hits yesterday
Sensational pop-jazz collective Postmodern Jukebox brings their Life In The Past Lane Tour to Wellington.
Floral fixation
Independent Arrowtown singer-songwriter Sofia Machray has just released Language of Flowers, an EP as unpredictable, delicate, and bold as a rose that grew from a crack in the concrete.
A decade of embracism
Wild, wondrous Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist Kirin J Callinan launches his new album in New Zealand on the If I Could Sing: A decade of EMBRACISM and beyond tour.
The birds and the bush
Alt-country folk artist Jenny Mitchell is about to tour Aotearoa in support of Forest & Bird. The Bush & The Birds Tour is an extension of a song from her latest album that pays tribute to her late grandfather.