John Bradbury

Teddy Thompson's Never Be The Same offers ten carefully made songs about the wish to change, the fear of changing, and the terrible comfort of falling back into the same old emotional grooves.

ELskan FLY Lion Den is a country-folk/Americana album shaped by accumulated experience: people, places, hard lessons, and we take forward from them.

Shakey Graves – Fondness, Etc. brings Alejandro Rose-Garcia, the Austin musician who records under the name Shakey Graves , back to a self-contained way of working.

Little Barrie's Gravity Freeze is a warm, spacious record of psychedelic rock'n'soul, bluesy garage rhythm and melodic restraint. It is also an album about finding forward motion without pretending nothing has changed.

Wednesday and Awning made for a well-matched bill at Hollywood Avondale in Tāmaki Makaurau: two guitar bands drawn to dynamic shifts and emotional release, but at different points in their development.

Cass McCombs' first Aotearoa show was also the opening night of Strange Universe's “Not a Festival”. Deliberately curated but wide-ranging, the 10-show winter series is spread across several Tāmaki Makaurau venues in May and June.

At just eight songs and 29 minutes, Just Janie's debut album Mythology of the Girls is brief, yet it casts a surprisingly wide shadow.

Greta Van Den Brink's debut album, This Wasn't Planned, is a record about becoming yourself before you have quite worked out who that self is.

More than 30 years after forming in Issaquah, Washington, Modest Mouse return with An Eraser And A Maze

When Joan As Police Woman released Real Life in 2006, it felt like the arrival of a fully formed solo artist rather than a debut in the usual sense.