New Zealand Music News

Aotearoa rockers, The Beths, have dropped the title track from their upcoming album, Expert In A Dying Field, due to be released on 16th September via Carpark Records.  Elisabeth Stokes' flexible, yet cheeky vocals are on full display, interwoven with guitar lines and, of course, the catchy hooks that The Beths always seem to deliver without fail. “I really do believe that love is learned over time,” Stokes says. “In the course of knowing a person you accumulate so much information: their favourite movies, how they take their tea, how to make them laugh, how that makes you feel. And when relationships between people change, or end,...

Sharon Van Etten is bringing her full band to Aotearoa this December to treat us to two shows in both Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland and Te Whanganui-A-Tara/Wellington - thanks to the brilliant people at Solid Entertainment & Banished Music.  These shows follow the release of her critically acclaimed sixth album, We've Been Going About This All Wrong, which solidified her as a legendary songwriter. Her career so far has seen her collaborating with the likes of Angel Olsen, Josh Homme and Courtney Barnett, as well as appearing in David Lynch's latest season of Twin Peaks and Pepe The Frog's documentary, Feels Good Man. There is...

Don McGlashan has finally announced new dates for his tour of Aotearoa, which was previously postponed. 

Ben Woods has shared his short film; Dispeller - which premiered via The FADER earlier this week - ahead of his forthcoming record of the same name which arrives this Friday the 15th of July via Melted Ice Cream (NZ). The short, directed by filmmaker Martin Sagadin (Aldous Harding, Tiny Ruins, Marlon Williams), features Woods performing three songs from the record with a circulating cast of artists from Aotearoa at The Sitting Room, which is where the album was made. The footage is blended with homemade demos and chopped homemade footage from his hometown in Ōtautahi.  "Part of making this record for me was experimenting with and understanding space. With recording,...