This genre is one that usually gets a solid review from me, as it’s a particular favourite of mine. This song is going to join the ranks of solid reviews. Christie, Josh, Olivia and Charlie are the global phenom that is Yumi Zouma, and they are an absolutely heavenly indie pop act. All Kiwis, they…

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…

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.…

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…

And Kiwi pop sensation PRINS is back with another barnstorming guaranteed chart topper! Man I sound like a disc spinner from the old days of radio, but I’m enthused by this single. Due for release this coming Friday, 30th January, Designer is going to make you pay attention. She says about the single: “The song…

Lily Allen. Katie Perry. Sabrina Carpenter. And now Foley, from right here in Aotearoa. Pop at the highest level of professionalism and quality. Foley is duo Ash Wallace and Gabriel Everett. New single Cinematic is out now, and I have to confess I am glad to have been introduced to them. We’ve got an irresistibly…