By Chelsea Pickens

Artist: Simple Plan

Date / Venue: Thursday April 19th, 2018 – The Powerstation, Auckland

By Lisa Diedricks

Artist: Halsey with special guest Kehlani

Date / Venue: Thursday April 19th: Spark Arena, Auckland

By Ben Doy

Biffy Clyro are heading to New Zealand next week to play one show at the Spark Arena on Tuesday April 24th. 

Gold Coast singer-songwriter Amy Shark releases her highly anticipated new single ‘I Said Hi’.

‘I’m supposed to be dead!’ Canvey Island’s Dr Feelgood guitar legend Wilko Johnson was diagnosed in late 2012 with terminal pancreatic cancer.

Biffy Clyro are heading to Auckland on Tuesday April 24th to play one show at the Spark Arena and we've got a double pass to giveaway!

Hamilton based pop-folk trio Looking For Alaska have announced the release of their catchy new single 'Calling Out' on the cusp of a nationwide tour.

‘No One Defeats Us’ is the first taste of music from one of Australia’s most anticipated new bands, DREAMS – a collaboration between Daniel Johns (aka Dr Dreams) and Luke Steele (aka Miracle).

The winner of the ninth annual Taite Music Prize is the inimitable Aldous Harding for her bewitching sophomore album ‘Party’.

Taking place at Deep Creek Brews & Eats in Browns Bay on May 1st, the party will feature live sets from Magic Factory, Ha The Unclear, Gareth Thomas (Goodshirt) and Samuel Flynn Scott (The Phoenix Foundation),

DYNAMO has announced a second Auckland show for the ‘SEEING IS BELIEVING’ DYNAMO LIVE NZ TOUR 2018.  This new performance is scheduled for Saturday 28 July at 3pm at Auckland’s Spark Arena.

After the release of their debut single ‘City Boy’ last month Calpurnia have truly arrived with the song being streamed more than 2 millions times and hitting #1 on the Global Viral Spotify chart.

Much-loved New Zealand artist, producer and beatmaker Estère debuts ‘Nomads’, the last single before the release of her forthcoming double album My Design, On Others’ Lives which is due out Friday 27th April.

The video for Helen Corry’s anthemic new single ‘La femme’ has been revealed

Sweden’s legendary hard rock band Europe, best known for their worldwide 1986 Smash Hit The Final Countdown, will arrive on Australian shores in just one month!  

Reef have announced details of their new studio album ‘Revelation’, to be released May 4.

Aotearoa’s favourite ‘BBQ reggae’ band Tomorrow People are hitting the road in celebration of their #1 album BBQ REGGAE.

Photos by Erik Norder

Artist: Lionel Richie

Date / Venue:  Sunday April 15th, 2018 - Horncastle Arena, Christchurch

Florence + the Machine has premiered beautiful brand new track, ‘Sky Full Of Song’. Released without warning in partnership with Record Store Day, a limited edition, double-A-sided 7” vinyl will follow on April 21st.

A Place To Bury Strangers’ new album, Pinned, was released Friday, April 13th via Dead Oceans/Rhythmethod.

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have announced the release of Hope Downs – the highly-anticipated debut album from renowned Melbourne outfit.

By Jordan Koziol - Repia

Artist: August Alsina

Date / Venue: Friday April 13th, 2018 - Logan Campbell Centre, Auckland

By Wal Reid

Artist: Carnivorous Plant Society with Eb & Sparrow

Date / Venue: Friday April 13th, 2018 - The Tuning Fork, Auckland

LUMP is a collaborative album from Laura Marling, the Grammy-nominated, Brit award-winning singer-songwriter, and Mike Lindsay, the founding member of Tunng and Throws, and a prolific Mercury Prize winning producer.

Legendary rock band Foreigner will return to New Zealand this November to perform one of their newly envisaged orchestral concerts at Hamilton’s Claudelands Arena on Thursday 1st November.

Following on from the streaming smash ‘Too Strung Up’, which saw the Auckland 3-piece woo a legion of new fans across NZ, Australia and the USA, Alae return with an addictive ode to the mother of all drugs – love – on their brand-new track ‘Stone Cold’, which releases today.