Sunreturn

26/06/2025

Angelo Munro, Milan Borich, Matthew Berry, Grant Sowerby and Jon Ropiha make up the Erase Everything, a band with members based in Tāmaki Makaurau & Ōtepoti. Featuring seasoned players from Pluto, Bleeders, Sh*tripper, Fever Lake & Crap Date, Erase Everything explore the edges of modern rock by underpinning atmosphere with hardcore sensibilities.

Having signed to Sunreturn Erase Everything release Glass Souls, the first single from their eponymous debut EP due for release before the end of the year.

🔈 https://music.drm.co.nz/glass-souls
🔗 https://eraseeverything.bandcamp.com/track/glass-souls

Glass Souls sees Erase Everything strike new ground, expertly mixing distortion, dissonance, delay and a driving rhythm section. The track was recorded by Milon Williams and polished by Primal Mastering.

"Glass Souls is a bit different to the other songs on our EP" notes Munro. "Grant wrote the song in about 10 minutes. We had a lot of slower tracks and he wanted something upbeat. It came together super quick."

The lyrics were a team effort, with Munro and Borich collaborating; "This song came from a place of grief and love. Glass Souls is about a teenager who took his life after relentless bullying (both online and at school), both of our kids were friends with the victim. It reminded us of ourselves at that age: sensitive, creative, slightly outside the lines. And when someone like that disappears, especially so young, it leaves a hole that feels impossible to fill.”

“Writing this wasn’t easy. It wasn’t about trying to explain it, because you can’t, but about trying to honour what was left behind: the fragility, the innocence, the rage, the silence. Kids can look fine on the outside, but they’re breaking inside. And the world, especially the online world, doesn’t give them the space or softness they need.”

“Glass Souls was a way for us to process something unthinkable, and to start a conversation about empathy.”

To mark the release Erase Everything will perform live at Whammy Bar on July 19th with She's So Rad, Breaches, Back To The Hillside & A Life Underground. Tickets are available from Undertheradar.co.nz: https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/97018/Erase-Everything---Glass-Souls---Single-Release-Show.utr

*If you are concerned about yourself or a friend please reach out to Lifeline Aotearoa at 0800 543 354.

25/06/2025

Baby Zionov is #6 on the Radio One 91FM Top 11!

21/06/2025

This World Music Day, we celebrate Aotearoa’s own Dr Tiopira McDowell, whose next stop is playing at Glastonbury.

Most of the thousands of students who have attended Tiopira’s Māori Studies lectures over the years have no idea he is also the electronic music producer known as Mokotron.

But since winning one of New Zealand's most prestigious music awards, the Taite Music Prize, and the Electronic Artist of the Year title at the Aotearoa Music Awards, his cover has been well and truly blown.

“The point was to do something that hadn’t been done; to do something completely original, that could only come from Aotearoa,” he says of his award-winning album Waerea.

Written in te reo Māori, Mokotron’s music features traditional Māori instruments such as taonga puoro and draws on oral traditions.

“The fact that I’m going to Glastonbury probably tells you something that I’ve been saying for the past four or five years, which is that this kind of music is going to blow up. And you’ve got to listen, because you don’t want to miss that moment.”

21/06/2025

West Auckland punks Cindy have been local favourites for a long time. This year could see them reach a wider audience.

Listen to their trashing new single 'Big Summer Blowout' here: https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/cindy-big-summer-blowout-song-you-need-to-know-78490/

16/06/2025

13/06/2025

Katie Everingham plays with Oli Devlin at Vogelmorn Upstairs on 4th July.

13/06/2025

13/06/2025

Playing at 605 Morningside with Donk Dobbo and jackaltheblackal on 28th June.

13/06/2025

Just about to start! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-tOiBwYx9U

Another special Live To Air coming up! Punk royalty will be heating up the Te Korokoro o te Tūī studio space this Friday 13th ★

The Tāmaki Makaurau 4-piece have been killing recently on the Student Radio Network chart with their latest single, ‘Big Summer Blowout’

You’ll be able to catch it by tuning into 91FM airwaves or watching the video live-stream via our YouTube channel (🔗 in bio), kicking off at 4PM!

Thanks to for making it happen 💚

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11/06/2025

Following her high tempo return with Cirrus Homebound, Baby Zionov has shared the new single Froggy Forest Raceway (from her forthcoming album, due end of 2025) and announced a special release show at 605 Morningside with support from Jackaltheblackal and the mysterious Donk Dobbo.

