Dutch/Kiwi trio My Baby brought their Acoustic Blues Club Tour to Auckland proving that their brand of voodoo blues is as vibrant as ever, more than a decade after they formed and just months away from their next studio album.
AUCKLAND SOUNDS delivered a star-studded line-up to take an ageing audience back to their heyday at the North Shore’s Eventfinda Stadium last night. Carin Newbould was there to report on the retro action, with Michael Jeong taking pics of what went down.
Canada’s Flatliners made their Auckland debut a mere 20 years after the release of their first album. Was it worth the wait? Well…yeah!
Perchance! In this scribe’s (13th Floor Reviewer – Simon Coffey) opinion, tonight’s show at The Hollywood in Avondale, by lauded California entity Osees may have achieved ‘Gig-o-the Year’ status, whilst we are barely 14% into 2025.
Possibly the most highly-anticipated concert since Jack White played The Powerstation back in December, Aussie rockers Amyl & The Sniffers made their Auckland debut at the same hallowed venue.
Twenty years plus since creation and 11 albums on, Ireland’s God Is An Astronaut have finally made it to the shores of Aotearoa, well Te Ika-a-Māui at least, for two shows. Still fronted by founders and twin brothers Niels and Torsten Kinsella, with Lloyd Hanney on drums, GIAA play a synthesis of post-prog-punk-pyschadelia with a […]
Damien Rice made a welcome return to Auckland playing to a sold out audience 20+ years after he was last in town.
2025’s Tamaki Makaurau’s Laneway versus the 2010 inaugural, is quite a different beast. It has grown in size, evolved in music, and shifted venues three times, (with the likelihood of another venue change coming in 2026) Meanwhile the food queues still exist, the early evening waif from the portaloo encampments seeps, and FOMO still plagues […]
There are links between Ōtautahi act Moider Mother and Tamaki Makaurau group Grecco Romank, google reveals all, though where Demons of Noon fits in is a little more mysterious. But on a wet and windy (but warm) rahoroi night all toru groups performed to an unostentatious-sized crowd in a oubliette-like space on Karangahape Rd.
Auckland’s Brother Sister and Dunedin’s Robots In Love teamed up along with post-hardcore band MullBrain for some steamy fun at Big Fan.