“I love you but I’m working right now, I can love you after I’ve finished working” said The Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman Anton Newcombe to a woman in the crowd, as they performed to a packed Powerstation last night.
“Everyone in my family except me died at 21. When death follows you around, it helps you live. Darkness helps you see the light.” With that, my Uber driver pulled up outside of Kiss Kiss in Balmoral, Auckland with a flourish. The garish neon sign briefly illuminating his face. Light, darkness, odd social situations, a pointy […]
Every so often you see a performance that makes you fall back in love with live music. Marlon Williams’s sold out show at the Town Hall was one such performance.
Wax Chattels made a name for themselves for their raw and visceral live shows. With their self- titled debut, the band have cemented themselves as one of New Zealand’s most exciting indie acts in recent years.
Classic Dream Pop is the best music to fall asleep to. With its constant harmonies, slow tempos, drawn out droning, elegant distortion and gorgeously breathy vocals, good Dream Pop is akin to a lullaby sung by someone you loved as a child as you were nestled somewhere warm and safe. It can both ensnare and […]
In December 2017, Wellington-based ambient producer Mantle (George Johnston) released his fourth EP A Sandcastle, A Wave and it’s taken me this long to process the quiet brilliance of this latest offering.
The hype was real, but very little else was. Cleveland rapper Machine Gun Kelly’s packed out show had flashes of energy, showmanship and a fantastic backing band. However, this was balanced out by his limited technical skill and the jumbled array of musical pastiches that made up his set list.
If you were looking for meaningful music at Simple Plan’s 15th anniversary tour of No Pads No Helmets Just Balls at The Powerstation in Auckland last night, you would’ve been shit out of luck. But that would’ve been completely missing the point of an otherwise fun, high octane evening.
Indigenous Canadian duo A Tribe Called Red have been creating some of the most thrilling political work over the last five years and their performance at the Auckland Arts Festival last night was an absolute privilege to witness.
Storm the Gates festival had the air in Trusts Arena thick with machismo and downtuning, as an odd patchwork of yesteryear’s international hard rock acts delivered performances ranging from superb to abysmal.