New Zealand Music News

Australian taste maker and independent label, Third Eye Stimuli Records — in collaboration with Birdsnest Entertainment — are very soon bringing us THE SEARCH FOR TE IKA-A-MĀUI; a psychedelic summer tour of some of the hottest spots in New Zealand's North Island. Featuring a smorgasbord of Sunfruits (AU), The Oogars (AU), as well as support from local artists Joe Ghatt and Michael Llewellyn, the tour party travels up and down the motu, visiting Gisborne, Mount Maunganui, Auckland, Coromandel, Raglan, New Plymouth and Wellington on its way — as well as a stop off in Hawke's Bay at the city's annual Nest Fest. For fans...

After a year off thanks to the pandemic, the capital's annual Newtown Festival is making its return on Sunday the March 5th 2023 - and its super-stacked lineup has just been revealed. 

PHOTO CREDIT: Warren Paea Tāmaki Makarau's party-punk spitballers Dick Move are back with their first new music in two years, and it's a ho ho hell of a tune! With four out of five of the band members fluent in East Coast slang, they're bringing the classic burn "Did you get eyes for Christmas" to the big smoke, and to a radio station near you.  Eyes For Christmas by Dick Move   "This song is about a cracker of a one liner that echoes through small town Aotearoa. Someone staring, dare we say ogling at you? Hit ‘em with the almighty “you get...

Following the announcement of his upcoming album, Within The Speed Limit Of Love, Wellington-based musician and producer Raiden Freeman has unleashed a new 'Song Of The Summer' just in time for the holidays;  featuring Welcomer & Skymning.