Menzies’ songs are populated with famously Kiwiana things like our national rugby team, sausage rolls, inter-island ferry crossings and mashed potatoes. Attracting parallels with the Kiwi-conscious likes ...
With a background delivering soul-rich vocals across a spread of genres, Ōtautahi singer-songwriter Lee Martin has earned a reputation as a versatile storytelling artist, with an old soul. The first single ...
With more than two decades of evolution behind them, and just a year on from the last album, ‘Asphodels’, The Veils return in June 2026 with their eighth long player, ‘Fragile World’. Dasha Koryagina ...
Mainard Larkin, the Auckland artist previously known as rap artist Randa, has re-emerged in 2026 as a self-aware country artist, embracing the full-on embroidered Western shirt and snake boots kind of ...
The first day of NZ Music Month brought with it the third introductory single from Tāmaki Makaurau singer-songwriter Evie Bamford, a jazzy, uptempo alt pop track titled Company. She describes is her ...
Playlists are both the convenient digital-era version of lovingly shared mixtapes, and an efficient promotion mechanism for artists – and for the millions compiling them for any variety of other reasons. Still, ...
Tehran Don (aka T.DON) was writing poetry from a young age, and fell in love with hip hop early on – listening to underground artists in his homeland of Iran, where rap music is illegal. Tehran (Saman ...
There’s been a several gap in the Fables discography, which the title of her 2026 album ‘Change is a Slow Moving Beast’ perhaps goes some way to explain. Rich with confessional storytelling the album ...
Although they’d never played with or even met Solence before, Auckland’s high energy progressive rock act Written By Wolves were invited to join the Swedish electronic rock/metal band on their 21-date ...
Reb Fountain has enjoyed a number of critical and commercial successes since the release of her debut album ‘Like Water’ in 2008. After three albums and a live EP, her biggest breakthrough came with ...
