As a warm up to this year’s Laneway Festival, Turnstile, 100 gecs and Yard Act will take the stage at Auckland’s Powerstation on Sunday 29th January. With just two weeks of waiting until the big day, the Laneway tradition ofContinue Reading
Monthly Feature by Tim Gruar, Bridget Herlihy & Doug Peters. Crikey, whanau, it’s June already! Where has the year gone? We’ll be writing our Christmas lists before you know it. So, it looks like the new normal is upon us all,Continue Reading
French For Rabbits – The Overflow (AllGood Absolute Alternative Records Ltd.) Reviewed by Tim Gruar. The latest album from Wellington folk/pop crew is the perfect tribute to the glory of being an introvert, homebody or wallflower. Forget lockdowns. Stay inside,Continue Reading
Flying Nun 40th Anniversary 7th August 2021 Michael Fowler Center, Auckland, New Zealand. Review by Tim Gruar. Photography by Alexander Hallag. We all know the story. Back in 1981, in Ōtautahi (Christchurch), record store clerk Roger Shepherd created a labelContinue Reading
DUANE DENISON of TOMAHAWK: Room To Breathe. An interview by Sarah Kidd. When Duane Denison answers the phone, he sounds happy and relaxed; it’s Sunday afternoon in Nashville, Tennessee and Denison is fielding interviews about Tomahawks latest album – theirContinue Reading
RUBY SOLLY: Wellington Jazz Festival 2021 Interviews An interview by Tim Gruar. Feature image by Ebony Lamb. Composer, poet, cellist and taonga pūoro practitioner Ruby Solly (Kāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe) is looking to the stars for inspiration on her next project,Continue Reading
Margot Pierard & Wil Sargisson 17th December 2020 Te Awanga Hall, Hastings, New Zealand. Review by Rob Harbers, photography by Olivia Robertson. Ah 2020! The year that gave the lie to the conceit of “2020 vision” being perfect. If anybodyContinue Reading
Dark Divinity 31st July 2020 The Thirsty, Auckland, New Zealand. Review by Cameron Miller. Photography by Mark Derricutt. They didn’t have to be this good. This was the first metal show I was privileged to see since the lockdown. IContinue Reading
Kate Tempest 24th February 2020 Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, New Zealand. Review by Tim Gruar. Feature Photograph by Festival of The Arts / Matt Grace. She’s back. The last time East Londoner Kate Esther Calvert, aka Kate Tempest, was here inContinue Reading