Rockabillies! Wahoo! Boom! Boom! DeLuxe, led by mesmerising frontman DD DeLuxe, brings us a high powered shotgun blast of a song telling us about his lifelong Type 1 Diabetes condition. With that classic Rockabilly sound, uncompromising rock n roll blended with jazz, a touch of country, and a whole lot of attitude, this is what…

Crystal Starr brings us her NZ Music Month single Standing Still. Led by her acoustic guitar, Crystal has delivered a very powerful, multi-layered song for us here, and it’s very much worthy of your attention. Delivering is something Taranaki appears to be doing routinely at the moment. I’m very much a beneficiary of this as…

Released tomorrow, Friday 10th May, we get Lady Who?, from New Plymouth-based folk trio Turkey The Bird. This is simply divine. Firstly, the Taranaki region seems to have a great music scene going on. They are punching well above their population size in the number of class bands coming out of the region. Turkey The…

And Taranaki delivers for me once again. TwinTiger, those high performers from New Plymouth, have hit me right in my 1980s with new single For The Best. This is their forthcoming single, and I cannot wait for the vid and to watch it fly. We have an awesomely energetic song, driven by a deep, cohesive…

YAHOOOEEEE, it’s an 80s pop inspired feel-good number that launches Tim Bell, aka TIMO, onto the NZ music scene. Not that he’s a novice, having written music for years, including the full length musical Not Another High School Musical. And here comes the Whangarei born vocalist, all guns, and what a way to say hi!…

Wairarapa based (YAAAAAAY go the ‘RAPA!) iSunray brings us his latest work. This re-mix of UK act RogueFX’s single In The Dead Of Night is an absolute monster of a track. We’ve got a full-on techno/Latino fusion going on here. Sitting under the baritone vocal is the evidence of a studio producer at the peak…

Whooooooa, now I can say right off the bat that Ōtautahi singer Keren Mara has got SOME set of pipes! Her new single Under The Wind, a bewitching and lilting dream-pop/folk number, shows you this in no uncertain terms. Together with duo partner Harry Finalyson-Hood, Keren recorded and produced the song in her home studio,…

Tāmaki Makaurau’s Geneva AM (Geneva Alexander-Marsters, Ngāti Ruapani mai Waikaremoana, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa, Aitutaki, Palmerston) brings us her new single Pikipiki, featuring a range of fellow Aotearoa vocalists, all of whom pack quite a punch. Together? WOW! Following an awesome intro that includes a Conch Shell performed by Tyson Campbell, we kick into the…

The Feel Good Service is a duo from Auckers, made up of Kiwi Lucy Graves and New Yorker Andre “MoDre” Brown. These guys are experienced, well travelled and can name drop famous collaborations they have worked on with the best of any of us. Debut EP DIRTYFUNKNSOUL is just released, and based on promo single Feel For You,…

Dunedin’s versatile rockers Saurian return with their new single Down At The Crown. The newest single from their forthcoming EP, this one is a belter. I’m actually going to start with the video. It goes to show that a simple set up of a couple of cameras, some nouse with editing tools and a sense…