UK art-rockers Dry Cleaning today announce their long-awaited return to Australia and New Zealand this May and June, bringing their acclaimed live show back for a run of major festival appearances and special headline shows.
Matt Berninger – the unmistakable frontman and lyricist of The National – will make his Australian and New Zealand solo debut performing at the Sydney Opera House on 28 May for Vivid LIVE and Auckland’s stunning Holy Trinity Cathedral on 5 June, presented by Handsome Tours.
It’s here! The 2026 Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki programme is live and ready to browse. Read on for a small selection of highlights and make sure you click through to the full programme to plan your #AWF26 schedule.
Indie-folk singer-songwriter Ali Whitton has today released Forever – the third single from his forthcoming debut album Between the Forest and the Stars, due out in mid 2026.
Junny is the musical project of Jenn Tamati (she/they, Te Arawa, Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Ngāpuhi), a vocalist and songwriter based in Whangārei.
Auckland-based downbeat producer Inside Trading has teamed up once again with UK’s boom-bap turntablist maestro Mista Ed for a soulful, scratch-filled instrumental hip hop gem called Just 4 U.
Fresh from headlining the Auckland Folk Festival, critically acclaimed singer and songwriter Mel Parsons kicks off a new year of music with Caravan – a nostalgic track of rose-tinted childhood memories of summers on the West Coast.
Live Nation has today announced that powerhouse rock icons Guns N’ Roses, will return to Australia and New Zealand for a massive run of stadium shows this November and December.
Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand – When North Carolina’s noise makers Wednesday first visited Aotearoa off the back of their album RAT SAW GOD, audiences were taken by surprise in the best possible way. A 95bFM review called the band’s Whammy show “a sold out countrygaze extravaganza”, and everyone who came left with big hearts and even bigger smiles.
On 8th May 2026, Aldous Harding will release her fifth studio album, Train On The Island. Today, the Aotearoa artist shares a first taste in the form of the single One Stop. Premiered by Huw Stephens on his BBC 6Music radio show, One Stop is accompanied by a Harding-fronted video directed by Michelle Henning.
