15/12/2015
B2KDA: Rising
Officially, 'Rising' is album number four from the collective previously known as Batucada Sound Machine, or BSM. But it's ...
READ MORE >Frankie Snake Hands: Sour Cream Is An Underrated Condiment EP
'Sour Cream Is An Underrated Condiment' may be my record title of the year. The MAINZ music students' band music may not ...
READ MORE >Fragile Colours: Southern Utopia
Fragile Colours' 'Southern Utopia' is a pop album with many shapes – ambient, rock, country and folk all working together. ...
READ MORE >Freddy Fudd Pucker: Hourglass Wine
Freddy Fudd Pucker is "a one-boy band who plays a form of folk/thrash". He sounds like a faster version of the Drive-By Truckers ...
READ MORE >Left Or Right: Trippy
Jimi Hendrix, 10CC, Bob Marley and The Beatles walk into a bar in Dunedin and start jamming. Not quite, but Left Or Right ...
READ MORE >Hopetoun Brown: Burning Fuse
If ever a band lived up to the funkiness of their name, Hopetoun Brown is it. The brainchild of Supergroove's horn section ...
READ MORE >Sean Bodley: Pitchblack
Following up 2014's 'Balance' Sean Bodley's fourth album sees the Tauranga local polishing his sound and instrumentation, ...
READ MORE >The Lawful Truth: Contract Basics
In the last couple of Lawful Truth columns we went through the Top 10 legal tips for surviving in the NZ music industry. ...
READ MORE >09/12/2015
Fresh Talent: Heroes For Sale
Adison Whitely (guitar and vocals), Fraser Hunter on drums and Tom Dennison (bass) make up Auckland surf/punk/rock/fuzz/cockrock/garage ...
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