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 as launching it internationally. If that wasn’t enough,...

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 is bringing us into 2022 with a song of hope. “Maybe this...

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 hearing. A short while later I was talking with Nathan...

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 that. Possibly the one form of “popular” music where it can...

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 albums ‘Precious Ones’, ‘Veritas’, ‘Once and Future Kings Parts...

‘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 Once It Feels Like I Believe” and some lovely piano from...

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 understanding, as generally I have never previously come across...

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’, which should be out later this year, shows her looking back to...

US Band from Washington DC 72 mins amulettheband.com https://www.facebook.com/amulettheband Rating 80/100 An Observation, if only based on the dark mysterious (yet very pretty) appearance of lead singer ‘Stephanie Stryker, of Washington DC-based band ‘Amulet’. One...

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 player from Detroit, who had hit after hit with “Can the...

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 attract the masses. Then there are albums like this one,...

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 musicians would have heard as they improvised together....

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 having the musician in the studio they are recorded...

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 You”, as well as having hits such as “Come and Get It”....

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 tongue in cheek. Imagine Spinal Tap, Steel Panther, Raven and...

Glass Onyon CD 45.46 mins https://www.discogs.com/master/431401-Craft-Craft www.glassoyon/facebook Rating 75/100  The Enid could be considered to be a band almost 90% or more classical music orientated. In fact, tending so far towards the right, that for some...

‘Dave Hulatt’ UK Artist From Stoke On Trent Solid Air Music Progressive Rock Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC. 53:38mins Merry Go Round | Road Trip (bandcamp.com) Road Trip | Facebook Rating 85/100 ‘Dave...

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 is almost as if time stopped in LA back in the early...