And TheSlacks are back! New album Information Ape is out on 3rd May and I will be listening! The promo single for the release is the gorgeous, whimsical Crystal Mountain High. Lemme tell you about the song… The band brings us a blend of folk, rock and country that cracks a mile wide smile through…

This is my first trip along the waterfront with the good ship Seafarer Fables, and it’s quite a laid back, enjoyable jam by the name of Stanislaw Lem. Seafarer Fables is the project of Kiwi Kelvin Bannan, now based in Melbourne Rock City. This is his first single following a hiatus, and I have to…

Every time this four piece from Hawkes Bay crosses my path on this site they blow my mind. Latest single K.M.T.L. joins that list of BST tracks to have done this. Where did these guys come from??? This new single has a power and energy to it that raises the bar for this form of…

Family Band is definitely not your average, run-of-the-mill three-piece combo. These guys and lady were flat-mates who put together the band in 2023, and have been building up a pretty decent live rep up and around Tāmaki. They like to challenge the listener with a repetitiveness of sound that definitely does that. With a beginning…

Okay, well that was something different. Mia Kelly is the driving force behind Te Whanganui-a-Tara based Japes. This is a more avant-garde sound than a lot you’re going to hear around at the moment, and this is very much music for the introvert who walks among us – by which I mean someone who will…

Ōtautahi is the home of Fijian born CH!EF, real name Ratu Cokanasiga. This guy is a true R & B performer, delivering a rich, Polynesian timbre baritone, smooth like a flat white from Cuba Mall, velvety like something velvet. Bringing a clear, South Pacific influenced touch of reggae to the underlying R & B style,…

I’m an instant fan of Geoff Ong! When It Gets Easy is just on general release and I love it! Or, as I’d be saying if I still lived in Olde Wales, I loves it I does, see. Based out of Tāmaki Makaurau, Geoff is adept at the most uplifting form of indie pop I…

Amiria Grenell has just launched her latest album, The Winter Light. She’s nailed this folk-pop sound of hers, as we find with lead single The Ghost In You. Coming in with a light, soft ballady vibe a la Mary Hopkins (Welsh legend, yay!), Amiria swiftly moves up in energy levels with some great, thick bottom…

About a thousand years ago I worked in the glorious capital for the predecessor of Fonterra, the late, (possibly) great New Zealand Dairy Board. At one point I was seconded for a six week stint with our buddies at the massive Kiwi Dairies principal site at Hawera. This was where I got my love of…

What can one say about Devilskin that ain’t been writ before? Well, while pondering whether Jennie Skulander has come back from Cloud Nine following appearing with Disturbed the other day, I had a listen to their cover of Heart‘s Barracuda and gave myself a few moments to muse on my review. Ann Wilson‘s otherworldly vocal…