Debut single for Porirua’s Tavita & Bay Road, we are in MOTOWN ’24! What a funky number! Led by Samoan/Pakeha Tavita De Seymour vocalist, I was transported to the Midnight Special, Soul Train, you name it! Fused by a Flanger-dripping bass that absolutely screams Stevie Wonder‘s mega-hit Superstitious, this is a funkalicious trip through an…

From her brand new EP Living In The Shadows, released on 7th June, Filipina songstress Ms. Mia brings us the promo track, and what a saucy belter it is! We’re looking at one of those jazzy, sleazy 1920s Speakeasy scenes. The big band is having a slug of Moonshine, while a handful of the band…

Well now. It’s not often I get a song that’s over six minutes long, and as avant-garde as anything I have reviewed. That’s what I have been presented with, with Please Give Blood‘s new single, Ambition. We have a track that can qualify as punk, industrial, goth, electronica. The list is lengthy. Like the song!…

BAKeR, aka Mike Baker, has been in and around the music scene on both sides of the ditch for a long time. I do like it when an artist is still hungry for more, and attacks the scene with something new, unique and personal. That’s what the entire vibe is around new single Moonface, the…

Once in a blue moon a song comes along that truly takes my breath away. Now I have reviewed several Steffany Beck numbers and I am absolutely sold on this artist as a truly talented and professional performer, singer, songwriter, guitar player. I’ve reviewed one absolutely brilliant Miranda Easten single, and this lady is equal…

I’ve been waiting for Blake‘s new single since I was privileged to comment on her earlier release about mental health. Such a talented wordsmith to be able to put such significant life experiences into such captivating lyrics, surrounded by such commercially viable yet individualistic singles. I really like this artists emotional intelligence and her ability…

Once the frontman for Atlas, which holds the record for the longest tenure for a single at the top of the NZ singles chart (beating even Scribe), Sean Cunningham is back under his own name and new single Habit is going onto my personal Spotify playlist as well as the Flash-Trax one. What a gorgeous…

Yahaaaaaaaarrrrr! It’s about time someone took us to Mos Eisley and the rough-ass Cantina with its no droids door policy and the most “wretched hive of scum and villainy“. It looks like this band knew to be careful… Brother Sister brings us a serving of their homage to that mid-80s funk/synth pop stuff that was…

This is a good, good band. The fabulously named Fin Rah Zel, named I assume from the powerful sorceress that helped Willow Ufgood to defeat evil queen Bavmorda in the original Willow movie, they give me the opportunity to release the inner D & D geek of old. My character classes of choice were half-Elf…

Go to a dark rave with Tāmaki Makaurau based Grecco Romank! This is pure night club music, not the sort of stuff for the faint hearted. Band members Billie Fee, Mikey Sperring and Damian Golfinopoulos have quite a CV to their names in other NZ acts, and have transferred this to Grecco Romank. We’ve got…