Jessica Leigh hails from Nelson, but now resides in that San Francisco of the southern hemisphere, our beautiful capital city Wellington. Definitely one to watch as she releases powerful pop track after track, new single Girlfriends is the latest in her growing portfolio of synth-pop that delivers a surprisingly deep story behind a story. From…

Amiria Grenell comes from a musical family. This lady from the deep South has a clear, ethereal vocal delivery that can sit in any number of musical styles, and would own them. She’s chosen the path of the indie/folk singer/songwriter. I’m glad she has, because if latest single Romeo is any kind of barometer, the…

You will always get my attention when you perform in the beautiful, indigenous languages of the peoples of this world. I’m Welsh, born and bred. Despite living outside of Wales since the very start of the 1990s, and in New Zealand since 1997, I still have my accent, and I know my native language. This…

I’ll clarify something straight away, just to set the scene. The 1980s was not just a time. The 1980s – for us Generation X folk – was, and remains, a place. Tangible and filled with paradoxes. The Cold War, famine, social upheaval everywhere as political ideologies took hold in the West, and began to crumble…

I listened to Breakdown Breakthrough several times, and watched the video several times. Then I sat and thought. And I didn’t post a review. This was on the weekend. I’ll explain why I’m posting it pretty much forty eight hours later. Breakdown Breakthrough is an exceptional pop song. Queenstown native but Auckland based Kiwi alt-pop/dream-pop…