It was a wild night out west in Auckland as Sheryl Crow and Melissa Etheridge set out to make rock great again at the Trusts Stadium. The two make for a cracking pop-rock double act and continue their Australasia tour here for three dates. They met on the Michael Jackson 1987 BAD tour and the two […]
Lindsey Buckingham is out and Neil Finn and former Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell is in.
With 45 acts, five stages and a stunning harbour vistas the Capital’s best day out for music fans promised a great party to close off an exceptional summer. Now in its 11th year this sold out festival has rightly earned its iconic status, alongside Laneway, Rhythm & Vines, the former Big Day Out and Splore, among others. It’s also the best way to see the greatest number of Kiwi bands all in one place. So, did it live up to the reputation? Tim Gruar packed a rain jacket, his notepad and his camera to head along and find out.
The Nielson brothers are New Zealand music royalty. After finding initial success with post-punk group the Mint Chicks, Ruban and Kody have carved successful careers for themselves with the former perhaps gaining even more success than his old group with Unknown Mortal Orchestra.
It is not every day you get to see a pop group play with a full orchestra inside a great hall. But that was exactly what an audience of around twelve hundred or so got to witness at the Auckland Town Hall on April 6th 2018, as supergroup Leisure became the latest to partner with […]
An Audience member cuts Rag’n’Bone man to the bone at his Auckland concert in Spark Arena… But the booming baritone shut the heckler down like a boss. Perhaps it was a premonition of sorts when, upon entering the evening’s venue, the arena had been halved. Alas, one could argue that a more intimate space was precisely […]
Here’s what Real Groovy has planned for Record Store Day 2018…
New South Wales duo Hockey Dad brought an energetic set of summery garage rockers with them to Wellington last night, making up with conviction what they occasionally lacked in originality.
Record Store Day is fast-approaching. Here’s what the folks at Southbound Records have in store…
Just before playing to a sold-out audience at Auckland’s Whammy Bar, Australia rock duo Hockey Dad stopped in to The 13th Floor Studios to talk to Marty Duda.