Khruangbin Announce 'A LA SALA' Christchurch Headline Show

Attracting adoring fans across the globe with their sun-soaked melting pot of grooves, Khruangbin are returning to Aotearoa in February 2025, this time heading south to bring the magic live at Christchurch Town Hall. Touring their new album A LA SALA ("to the room" in Spanish), the Houston, Texas trio of drummer Donald Ray ‘DJ’ Johnson Jr, bassist Laura Lee Ochoa and guitarist Mark Speer have achieved superstar status with back-to-back winning long players The Universe Smiles Upon You (2015), Con Todo El Mundo (2018), Hasta El Cielo (2019) and Mordechai (2020), along with notable collaborations with such fellow travellers as Vieux Farka Touré and Leon Bridges.

Virtuosos of their own kaleidoscopic blend of soul, psych, dub and hip-swivelling funk, Khruangbin will be joined for their Canterbury show by multi award-winning special guests Troy Kingi & The Galactic Chiropractors. They're also playing Canterbury's already sold out Electric Avenue festival this summer — read Ali Nicholls' chat with Lee HERE for UTR and be sure to swoop on tickets when they go live later this week...

Khruangbin - A LA SALA 2025
with special guests Troy Kingi & The Galactic Chiropractors

Thursday 20th February - Christchurch Town Hall, Christchurch

Presale tickets available from 10am, Thursday 21st November via Team Event
General public sales from 10am, Friday 22nd November via Ticketmaster

Hit play on 'A Love International' from Khruangbin's new album A LA SALA...

Boogie along with 'Time (You and I)' from their 2020 album Mordechai...

Experience 'B-Side' from Khruangbin & Leon Bridges' 2022 Texas Moon EP...

Press release:

They’re heralded as one of the world’s finest live acts – a band unparalleled in groove. Now, Houston, Texas psych-funk trio Khruangbin announce their highly anticipated return to New Zealand this summer with an exclusive performance at the Christchurch Town Hall on Thursday 20 February as part of their global A LA SALA tour.

Recently nominated for best new artist at the 2025 Grammy Awards, Khruangbin who are also performing at the sold-out Electric Avenue festival, have wowed fans at major global festivals this year such as Coachella, Austin City Limits, Bonnaroo and Latitude.

Now, bassist Laura Lee Ochoa, drummer Donald ‘DJ’ Johnson, Jr., and guitarist Mark ‘Marko’ Speer will return to New Zealand to celebrate their first album in four years: A LA SALA (“To the room” in Spanish).

If 2020’s Mordechai was a party record that enhanced the band’s musical reputation, A LA SALA is the measured morning after. A gorgeously airy album made with minimal overdubs, A LA SALA scales Khruangbin down to scale up, a creative strategy with the future in mind.

According to the New York Times, Khruangbin's sound was so distinct and popular that "there now exists an entire subgenre of music broadly known as 'Khruangbin vibes”.

Across four studio albums – The Universe Smiles Upon You, Con Todo El Mundo, Mordechai, and now A LA SALA – Khruangbin’s journey is emphatically its own. A sound and visual representation with few precedents, ignoring pop expectations, relying only on internal inspiration and a multitude of visions. It’s a mindset of penetrating the self, connecting to the surrounding world, modelling your own life experiences.

Don’t miss this chance to see the musical genius of Khruangbin performing this intimate Town Hall show.