Author: jackg70
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What a lovely surprise discovering such an inspirational young woman as Rosalie Norton, aka Lehali. Lehali is the village of her ancestors, so to use the name felt natural. It’s a great stage name too, and highlights the Pacifica vibe to the music. Onto that. Company is a lilting, warm ode to one’s friends and…
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HOMINID releases their debut EP INTROVERT//EXTROVERT, a tender four tracks of electronic music, inspired by introspection, experimentation and self actualisation. INTROVERT//EXTROVERT is available now on all digital platforms.
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Hailing from Palmerston North, the now London-based Alan Gregg was originally a keyboard player, but has mainly played bass guitar throughout his professional life. After moving to Auckland, he joined The Mutton Birds (1992 – 1998; 2012 – 2019), where he contributed bass, vocals, keyboards, and wrote a number of songs. He has worked as a producer and studio/touring musician –…
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Michèle Ducray is back! I adore this performer and her uncompromising individuality. Michèle is back with Madame, a genuinely sinister yet undeniably poppy and commercially viable synth pop number. Dark and menacing, the melody and demeanour of the artist put me in mind of the spider singing to the fly – and lo and behold…
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Musician, producer, DJ and more, Te Whanganui-a-Tara based Mia Kelly is the artist behind Japes. This is deeply immersed in the bedsitter world of introspection and thought deviations into worlds coloured by shades of grey only seen from the mind’s eye of those who inhabit the inside of their own heads more often than they…
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Tāmaki Makaurau’s Psycho Gab, the neo-jazz 5 piece that got together during the depths of the pandemic, returns with Pianomen. Very much in the fey, acid jazz vein, this is a Rattlesnake. One of those catchy yet not sugary numbers that gets you due to being just the right tone of menacing. Great. Starting with…
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Man I do love Swerve City. These Auckland based alt-metal rockers are so imaginative and they have the chops to deliver. New single Good Enough echoes insecurities and the expectations of others that prey on our minds and bind us in coils of mental chains. Heavy as all hell with some resonant riffing, subtly laced…
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Invercargill rockers Theorem return with new single Bridges. The band has been on hiatus for a decade, and now we get more, yay! Consisting of John Ward on guitar and vocals, Josh Hillman on bass and vocals, and Dan Harrison on drums, these Smokefree RockQuest alumni from the deep South of Aotearoa have crafted a…
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