Start Today Announces First Lineup

Prolific in the underground music community, Start Today is no stranger to the average alternative concert goer.

NZ (AKL) Band Club Ruby To Release New Single 'Heartbreak Overtime'

"The anti-love anthem you didn’t know you needed this Valentine’s Day."

Who Shot Scott releases his new single 'Pack Steel'

Who Shot Scott is the musical project of Zaidoon Nasir (he/him), a producer and experimental hip hop artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland).

New Zealand supports announced for Hoodoo Gurus Back to the Stoneage April tour

Three rockin' indie bands have been announced as supports for Hoodoo Gurus’ New Zealand tour in April, with Silk Cut opening in Auckland, Best Bets in Christchurch, and a very special reunion for Wellington band The Spirals, performing their first sh

Nadia Reid: New Single and Video Out Now

Nadia Reid has released 'Hold It Up', the latest single before the release of her forthcoming album Enter Now Brightness, out 7th February on Slow Time Records (Aotearoa/NZ)and Chrysalis Records (Rest of World).

More Epic Music in Parks This Auckland Anniversary Weekend and Beyond

This coming Auckland Anniversary weekend has another incredible line-up for Music in Parks

• 1
  Head Like A Hole
• 2
  Horror Story
• 3
  Fraser Ross
• 4
  Fur Patrol
• 5
  Devilskin

• 1
  Corrella
• 2
  Rancho Mirage
• 3
  Silk Cut
• 4
  Best Bets
• 5
  Li'l Chuck the One Man Skiffle Machine

day13n
Toronto-born, and currently based in Auckland, day13n grew up sandwiched between the wealthy east end neighbourhood 'The Beaches' and a TCHC subsidised housing community. The oldest of four, day13n spent his childhood raising his three younger sisters, while his parents struggled with unemployment, substance abuse, and his immigrant mother attempted to manage while his father was in prison, and absent.

By the age of 14, day13n had developed serious substance use issues, and was struggling with mental illness, which resulted in violent altercations with his father, and inevitably day13n being kicked out of his family home, and living on his own by the age of 16, dropping out of school, and entering the workforce.

For the next ten years, day13n worked to pull himself out of that pit, with therapy, self reflection, and medication. At his darkest points, he found solace in punk, and angry hip-hop music, but it was messages of hope, and belief in a brighter future embedded in the lyrics of artists like Eminem and Greenday that left a lasting impact.
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