One of Aotearoa's most legendary ensembles, From Scratch have announced Songs For Unsung Heroes — a fundraiser for NZ medics to Gaza, at Kāhui St David's in Tāmaki Makaurau on 11th October. Get tickets now via UTR (all-ages, student / unwaged options available) 🙌

Direct from Naarm, speed metal punks Reaper headline Pōneke's Valhalla THIS FRIDAY with special guests Pervertor, DAHTM and Dole Bludger! Get tickets NOW via UTR 🤘💀

Armour up and head along to Battles In The North 4 at Tāmaki's Double Whammy Double Whammy this Saturday — ft. Naarm thrashers REAPER, Aussie brutal death specialists Crime Spree, Brawler, Standover, Malevolence, Cease and Desist, Grave Axis and Heavy Step! Get tickets NOW via UTR ⚔️

Lachie Hayes is touring his rockin' new album of alt-country and blues Subsatellite in Auckland, Hamilton, Helensville & Leigh this week! Get tickets NOW via UTR 🛹 🤠

The Slack Agency have revealed the majorly stacked lineup for SLACKBARN! festival — starring Kate Bollinger (USA), Ninajirachi (AUS), The Grogans (AUS), Marlin's Dreaming, Shady Nasty (AUS) + many more! Bringing the party to Black Barn Vineyards across two stages on 10th Jan, get tickets via UTR 🌞

Get the skinny on Tokyo fuzz-rockers The Fadeaways in our exclusive interview + catch them letting rip live at Ōtautahi's Space Academy & Tāmaki Makaurau's Whammy Bar this November! Get tickets NOW via UTR 🎸💥

Magic Factory, Créme Jéan and The Ideas love dogs so much they're playing a special fundraiser for The Dog Rescue Project, this Friday at Tāmaki Makaurau's Whammy Bar! Get tickets NOW via UTR 🐶 🦴

Champion turntablist / production master Alphabethead, synth-punks DISPLEASURE & avant-electronic duo BIRDPARTY are touring together this December! Hit play on Alphabethead's new single 'Finger Dance' via @sunreturn.bsky.social + get tickets NOW via UTR 🌞

Dick Move have announced a nationwide tour of Aotearoa NZ, toasting their forthcoming album Dream, Believe, Achieve — out in full via 1:12 Records & Flying Nun Records on 14th November!! Smash play on furious new single & vid 'Scared Old Men' made with support from NZ On Air + get tix NOW via UTR 💥

UTR proudly presents Helmet — one of the most formidable sonic forces of this or any era, headlining Wellington's San Fran and Auckland's The Powerstation in April 2026! Tickets on sale from 12pm, Thursday 2nd October at helmetmusic.com 🎸💥

UTR proudly presents Naarm garage-punks Drunk Mums — touring Aotearoa NZ next week with just-announced supports! CLEAN DiRT asked Jake from Drunk Mums some important Australian questions then got their Top Five picks. Get up to speed & nab tickets NOW via UTR 🎸 💥

Currently ruling kings of the 95bFM Top Ten with their new anthem 'Lost and Confused', Late to Chelsea's first ever full length album is out this week + they're playing a launch party at Tāmaki's Big Fan THIS SATURDAY!! Get tickets NOW via UTR.

GRRUNK festival is the ultimate collision of garage rock 'n' roll, punk and 'kountry' at Galatea's Rory's Paddock on 6th December — starring Jenny Don't & The Spurs, C.O.F.F.I.N, Hot Machine, The Gnomes, The Eastern, Adam Hattaway, Bloodbags, Mads Harrop and CCTV! Get tickets NOW via UTR 🎸🌞

"What was important was to always do what I wanted to do." We chatted with heroes of US alt-rock King Missile (Dog Fly Religion)'s John S. Hall and Dogbowl — on tour in Aotearoa NZ this week! Get tickets pronto via UTR 👑

Grammy-nominated US songwriting star Gregory Alan Isakov performs in Aotearoa NZ this summer — at Tāmaki Makaurau's Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre and Te Whanganui-a-Tara's The Opera House! Get tickets now via sbmpresents.com

Tami Neilson's new album Neon Cowgirl is a rhinestone bedazzled homage to the "patron saint of heartbreak" in Nashville, Tennessee + her NZ release tour starts this week — headlining Wellington's The Opera House & Auckland's Aotea Centre! Get tickets from plus1.co.nz 🤠 ✨

