Although Tom Petty was a massive success in the States, he never saw anything like the same in the UK until he partnered with Jeff Lynne and together, they came up with the masterpiece which is Full Moon Fever. I was blown away and had it on repeat the year I started...

I have been a writer for more than 30 years, have written thousands of reviews and literally millions of words, while a publisher has also seen fit to put out four books and ask when the next ones are coming. Yet having been looking through this I feel totally...

{Swallow The Rat} are back with a new single in time for their NZ tour (with {Ripship} in support, which makes a lot of musical sense to me), where they have also brought in Yuko Miyoshi of {Memory Foam} who provides additional lead vocals. This is a tough one to...

Here we have the latest single from the self-confessed “worse band in Auckland”, {Late To Chelsea}. There is only one small thing wrong with the comment, they’re not (either late, or the worst). Late To Chelsea are one of those bands who just have fun on the stage,...

Last night I saw this young band open for one of the biggest bills of the year, and were not phased by it whatsoever, and given what I witnessed then and what I am listening to now, I can see why. They performed this song at the finals of Smokefree Rock Quest two...

Greece Bad Elephant Music https://verbaldelirium.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/VerbalDelirium Rating: A Solid 90/100 Verbal Delirium is an Athens-based Progressive Rock band whose focal point and the main contributor is John Kosmidis AKA Jargon. The formation...

This is the first time I have come across Ōtautahi-based singer/songwriter Deep Water Creek (Matthew Smith), but this single is taken from his forthcoming third album, so I obviously have some catching up to do. Recorded and mixed by Josh Logan at Loho studios, what...

Back in 2018, drummer Will Stairmand was undertaking interviews for Angie's Gunroom Sessions, when he came across a demo by a band called Teraset. He enjoyed it, so arranged an interview with those involved and discovered that it was guitarist Lee Mallett’s project...

I must confess that I know nothing about singer songwriter singer songwriter Jack Robertson apart from the fact he released his debut album Broke and Broken back in 2019, and then released some singles earlier this year. When I think of a singer songwriter, I think of...

Here we have the debut album from Wellington-born and Nelson-raised singer songwriter Reece Milton. As with many other young Kiwi musicians, Reece was involved with Smokefree Rockquest, where his band won their regional heats in 2018. In that same year he won a...

When the punk scene first exploded in the UK back in 1976, I always felt that while Sex Pistols were iconic and many bands followed in their wake, there were others which were way more polished and had so much more to offer and ended up in the scene almost by accident...

I first came across Trivium when I was asked to review their second album, 2005’s ‘Ascendancy’ which just blew me away. A few years later I was fortunate enough to see them headline a gig in Auckland (supported by Whitechapel, what a night) and then went to see...

There is something magical about the vocals of Katharine Blake (Mediaeval Baebes, Miranda Sex Garden), which always manage to evoke incredible worlds, and here she has combined with Michael J York (Coil, Current 93, The Utopia Strong, Teleplasmiste) as The Witching...

I can’t be the only one who thought we would never see another Autopsy album, given it had been eight years since the release of ‘Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves’, but they are back, boy are they back. They may have lost bassist Joe Allen, who has been replaced by...

Progressive Rock / Psychedelia From Italy ‘Wormholedeath’  *2022 Reissue of 2021 album 45 mins Rating 85/100 www.facebook.com/kajoshinofficial Hailing from the city of Padua in Northern Italy, West of Venice, KAJOSHIN  are a four-piece Progressive Rock Band that was...

I first came across Demons of Noon when they opened for the mighty {Beastwars} at Power Station last year, and I came away very impressed indeed by raw sludge-driven doom, and also noted that when they had two female singers come on stage for the last few songs the...

The latest single from New Plymouth outfit Skank Bandit explores themes of doubt, self-belief, and self-control, promoting awareness of the risks of drink driving and challenging people to take responsibility for their actions and choices in life. It is an unusual...

It has been quite a while since we last heard from Hawkes Bay trio Devils Elbow, but here they are back with their latest EP. One thing which is interesting to note is that only Alec Withers (vocals, guitars, percussion) plays on all four tracks, while the threesome...