Author: jackg70
-
HOW do these guys keep doing this to me??? The Transits are Ryan Lunn, Tyrone Smith and Dom Antelme – and they have yet to provide me with a single that doesn’t make it onto my own personal Spotify playlist. This band consistently finds a soaring chorus to accompany a grower of a verse, over…
·
-
From her November 2025 album Girl, In A Savage World, increasingly influential artist Theia brings us her new single Holy War. Wow. Really Wow! A haunting, breathy top end soprano intro vocal over the gentle sounds of flames from somewhere. A call about her country being in flames, and some almost staccato strings bring us…
·
-
Another belter from Medusa Glare explodes onto my radar in the form of new single Home. These guys sure know how to put a corker of a hard rock number together, believe me! We’ve got riffs and rhythm to die for. Kicking right into it with a nasty ass, heavy on the distortion riff, swiftly…
·
-
Celebrated Aotearoa singer and songwriter Theia (Waikato, Ngaati Tiipaa, Ngaati Aamaru) will perform a special ‘homecoming’ concert exclusively for her haukaainga in Port Waikato on Saturday, February 28. Hosted at Tauranganui Marae on the banks of the Waikato River, and proudly supported by Tainui Live, this show is the centrepiece of Theia’s upcoming nationwide Debut Album Release Tour. Gates will open at 5pm and entry to the whaanau friendly, all-ages…
·
-
Motorhead t-shirts? Beastwars t-shirts? A video recorded in a shipping container on vocalist Cormac‘s front lawn? Speaking of vocalists – a vocal performance that sent me down the mental road until I stopped at the late, great Ronnie James Dio. What a set of pipes young Cormac has indeed! This is an 80s metaller’s dream.…
·
-
https://linktr.ee/planethunternz Photo repurposed with thanks.
·
-
Sanoi is German-born, Aotearoa-based DJ, producer and electronic music composer Jonas Fischer. He’s bringing us his cheeky new single Count It as a kind of bridge between the A and B side concept of the release of the two parts of his album Augenblick. We get a visit from, I’m sure I’m correct, Gene Wilder‘s…
·
-
Ah, the return of an old friend in the form of Psycho Gab. I’ve reviewed these talented cherubs before, and I have to flag to you the absolutely coolest name in modern New Zealand music, courtesy of lead vocalist Rosetta Stone. I am thrilled that this is the lady’s real name. It goes with the…
·
-
Ooooohhhh smooth! Taranaki’s Tali brings us her new single, from forthcoming album Empress Era, out on 13th March. This single though, I Feel Too Much, is out this Friday, 30th January. Where else but the amazing ‘Naki eh??? She resides in the City of Sails nowadays however you can take the girl out of the…
·
Flash-trax 