While Tamaki Makaurau may have lost a mighty Totara of live music venues several years ago, The Kings Arms Tavern. We are living in a post-covid time of an abundance of cozy, small and intimate venues: 605 Morningside, Cupid, Goblin, Big Fan, Small Gods, The Button Factory, Audio Foundation, are a few, and the latest […]
Alien Weaponry enlisted the help of fellow metallers Shepherds Reign (once again) to fill tonight’s venue, The Powerstation with t-shirts, black t-shirts, a sea of t-shirts with band names ranging from Lamb of God, to Motorhead, Pearl Jam to The D4 and even Accept! Metallers dominated as tangata of all cultures gathered to hear (blackened) […]
Japanese, Tokyo based Jet Rock ‘n’ Roll trio Guitar Wolf have been traversing across Aotearoa’s nga motu over the last week and a half, blasting holes in reality at reputable (and disreputable) venues including the internationally famous Under The Bridge soapbox in Tauranga.
As the band embarks on their ‘final and last-ever tour’, no, wait, that was in 2023, this is the Fifty Years In Black Anniversary Tour! But sarcasm aside, fans gathered once again to hear not just crowd-pleasers but also the echoes of their shared musical history.
The punkier darlings of the 90’s shoegaze underground, Swervedriver, who were formed in 1989 by schoolmates Adam Franklin and Jimmy Hartridge, split in 1998, reformed in 2008, but haven’t released anything new since 2018’s Future Ruin, have gone back to their future.
Los Angeles Industrial Electro Metal group HEALTH haven’t visited our shores since 2016, previously here in 2010 ()where they played to maybe 20 people at the now defunct Transmission Room).
Last in Aotearoa 2022, though a constant gardener (visitor) to Australia, since 2015, JPEGMAFIA has been releasing his vision, a synthesis of post-20th century hip hop & rap with ‘other’ influences from Kanye West to Radiohead and even 70’s UK Industrial provocateurs Throbbing Gristle. It’s his appropriation of ‘other’ that saw him title his first release, […]
Deep Sea Diver is the creative project of Seattle-based husband and wife team Jessica Dobson and Peter Mansen (drums) since 2005. Dobson has played guitar with alt and indie royalty, from Beck to Shins to Conor Oberst to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Billboard Heart is the band’s first on Sub Pop, but their fourth since […]
Perchance! In this scribe’s (13th Floor Reviewer – Simon Coffey) opinion, tonight’s show at The Hollywood in Avondale, by lauded California entity Osees may have achieved ‘Gig-o-the Year’ status, whilst we are barely 14% into 2025.
As the guitarist maestro Brian Purington from Swallow The Rat said as we drank fine beverages and ate magnificent Japanese bar food at Acho’s on K’Rd. “How often do you get to see a waycool punk/folk band from Japan in a New Zealand Japanese bar?” AlkaSilka are on the weekend’s bill to play with The […]
