NEW Singles & Videos + Release Announcements + Brand New Signings
WOMB announce third album & share new single| Take a listen to 'Sometimes'
Sibling trio Womb have announced their third full length album, One Is Always Heading Somewhere — out 14th March both digitally and on clear vinyl LP via Flying Nun Records. They have shared a new single from the record, ‘Sometimes‘. Written on the first day of spring, ‘Sometimes’ emerged with Cello using a loop pedal and repeated phrases. The lyrics were the last Cello wrote in their Aro Valley bedroom before moving to Tāmaki Makaurau.
NADIA REID shares stunning new single 'Hotel Santa Cruz' | Take a listen
Following on from Nadia Reid’s announcement of her fourth album, Enter Now Brightness, released 7th February on Slow Time Records in Aotearoa, comes the new single ‘Hotel Santa Cruz’. For the new album and for the first time in her career, Reid entered the studio (with long-standing guitarist Sam Taylor and producer Tom Healy (Tiny Ruins, Marlon Williams) without a clutch of songs written and ready to record. There were half-songs and sketches and lyrics untethered from music. “There was a revelation of: it doesn’t have to be finished, it doesn’t have to be a perfect song before it’s taken to the band.” The results find Reid moving ever further from her earlier folk inclinations, establishing a sound that is all her own.
JOHN GLACIER announces anticipated album | Check out new single 'Found'
Within the UK, there are a select few burgeoning icons, artists that push the boundaries with their musical output while embodying a presence across all mediums that feeds into mass intrigue and curiosity. London-based rapper, poet and producer John Glacier is one of the few that can lay claim to this status. After years of garnering intrigue across the mainstream and underground, John Glacier will finally release her debut album, Like A Ribbon, via Young on 14th February 2025. To celebrate the announcement, Glacier has unveiled the album’s lead single, ‘Found’.
New Albums & EPs Out Now
BECKY AND THE BIRDS album out now| Check out focus track 'To Trust You'
Swedish musician Thea Gustafsson – who writes, records, and produces under the moniker Becky and the Birds – has recently turned a new leaf, entering an era of creative freedom and emotional release with her self-produced debut album, Only Music Makes Me Cry Now, is out now! Gustafsson has shared one final single from the record, focus track ‘To trust you’, premiered via New Music Daily on Apple Music. The single contributes an air of vulnerability to the LP’s emotively hard-hitting and sonically diverse soundscape through hypnotic looped vocals, stomping 808s, and transportive electric guitar.
MRCY release vinyl pressing of Volume 1 | Buy it from your favourite record store
MRCY have released their debut project, VOLUME 1, on vinyl via Dead Oceans. VOLUME 1 is a memorable introduction to the world of MRCY. Their vision of Soul through the looking-glass draws inspiration ranging from childhood greats (Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye) to genre-melding modernists like Khruangbin or Sault – “it’s like hearing a distant memory,” Barney says, “but one that speaks to where you are now”. And on their debut body of work, MRCY’s sound looks deeper inwards, and further outwards: debut single ‘Lorelei’ was an ethereal, otherworldly tale of love destined to end in disaster, whilst ‘Flowers In Mourning’ brought together Afrobeats and Northern Soul in an affecting meditation on family and loss.
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BON IVER launches website experiment - Counterpart | Get creative with Bon Iver
Bon Iver has launched a new website called Counterpart. Documenting creative expression with and as Bon Iver, Counterpart is an experiment and a search for more voices who might step into the fold, make something new and embody the role of Bon Iver.
Tours, Events and Festivals
SHIHAD announce The Final Tour 1988-2025 Loud Forever | Tickets on sale
Since forming in Wellington in 1988 as high school students with a shared love for American speed metal, Shihad (Jon Toogood, Karl Kippenberger, Phil Knight, Tom Larkin), has sold over a quarter of a million records, released 10 studio albums, and toured the world’s clubs, festivals, and arenas. In 2010 they were inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame, firmly establishing themselves as New Zealand’s biggest rock band. To celebrate thirty-six years of memories and milestones, the band has announced Loud Forever – The Final Tour.
Irish electronic artist to join WOMAD AOTEAROA line-up | Get your tickets today!
Following the success of its impressive first lineup announcement in September and the reveal of additional artists in October, WOMAD Aotearoa has confirmed Róisín Murphy as part of the 2025 festival. With her indomitable artistic spirit, Róisín Murphy is one of electronic pop’s most ingenious and forward-thinking voices. Murphy first became known in the ’90s as part of the successful pop duo Moloko but has since forged an illustrious and critically acclaimed career as a solo artist.
WAXAHATCHEE receives her first GRAMMY® nomination | Tigers Blood is a must have album
TIGERS BLOOD nominated for BEST AMERICANA ALBUM 2025. Waxahatchee, the project of Katie Crutchfield, receives her first GRAMMY® Awards nomination for Tigers Blood, her acclaimed new album out now on ANTI- Records.
MADI DIAZ nominated for two GRAMMY® Awards | Take a look at Grammy nominated performance here
Madi Diaz has been nominated for two 2025 GRAMMY® Awards: Weird Faith for Best Folk Album and Diaz’s performance of ‘Don’t Do Me Good’ with Kacey Musgraves for Best Americana Performance. Weird Faith, released earlier this year via ANTI-, was produced by Diaz (vocals, guitar, bass, piano, organ) alongside Sam Cohen (bass) and Konrad Snyder (percussion).
