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It's the news punk-rock fans have been waiting 20 years to hear - LA's Bad Religion are finally coming to New Zealand.
The veteran punks, who formed way back in the early 80s, have just released their 14th album, New Maps of Hell, and they play Auckland's Powerstation on November 14.
No doubt when you go to the show you'll also be raising your fist and screaming for anthems like No Control and Against the Grain too.
Can you hear all the excited punk rockers out there?
On an entirely different tip, but no less legendary, comes the smooth-as-silk voice of Randy Crawford accompanied by pianist and composer Joe Sample. They were part of 70s R&B band the Crusaders, and Crawford sang its 1978 single Street Life. She has also scored hits with One Day I'll Fly Away and a version of George Benson's Give Me the Night.
Meanwhile, Welsh emo-screamo-post hardcore quintet - who knows what to call them nowadays? - Funeral For A Friend will play SolidSonic2 at the Studio on September 20 along with local bands Cold By Winter, False Start and Full Nelson.
And finally, Australia's Great Southern Blues & Rockabilly Festival is coming to New Zealand for the first time, from September 21 to 23 at SkyCity Theatre.
Overseas acts are the Holmes Brothers, Rod Piazza and the High Flyers and Watermelon Slim and the Workers, who join locals including Midge Marsden, Hammond Gamble and Billy TK jnr.
