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Wellington’s First Reserve isn’t pulling any punches in 2025. With just over a year of live shows and sonic soul-baring behind them, the project of Ryan Connaghan has swiftly become a fixture of Aotearoa’s alternative circuit. Their latest single, 'Last One' is a sharp turn
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At just 18, Maddy Low is already turning heads. Whether it’s busking on Cuba Street, performing emotionally rich covers from any era on YouTube, or with original songs that hit straight in the chest. Her latest single ‘To Be Near’ is a gentle, quietly devastating meditation on first love
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tee. steps into her solo career with an evocatively powerful debut single. ‘BURNOUT’ features haunting melodies and textured layers, like a slow-building storm that never quite breaks, suspended in tension and vulnerability. BURNOUT is a deliberate unraveling, a track that leans into emotional fatigue, overstimulation, and the quiet weight of
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After turning heads with their chart-scaling debut ‘Who Is The Otherwoman’, the enigmatic collective Otherwoman return with the long-anticipated streaming release of their second single, ‘Circles’. First released as an exclusive on their limited edition CD which debuted at #6 on the Aotearoa album charts - ‘Circles’ has since circulated
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Ōtautahi dream-pop artist T. G. Shand makes a striking return with ‘The Deadpan Break’, her first release of the year - a sparse, hypnotic track that slowly builds into a lush, disco-tinged crescendo. “It’s about breaking the deadpan,” says Shand, the solo project of Annemarie Duff (ex-Miniatures), known for
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BEONY delivers clarity and sonic depth in his latest single Feeling Won’t Die—a slow-burning track that captures the lingering weight of a love that never quite leaves. Co-written and produced with EDY (via the AIMS programme) and featuring topline contributions from Sam V, the song blends cinematic production
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Wellington-based independent artist Kate has released her new single Whole and on the Ground - a mellow, beautiful track that offers stillness, emotional depth, and quiet strength. Known for using her voice as “a portal to all hearts healing,” Kate describes her songwriting as intuitive. “The songs come through me,
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Straight from the heart of Aotearoa’s summer festivals, Dehusslar Music is crashing onto the scene with his debut EP PREZ@MINEZ - a high-voltage fusion of Trap, Drum & Bass, Dubstep, and EDM, made with one thing in mind: total crowd detonation. This isn’t polished pop or chart-chasing
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Tāmaki Makaurau’s most fearlessly bizarre electronic trio, Grecco Romank, return with ‘Chainlinks’, the latest single from their forthcoming album Arts Colony (out May 24). A towering collaboration, the track features a staggering lineup of guest vocalists from across Aotearoa’s underground, including Jazmine Mary, James Milne, Anthonie Tonnon, Yolanda
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Tāmaki Makaurau’s Emily Wheatcroft-Snape, best known behind the desk as a go-to engineer for Fazerdaze, TE KAAHU, and Tiny Ruins - flips the switch again on her solo project Em, with new single ‘Love to Be’. Written mid-burnout and mid-summer-dreaming, ‘Love to Be’ captures that itch to break routine,
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Whanganui-based duo The Flow Collective return this NZ Music Month with Black Swans, a stripped-back and emotionally grounded EP exploring memory, identity, and the invisible threads that shape who we become. A collaboration between composer-vocalist Elizabeth de Vegt and multi-instrumentalist Hamish Jellyman, Black Swans marks a shift from the ensemble-driven
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Back from a brief hiatus, jeline shares ‘each year’ a soft, melancholic gut-punch that trades big hooks for brutal honesty. Written in 2021 but held close until now, the track digs into the quiet fear of falling behind - as an artist, as a person, as time keeps ticking. Long-time
