New Music: Phoebe Bridgers
With an impending trip around Europe/move to the UK, I gave myself a deadline as to when I would stop writing and start packing. This deadline was 5 days ago, and yet here I am. And it's all because of the amaz...
Interview: Decades
Ten years ago, Decades were an emo cover band called Taking Back Thursday*. Today, they've not only had the opportunity to support Taking Back Sunday, the band that pretty much started it all for them, but they...
Tour Announcement: Fall Out Boy to return to NZ
The rumours have been flying around all week after a cheeky tweet posted by the band, but today it was confirmed that Fall Out Boy will indeed be returning to New Zealand in March next year.
It will have bee...
Interview: Sam Hales – The Jungle Giants
It was the afternoon before the release of The Jungle Giants' new record Quiet Ferocity, and frontman Sam Hales was sure he wouldn't be sleeping that night.
After fumbling around with his hands free set ("It...
In Review: Theia’s EP release tour @ Neck of the Woods
It's been quite a month for our girl Theia, as we've seen her take over the nation in the lead up to (and following) the release of her self-titled EP last week. It makes sense, then, that her first ever headli...
Raising Awareness: Music Therapy Week
As someone who eat, sleeps, and breathes music, I am well aware that it has the ability to bring you back to life when you most need it. As music journalists, we turn to our favourite albums or attend concerts ...
In Review: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in Concert
There's not a whole lot I love more than Harry Potter. I wear my Hufflepuff house crest with unwavering pride, and yell about the importance of loyalty to anyone that will listen. I love bragging about how our ...
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in concert is this weekend!
We at The Speakeasy have a slight obsession with Harry Potter. Just under a year ago, we threw ourselves a Harry Potter marathon in which we spent 22 hours in one room watching all 8 movies back-to-back with on...
New Music: The National – Guilty Party
It's not every day The National releases new music. In fact, before this year we haven't had new music from the indie rockers since 2013's full-length Trouble Will Find Me. But 2017, it seems, is the year for r...
Interview: Tristan Evans – The Vamps
Four-piece Brit pop-rockers The Vamps have been on the scene for 5 years - since the oldest member was only 17 - and have yet to make it to our little island, but the loyal fans of New Zealand (the only kind we...
Introducing: DUNES
I've always loved that feeling of laughing or smiling so much that your jaw aches for hours after a conversation ends, and just a short time chatting with sisters Jamie and Tessa McDell - otherwise known as Dun...
Interview: Theia
There may be times that we scan the endless lists of tour dates posted by international artists and feel our hearts sink when New Zealand, once again, does not make an appearance. Sometimes, though, it's import...
Cameron Boucher of Sorority Noise releases 14 minute track – hell is warm
Cam Boucher is the lead singer of one of my favourite small-time American bands Sorority Noise, and I'm lucky enough that he is continually creating and releasing music without the constraints that come with be...
All-girl support crew announced for Theia’s NZ tour!
As if Theia wasn't enough of a bad-ass babe all on her own, joining her on her mini EP release tour are DJ Alisha, Arcee Rapper, DJ Mali and Missy G - making it a magnificent and powerful all-girl line-up acros...
TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT: Lorde to play SIX New Zealand shows this November
Our favourite pop princess is coming home this November in support of her upcoming Sophomore album Melodrama to play six intimate shows across New Zealand on her Melodrama World Tour.
The NZ leg of the tour ...
IN REVIEW: Last Young Renegade – All Time Low
We may have already been given 5 out of the 10 songs before the release date, and it would be easy to assume that the surprise had all but been spoilt, but there truly is nothing like listening to a concept alb...
TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT: Decades to tour NZ this July
New Zealand's rock scene is on the rise, and four of our biggest and best rock bands are joining forces this July as they embark on The All Our Truths Tour, visiting all of our country's biggest cities.
Deca...
The Smith Street Band recreate AC/DC Video for their song Shine
Sometimes I get complacent and stupidly think that I couldn't love The Smith Street Band more than I already did, and then they go and pull something like this and I am proven completely and utterly wrong.
T...
New Music: Halsey feat. Lauren Jauregui – Strangers
We may only have to go one more week without Halsey's new album Hopeless Kingdom Fountain in our lives, but it feels like forever. With Badlands so ingrained in our minds, the slow release of songs from her Sop...
TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT: Theia EP release tour
Prior to the release of her debut self titled EP on June 30th, Theia will be doing three 18+ shows in New Zealand's biggest cities this July.
Theia is set to play her EP in full at some super intimate shows at...
TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT: The Amity Affliction
Australia's answer to post-hardcore is set to return to New Zealand this July in support of their upcoming album This Could Be Heartbreak.
The Amity Affliction were last in our country as part of the Big Ass...