Midwave Breaks

Midwave Breaks are an independent two-piece Alt-Rock band from Tauranga, New Zealand. Their music is a modern take on the soundtrack of their youth - epitomized by 80’s-90’s alternative rock/pop - evoking hints of Springsteen and Petty, Cornell and Vedder, and a melting pot of musical influences from past to present. The band features former Supergroove drummer, and West End ‘Stomp’ performer Paul Russell, joining forces with his brother in arms from late 90’s Auckland rockers Eight, singer-songwriter and guitarist Bruce Conlon. The pair first crossed musical paths at Lynfield College circa 1989, and over the decades since have collectively racked up a haul of gold and platinum selling albums, international song-writing awards, a 2024 AMA nod for Best Rock Act, and for Russell, a place in the NZ Music Hall of fame. Initial singles were mixed in the U.S by grammy award winning engineer Mark Needham (The Killers, Imagine Dragons), but more recent work has been fully independently produced - written, recorded, mixed, and mastered by the band themselves - in the spare room of a farmhouse, overlooking the Bay of Plenty coastline in New Zealand. Driven by the energy of the creative process, and with an innate ability to craft songs that capture a moment, the Midwave Breaks sound is purposefully retrospective mixed with the new.