Music

Laneway Festival invites all creative types in NZ to draw, sketch or illustrate a Laneway / Ladyhawke comic strip which Ladyhawke will judge prior to the festival and you can win 2 Laneway VIP tickets and a Ladyhawke prize pack…

Apparently SuBo, aka Susan Boyle, is releasing a Christmas album this year. Don’t bother. The Auckland music scene has something a lot better to offer, namely through an early yuletide present humbly entitled ‘A Very Little Christmas’…

Urban sprawl – development that occurs outward from a city’s centre – was deemed a good idea in the 70s. It is within this cycle of social and infrastructural growth and decay that Arcade Fire have released their latest record, The Suburbs…

In this three part series, I am going to attempt to make a connection between current social trends, and three of 2010’s biggest record releases. These are Vampire Weekend’s ‘Contra’, The National’s ‘High Violet’, and ‘The Suburbs’ by Arcade Fire…

Fanshawe Street’s inner city carpark was transformed into ArenA1on Thursday for the launch of Audi’s A1, complete with a racetrack for stunt drivers, and a band marquee for Kiwi musicians Jon Toogood and Julia Deans to perform together…

On Monday an all-star album release party was held at Sale Street for "So this is Christmas" to assist victims of domestic abuse through Shine featuring The Feelers, the Earlybirds, Elemeno P and even Antonia Prebble and some All Blacks…

Kimbra, the NZ artist who played live at the Juice Bar in Parnell on Thursday, is a true blue soul singer, and does not appear to have the slightest interest in jumping on any current musical trend and it sets her apart from her contemporaries…

At its heart ‘Go’ is essentially a pop album. What Jónsi has done is taken the aural geography invented by Sigur Ros, and applied it to a pop format, rendering a neat set of nine well-crafted, three-to-five minute songs…

Avalanche City is a project that you most probably haven’t heard of, but thanks to this adventurous age of music production and proliferation you very soon will. The record is one of the more surprising New Zealand releases this year…

After travelling the globe, Shock The World landed in Auckland with a launch event for Casio G-Shock’s collaborations with Huffer, Misery and Qubic, followed by a party featuring David Dallas, Computers Want Me Dead and Just Blaze…