Formed in 2020 in Tāmaki Makaurau, Soft Bait are a band that took shape before they ever took the stage. Their debut, Plot Points, written and recorded before playing a single gig, was literary, brooding post-punk built on relentless rhythm and tight, coiled tension.
Leanne Malcolm has changed her tune in recent years. Known across New Zealand as a radio and television journalist and as the presenter of TV3’s Nightline in the 90s, she has had a radical shift in career since 2021. Now Gina Malcom is here with the pure alt-country and Americana sound of ‘Travellin’ Heart’.
Direct from Whangārei its Osheen, one of Northland’s most promising new singer/songwriters….here in Auckland to perform his latest single, Highlife, at The 13th Floor.
Barry Saunders and The Warratahs have just released their new album, Burning Daylight, one that has The 13th Floor’s Robin Kearns thinking…here are his thoughts.
Since the release of Awning’s debut, My Friend Dog EP, recordings made between 2021 and 2023, singer/songwriter Christian Dimick has made significant strides, and I’m not just talking distance between Te Whanganui-a-Tara and Tamaki Makaurau.
Cold weather be damned! Princess Chelsea invited all of Auckland to celebrate the season with another Midwinter Ball and the response was so great it was expanded to two nights.
On their quietly assured debut album Eyes Over There, Sadsmiles, the collaborative project of Mahoney Harris and Wayne Bell, offer a collection of songs that reward stillness and attentiveness. With Harris on lead vocals and Bell playing every instrument, the album is a notebook of understatement: poetic, emotionally intelligent, and beautifully unhurried.
Today, Auckland’s soul-electronic collective LEISURE share their new single, Dominoes, a catchy beat-driven track that ignites like the spark of falling in love.
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has been done so many times in so many ways it has almost become a cliché. Almost. Almost. We’ve seen Baz Lurhmann do it as a brawl on Venice Beach, and Leonard Bernstein take it to a Westside Story. I’ve seen many different interpretations myself—but I’ve never seen it done as a […]
The Auckland Theatre Company’s production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet opens this week at ASB Waterfront Theatre.