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25/02/2016

Iceberg: Provenance

Nostalgic Kiwi bands recording new albums make important additions to the country’s musical canon and this first album ...

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20/02/2016

Simon Hirst: Shining In Silver EP

This debut EP from Hamilton singer/songwriter Simon Hirst mines the familiar sound of light guitar-based pop that has prevailed ...

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18/12/2015

On Foreign Soil: Joe McCallum

Joe McCallum has been the regular drummer guy in the wave of popularly alternative musicians who have emerged from Christchurch's ...

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16/12/2015

Ekko Park: Playing With Words

Featuring a blindfolded and gagged newspaper reader and clever two-colour printing on its fold out cover, Ekko Park 's new ...

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15/12/2015

Violet Highway: Violet Highway EP

Hailing from west Auckland, Violet Highway's debut EP has everything you could want from a group of pop-rockin' westies, ...

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Fragile Colours: Southern Utopia

Fragile Colours' 'Southern Utopia' is a pop album with many shapes – ambient, rock, country and folk all working together. ...

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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 ...

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MidweekTonic: Running Out Of Time

MidweekTonic land at the top of my list of 2015 for diversity and innovation. The Auckland three-piece have dropped an album ...

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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 ...

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