Lauren Pondes is PONZ, a Tāmaki Makaurau based muso and DJ. She’s made a name for herself across the D & B scene in the last few years and has worked with a number of big names, dropped some quality stuff and seen her star rise on several continents. New single Fantasies is a step…

Katie Everingham’s Dateline brings us new single Be Good, and man o man this song is an absolute FLEX! New album It’s All Downhill From Here is out on 5th September on vinyl (yay!) and you can find this track on there when it comes out, for a listen to recorded music as it’s supposed…

Country duo Rowdy’s Rose is comprised of couple Rosie and Blair Shaw. These guys from Waikato kicked off their career during the dark days of the pandemic by releasing live performance tracks on YouTube, and it’s taken – and continues to take – them to the home of Country, the USA, where their star is…

I do enjoy getting a Blake single to review. This artist is a thoughtful and inventive lyricist, driving a narrative that allows one to open up one’s own inner voice to a subconscious chat with itself about what one has just listened to. By this I mean Blake gets you thinking and her lyrics have…

What a thoughtful guy Kyle Sattler is. Not only has this new single Surfing The Meme Machine by his alter-ego/solo act We Will Ride Fast provided Flash-Trax‘s Four Hundredth post in our twelve months in operation, but he’s also deeply pulled apart the phenomenon of the Meme, one of the signature symbolisms of our time.…

The Boondocks are making a huge name for themselves throughout Aotearoa, and no wonder! For a band made up essentially as our very own White Stripes, Scott and Branden are delivering quality heavy music of the highest order, on repeat. And are, waaaayyyy heavier than the aforementioned Stripes. New single Sticks And Stones is out…

I hadn’t listened to Silk Cut before I got the review enquiry for their newly released eponymously named album. Lead single is Turning The Whole World On, and I am not surprised that they chose this one, because it’s bloody brilliant! Consisting of lead vocalist/guitars/keys player Andrew Thorne, guitarist and BVs purveyor Justin McLean, bass…

Taranaki comes at me again, and again I am enchanted. Crystal’s new single Westward is, in my view, her best one yet. Complete with a promo vid filmed on the coast of the western North Island of Aotearoa at Awakino, north of the ‘Naki, Crystal brings us an ethereal number suffused with a lilting soprano…

Rising star Jack Moser, Tāmaki Makaurau chap that he is, brings us an ambient, almost psychedelia-infused track called Where You Are. Driven by gentle keys and a lo-fi intensity rhythm section, this is a pop single with nice commercial sensibilities. Jack Moser has a great voice. You can feel it coming from the bottom of…

Christchurch Country lady Miranda Easten sure knows how to write ’em! Fresh off her co-headliner nationwide tour, Miranda releases Shade Of Black as the promo single for her new album Concrete & Honey, which drops at the end of this month. Miranda‘s warm, lilting soprano has the precise timbre for a country music vocal. It’s…