Strange Universe: Winter! Set to ramp up the stakes and take over all of June and a tiny little bit of the end of May. This first line-up announcement has everything you could set your hearts on and more, and is happening across some of Tāmaki Makaurau’s most beloved venues.

Recently described by The Guardian as operating “at the highest songwriting level”, celebrated American indie favourite Cass McCombs is a true songwriter’s songwriter. A dozen or so albums in and his songs like Brighter!, Bum Bum Bum, and Absentee have become timeless earworms, with recent album Interior Live Oak seeing Pitchfork agree that this is an artist “in top form”. This one-off show by McCombs and his killer quartet at Double Whammy marks the first time the man has ever taken the stage in Aotearoa, and we’re absolutely thrilled to have him.