A knockout second lineup has been announced for The Others Way Festival 2025 — Connan Mockasin, Florist (USA), Toody Cole & Her Band (USA), MĀ, Karen Nyame KG (UK) + many more local stars AND The Flying Out All-Ages Stage! Get tickets NOW via moshtix.co.nz ✨

Dive into our Release Roundup & Playlist — Aotearoa highlights from Troy Kingi ft. SWIDT, Raiza Biza, AndWahn x Synthetic Children, Cuticles, O/PUS, Frog Power, Bic Runga duetting with Serj Tankian, This Silent Divide, Lou'ana and Casual Healing 🐸

Hemi Hemingway struts around a baseball diamond with backup dancers & sexy shenanigans in his vid for the soaring 'Wings Of Desire' — made with support from NZ On Air ⚾️

Aotearoa songwriting icon Lawrence Arabia is treating fans to a big bunch of intimate solo dates — at Leigh Sawmill Cafe, Titirangi's Lopdell House Theatre, The Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead, Ōtepoti's Pearl Diver and Ōtautahi's Space Academy! Get tickets NOW via UTR.

@sunreturn.bsky.social's next Primer. event at Tāmaki Makaurau's 605 Morningside is a doozy — co-starring Alphabethead, Living Perfection and Finn Johansson! Get tickets NOW via UTR.

An ode to the primal rugged essence of rock 'n' roll, 'Can't Muzzle Me' is the forthcoming new single from Christchurch riff lords Pieces Of Molly — playing release gigs in Dunedin, Timaru and at their hometown's A Rolling Stone this November! Get tickets NOW via UTR 🎸🔥

Cowboy Dan's long-awaited debut jangle-rock opus Dreams That Feel Like Falling is out now + they're on tour this week at Wellington's Moon (tonight) Palmerston North's The Stomach & Whanganui's Porridge Watson! Get tickets via UTR 🤠

Clean Dirt caught up with Russell Wilkins & Saskia Holling of Scotland's Greatest Rock And Roll Band Lord Rochester, ahead of their debut nationwide tour of Aotearoa NZ this October! Get up to speed with Lord Rochester & get tickets NOW via UTR 🎸💥

UTR proudly presents fuzz-blasting garage rock 'n' roll giants The Datsuns — revving up for a six date tour of Aotearoa New Zealand in March 2026! Get tickets NOW via UTR and thedatsuns.com 🎸🔥

The lineup for Rhythm and Alps festival's 15th anniversary is already gigantic — headlined by Synthony, RUDIM3NTAL, Santigold + many more! Returning to Cardrona Valley in Wānaka from 29th to 31st December, get tickets via rhythmandalps.co.nz

Back together for a massively popular reunion tour, Minuit are triumphantly capping it all off with an encore show at The Loons in Ōhinehou Lyttelton on 1st November! Get tickets NOW via UTR.

Best Electronic Artist Tūī winner @amamelia.bsky.social returns with joyously imaginative single 'The Floating Opera' via @sunreturn.bsky.social. The incredible animated vid by @simonmward.bsky.social stars an adventuresome (and hairy) touring trio, made with support from NZ On Air 🎵

Naarm-based Aotearoa alt-rock artist D.C. Maxwell ponders how to love in troubled times on new single 'Golden Light' + DIY rooftop dance vid. He's headlining Tāmaki's Double Whammy on 25th Oct with special guests Sulfate & Groopchat! Get tix NOW via UTR (incl. download code for 'Golden Light') 💗🌞

Erase Everything are welcoming their Glass Souls debut EP (Sunreturn) into the world with a nationwide tour! Experience the fuzzed-out meditations of new single 'Keajra' + get tickets NOW via UTR.

Rhian Sheehan and Arli Liberman are touring their new album of electronic excursions Traces (Loop) — joined onstage by Ed Zuccollo (Zuke) & Riki Pirihi (Riki Gooch) in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch! Tickets on sale from 25th September via loop.co.nz

Australian superstar songwriters Folk Bitch Trio are touring their debut album Now Would Be A Good Time, with special guest Georgia Knight this week in Aotearoa NZ! Playing in Auckland, Wellington & Lyttelton — get tickets now via moshtix.co.nz

US avant-pop artist John Maus will headline Tāmaki Makaurau's Double Whammy & Te Whanganui-a-Tara's Meow in May 2026 — brought to you by Strange News & Banished Music! Banished presales from 24th September, subscribe at www.banishedmusic.com/subscribe

Avondale icon Tom Scott (Avantdale Bowling Club, Home Brew) is headlining Tāmaki Makaurau's The Civic on 1st November, toasting his forthcoming album ANITYA! Listen to his soulful new single 'gyal like you' + get tickets before they're all gone via Ticketmaster.

