Weekly Round Up: Friday 16th September

This week bought with it two big pieces of tour news. After a little hint-dropping it was revealed that Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be winging their way to New Zealand for two stadium-sized shows in February. Also this week, the line-up announcement dropped for next year's Laneway Festival, which will be getting cozy in its new Albert Park home. Some of our top picks on the bill are Refused, The Julie Ruin, Fazerdaze, Mick Jenkins, Tame Impala, The Chills, The Veils, Yukon Era and White Lung - head over here to check out the line-up.

On the release front, we had our socks knocked off by Kim Gordon who released the killer single 'Murdered Out' - which is the first ever released under her own name. Closer to home we got an excellent first taster from recently formed Wellington outfit Earth Tounge. And on album stream territory, we were stoked to be able to share the new full length record from Wilco, which is delightfully titled Schmilco. And we also spent a bit of time soaking up the goose-bump inducing record Skeleton Tree from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

This week's Caught Live is garage-rock shredder Ty Segall ripping out a version of Neil Young's 'Down By The River' at the Teragram Ballroom in downtown LA...

WEEKEND GIG PICKS:

Friday

Auckland: Henry Wagons with Stretch - The Tuning Fork
Auckland: Street Chant CU Later Tour - Whammy
Wellington: King Loser - Bodega
Wellington: Moses Album Release Tour - Meow
Christchurch: Stef Animal + New Dawn - Darkroom
Dunedin: Clap Clap Riot + Racing - Re Fuel

Saturday

Auckland: Moses Album Release Tour - Whammy
Auckland: White Rabbit Black Monkey, Those Lethals + Paper Cranes - Wine Cellar
Wellington: Master Blaster, Thee Crockettes, Unsanitary Napkin + More - Newtown BC
Wellington: The All Seeing Hand, SLBCC + Earth Tongue - Caroline
Christchurch: Henry Wagons - Blue Smoke
Dunedin: The Ampathon - Re Fuel

Head over to our Gig Guide for more listings!!!

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