Swallow the Rat kicked off their Aotearoa tour tonight, releasing a new EP – Face Unpopular, and also announcing an 18-date tour of Europe in September. With fellow Tamaki Makaurau post-punker Memory Foam on the bill, an evening of riffs, rhythms and raciousness lay ahead for 13th Floor Reviewer Simon Coffey.
Swedish group Death And Vanilla, aesthetically, chronically, and craftily, sit somewhere, as creators, drawing on genres ranging from krautrock, enoism and DIY electronica. The (core) three members Anders Hansson, Magnus Bodin, Marleen Nilsson have been creating together since the 2010’s, drawing on (not exclusively) an (inferred) love of vintage film & TV.
Welsh post-hardcore trio mclusky have gone through a lot of bassists, they are on their fourth iteration. And of the original trio, only Andy “Falco” Falkous (vocals, guitar) remains, alongside 2003 inductee drummer Jack Egglestone and 2014 newbie Damien Sayell (vocals/bass).
Cold Ceiling aren’t new, the group evolved from artful and moody Poneke entity Plaines, who released a nifty self-titled cassette of material back in 2019, Then, being self-aware, changed their name to Cold Ceiling, and in 2022 released a debut extended EP Exsanguinate & Speak in a Dim Cave which kind of sits/sats (think New Orders Movement) as […]
Both Salt Water Criminals and Awning have just released new nga waiata online. I Believe in Dog is by Salt Water Criminals and Rabbit is by Awning. Both bands are imports, Salt Water Criminals from Ōtepoti and Awning from Poneke, Both bands played (and wowed) at the inaugural Junk Festival last year…. And both bands have members intersecting with each other, and other […]
An interesting combination for a Raapa/Wednesday Po/night at Whammy Bar, C. Zukey with his dream pop comparisons to The National, and Arahi, Silver Scroll Nominee and wave-maker with his 2022 debut EP Revelator, full of melancholic melodies and harmonics.
Melvins 1983 refers to a band lineup that includes originator drummer Mike Dillard and King Buzzo (Buzz Osborne); they’ve had a few releases already. But for Thunderball, Osborne brought onboard British, Bristol-based experimental noise merchants Ni Maitres, as well as abstract electronicist Void Manes, who they toured with in 2019, and collaborated with on 2023’s […]
50 years! Well the genesis was there in 1976, however their first live show wasn’t until 1978. But really, that’s just splitting hairs (pun intended) Bad Manners were a 100+ weeks feature in the British Singles Charts in the early 1980’s, with their take on two-tone and ska. While the onward decades have seen breakup, […]
Some 20 years since she first made her Aotearoa concert debut, European maven Mary Ocher returned with last night to once again, push the envelope in Tamaki Makaurau.
British band Black Country, New Road are a fairly recent phenomena, formed in Cambridge by a group of classically trained students in 2019 who released two albums before band leader/frontman and guitarist Isaac Wood abruptly departed four days before the release of their sophomore effort Ants From Up There.
