Ahhh and the Ska lads have done it again! This is fabuloso! Skarpakazoo has a new single out on Friday 26th Jan with the delightful title Piss Away. Recorded at Tauranga’s Fragile Colours studio, they’ve produced another absolute foot-stomper of a single. With the message being enjoy yourself but don’t let it take you and…

How would life be if the Beastie Boys combined with the Lightning Seeds? If the hip-hop beats sitting beneath heavy-ass guitars giving off a percussive snarl, pseudo-arrogant and in your face for the sake of seeing your face retreating out of their space, with thundering bass and a vocal resonating with indie class morphing into…

From their sophomore album Still At Large, HEAVY Metal act Imperial Slave brings us their new single Exterminate. Consisting of vocalist Sam Sheppard, guitar players Isaac Lundy and Anthony Hati, bass player Achilles Manley and drummer Matt Wright, these guys bring you an absolute roar through the genre. I’m open about my musical tastes, and…

Whoooooooaaaaa, and they have done it AGAIN for me. Taranaki’s swamp-blues combo The Mons Whaler has released new single Blood, and I am horizontal with chill-out factor. Absolutely sublime song! I’m tempted to end THERE, frankly, but I’ll elaborate. We’ve got a laid-back vibe to the song as it starts. A steel guitar sound, oozing…

The new single is out from Kirikiriroa’s duo Bird Machine. Luke and Jenna have brought us a multi-genre spanning work that is deeply thought out lyrically and performed with technical precision and hearts on sleeves – as they always do with their writing. It’s been great to see the duo has been playing some good…

Okay. I’m a Welsh bloke. Born, raised, still got the accent. I am scratching my noggin trying to think of a more Welsh name than Evan Rhys though! This multi-instrumentalist from New Plymouth certainly means business, and I’ll tell you for why. There’s not many who I have known who would engage man-who-is-everywhere-right-now, the infallible…

And the Auckland heavy rock band factory delivers up another elite quality act in Swerve City. Man these guys pack a punch! Consisting of Kev Ashby, JP Carroll, Adam Forsdyke and Shannon Coulomb, we have ourselves a classic four piece that certainly delivers on the classic rock sound. I’ve not got the info on where…

Welly band This Silent Divide is a major, directed force building in the New Zealand music industry. These guys need to get on the road and dust off the passports, because places like Melbourne, Los Angeles, London, Glasgow, Dublin, Buenos Aires – the rock centres – will lap these guys up. I’m reviewing a remix…

I mentioned on another review that I really like Ska music. I had an in-depth intro to it courtesy of a brother wayyyyy back in the mists of time. I got to listen to early Selecter, The Beat, The Specials, Bad Manners. And man, did it resonate! Music created by a combination of cultures, urban…

Ohhh, and the ‘Naki has done it for me again. The Mara return with a single so unlike their previous one I would think it was a different band, if I didn’t know better. This is a true talent. New single Candy Sun is a dreamy, ethereal Brit-pop ode written by frontman Jordan Jones. From…