Now this is Bluegrass Incarnate! Taranaki’s wonderful Turkey The Bird continues to get me slappin’ my thigh at their authentic, organic, stripped-back Cajun-inspired sound. New single Stone Wall Creek is a complete delight for any fans of the genre AND fans of the band. We’ve got banjos, I think some mandolin (?), guitars, some of…

Written By Wolves is definitely a growing force at the grown-ups table in Aotearoa’s music scene. This band is claiming ever expanding levels of kudos and a burgeoning support that’s elevating them to the top very quickly indeed. Their Sophomore album The Lighthouse is about to drop, marked by a show on 2nd August at…

Archie Orbell (drums), Clarke West (guitar), Henry McConnell (vocals), and Otis Murphy (bass), make up the foursome from Wanaka called Powder Chutes. And whooooah, do we have some heavy rockers on our hands here! This band is already making huge waves in the Aotearoa music scene and overseas. They have very definite fans in Alien…

Now this fella Jason McIver and I go wayyyyyyy back, all the way to the mid 2000’s in fact when I was still a pro muso plying my wares on the circuit in Central Wellington’s vibrant live scene of the day. A young, talented chap used to play a lot of the bars I played.…

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…