Format: CD, Album Country: Australia Time 55:6 Original Release 2009 Private Press Reissued 2021 http://www.hazardsofswimmingnaked.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/hazardsofswimmingnaked/ Style: Post Progressive Rock It seems, that these days, the catalogue of...

Epictronic records 40:32 Home - Lee Ainley's Blues Storm bluesstorm.co.uk facebook.com Rating 80/100 Although, not yet a household name in rock circles, Lee Ainley’s Blue Storm are certainly one of the UK’s best blues-based bands currently treading the boards. An...

BGO Records  Country Rock and Blues www.bgo-records.com https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=bgo%20records CD 1 44:50    CD2  45:04 Rating 75/100 This is, on the whole, a fairly interesting double-album re-release from BGO Records featuring the 1970s band “Catfish...

UK Heavy Foot Label CD 61:36 mins cairorocks.com www.facebook.com/cairorocks Rating 80/100 “Cairo” formed in 2016 is the brainwave of Rob Cottingham keyboard maestro and former member of UK Progressive Band “Touchstone”. Their debut album entitled “Say” replicates, to...

Ravenhall were formed by guitarist Joe Ravenhall and singer Chris Brebner in 2015. They were both already veterans of the Auckland scene and wanted to perform music which concentrated on the power of acoustic guitar, wonderful vocals, plus some gentle electronic...

On Tick is the brainchild of brothers Brendan (vocals and drums) and Aidan O'Loughlin (vocals, guitar), and was formed from the ashes of their previous musical outfit, Evil Tomato, who began as a band in 2012. They came across 5-string bassist Matt Hammond when they...

Glass Throne are an Auckland-based power trio comprising Justin Robinson (lead vocals, bass, guitar), Owen McKibbin (guitar, organ, backing vocals) and Daniel Cutfield (drums, percussion, backing vocals). I have managed to catch them play live a few times over the...

Power The Light is Max Roskilly, an 18-year-old musician who is based in Auckland, and has been self-releasing music for the last four years already, including the album Blueprints a while back. This is his second single in recent months, following on from Skys where...

There is a long history of band members using pseudonyms, with Ramones probably being the most famous, and here we have a band who use pseudonyms for their pseudonyms, so we have Cheese (Joey Provolone), Tomato (Ryley Base), Wheat (Beef Richards), Mushrooms...

Formed in 2018, Wellington-based melodic rock band {This Silent Divide} comprise Shaun Jones (vocals, guitar), Kieran Williams (lead guitar, backing vocals), Peter Stitt (bass, backing vocals), and Sunil Jolly (drums). Lucinda is the first single from their...

Spren is the latest release by Stealphish, the project run by multi-instrumentalist Josh Barker. Josh is well-known as a guitarist, and first came to prominence with the metalcore band Incarnium, where he wrote most of the material, and over the next ten years they...

Last December I was fortunate enough to see Alien Weaponry at the Power Station, and their support that night was Hamilton band Seas of Conflict. There were loads of fans there wearing their shirts, they had great material and presence, and even chipping his tooth in...

Back in 2017, Reija released a drums/piano/bass album called ‘Reflections’, with pianist Nitai Hershkovits and bassist Pau Lligadas. Here he has returned to the same format, but this time around he has brought in José Manuel Posada "Popo" (electric bass) and José...

When I reviewed Amber’s previous album, ‘Pure Imagination’, I said that she had a wonderful voice, yet the album did not really work for me, and here I am listening to her first Christmas release and thinking the same thing. One thing that put me off was the contrived...