French For Rabbits are back with their eagerly awaited third album, which is their first for AAA Records (home of Troy Kingi, Lee Martin etc.). Throughout their career the band have been incredibly stable, with […]

Dunedin alt rock jangly indie pop heroes Before The Snooze are back with their debut album, following from the EP which was released a few years back. The lead track of that set, That’s A Fact! is also included h […]

When punk hit the UK in 1976, I loved the high-octane high energy music which came out of the scene and was quite surprised when the adults around me said there was no melody, and it was just a load of noise. The […]

“Colossus” in unsurprisingly used by quite a few heavy bands, even just within America, but this album is the debut from the technical death metal trio hailing from Illinois. The line-up is Steven Chavez (vo […]

Corey Taylor is one of those singers who I feel has never really received the acclaim he so richly deserves, as he is generally thought of as #8 of Slipknot, a foul-mouthed entity who drives the fans crazy with […]

I don’t believe there has been any artwork released for this single, so instead here is part of the cover of ‘Read The Sky’, the album from which it has been taken. It is the first studio album of new mater […]

A few months ago, I came across the debut single from this young Auckland-based singer-songwriter, Sweet Goodbyes, and now Marianne is back with a six-track EP. I thoroughly enjoyed her release gig, and at the […]

I guess I really ought to disclose that as well as writing the press release for Lee’s last EP, and for the album from which this song is taken from (called Gypsy Soul, it is out in February!), but I was also in t […]

Tabula Rasa is the first of three EPs being released by Julian van der Krogt, who wrote the songs, provided the vocals and guitars (and the artwork) while James Cartwright played bass and drums. Originally, he was […]

Inhale is the third single from Taupō based duo {False Heights}, April Pirie (vocals, keyboards) and Ashley Pirie (drums, guitars, vocals). They say they are inspired by a wide range of artists (Jimmy Eat World, […]

{Something Zesty} are back with their fifth single, Footprintz, which sees the vocal debut of Isaac Chamberlain. This sees the duo of Isaac and Andrew Conlon move away from heavy funk they have become renowned […]

Sam Sheppard is probably best thought of as the powering drummer for the likes of {8 Foot Sativa} and {Sinate}, and now he is back with his latest project, Imperial Slave. This time around, as well as providing […]

Here we have the latest single from Nashville-based Jackie Bristow, and no-one coming across this for the first time would realise that she hails not from America but from Gore, a small town towards the bottom of […]

Trevor Bolder was the bass player in Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, Wishbone Ash and Uriah Heep, but passed away in 2013. It was the last band where he will be most fondly remembered, joining initially […]

I clearly remember hearing the debut Unruly Child album nearly 30 years ago and being blown away by their style of melodic hard rock which not only was catchy with great vocals but also kept a definite edge which […]

It doesn’t really seem to matter who is in Accept, everyone knows what they need to do, and off we go with another album. Towards the end of 2018, bassist Peter Baltes announced his decision to leave the band he h […]

Curlys Jewels are a Wellington-based hard rock band comprising singer person, Jel Pollock, Aaron Ludlow (guitar), Andy van der Heyden (bass) and Corey Bell (drums). Over the years they have played with some of the […]

It is safe to say that the debut album from Apollo SteamTrain, which is guitarist/singer/songwriter Brendan McCarthy plus assorted musicians from the Tauranga area, has been quite some time coming. I can count at […]

I first came across Voodoo Bloo at the time of their debut album, Jacobus, which was released towards the end of last year. Back then the band was pretty much ex-{Lucifer Gunne} frontman Rory McDonald, but now he […]

There are times when some music is so personal that the listener feels they are intruding in an area they have no right to be involved with. That is the case here, as Mat and his fiancée suffered the heartbreak […]