Steven Wilson
By Mark Derricutt
20 years ago I started an adventure, leaving home in Napier and moving to Auckland; on that and many journey’s back and forth I would pass this giant brain on the side of the road just north of Hamilton. In time I would discover this to be “Cranium Records”, an off beat specialty store for psychedelic, stoner, and krautrock, and subsequently a regular travel stop.
Concert Review - Arrested Development - Auckland - 28th August 2016
By Leah Victoria
Artist: Arrested Development
Date / Venue: Sunday August 28th, 2016 - The Powerstation, Auckland
New Music Review - In Amber "The Sad Song Co". - August 2016
Released Friday August 26th, 2016 - NP Productions
Nicola Kawana
Currently running at the Q Theatre in Auckland, Sister Anzac is set in Gallipoli in 1915, and focuses on the nurses who went there on the hospital ship the Maheno. Like the men they boldly put their hands up. 14 were accepted for this first trip, travelling as if they were heading for a big adventure. The horror they met is history.
Concert Review - Trace Bundy - Wellington - 21st August 2016
By Stella Gardiner
Artist: Trace Bundy
Date / Venue: Sunday August 21st, 2016 - Memorial Auditorium, Wellington
MAALA
By Wal Reid
Musician Maala is upbeat about his new album Composure as I meet him remarking “This is the second time we’ve met.” The first time was at Hum Salon in Grafton where I first met him playing as Evan Sinton, sitting at the piano in the worn-out Victorian homestead that’s converted into a community drop in.
Kid Congo Powers
By Poppy Tohill
A bona fide legend of the American rock scene, Kid Congo Powers is a man who needs little introduction to most. A co-founding member of the legendary blues-punk inferno, The Gun Club, Powers has also lent his unique and idiosyncratic guitar style to two of the best groups in rock history - The Cramps & Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.
Concert Review - Selena Gomez - Auckland - 13th August 2016
Artist: Selena Gomez
Date / Venue: Saturday August 13th, 2016 - Vector Arena, Auckland
Concert Review - Lennon; Through A Glass Onion - Auckland - 10th August 2016
By Leah Victoria
Date / Venue: Wednesday August 10th, 2016 - Civic Theatre, Auckland
John Waters
By Ben Doy
Award-winning Australian actor and singer John Waters (Offspring, All The Rivers Run, Godspell, Hair) is heading to Auckland with his show Lennon: Through The Glass Onion. Taking place at the Civic Theatre from August 10 - 13, the show is part spoken word, part concert – a celebration of one of the most distinctive voices of his generation: John Lennon.
Concert Review - Katchafire & Kora - Auckland - 5th August 2016
Artist: Katchafire & Kora
Date / Venue: Friday August 5th, 2016 - The Powerstation, Auckland
Orchestra Of Spheres
By Will Brown
Pick & Mix 2016 continues this weekend, which is a collection of free performances and workshops around Auckland, one of which includes Wellington psychedelic future funk quartet Orchestra of Spheres.
Lizzie Marvelly
By Poppy Tohill
The last time we talked to Lizzie Marvelly her classical crossover debut EP Collisions had just been released. Now two years later she runs her own media website, writes a regular column for the New Zealand Herald and is about to hit the road in celebration of her tenth year in the music industry and she’s only 27 years old.
Gracie-Rose Kay
By Ben Doy
Q Theatre’s 2016 Matchbox Season is presenting the innovative, masked comedy Leilani, which begins tonight (August 4) in Auckland.
Film Review - Poi E 'The Story Of Our Song' - August 2016
By Daryl Habraken
A wonderful documentary, educational for a new generation and packed with nostalgia for those of us born pre 1980.