Devilskin are excited to announce a New Zealand wide tour to support their chart-topping new album RED! With the lifting of crowd and venue restrictions, and due to massive demand, Devilskin will hit the road this August. The response toContinue Reading
Loop are incredibly excited to announce that L.A.B’s Auckland & Hamilton shows will now take place in July at Spark Arena and Claudelands Arena. After New Zealand’s huge effort surrounding the pandemic, these shows will now take place much earlierContinue Reading
This is beyond hard. On 27th May 2020, Leon Richard Frederick Taylor (aka Mr Leon Taylor, aka The Basketball Yeti) suddenly and unexpectedly passed away from heart complications. We were introduced to Leon early on in our history, as theContinue Reading
New Zealand Music Month 2020 Profiles The Wake Up By Bridget Herlihy. All too often Palmerston North/Papaoeia is perceived as being a grid-like, grey provincial city in the lower North Island that is characterised by – well – its lackContinue Reading
The annual Taite Music Prize awards ceremony took a slightly different stage this year due to COVID-19 regulations. Originally to take place at Auckland’s Q Theatre in April, the awards ceremony found a new home via web stream on Facebook,Continue Reading
Today is the first day of May, which marks the beginning of New Zealand Music Month. This year it will be markedly different from any other NZ Music Month we have experienced before; not only is it the 20th anniversaryContinue Reading
Bay Area metal titans, MACHINE HEAD, will return to New Zealand in 2020. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of their debut album, the epic modern metal classic, Burn My Eyes, Machine Head will perform two sets in a mighty three-hour metalContinue Reading
Buckle up Kiwis, US metalcore mainstays Norma Jean are bringing the heaviness to New Zealand shores this May for their long awaited return off the back of their highly reviewed album ‘All Hail’. Valhalla Touring Presents: NORMA JEAN All HailContinue Reading
May 2020 will see the wildest, wettest, dirtiest, hardest, heaviest most rocking heavy metal tour to hit Australia and New Zealand shores ever in the history of anything ever. MJR Presents are bringing Steel Panther to Australia and New Zealand once again forContinue Reading