Author: jackg70
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This is different. Erase Everything is a new experience to me, and one I am happy to take onboard. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau & Ōtepoti the band released the original version of this track on its EP Glass Souls – itself worth a definite listen. I must flag that the EP is VERY different to…
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January 13th 2025: Angelo Munro, Amber Beaton, Matthew Berry, Grant Sowerby and John Ropiha make up the Erase Everything, a band with members based in Tāmaki Makaurau & Ōtepoti. Featuring seasoned players from the Bleeders, Shitripper, Fever Lake & Crap Date, Erase Everything explore the edges of modern rock by underpinning atmosphere with hardcore sensibilities.
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WOW! That’s what Saurian‘s new single Laced compels me to utter. The band has been having some fun with genre crossing in recent times, playing with punk, pub-boogie and other formats that they have proven themselves equally adept at. What they do here is step into an almost post-thrash Metallica family of sound, and they…
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Well hello again music world. I am back. I am reviewing new Kiwi music once more – and first cab off the rank is the wonderfully organic sound of Taipella Tide, from – where else could it be? New Plymouth, in that magical region that punches absolutely tonnes above its weight in musical talent, TARANAKIIIIIII!!!!…
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Whatever K-pop can do… J-pop did it already!Straight from the streets of Kobe comes KOBE KIDZ! This hunky boy band brings style, looks, attitude and some completely off the charts moves! Enjoy Kenji, Hiro, Riku and Yoshi’s debut EP Kandy. . Our guys are Kenji, a twenty year old lead singer who says he loves…
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From Tallinn, Estonia, comes Lady Garden +. Triplets Jelena (Lena), Tatjana (Janz) and Natalja (Lia) are the writers, performers and musicians of Lady Garden, a percussive-based EDM/Pop crossover act. Now residing in Wellington, New Zealand, they are trained singers and dancers. One of their stated influences is Mariah Carey and the multiple octave range she…
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Hey boys, girls, non-binary or simply non-caring, I am back in the reviewing game as of today. Please start to send me your singles and vid links for review, which will be in the original written format. The video reviews never got the same traction or interest as the written ones so why ignore the…
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My avatar recording character DJ Sven “Ginge” Andersen is the releasing artist name for my new, hopefully interesting album, THE DREAMTIME. This is an instrumental studio recording, done at my studio here in South Wairarapa, Underhill Studios. Consisting of seven slow, ambient tracks each some distance over ten minutes in duration, we have a total…
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As part of my self-prescribed therapy I have been writing and creating music as if it’s going out of fashion. I’ve written, performed, recorded and produced the music for this release by new act FEDDY FEDZ, a youthful act based here in my hometown in South Wairarapa. It’s a five track E.P. called STEP BEHIND,…
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Well now, when I decided to take a mental and physical health-related hiatus from the reviews I hinted at the notion of doing a bit of therapeutic tinkering myself. Have we heard the term “opening the floodgates”? I have been working on some introverted stuff under an avatar/pseudonym DJ Sven “Ginge” Andersen. It’s a 9…
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