As Fat Freddy's Drop journey home from their epic European tour playing to their biggest crowds ever, their focus shifts home to whanau and upcoming 2019 Summer Tour.

Australia’s Good Things Festival has once and for all emerged from the vast unknowns, bringing forth a new era for Australian alternative music fans, ushered in by an unstoppable army of some of the heaviest, and most alternative bands the universe has on offer in 2018!

New Zealand’s most talked about boutique music festival Coastella returns to the stunning Kapiti Coast with an eclectic trans tasman lineup.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers will make a long-overdue and highly-anticipated return Down Under in 2019.

Celebrating the past, present and future at the 2018 Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards
Top New Zealand musicians celebrated at the 2018 ceremony.

Legendary singer Mavis Staples -- the embodiment of everything that’s good in the world right now -- will return to New Zealand in April 2019 in a special one-off concert featuring our own treasure, Tami Neilson, in support.

One of New Zealand’s most-loved and unique female artists, Gin Wigmore, makes her great return to the Kiwi stage to perform three summer dates across the country as part of a New Zealand tour.

Get ready to stomp your feet in the pit and raise your fists in the air, Canadian political punks, Propagandhi have just announced a run of shows across Australia... and New Zealand!

 Larkin Poe, the American Blues-Rock band, will be performing their gritty, soulful, southern heritage in Auckland this April.

Photos by Trevor Villers

Date / Venue: Wednesday November 13th, 2018 - The Tuning Fork, Auckland

By Mark Derricutt

Artist: Conan & Bell Witch with special guests Mothra

Date / Venue: Tuesday November 13th, 2018 - Whammy Bar, Auckland

By Andra Jenkin

Peter Pan Goes Wrong is a play I've been dying to see, being a huge fan of comedy and having loved J.M. Barrie since I was a child.

Something positive;
Something...Good.
Something….Different.

Foretold through street posters, heralded through (not so) hushed murmurs of the people; Good Things Festival has once and for all emerged from the vast unknowns, bringing forth a new era for Australian alternative music fans, ushered in by an unstoppable army of some of the heaviest, and most alternative bands the universe has on offer in 2018!

By Wal Reid

Artist: Passenger

Date / Venue: Tuesday November 13th, 2018: The Powerstation, Auckland

By Teylor Moss

Artist: James

Date / Venue: Sunday November 11th, 2018 - The Powerstation, Auckland

By Mark Derricutt

Artist: Def Leppard & Scorpions

Date / Venue: Monday November 12th, 2018 - Spark Arena, Auckland

By Labretta Suede & Johnny Moondog

Artist: Dead Kennedys

Date / Venue: Saturday November 10th, 2018 - The Powerstation, Auckland

By Wal Reid

Artist: King Princess

Date / Venue: Thursday November 8th, 2018 - The Powerstation, Auckland

By Saffy Wihoite

Artist: Taylor Swift

Date / Venue: Friday November 9th, 2018 - Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland

By Saffy Wihoite

Artist: Fozzy

Date / Venue: Wednesday November 7th, 2018 - Galatos, Auckland

The California Honeydrops have been touring extensively through the US following the release of their double-album Call It Home: Vol 1 & 2 which features prolific blues singer, Bonnie Raitt.

Tex-Mex indie rockers Calexico are bringing their “desert noir” sound to New Zealand for the first time in four years, performing at the Powerstation in Auckland on January 29.

Shakey Graves a.k.a Alejandro Rose-Garcia was born in Austin Texas to a musical family and is best-known for playing a smoky, spectral fusion of blues, folk and rock in a stripped down one-man-band style.

Quintessential Irish-American Celtic folk/punk band Flogging Molly is leaving California this April to come and dazzle New Zealand with their wild live performance tactics.

Misled Convoy has become the vehicle for exploration outside of the constraints of his more populist collaboration.

Remind Me Tomorrow, Sharon Van Etten’s first new album in almost five years, comes out January 18th.