Lily Allen to release new album 'No Shame'
/ Ben DoyLily Allen has announced that her highly anticipated upcoming fourth album, NO SHAME, will be released on June 8th. NO SHAME is Lily Allen’s most personal, insightful and fully-formed record to date, and includes lead song ‘Trigger Bang’ featuring Giggs, as well as new songs ‘Three’ and ‘Higher’.
A departure from the bold, brash lyricism and sun-soaked melodies Lily is known for, ‘Three’ flips perspective in a way only Lily can, while the hazy, stripped back ‘Higher’ finds Lily at her most vulnerable, as simple as it is fragile. Both tracks offer a confessional insight and a glimpse of what’s to come on NO SHAME.
Working with collaborators Fryars, Mark Ronson, Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, Burna Boy, P2J and Cass Lowe to create NO SHAME, Lily says her goal was to make an album that is “as truthful as possible”. Speaking about the sense of catharsis that came with making the album, she says, “I believe that we as humans work through things by talking about them, and that's what making music is, for me. It's sharing things that you hope are going to connect with people, not that are going to connect with algorithms. I think we are so led by outside forces in terms of the way we express ourselves nowadays, because we're so scared of what comes back. It's something I’ve always wanted to explore. It's why I went into it at the beginning, when it felt a lot more free.”
Danish pop sensation MØ and San-Fran hip-hop hero DUCKWRTH are happy to announce huge sideshows across Australia in addition to their 2019's Grooin' The Moo performances.
By Charlie McCubbine
Date / Venue: Tuesday February 5th, 2018 - Spark Arena, Auckland
Julia Holter is heading to New Zealand to play one show at The Tuning Fork in Auckland and we have a double pass to giveaway!
By Shawn Moodie
Artist: 21 Pilots
Date / Venue: Friday December 21st, 2018 - Spark Arena, Auckland
By Janine Swail
Artist: Shania Twain
Date / Venue: Tuesday December 18th, 2018 - Spark Arena, Auckland
New Zealand-born, international art pop superstar Kimbra is to play a one-off show near Wanaka on January 5, 2019.
After a huge viral campaign from their South Island fans, SIX60 announce that they’ll be bringing their stadium show to Forsyth Barr Stadium on Saturday 9 March.
This summer Soaked Oats are embarking on a 13 stop tour around Aotearoa, spreading their slinky sludge pop across our shores with a mixture of festival appearances and headline shows.
Award-winning singer and songwriter Thomas Oliver has released his new single ‘Learn That Lesson Again’.
On the heels of releasing several collaborative hit tracks this year, five-time Grammy Award-winning artist and producer Mark Ronson returns with a brand new single of his own ‘Nothing Breaks Like A Heart’ featuring Miley Cyrus.
Bailey Wiley releases a stunning, stripped back and unplugged version of her new single ‘Sugar,’ shot in Auckland’s Cornwall Park with director Jordan Arts.
‘We Appreciate Power’ is the new track from Grimes; a hard, audacious rock banger which was produced, performed and written by Grimes and featuring HANA.
By Teylor Moss
Artist: Slash with Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators
Date / Venue: Saturday January 26th, 2019 - Spark Arena, Auckland