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With Nights Like This, May Love muses into desire without dressing it up as romance. The track moves on reggae inspired rhythms, blending hip hop melodies with pop and rap flux. It feels warm, loose, and driven by instinct. Lyrically, May Love writes from a place of playful honesty. This
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By day, Liv Beckett works the wards. By night, she builds slow-burning neo-soul and indie-pop songs shaped by feeling and reflection. Now, her two lives come together with the release her debut EP, Let Go. Rooted in neo soul, R&B, and indie pop, the project
Interview
With Chameleon, TiGER opens the door to a more exposed chapter. The track sets the tone for a debut album that is reflective, rooted in emotional growth, and a shift in perspective on love and danger. In this conversation, TiGER speaks on looking back with clear eyes, turning past experience
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Maya Payne returns with Bluebird, a raw and intimate single, marking her first new music in seven years. Written during a period of grief and personal upheaval, the song captures a moment of reckoning. It arrives with a companion video filmed across Scotland’s rugged coastlines, pairing stark landscapes with
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A new year is often an opportunity for a fresh start. The days stretch long, and people start asking quiet questions about who they are becoming. Psycho Gab’s latest single ‘Compass’ arrives open with that intent, a song that sounds like a group moving into who they are becoming.
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Some albums feel like weather systems. Slowly gathering, darkening the horizon, then arriving at once with force. Soothsayer, the new record from Wellington heavy-rock outliers Planet Hunter, does just that. Forged in Wellington, shaped by the city’s damp edges and restless pulse, the album is loud and sharp.
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Ali Whitton’s story is one of resilience, reflection, and rediscovery. Shaped by early experiences, changing environments, and years of personal growth, his music has become a space for honesty and emotional clarity. This interview explores the path that led him back to songwriting with renewed purpose, revealing an artist
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Empty Spaces is giving readers the chance to see Maren Morris live in Auckland this February at the Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre. One double pass is up for grabs. Maren Morris has built a career on clarity, confidence, and sharp songwriting. Emerging from Nashville, she has stretched her sound well
Interview
Joydah Mae’s music arrives as memory, lineage and lived truth. Rooted in her upbringing in the northern mountains of the Philippines, her songs carry the wisdom of elders, the pull of community and a deep commitment to healing through presence. In this conversation, Joydah speaks about ancestry, vulnerability, motherhood
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Auckland and Wellington are set to close out one of the most relentless touring runs by a New Zealand underground artist in recent years. Schkeuditzer Kreuz will return to Aotearoa in January for two shows that mark the final chapter of the Swan Grinding Tour, following months on the road
Review
Concept of Life arrives with ambition. It's a debut that wants to say something large and personal. Written over two years by Kiwi artist Caleb Keepin - now based in Canada, the album traces a full emotional arc across fourteen tracks while keeping its core grounded in guitar driven
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For most artists, visuals arrive after the music. A cover image, a look, a world built to support the sound. For Chlo, that order has always been reversed. Imagery is the spark. The songs grow outward from character, colour, and imagined space. That instinct sits at the core of her
