New Zealand

Alisa Xayalith has played the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection a lot over the years, including shows headlining the stages of The Trocadero and Union Transfer.  However, this Friday, May 9th, she will be returning to the 215 to play her most intimate area show ever at...

“I used to do very stripped back demos at home, and then I met Mikal Cronin,” jokes New Zealand-raised, Los Angeles-based artist Jess Cornelius about working with the famed LA musician perhaps best-known for his collaborations with Ty Segall.  Cronin served as producer and multi-instrumentalist for Cornelius’ sophomore solo...

“I’m just making the shit I wanna do, and I sense that freedom in the record,” Kimbra tells me of her latest album during a Zoom chat earlier this month.  That record is A Reckoning, the New Zealand art pop musician’s fourth LP and first to be released independently. ...

This month 4AD brought the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection a few of its best shows, including post-punk revivalists Dry Cleaning at First Unitarian Church and neo glam rockers The Lemon Twigs at Underground Arts.  And next Friday, June 10th, 4AD recording artist Aldous Harding will be...

The Beths are the kind of band that teach you how to pogo through heartbreak.  And that was certainly the vibe when the New Zealand harmony-laden power pop quartet played a sold-out show at Eraserhood’s Underground Arts last Thursday, February 24th.  The basement venue’s capacity-crowd hopped, bopped, and chanted...

Although Lisa Crawley may not quite be a marquee name in America, there’s a reasonable chance that you’ve heard her music featured in shows like Nancy Drew, Good Trouble, and Stumptown in recent years.  However, the New Zealand-born indie pop singer/songwriter, who recently relocated to Los Angeles, has been...