Watch Tweed Perform Good Vibrations at The 13th Floor
Auckland-based trio Tweed are about to release their debut album, High-Brow Blues later this week. The band recently visited The 13th Floor to play a few tunes and chat with Marty Duda. That video session will be posted soon. In the mean time, here is a “bonus clip”…Tweed performing The Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations.
Neil Watson – Studies In Tubular (NW)
Neil Watson works as an Artist Teacher at Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music’s Albany Campus in 2013. But after hours he likes to let off steam making serious New Orleans Boogaloo, 70’s Funk, Surf Rock and guitar based jazz. Which is pretty much his template for this new 9 track album.
Guns N’ Roses – Western Springs Stadium February 4, 2017
Unlike in Wellington, the gates opened and the sun shone as over 50,000 Guns n’ Roses fans streamed into Auckland’s Western Springs Stadium. And also unlike Wellington, the band actually showed up on time, much to the shock and amazement of all who were present.
IKON – Disjecta Membra – Sounds Like Winter – Vallhala, Wellington February 3, 2017
Last night three Australasian dark, post-punk/gothic rock bands brought the darkness to Wellington – just as the clouds outside were abating. After yet another shocking week of weather bombs the city was ready for some warmth and stability. But down in a small dark club, fashioned around the legendary Norse ‘Hall of the Slain”, fans […]
Listen To New Music From Depeche Mode!
Depeche Mode are due to release Spirit, their first album since 2013’s Delta Machine, on March 17th. Now, though, you can hear Where’s The Revolution, the lead single from Spirit.
Watch: Teenage Kiwi Metallers, Alien Weaponry, Release New Single
Here’s some metal for your holiday weekend… New Zealand’s youngest thrash metallers, Alien Weaponry, are kicking off 2017 with a thunderous new single, ‘Raupatu’.
Check Out This New Track From The Courtneys!
Flying Nun will release Vancouver’s The Courtney’s new album on February 17th. But right now they’ve just made available the third single from the album titled Minnesota…
WOMAD 2017 – Hidden Treasures
One of the great pleasures of going to a world music festival such as WOMAD 2017 at New Plymouth is the opportunity to discover music and musicians that you never knew existed. As part of our ongoing series, here are five acts that we’ve unearthed from around the globe, who are coming to this year’s […]
Elemeno P Announce Two Headline Shows
It’s fifteen years since pop-rock legends Elemeno P appeared on the New Zealand music scene with debut single Fast Times in Tahoe and now the band is reconvening for headline shows in Auckland and Christchurch in March, following their appearance at Wellington’s Homegrown festival.
Opeth – Powerstation February 2, 2017
More than a decade after their last visit to Auckland, Sweden’s Opeth played to a sold-out crowd at The Powerstation, making the hundreds of black-T-shirted fans very happy indeed.
Panic! At The Disco – Vector Arena February 2, 2017
Tragic at the Disco… For better or for worse, music has the ability to capture a moment, a feeling or a mood. It is something that is almost primeval, that defies any carefully curated notions of taste. For this writer, the woefully bad pop-punk phase circa 2005-2006 is one that continues to tug on my […]
Guns ‘N’ Roses – Westpac Stadium February 2, 2017
When I was 13 I attended my first live rock show at Wellington’s Athletic Park. It was KISS. And it was 1980. The night was appalling. The show started late and there was trouble from the crowds, who were predominantly young drunk males. The local constabulary were also over-exerting their authority, as was their custom […]
Jimmy Barnes Working Class Boy: An Evening of Stories and Songs
Jimmy Barnes will kick off his New Zealand WORKING CLASS BOY: An Evening of Stories and Songs tour on Monday 6 February in Invercargill. The ten date tour will see Jimmy make his way up the country performing in special venues nationwide. Surrounded on stage by his children, Jimmy will bring his recently released book […]
Duke Garwood – Garden Of Ashes (Heavenly)
London-based blues musician Duke Garwood begins the new year in top form, unleashing his 7th album Garden of Ashes, an ambient and atmospheric odyssey which drips with post-apocalyptic melancholy and madness.
Fazerdaze Releases New Track Lucky Girl, Announces Debut LP Morningside & NZ Tour Dates
Last year, New Zealand’s Fazerdaze (aka Amelia Murray) dropped the track Little Uneasy and promised herself to release her debut LP in 2017. Now the details are here.
Womad 2017 Interview: BAYNK
This is the second in our series on upcoming artists performing at WOMAD 2017. This time, it’s BAYNK, aka Jock Nowell-Usticke, the Kiwi university student who chucked up a song up on SoundCloud back in early 2015 while travelling around Europe and scored himself an appearance at a major local music festival (St Jerome’s Laneway), […]
Check Out New Music From Blondie!
Here’s something to light up your Thursday… Blondie lights up 2017 with the release of their 11th studio album Pollinator through Liberator Music / BMG on May 5th – an incredible new record and a modern take on the classic, vintage sound of one of the world’s most influential and legendary bands.
Old Crow Medicine Show Released Unreleased Tune ‘Black Haired Québécoise’!
With a “Best Of” collection on the horizon, Old Crow Medicine Show have just released a previously unheard studio recording overseen by David Rawlings… “‘Black Haired Québécoise’ adds a jolt of history to the album’s hits collection, capturing the young band during a rousing, ramshackle recording session with producer David Rawlings.” – Rolling Stone “Black-Haired […]
Howe Gelb – Future Standards (Fire)
I have to confess my heart dipped a little when I saw the title of this album. Recent albums with the word standard in them by Dylan, Elvis Costello, and even Willie Nelson have seemed to me to signal that the performer has given up on their own songwriting and is content to just serve […]
Patriots Day
Director: Peter Berg 15th of April 2013 was a perfect spring day in Boston, Massachusetts – Patriots Day – honouring the first battles of the American Revolution and the day of the annual Boston Marathon. And the day chosen by the Chechen-refugee Tsarnaev brothers, Tamerlan (Themo Melikidze) and Dzhokar (Alex Wolff) as the date of […]