How would life be if the Beastie Boys combined with the Lightning Seeds? If the hip-hop beats sitting beneath heavy-ass guitars giving off a percussive snarl, pseudo-arrogant and in your face for the sake of seeing your face retreating out of their space, with thundering bass and a vocal resonating with indie class morphing into…

From their sophomore album Still At Large, HEAVY Metal act Imperial Slave brings us their new single Exterminate. Consisting of vocalist Sam Sheppard, guitar players Isaac Lundy and Anthony Hati, bass player Achilles Manley and drummer Matt Wright, these guys bring you an absolute roar through the genre. I’m open about my musical tastes, and…

Whoooooooaaaaa, and they have done it AGAIN for me. Taranaki’s swamp-blues combo The Mons Whaler has released new single Blood, and I am horizontal with chill-out factor. Absolutely sublime song! I’m tempted to end THERE, frankly, but I’ll elaborate. We’ve got a laid-back vibe to the song as it starts. A steel guitar sound, oozing…

The new single is out from Kirikiriroa’s duo Bird Machine. Luke and Jenna have brought us a multi-genre spanning work that is deeply thought out lyrically and performed with technical precision and hearts on sleeves – as they always do with their writing. It’s been great to see the duo has been playing some good…

Okay. I’m a Welsh bloke. Born, raised, still got the accent. I am scratching my noggin trying to think of a more Welsh name than Evan Rhys though! This multi-instrumentalist from New Plymouth certainly means business, and I’ll tell you for why. There’s not many who I have known who would engage man-who-is-everywhere-right-now, the infallible…

And the Auckland heavy rock band factory delivers up another elite quality act in Swerve City. Man these guys pack a punch! Consisting of Kev Ashby, JP Carroll, Adam Forsdyke and Shannon Coulomb, we have ourselves a classic four piece that certainly delivers on the classic rock sound. I’ve not got the info on where…