Dive into our Release Roundup & Playlist — Aotearoa highlights from Babe Martin, Maxine Funke, Mim Jensen, Yumi Zouma, Hail, Meteor!, Casual Healing, Sheep, Dog & Wolf, Paradox Princess, Riki Gooch (with huge band) & Jukebox Baby Records 🍌🕶

Soft Bait's Life Advice release tour hits Te Waipounamu this week — Friday at Ōtautahi's Darkroom with Wurld Series & Guideless + Saturday at Ōtepoti's The Crown with Shotgun Wedding & Vagina Dry! Get tickets NOW via UTR.

Promising an early start and an early finish, it’s perfect for priming you for the night ahead, whether that be another show or an early night. For October, don’t miss performances from Finn Johansson, Living Perfection & Alphabethead! Tickets are available from @undertheradarnz.bsky.social

Cowboy Dan's long-awaited debut album Dreams That Feel Like Falling balances from-the-heart poetic reflections with power-pop / jangle rock oomph. Go catch them on tour this week & next with Echo Children (nearly all dates)! Get tickets via UTR 🤠

Aotearoa's gospel choir with a rock 'n' roll soul, Jubilation have invited Julia Deans, Bella Kalolo & Anika Moa to join them at Tāmaki Makaurau's iconic Hollywood Avondale on 23rd November! Get tickets NOW via UTR ✨

Mazbou Q shares a meticulously sliced 'n' diced vid for his 2025 APRA Silver Scroll finalist single 'TORQUE.' Catch the rap scientist at the Artists For Congo fundraiser next month at Double Whammy & Public Bar, with Jujulipps + more! Get tickets via UTR.

Music First x Darklight are welcoming NYC's Musclecars back to Tāmaki Makaurau for Resonate 03 — a multimedia club event also featuring Bbyfacekilla & Music First DJs at Okahu in Mission Bay! Get tickets NOW via UTR.

Ōtautahi's Yurt Party are celebrating their carnivalesque new single 'Ding Dong Swing' at @spaceacademy.bsky.social! Nab tickets via UTR for Yurt Party For Families, an all ages midday rager this Saturday 🥳

Ocean Alley explore the many layered dimensions of love on their new album Love Balloon 🎈 Watch the vid for 'Drenched' + don't miss the Australian superstars headlining Auckland's Spark Arena on 27th Feb, with special guests Skegss & Don West! Get tickets via Ticketmaster.

Tom Scott's 'gyal like you' is an emotionally bruised ode to "someone who holds you down even when you don’t feel worthy of their support" — from his upcoming album ANITYA. Headlining Tāmaki Makaurau's The Civic on 1st Nov! Tickets are selling fast, nab yours before it's too late via Ticketmaster.

Beastwars unveil the official vid for their blistering new single 'Levitate' — an Antipodean gothic hallucination made with support from NZ On Air. They've also just announced all-killer NZ supports for their The Ship // The Sea album release tour! Get tickets via UTR & beastwarsband.com 🤘

US alt-rock mavericks King Missile / Dog Fly Religion's John S. Hall & Dogbowl of 'Detachable Penis' fame (plus much more) are touring in Aotearoa NZ next month! Get tickets now via UTR 🙌

Big Thief's new album Double Infinity is shaped by friendship, infused with a warm, celebratory glow throughout — out now via 4AD.

Community Garden are hosting Uruguayan electronic innovator Lila Tirando a Violeta (Hyperdub, N.A.A.F.I) at Tāmaki's Whammy Bar on 4th October, with fern & DJ Kristen Stewart! Get tickets NOW via UTR.

Hallelujah Picassos kick up a dubby ruckus in their vid for new single 'All Systems Go', officially out Thursday! True champions of Tāmaki Makaurau's sonic underground, don't miss Hallelujah Picassos at Tone Fest 2025 — get tickets via UTR.

UTR proudly presents Doubleslack!! — A Fundraiser For Newzician Magazine featuring Half/Angel, Awning and Oscar Dowling, this Friday at Akl's Double Whammy! Brought to you by VMorg and The Slack Agency, support these local heroes & get tickets NOW via UTR 🎵