To cap off the rollercoaster ride that has been 2025, we've asked our team and contributors to share their personal favourite highlights / standout memories from the past twelve m ...

And so we bid 2025 adieu. Our UTR editorial team will be away from the office until 12th January [email advance promo info HERE] and the UTR ticketing crew are manning the help desk [ HERE] during the ...

Santigold has long been recognised for her boundary-pushing music ('Disparate Youth', 'L.E.S Artistes'), blending genres and challenging expectations. A visionary who emerged from ...

Championing local songwriting excellence for nigh on two decades, Home Alone Records are treating Te Whanganui-a-Tara gig-goers to 20 Summers Fest at the tail end of our sunny sea ...

Estère achieved a coveted top twenty placing for the 2025 Silver Scroll Award with her luminous duet with Deva Mahal 'South Coast' (co-written by both artists), and she'll soon returning back to ...

All artists & crew are giving their gifts & skills to raise some (very much needed) bucks to bring Space Academy rolling back in to 2026." ...

Sunday 8 March 2026 will be the 32nd Newtown Festival, and the 30th in the streets. Meri Kirihimete, Happy New Year and Happy Holidays. See you there!" Newtown Festival 2026 Sunday 8th March - Newtown ...

Welcome to our 2025 End Of Year Playlist, bringing together the very finest Aotearoa tunes of the past twelve months. 102 tracks selected by our traditionally brutal in-office voting system, sequenced ...

Ohio icons of post-hardcore / emo-punk, Hawthorne Heights are making their way back to Aotearoa New Zealand in April 2026, headlining Auckland's Double Whammy and Wellington's San Fran. They'll be ...

Few groups in history, recent or otherwise, elevate mood to such singular, smoldering supremacy as the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang aka HTRK [‘Hate Rock']. Across nearly two ...

An intimate soulful performer, an acoustic guitar sensation, winner of three New Zealand Music Awards Paul Ubana Jones was born in London to a Yorkshire mother and a Nigerian father. Paul was playing ...