I can’t tell you much about this band, as even the gospel which is Encylopaedia Metallum does not know who played on this their debut EP which was released towards the end of 2020. What I do know is that the b […]

Sam is back with his new single, which finds him taking quite a different approach to Where We’ll Go, which also featured Mena Wilde. Whereas he normally sits quite happily within alt country, here we see him […]

{Vera Ellen) (Girl Friday, Maple Syrup) is back in Wellington after some time in Los Angeles, where she wrote most of the material which can now be found on her debut for Flying Nun Records. Written over the space […]

For anyone who has come across Bevan’s single, Weekend, we now have an album which is very similar in style and approach to that song, which is one of the 11 songs in the set. When I reviewed that previously, I s […]

The other night I got a notification to say there was a new episode of The Distortion Transmission available on YouTube (subscribe to the Muzic.net.nz channel if you haven’t already), so I settled back to see w […]

There is no doubt that Shihad are the Kiwi rock band who should have broken America 20 years ago, and if it wasn’t for a series of unfortunate events such as the attack on the Twin Towers, which caused the band t […]

Although Iveta & Simone have been around for a few years, this single is the first time I have come across them. When it commenced, I felt we were in for some sort of electronic dance music, but I soon realized […]

Some time back I received this album from Grandmother Corn, but when I came to review it, the band seemed to have all but disappeared from the face of the earth, with links no longer working. Luckily for me, Olav […]

This 2016 triple CD set features 41 tracks, with performances by Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Jr., Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, John Mayer, Willie Nelson, Carlos Santana, James Taylor, Joe […]

There is no doubt in my mind that ‘The Magnolia Sessions’ series of albums are one of the most essential, vibrant, and so damn enjoyable releases out there. The concept is very simple, in that a performer is rec […]

Whenever I see the names George Lynch and Jeff Pilson together then one word springs immediately to mind, Dokken. Together with Don Dokken and Mick Brown, the quartet were a force to be reckoned with some stunning […]

The Rocky Bay Midnights are a Waiheke Island-based group who first started some three years ago when Meredith Wilkie (vocals, percussion) and Kyla Dyresen (keyboard/piano) were both independently looking for […]

It is not often that a band can say they have had the same line-up for more than 10 years, but Auckland metal act Downfall of Humanity can claim just that. Daniel Carleton (lead vocals), Alex Carleton (guitars, […]

Speed the Plough’ –Before and After Silence (2021)

58:47mins  Available on CD in USA only otherwise digitally from Bandcamp

Rating 80/100

I remember an occasion when thumbing through some boxes of seco […]

Sydney-based avant-garde rock combo Pirate have announced they will re-release their 2008 self-titled debut EP as part of the Bird’s Robe Records 10th anniversary series.

The band are perhaps known by some f […]

They may have disbanded in 2009 after seven years and three albums, but Wellington-based {OdESSA} are back. Given that lyricist/vocalist Matthew Pender had been living in London for an extended period, it was […]

Aotūroa is a new project from Tom Scrase, one of Aotearoa’s leading drummers, who performs with the likes of dDub, Corrella and in the percussion ensemble Strike! Percussion. Brothers Part I: Spirit is taken from […]

Moonflower are one of those really rare bands, where the drummer is also the lead singer. They are normally described as being an incredibly tight outfit heavily inspired by 60’s and 70’s soul/rock and blues, but […]

Very few bands were able to complete a full tour in 2020, due to obvious reasons, and I am not aware of many live albums recorded during that period, but here is an exception to the rule. This was the set the band […]

Some three years on from the release of 2017’s, ‘Totenritual’, Belphegor have gone back into the studio to re-record the song Necrodaemon Terrorsathan” and make it available as a single. At the same time, they […]