🔊 https://music.drm.co.nz/ffr-bz
🔗 https://babyzionov.bandcamp.com/
🎟 https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/96830/Baby-Zionov-Froggy-Forest-Raceway-Single-Release-Party.utr

Froggy Forest Raceway is a trip through a muggy but lively rainforest swarming with strange plants, silly little bugs and frogs. Baby Ziononv collages bouncing kicks, funky basslines, pixelated flutes and animalist percussion.

"Historically, my approach to music has been to basically just mess around until something cool happens," says Zionov. "Lately I’ve been trying to think more visually and evoke a sense of place and atmosphere. It’s not always easy to do that while still keeping your music danceable, and for inspiration I ended up looking to racing game music, which always has to be very exciting and energetic while also expressing the specific vibe of the level/racecourse."

"The basic chords and flute melody on their own have this kind of floating, mystical feeling, but the 'rainforest' concept only started coming together when I was playing around with samples of insect sounds to use as percussion, which interlocked with the Jersey club beat in cute and interesting ways."

"It was a fun challenge to try and create the image of something so organic using the vocabulary of dance music – the Korg M1 piano twinkling like rain falling into a pond, the 303 acid sound buzzing like a fly, the 808 bass hitting like a sudden clap of thunder. I don’t usually work in such a literal or representational way, but I’m really happy with how it turned out."

At the halfway mark, 'Froggy Forest Raceway' swerves into strange new territory, a shift that Zionov explains as "sort of the 'I probably shouldn’t have eaten that weird looking mushroom' moment. Suddenly the forest is starting to feel a bit endless and the proportions are all off and everything has a weird purple tint to it and you reckon one of the frogs is giving you the evil eye, but you’re oddly calm about it. I made that section last because it’s essentially a downtempo chillout remix of the rest of the song. The idea of hiding a remix inside the song itself really tickles me."

With Froggy Forest Raceway out now Zionov hopes that "it will imbue listeners with both the urge to dance with a childlike sense of wonder!"

10/06/2025

Ahead of a run of North Island shows in June Dateline have released a new music video for album deep cut 'Wake Up Slowly.'

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNor9W25GfY

'Wake Up Slowly' closes It’s All Downhill From Here with a hushed intimacy, its soft vocals and rhythmic fingerpicking setting it apart from the rest of the album. Recorded at home in Everingham's lounge by Oli Devlin (Hans Pucket), 'Wake Up Slowly' was mixed by Jonathan Pearce (The Beths) who added flutes sampled from a random vinyl he picked out of a friends collection.

"Wake Up Slowly is basically a love song to my partner," notes Everingham. "It was me taking a moment to reflect on the love and comfort I feel with her after being together for almost a decade. Life can get so busy, especially raising a toddler together, it’s easy to speed through the days without acknowledging how beautiful something is."

'Wake Up Slowly' was directed by Finn Hyndman with assistance from Director Of Photography Matilda Macandrew, who had previously worked with Dateline on the video for Nothing. "For this music video, we wanted to try to capture the most quiet, intimate moments of a relationship, through only the moments shared in bed," says Hyndman. "Just the things that do sometimes feel the most real."

"We wanted to convey a range of emotions that go hand in hand with that closeness, namely those of vulnerability and bittersweet intimacy. The bed is a shared space for love and comfort but also silence. It is where walls come down, where people say so much without saying anything."

"A big influence for this entire video was a few photographs by artist Petra Collins. She takes these beautiful, dreamy photos of women, sometimes in their bedrooms, sometimes interacting with each other. And the way she uses composition, colour and lighting creates a softness which really stood out to us."

Everingham reflects "We just trusted Finn & Matilda to make something that felt right and I think what they came back with is really lovely."

Dateline share the music video for Wake Up Slowly from their album 'It'sAll Downhill From Here'Watch more videos from Sunreturn here: https://bit.ly/39F5BV7D...

10/06/2025

Another special Live To Air coming up! Punk royalty will be heating up the Te Korokoro o te Tūī studio space this Friday 13th ★

The Tāmaki Makaurau 4-piece have been killing recently on the Student Radio Network chart with their latest single, ‘Big Summer Blowout’

You’ll be able to catch it by tuning into 91FM airwaves or watching the video live-stream via our YouTube channel (🔗 in bio), kicking off at 4PM!

Thanks to for making it happen 💚

★ ★ ★ ★