On Rino Tangi (Steel that Sings), Tāmaki Makaurau’s Helium Project transform Gary Hunt’s hand-forged percussion sculptures, created by the former punk drummer, into instruments that gleam, sigh and resonate with a musicality that is central to the project’s warmth.
Melbourne’s The Belair Lip Bombs don’t waste time. Their second album, Again, packs a restless half-hour of wiry guitars, melodic punch, and emotional intelligence into ten tracks that move like a live set: fast, tight, and slightly unpredictable.
Hail, Meteor!’s Nearer begins with a low vibration that feels like the unsettled atmosphere before a storm. The sound grows slowly until it becomes a living landscape of rhythm and resonance.
On Great Barrier’s new album Repetition, the sea is restless, the heart is beating, and something elemental stirs beneath.
Open Late: In the Web of Louise Bourgeois marked the Auckland Art Gallery’s new exhibition Louise Bourgeois: In Private View, which runs to 17 May 2026.
“Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine”. Fifty years ago a defiant Patti Smith released her debut album, Horses. Now, here is a look at this new 50th Anniversary Edition of a true classic.
Madi Diaz’s Fatal Optimist is an album built on restraint, precision, and feeling. Each song seems to breathe in time with her voice, which carries both melody and emotion.
Echomatica arrive with a self titled debut album that favours texture over immediacy, building moody, slow-burning songs from synths, reverb and restraint.
For more than two decades Portland based singer-songwriter Laura Veirs has turned quiet observation into iridescent song: rivers, snowfields, the faint tracks people leave behind. On Live in Angoulême she lets those vivid descriptions breathe through a 32-voice French school choir, and the result is both faithful and startlingly new.
Nicki Bluhm sings like someone who has travelled far, but never lost touch with where she began. On Rancho Deluxe she draws on her heartbreak, reinvention and restless travel to ask what it means to find home, community and meaning at times of personal change. This is an album of resilience and reflection, alive with stories that circle nature, […]
