Royal Blood – Logan Campbell Centre May 1, 2018
It was a night of raging riffs and pummeling percussion as English rock duo Royal Blood took charge of Auckland’s Logan Campbell Centre.
It was a night of raging riffs and pummeling percussion as English rock duo Royal Blood took charge of Auckland’s Logan Campbell Centre.
Janelle Monáe’s new album Dirty Computer is firmly rooted in Sex and Politics and I love it. For months, I have been wondering how and what would it take to outdo and outperform Monáe’s Electric Lady in 2013. As I watched and listened to each new single, my apprehension grew until I finally heard Dirty Computer in its […]
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.
The Disappointments got together last night for a special one-off show at Auckland’s Tuning Fork.
Here’s a fantastic reason to head downtown Auckland on Friday 13th April! In conjunction with the launch of the new P20 series Smartphones, Huawei is hosting a free music festival at Auckland’s Federal Street on Friday 13th April, 4pm onwards.
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 […]
This was a show that almost wasn’t. When both bands’ gear failed to arrive in Auckland, it looked like the concert would be cancelled, but local bands saved the day by providing instruments and other equipment to both Mastodon and Gojira in order to make the show happen. The 13th Floor’s Shelley Ta Haara and […]
Wind and rain is all part of the charm for living in Titirangi so the wet weather had little impact on the crowd that came to watch Carnivorous Plant Society and Hopetoun Brown perform at the Titirangi War Memorial Hall and close out Day 1 of the Titirangi Festival.
Ed Sheeran, Mt Smart Stadium March 24 2018 Ed Sheeran’s NZ Divide Tour – a fine reminder that just because Sheeran makes doing what he does look easy, it doesn’t, not even for a second, mean that it is. The ginger ninja’s return to the country was just as impressive as it was heartfelt.
On a beautiful, sunny Tuesday, the Prophets of Rage tore apart Auckland’s Spark Arena with their loud, aggressive and rehashed nu metal and alternative rap rock and showed the men in the White House that they were not taking any of their shit. But really? Are they really needed? Are they relevant?