NEW Singles & Videos + Release Announcements + Brand New Signings
Aotearoa power pop band VOOM release new song/video | Listen to 'I Love You Girl'
Notorious for their cult-like romantic ballads, Auckland power-pop band Voom are back with their heart-on-sleeve anthem, ‘I Love You Girl’ . With Buzz Moller’s vocal sincerity paired with the band’s dynamic prowess, this new single is sure to have fans singing along. ‘I Love You Girl’ follows the recent album single ‘Trouble’ , which has been making waves. Undertheradar calling it “a brisk power-pop banger emblematic of Moller’s melodic mastery,” while NZ Listener featured it as one of their Songs of the Week, stating, “As always, their energetic indie rock is a lot of fun.” Voom, who have spent years releasing and performing music for their dedicated following, recently announced a brand new album, Something Good Is Happening, set for release on May 16th via Flying Nun Records.
Saddle up, JULIEN BAKER & TORRES share new song | Listen to 'Dirt'
Julien Baker & TORRES have released a new single, ‘Dirt,’ offering another glimpse into their forthcoming collaborative album, Send a Prayer My Way, out April 18 via Matador Records. Described as a rumination on the will to step out of the shadows of addiction & into a better life, the Baker lead 'Dirt' is a beautiful Americana ballad with swelling fiddle & goosebump-inducing harmonies. Julien Baker & TORRES have already released three critically acclaimed singles from Send a Prayer My Way. Songs ‘Sylvia’ and ‘Tuesday’ showcased their shared love of country music while highlighting their distinct songwriting styles and interpretations of the genre. Previous to that they debuted ‘Sugar in the Tank’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
PERFUME GENIUS shares final glimpse of new album |Check out 'Clean Heart'
Perfume Genius have shared their final single ahead of new album Glory release on Friday. ‘Clean Heart,’ a hopeful, swelling track that reflects on the concept that time heals all wounds, punctuated by Mike Hadreas’ defiant & beautiful wordless chorus.
FOXWARREN announce new album & share lead single | Listen to 'Listen2me'
Canadian quintet Foxwarren – Andy Shauf, Avery and Darryl Kissick, Dallas Bryson, and Colin Nealis – announce their new album, 2, out May 30th via ANTI-, and release the lead single/video ‘Listen2me.’ 2 is a fun and surprising record, where boundaries between genre and song are constantly blurred. Built on 20 years of friendship, Foxwarren ostensibly plays folk music, where warm tones and cantering rhythms buoy songs of characters wrestling with existential quandaries inside of twilit vocals.
MARIA SOMERVILLE shares new song| Listen to 'Stonefly'
Irish musician Maria Somerville will share her forthcoming second album and debut project on 4AD, Luster, on 25 April. Somerville has shared the upcoming record’s third single, ‘Stonefly’, a slinky ambient waltz fleshed out with dreamy washes of vibrating feedback, grounding drum beats, transportive harp passages, and soothing vocal delivery.
LATE NIGHT DRIVE HOME announce new album| Check out new song 'Terabyte'
After months of online mystery, late night drive home today announces their debut album as I watch my life online will be released on June 27 via Epitaph. A criticism of their adolescence always existing in the shadow of the internet, the 13-track offering codes together vignettes of mistaking online connection for something real. The album news arrives alongside the first single ‘terabyte.’ A glitchy yet crystalline rumination on an addiction to adult content, the band finds themselves in an unending cycle of seeking online validation and destroying their self-worth. If love is the drug, the band’s drug tolerance keeps climbing. Try as they might to justify the dependence, they know they need to quit in order to establish real-life relationships .
New Albums & EPs Out Now
ALIEN WEAPONRY release new album Te Rā | Listen to heavy new anthem 'Taniwha' - ft. Randy Blythe
Aotearoa’s modern groove metal trio ALIEN WEAPONRY have shared their heaviest, most powerful and mature offering to date with new album Te Rā, via Napalm Records! In celebration of this week’s release, the band has unleashed one of the album’s most aggressive, death-metal leaning offerings, ‘Taniwha’, featuring a raw, heavy-hitting contribution from longtime supporter and metal icon Randy Blythe of Lamb Of God.
NZ-based SEREBII releases new album Dime | Check out new live videos
NZ-based Serebii has released two live videos for album singles ‘Goji’ and ‘Dime’ off new LP Dime out now on Innovative Leisure. On Dime, Serebii (aka Callum Mower) has created an album unlike anything he’s done before, rolling seamlessly from track to track—not just a collection of songs but a singular project conceived to work together as a unified statement.
PERFUME GENIUS new album Glory out now | Get Glory today!
Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) has released his new album Glory via Matador Records. On it he re-teams with long-time producer Blake Mills and keyboardist and co-writer Alan Wyffels along with an incredible group of musicians. The album contains themes that he’s wrestled with artistically throughout his career – themes of the body and its decay, of domesticity and love, and of inescapable history and damage.
DJ PYTHON releases new EP | Check out new track 'Dai Buki'
DJ Python releases ‘Dai Buki,‘ featuring elusive London MC Jawnino and unclassifiable songwriter Organ Tapes. Taken from his debut XL Recordings EP – i was put on this earth – which is released this Friday (28 March) marking his first solo music in over three years. ‘Dai Buki’ is the first time all three artists have created music together despite Jawnino and Organ Tapes having previously released music on DJ Python‘s Worldwide Unlimited imprint.
Reissue of the Week
UNREST release Perfect Teeth - 30th Anniversary Edition | Buy it from your favourite music store today
The 30th anniversary edition of Perfect Teeth, the wonderful final album by American 90s indie rock greats Unrest, is out today, containing the album remastered plus a bonus album of EP tracks, singles and rarities, dubbed Extra Teeth.
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IMNZ announce Taites 2025 award finalists | IMNZ Classic Record announced SHIDAD - Killjoy
Independent Music NZ (IMNZ) is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2025 Auckland Live Best Independent Debut Award. The finalists are; Pony Baby – Pony Baby, Aquatopialien – VIDA, Flowers Dream – 花溪 Flowerstream, & Filter – Byllie-jean. The recipient of the IMNZ Classic Record, and the finalists for the NZ On Air Outstanding Music Journalism Award. The finalists are; Karl Puschmann (Antenna Media); Rosa Nevison, Sam Elliot, Flynn Robson (Newzician Magazine); Chris Schulz (Boiler Room NZ).