23/05/2016
‘Way back in 2011, Threat.Meet.Protocol thought they were pretty original. Being a combo consisting of just bass and drums ...
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This year's winners of the NZ Jazz Awards in Tauranga were Phil Broadhurst and Callum Allardice. Awarded on Easter weekend ...
READ MORE >17/12/2015
With a few more radio hits it could be the album story of the century – well two centuries actually, given that it was ...
READ MORE >15/12/2015
Fragile Colours' 'Southern Utopia' is a pop album with many shapes – ambient, rock, country and folk all working together. ...
READ MORE >Following up 2014's 'Balance' Sean Bodley's fourth album sees the Tauranga local polishing his sound and instrumentation, ...
READ MORE >02/11/2015
We’ve been dancing happily to them for a decade but now Batucada Sound Machine is no more, the band instead formally acronymed ...
READ MORE >15/06/2015
Now on their sixth record and with most recent addition Blair Williams (drums) providing some youthful enthusiasm, The B-Side ...
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Liberated Squid, the brainchild of Mike Baxter and a studio project up until now, the intent is clear from track one of this ...
READ MORE >12/11/2014
Phil Rudd has, of course, spent most of the last 20-odd years as drummer for one of the world’s most enduring rock’n’roll ...
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