John Bradbury

Jonathan Bree has always understood the usefulness of artifice. With Heather Mansfield in The Brunettes , he turned boy-girl pop into miniature theatre, using sweetness, role-play and male-female dialogue to complicate apparently simple songs about romance.

More than a decade after Sound & Color Alabama Shakes return with I Must Be Dreaming , a record that has moved well beyond the raw Southern soul, blues and garage rock that first brought them to attention through Hold On

It was a cold, wet Tāmaki Makaurau night outside Kāhui St David's, but inside the former church there was something altogether warmer and more welcoming going on.

NZ singer-songwriter Heti Hope describes the music she makes with her band as “ cosmicfolkjazz ”. It is the sort of self-invented genre description

After nearly a decade playing Aotearoa's independent venues, Cindy have finally made their debut album. Rooted in garage punk and alternative rock The Way I Do sounds like a band more interested in capturing the force of playing together than polishing away the rough edges.

There is no mistaking where Angela Autumn comes from. Her high, ringing voice retains the Appalachian twang that defined her earlier work, while banjo, rural imagery and a strong sense of place continue to run through her songs.

The Broken Heartbreakers celebrate their new album, Imagine If We Could Just Keep Driving at Auckland's Whammy Bar. The 13th Floor's John Bradbury files this report.

Eli “Paperboy” Reed has always possessed the sort of voice that demands a band capable of keeping up.

There is something appealingly unsettled about Hannah Virk's third album, Half of My Cup . Its songs shimmer, pulse and occasionally stumble

There is something fitting about Buddy Miller returning with his first solo album in fifteen years and simply calling it Buddy Miller . Across twelve