There are very few advantages to being embarrassingly behind on my reviews, and the only one which comes to mind is that when I come to listening to something I have often forgotten where it came from, especially […]

Normally, when a band like Lamb of God release a new album, they hit the road and play it anywhere and everywhere. But their self-titled release came out in 2020, and there was a pandemic which prevented them from […]

For anyone interested in folk music then surely Peter Knight needs no introduction, as apart from Maddy Prior he has spent more years involved in Steeleye Span than anyone else. This is essentially a “best of” col […]

Since releasing their debut EP back in 2018, Auckland pop/punk outfit {Melanie} have been making quite a name for themselves in the old-fashioned way of doing things, namely playing anywhere and everywhere, and […]

I have often said, that to me the purest form of music is when a musician is performing acoustically, with no effects whatsoever, just stood on the stage with no room to hide. There is nothing then between the […]

Andrew Featherstone has been a mainstay of the New Zealand music scene for years, running his label/studio Intergalactic Records while for more than 25 years he has been running Battle of the Bands in NZ, as well […]

Thames-based lo-fi alternative indie pop musician {Bevan Mical} is back with his first single since last year’s Exhausting The Muse album. That was his third album, and following on from the success of that, he i […]

Lisa (MNNZ) sent me a YouTube link one day and said, “Have you heard this?”. I was shortly getting back to her saying no I hadn’t but was going to contact the band directly as I could not quite believe what I was […]

Performing with no instruments or studio trickery to hide behind is not for the fainthearted, so probably it of little surprise that it is unusual to find solo artists willing to put themselves out there like […]

To tie in with Gary’s new solo album, ‘Waterside’, Frontiers Music have also released a compilation which looks back at his career outside Ten. Newly remastered format, here we have numbers taken from his album […]

‘Waterside’ is Gary’s first solo album since 2007’s ‘Veritas’ and shows him taking on a lighter side of melodic rock than he undertakes with Ten. It is not totally removed though, and it commences with “All At Onc […]

Here we have the seventh in what is undoubtedly one of the most important series for anyone into Americana folk or bluegrass. For me, each album is a way into a world of which I have little knowledge or […]

Anyone who follows my writings will know how much I love singer Jo Beth Young, who over the last few years has continued to grow and expand her repertoire. The first single from her album ‘Broken Spells’, whi […]

In 1973 I was 10 years old, and the highlight of my musical week was watching Top of the Pops on a Thursday night. Like every other boy my age this was the first time we saw the mop-haired leather-class bass […]

Some albums are intense, some are incredibly hard work and only open up (sometimes, if at all) after a great many plays, and others will never be destined for mainstream radio play as there is nothing there to […]

Here we have the third album from Treppenwitz, recorded in a living room with no separation for the instruments, and there has been little undertaken in the way of post-production, so what you hear is what the […]

Anyone who follows my writing will know that I am deeply in love with this series of albums from Anti-Corp, and feel it is one of the most important sets of releases there are. The concept is simple, instead of […]

Badfinger are probably going to be remembered for several reasons, some good and some tragic, such as being the first non-Beatle act signed to label, writing, and recording the initial version of “Without Y […]

It is safe to say I was not a fan of Enforcer’s studio album released just prior to this live album being recorded, ‘Zenith’, but I must say the live album is much more enjoyable, even though it is way too tongu […]

Following from the success of the ‘San Fernando Beat’ EP, Perdomo (guitar, drums, keyboards) and McKnight (bass, vocals) are back with their second set of six songs. This is yet another power pop rock out and it […]