2026
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The Veils: Pieces That Make Up The Whole
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 ...
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Mainard Larkin: Standing For Something
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 ...
Fresh Talent
Fresh Talent: Evie Bamford
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 ...
Industry: The Story Behind MixMates
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, ...
Fresh Talent
Fresh Talent: Tehran Don
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 ...
Interviews
Fables: Sensitive To Change
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 ...
On Foreign Soil
On Foreign Soil: Written By Wolves Tour of Europe/UK, April-May 2026
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 ...