Introducing

This week we introduce you to Office Dog, the new musical project of Dunedin musician Kane Strang.

This week on Introducing its Toy Shaw. The Wellington-native and self produced singer-songwriter is a dreamy fusion of pop textures and country melodies. Somewhere in between Oklou and Kitty Wells, Toy's soft vocals, lush harmonies and flowering banjos coalesce into soundscapes of glossy synthetic entropy as she laments on the queer pleasures of tragedy.

This week on Introducing its Ōtautahi musician Hannah Everingham. Hannah is about to go on tour of the South Island with indie-folk duo Terrible Sons. Here she is introducing her new single 'So Long Underground'

This week on Introducing its Rita Mae. She is a fresh voice in NZ - but she was raised with music in her blood and bones. She is the daughter of local legend, the late Jim Laing (The Jean Paul Sartre Experience, Lanky). Here is Rita Mae introducing her new single Candy's House.

This week on Introducing it's the reflective sounds of Te Whanganui-a-Tara dream-fuzz band Mirror Ritual.

This week on Introducing its post punk band Soft Bait from Tāmaki Makaurau. After releasing two hard-hitting singles that have found newly-emerged Tāmaki Makaurau post-punk band at the number 1 spot on local radio stations, Soft Bait returns for their third and final single 'Plot Points', the title track off their upcoming debut album - out 28th October (self-released).

This week we introduce you Poneke based Neil MacLeod and his new single 'Downwards'.

'Not OK' is the beautiful new melodious soul-folk-influenced single from Taranaki-based Australian singer-songwriter Renée Millner. This week on Introducing its Taranaki-based Australian singer-songwriter Renée Millner and her single 'Not OK'

This week we introduce you to alt-indie Wellington artist Goodnight My Darling and her new single 'Until I Return'. The song was written during a seven-month winter lockdown in Berlin, where the Wellington-based songwriter/producer/vocalist was living at the time. Back in Aotearoa and having reconnected with family, Goodnight My Darling reflects on the time as being extremely reinventive and empowering - something she explores in her video.

Today we introduce you to Taranaki-based musician Juliet McLean. Her single "Amaze Me" will be released on September 15 and the EP comes out on September 29 with a solo tour of six dates.

This week we introduce you to Tamaki songwriter and producer Huia who just won Best Female Artist at the Waiata Music Awards, and her waiata Tukua Te Kuata.

This week we are introduced to Otautahi/Tamaki Makaurau artist Jim Nothing and his new single Fall Back Down.

This week we are introduced to Poneke musician Elliott Dawson and his new single Bald Spot.

This week we are introduced to Kirikiriroa duo Bird Machine and their latest single "Our Kind"

This week we are introduced to Poneke artist Tess Goodwin. Dressed Light is an intimate space of memory and being. It reveals the beauty in desire's ache, and asks us to acknowledge and find ease with our own vulnerabilities and uncertainties.