Mako Road release their debut album close to four years from their first single. They make it a good one. The Cantabrian-to-Wellington quartet have an immediately familiar Pacific Dub Reggae signature to their music, but they branch out and expand from there.
Mako Road celebrates their new album Stranger Days at the Powerstation with No Cigar as an opener. Not a soul entered without their dancing shoes, and none left without a catchy melody stuck in their heads.
It’s the launch of the 13th Floor Uptown Lowdown!!! A brand new weekly web-series with Marty Duda and Jemilah Ross-Hayes. They’re covering the local music scene, reporting on concerts they’ve been to, new music, previews, exclusive interviews and new music recommendations.
Guitarist Connor McErlich is here to tell us about the new Mako Road album, Stranger days, due out this Friday.
What better way to spend a Sunday in April than by Surfing On Mars with Mako Road.
Two years ago, we played to 400 people in Whakatane. Tonight, we are playing to 17,000. Joel Shadbolt, lead singer and guitarist for L.A.B. is grateful and justifiably proud tonight as New Zealand’s premier Fusion Reggae band deliver a stunning and triumphant performance for a truly appreciative and buzzing Auckland crowd.
Mako Road are singing The Beatles’ Come Together towards the end of the show. Increasing its rhythmic thrust with a Reggae backbeat. A second sell-out show and a night of vibrant and superbly executed Indie Pop from them and their two support acts.
Raglan’s renowned Soundsplash Festival will celebrate its 20th birthday in style in January 2021, when it returns with a legendary line-up. Just announced in the first line-up for the Raglan festival are headliners Fat Freddy’s Drop, Ladi6, Macky Gee, Mako Road and Montell2099.
Indie-rock outfit and festival favourites MAKO ROAD have announced a run of headline dates across New Zealand for November 2020, bringing their hazy summer psych, pop & groove infused tunes to play some of their biggest shows yet at Wellington’s Meow, Christchurch’s James Hay Theatre and Auckland’s Powerstation.