20/08/2014
Checaine: Turn The Stone
Formed in 2011 with a core of vocalist Fraser Coombes, Regan Aspden (guitars) and Billy Dickson (bass), Hamilton quartet ...
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The Gary Harvey Band: Ghost Dance
Kiwi blues can at times be an oxymoron. Anything missing the spirit of its North American home is going to lack much of what ...
READ MORE >15/07/2014
Ashei: Shaken Out of Boredom
Newly-minted Christchurch rock act Ashei released a strikingly confident three-song taster back in 2008, the strong vocals ...
READ MORE >09/07/2014
Model Train Wreck: Model Train Wreck
Model Train Wreck’s bio describes the band as, “…a mutant swinging love-child of David Lynch and Imelda May. A brew ...
READ MORE >27/06/2014
Troika: zero-one EP
Troika are an experimental rock three-piece from Christchurch, though on the evidence of this four-track EP you could easily ...
READ MORE >10/12/2013
Fresh Talent: Sweet Leaf
Sweet Leaf are Christchurch's latest offering to the smorgasbord of top-quality NZ reggae fusion acts, active since (and ...
READ MORE >Fresh Talent: Mice On Stilts
Mice on Stilts are a band blessed in many ways. Since their first gig in August 2012, the seven-piece band have become a ...
READ MORE >15/11/2013
Tom Larkin’s In The City
It was back in NZM’s ninth issue, December 1989, that NZM first covered a Wellington speed metal act then called Shihaad. ...
READ MORE >29/10/2013
Fresh Talent: Fire At Will
Fire At Will was spawned in 2010 from the ashes of My Asylum after singer Caleb Dillner left and the group needed ...
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