The intergalactic funk rockers are back! After the release of ‘Episode One: Looking For A New Planet’ in 2024, Black Comet launched into festival season featuring WOMAD (doing TWO sets!), CubaDupa and Ripe Wanaka Wine & Food Festival. Amongst all of this, they were also busy writing and recording their next album.

Auckland-based singer-songwriter JENNI SMITH is hitting the road for her first-ever New Zealand tour! Named after her upcoming album, the Girl Next Door tour will be an intimate acoustic experience, bringing Jenni’s signature blend of country and pop to audiences across the country. 

Wellington band Underwire have built a reputation for cranking live sets and punchy earworm songs, and their new single ‘Wish I Was A Cowboy’ keeps their genre-shattering spirit front and centre.

Ōtautahi’s fine purveyor of shoegaze-meets-dream pop, T. G. Shand, returns with her first single of the year, ‘The Deadpan Break’. ‘The Deadpan Break’ is a sparse, yet warm, hypnotic tune that builds to a searing disco atmosphere. It’s about “breaking the deadpan.”

As Aotearoa Music Month wraps up, Māori singer-songwriter ALLANA Goldsmith shares her breathtaking new single HOATA - a waiata born from the maramataka, steeped in ancestral wisdom, and guided by the whakataukī of those who walked before us. The single marks the final instalment of her Te Māngai Pāho-funded reo Māori trilogy.

With his debut single Breathe, Auckland-based artist neoSage invites listeners into an inner world coloured by emotion, thought, and quiet revelation. Known for his work as a freelance composer and music tutor, Breathe marks the start of a new creative chapter.

After the release of their debut single “Something In The Water” Whanganui band BB & The Bullets are at it again with another original track. This one is called “High Tide” and tells the story of a person trying to control the uncontrollable, a farmer whose land is threatened by a river.

Danni Davis is set to captivate listeners with the release of her deeply personal Deluxe single, "Remember Me"; a raw and emotionally-charged reflection on love, betrayal, and the struggle of trying to hold on when everything is slipping away.