Artist Information

• Label: Sloth Records
• Genre: witch rock
• Hometown: Wellington, New Zealand
• Influences: The Cure, Opeth, PJ Harvey
• Sounds like: Sleater Kinney, King Woman, Cherry Glazerr

Biography

Wellington, New Zealand-based quartet HEX (consisting of Kiki Van Newtown, GG Van Newtown, Jason Erskine and Briar Prastiti) was initially formed around putting together a joint rock opera, which led to further collaborations within the oft-politicized New Zealand DIY scene. Sitting in an ambiguous artistic headspace that shows glimpses of Joy Division, modern poetry, and early 90’s riot grrrl punk, HEX breathes deep on their upcoming album The Hill Temple, as though preparing to unleash something huge, fiery, and enigmatic.

Gathering together a personalized assortment of motifs – shitty roommates, gardening, witch burnings, feminism, and reproductive rights, to name a few – Kiki asserts that HEX seeks primarily to harness deliberate social rage, promoting the idea of using your anger to destroy the things you hate and to create the things you love. It’s about consciousness over ignorance, agency over listlessness, and productivity over nihilism - all of it drenched in riffs, dense bass lines, and chanting vocal figures.

The Hill Temple is set to be released on Valentine’s Day 2018, followed by a U.S. tour in March.

Recent Press

• Noisey
• New Noise Magazine
• NPR
• Bandcamp
• Alternative Press
• Arena
• Overblown
• destroy//exist
• The Revue
• Impose
• Backseat Mafia
• Noisey
• Happy Mag
• Overblown
• The Revue
• Noisey
• Under The Radar
• Radioactive.fm
• Radio NZ
• Beat

Social Links

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Upcoming Shows

• February 14th // Wellington, NZ // Meow
• March 2nd // Los Angeles, CA // La Cita
• March 3rd // Bishop, CA // Mountain Rambler
• March 5th // Oakland, CA // Octopus Literary Salon
• March 6th // San Francisco, CA // Bottom of the Hill
• March 8th // Portland, OR // Turn! Turn! Turn!
• March 9th // Oakland, CA // The Golden Bull
• March 11th // El Paso, TX // Gray Dog
• March 13th // Austin, TX // The Lost Well
• March 14th // Austin, TX // NZ Showcase @ SXSW
• March 14th // Austin, TX // SXSW Showcase @ 720 Club
• March 15th // Austin, TX // Stephen F. Austin Hotel
• March 16th // Austin, TX // Austin Taco Project
• March 16th // Austin, TX // International Day Stage at Austin Convention Center
• March 18th // Austin, TX // Panache's Annual SX Hangover Party @ Beerland

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