Here we have another album recorded under the magnolia tree in the rear yard of the Anti-Corporate Music/Black Matter Mastering HQ in Nashville, Tennessee, by owner Dan Emery. Tonight, it was the turn of Joe Wunderle, and it is interesting to hear his thoughts on the...

Linda Moylan is a London-based, Irish-born singer-songwriter, and this was her second full-length album, released towards the end of 2021 (her third is currently in the works). Sadly, I have no details of who plays on this, but given it was produced by Phil Beer of...

Death metal merchants Pathology are back with their second album since their rebirth in 2018 when drummer and founder Dave Astor brought back singer Obie Flett who had previously been in the band back in 2010, along with new members guitarist Dan Richardson and...

The next in this wonderful and important series of albums is by The Resonant Rogues, whose dark Appalachian folk paints a picture of their lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina and on the road. The duo is Sparrow (banjo, accordion) and Keith Smith (guitar),...

Some 14 years on from the somewhat unusual pairing of Plant with American bluegrass-country singer Alison Krauss which saw the release of ‘Raising Sand’ to wide acclaim, the duo came back with ‘Raising The Roof’ which has been nominated for three Grammy’s. While the...

Uncle Watson's Widow is a heavy blues rock band from Winston-Salem, North Carolina and is comprised of Jon Epstein (bass, guitars), Bekkah Moss (vocals), Steve Jones (vocals, guitar, bass), Matt D'Amico (drums) and Steve Mowery (keyboards, bass). I know very little...

When a band has been around as long as Journey, one is never sure what they are going to be like in concert, but on July 31st 2021 at their headline performance at Lollapalooza there is no doubt whatsoever they pulled back the years and took the Chicago crowd on a...

Holy Crime are a relatively new band from Auckland, comprising Benny Richards (guitar, vocals), Tom Anderson (bass, vocals). Jacob Stutton (guitar) and Mat Hinton (drums), with Play Toy being their debut single. Sometimes, just sometimes, one hears a song and...

Due to many reasons, I have been somewhat late to the underground NZ scene but over the last few years have been fortunate enough to meet some incredible people, see some amazing performances, and hear some wonderful music. All of these come together in one man, Adam...

Trommelfell-Records (LC 02040) Germany. 45mins Post Rock ‘Oldfield; styled progressive rock luxuriousness. https://www.the-weever-sands.com https://www.facebook.com/theweeversands. My Rating 90/100 Am I being fussy or what? I say that because, when I was reviewing the...

This single marks a return to original music for Corey Cross for the first time in more then twenty years, and here he has been joined by Anton Harris (drums), Phil Doublet (ukelele, steel guitar), and Greg Mannering (bass, backing vocals). It took me a while to think...

It has been more than a year since I last heard from the Whanganui boys, when I reviewed the single/video Footprintz. This is a song which in some ways has been kicking around for a while as Isaac got the rhythm and riff from jamming in his room and as soon as Andrew...

Taipella Tide is the solo project from Chris Buhler, who is also in {Fin Rah Zel}. The song came to Chris when he was on the beach at San Sebastian, Spain, just swimming and strumming his acoustic. It definitely has that summery feel to it, with the heart of the song...

Miinds came together in 2020, which is probably not the best time for a band to be forming, but they all knew each other from different projects and were soon writing music together, albeit remotely. Loveless is the first song they came up with, and is also their...

In April last year I wandered along to Anthology Lounge to review the winners of the recent Battle of the Bands competition and came away mightily impressed as it felt like I had stepped back in time with a 9-piece soul band with arrangements designed to keep the...

Don’t you love it when extreme bands want their listeners to actually think? That is what we have here with the single from Flowers of Hades which has been released in advance of an EP which is out next year. They describe themselves as modern metalcore, but there is...

It has been a long time since we heard new material from Kylie, but this month she is releasing three new songs in her home country, just in time to be inducted into the Gold Guitar Awards Hands of Fame next year. Twice a winner of the Gold Guitar Awards, three-time...

When I first started listening to this, I felt there had been quite a change in the sound of No Broadcast, and I certainly wonder if this is a new direction for the band or a one-off experiment. It is hard to tell, as although there has been a change in the personnel,...