Ōtautahi is the home of Fijian born CH!EF, real name Ratu Cokanasiga. This guy is a true R & B performer, delivering a rich, Polynesian timbre baritone, smooth like a flat white from Cuba Mall, velvety like something velvet. Bringing a clear, South Pacific influenced touch of reggae to the underlying R & B style,…

I’m an instant fan of Geoff Ong! When It Gets Easy is just on general release and I love it! Or, as I’d be saying if I still lived in Olde Wales, I loves it I does, see. Based out of Tāmaki Makaurau, Geoff is adept at the most uplifting form of indie pop I…

Amiria Grenell has just launched her latest album, The Winter Light. She’s nailed this folk-pop sound of hers, as we find with lead single The Ghost In You. Coming in with a light, soft ballady vibe a la Mary Hopkins (Welsh legend, yay!), Amiria swiftly moves up in energy levels with some great, thick bottom…

About a thousand years ago I worked in the glorious capital for the predecessor of Fonterra, the late, (possibly) great New Zealand Dairy Board. At one point I was seconded for a six week stint with our buddies at the massive Kiwi Dairies principal site at Hawera. This was where I got my love of…

What can one say about Devilskin that ain’t been writ before? Well, while pondering whether Jennie Skulander has come back from Cloud Nine following appearing with Disturbed the other day, I had a listen to their cover of Heart‘s Barracuda and gave myself a few moments to muse on my review. Ann Wilson‘s otherworldly vocal…