Finalists for the 2025 Best Independent Debut Award, 花溪 Flowerstream are the sonic travelling Chinese / Māori duo of Huiming Wu (playing home-engineered electric guzheng) and Maxwell Brown (on ...

Let us collectively raise a glass to 'My Brilliance', the new ballad from award-winning Aotearoa songwriter Jazmine Mary, who has just been announced as the latest recruit to the venerated Flying Nun ...

It has taken nineteen years to reach this moment, Voom's first new album since 2006's Hello, Are You There?. So it's fully appropriate that Something Good Is Happening initially f ...

Absolute icon of Californian fuzz-drenched stoner rock and desert-fried doom, Brant Bjork is bringing the full force of his Brant Bjork Trio to Aotearoa for a nationwide tour this September. Key ...

A healing journey in sound and song recorded with production wiz Will McGillivray (aka Goodwill, who also worked on There's A Tuesday's new album ), Mim Jensen 's Shadow Of The Gift EP has emerged as ...

A synapse-zapping fiesta of sound and colour, Carnivorous Plant Society enchanted attendees at FAM Karangahape Road street party at the start of NZ Music Month and now they've announced The Lizard ...

Scroll down and check out the brand new UTR Roundup Playlist, a rolling weekly playlist keeping you in the loop with every new release we've featured on the site over the past month! An empathetic ode ...

Chris Cudby: Kia ora Spike Fuck — welcome back to Aotearoa! You were last here eight years ago and a lot has changed since then. What factors fed into Spike Fuck's renewed outburst of activity over ...

Brouhaha is a brand-new free jazz group formed in Ōtautahi that offers ecstatic, burning, tangled webs of improvised sound complete with howling saxophone and guitar effects over a volcanic bass & ...

Single Malt - As they near the release of their new single Making My Way, get ready for a night of high-energy live music as Single Malt takes the stage ...

NOTW Club Night curated by ANTIDAWN Expect the usual forward thinking bass music from Tāmaki's own Faulsk, Gristle, Andwahn & Candi. 17th May @ Neck Of The Woods 10PM-4AM ANTIDAWN events have a policy ...

Ministry Of Folk Feat. Elementary Penguins, Recliner Rockers And Hoop. - We have an exciting line-up for The Ministry of Folk in June and promises to be an entertaining night.Bring your own drinks and ...