Wellington indie band Dateline is the project of Katie Everingham. The band is returning with new single Choose Me, and I got chills, n’ they’re multiplyin.! No, we’re not looking at the 21st Century re-boot of Grease, it’s just me finding a way to verbalise how intense this track is. In a totally good way.…

How many people live in Taranaki that aren’t in really great bands? Asking because I’ve just been introduced to Twin Tiger (The Twin Tiger?), a four piece combo from New Plymouth who are extending my increasing appreciation for the talent pouring out of one of my favouritest regions of these islands. Comprising Craig Jones on…

Loved ones we have lost is a bittersweet thing to consider. We all have that yearning, that need, to see them, hold them, smell them, and hear their voice, jut one last time. Steffany Beck, from Portland in the USA but now resident of Ōtautahi, verbalises her wishes to see her late father one last…

Kristin Paulse is KRISTN, South African born, Tāmaki Makaurau based but currently a resident of Australia where she’s exploring numerous opportunities and contracts in the entertainment industry over the ditch. New single Lowkey is R & B blue-blood. Absolute royalty in this genre. Boasting a fey TLC vibe, a la No Scrubs backbeat as a…

Eve Kelly, proudly Ngāti Porou, Ngāpuhi and born and raised in Whakatāne, has come back to Flash-Trax with a jaw-droppingly professional piece of pop. This track, Summer Lovin‘, has funk, R & B, an incredible earworm of a melody, and one of the coolest, tightest mixes I’ve heard from the genre in quite some time.…

Tawhito is the Te Reo noun for “old”. Tāmaki-based Māori producer Mokotron, hailing from Ngāti Hine, is releasing this track from his up-coming album The United Tribes Of Bass. And we are diving deep in D & B turf. I get to review this single on Waitangi Day 2024. Recognised as Aotearoa New Zealand’s National…