Music
Sonic swirlings
Fresh from attending the GRAMMYs, Moon will present Real Black for Me at the Wellington Jazz Festival, where she will sing the music of Roberta Flack at Meow on the 17th of October.
Neon Cowgirl comes home
Tami Neilson unveiled her new, rhinestone-bedazzled album Neon Cowgirl in July. The country and soul singer-songwriter and star shoots to The Opera House to play the new songs with her killer band on the 3rd of October.
Wide, wild lives
simple ∞ animal writes “songs of heartache, protest, love, and some really silly songs. Songs that reflect the wide, wild, and weird lives we live”, frontman John McDougall says. Catch the Kiwi band live at Vogelmorn Upstairs on the 13th of September.
Walking on air
Just eight months out of high school, rising pop-rockers Where’s Jai have released their debut album Fresh Out Of Air. We chat to the band ahead of their first-ever Welly show at San Fran on the 23rd of August.
Coming in hot
We catch up with roots-reggae band Corrella before they bring the sun-soaked vibes to San Fran on the 15th of August amidst their five-date Aotearoa Skeletons Winter Tour.
Daddy Was an Outlaw
Welly-based five-piece The Bitter Brothers are coming home to stomp some feet and spin some yarns at Vogelmorn Upstairs on the 8th of August. It’ll be their last gig for a while… talk about bittersweet!
The roads that pointed here
Delaney Davidson recently met Willie Nelson! We chat to the polymathic Kiwi musician about the breathtaking encounter and his upcoming Anniversary Tour, which reaches Meow on the 18th and St Peter’s Village Hall in Paekākāriki on the 19th of July.
A love without limit
After a four-year hiatus, Te Whanganui-a-Tara artist Lake South and his electricUTOPIA band have returned with their fourth and best album yet. The We lived our lives on top of this release tour kicks off at Meow on the 27th of June.
Doom soaked and dripping with dread
Catch Earth Tongue back from Berlin on Friday the 13th as they unveil their new album Great Haunting at Meow Nui.
Taking Off
Herbert Zielinski, a classical singer at The New Zealand School of Music – Te Kōkī, has been awarded a scholarship as the Tenor Choral Scholar at Wells Cathedral in the UK. He will perform a farewell concert at St Andrew’s on the Terrace on the 14th of June.
Back in a puff of smoke
Auckland indie-rockers Voom are back with their long-awaited new album, the aptly titled Something Good Is Happening. To celebrate, they’ll vroom across the motu, playing San Fran on the 31st of May.
Step through the portal
Mayhem Portals, the ultimate drum and bass arena spectacular, will throw TSB Arena into deep, delirious, bone-rattling mayhem on the 24th of May.