Tāmaki Makaurau based muso and producer Hugh Piesse is Alec. This act is bringing us a new album named Endless Pasture, out on 16th June 2024, with the promo single Another Party blazing the trail for the release. And yep – blaze brightly it does. I’ll refer to the act by the band name, so…

Riccardo and the Just One Fix boys are back with Thorns, the third single from EP Submit Or Death. This track is as hard, nasty and right in your face as any JOF song you care to think of, but it’s also an example of how good these guys are as performers and writers. While…

Oooooh now, Miranda‘s a naughty one! I just got my first listen to the new single from Country artist Miranda Easten, and it’s brought a smile to my dial for the saucy lyrics and quality of the recording. I know Miranda has worked with my buddy and countryman Greg Haver previously. I’ve not got the…

Dunedin power quartet Robots In Love bring us their new single Unbreakable. Oh and don’t these guys rattle Jacko’s cage in all the right ways! With a thunderous orchestration combining Gothic Rock at its most in-your-face with the melodic sensitivities of the likes of Evanescence, the band tells us what they intend to do with…

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…