South African born, New Zealand based Lee Martin brings us her latest single Feel. This is a great acoustic based track that captures a specific fan base right in the sweet spot. I shall endeavour to elaborate… We have a soft, warm acoustic guitar, picked instead of strummed, sitting atop a creamy chocolatey bottom end…

Harry Charles brings us his new single Great Pages, from his album Movement, which has been available since May 2025. I’ve been given the full version plus a cut-back radio edit to review. Harry has honed his talent and experience, and clearly drawn a slice of his audio influence from, the Bohemian nightlife of underground…

Oooooohhh smooth! Tāmaki Makaurau based TiGER is bringing his new single Chameleon out this coming Friday, 6th February 2026 – and if slow, seductive, sultry, compelling soul/R &B is your cup of tea, you my friends need to mark this on your calendar. In a breathtaking display of top tenor breaking into a full voiced…

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…