T-Bone burnt up the Tuning Fork stage this Sunday night in a celebration of Americana and folk music, to usher in America’s Independence Day. Swing and spice, crawfish pie and file gumbo. They answer Waylon Jennings’ poser, Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?
Punk It Up V at the Powerstation is a tribal, drums-beating cold English blood runs hot call-to-arms for Skinheads, Boot Boys, Boot Girls, Rude Boys, Oi’s, New Wavers and even yer Art-Wank Poseurs. You know who you are. So, the Chosen found themselves hosed down with classic Original Punk, which was never contained in specific […]
Jenny Mitchell was told earlier this morning she has just won the APRA award for Best Country Music Song for 2022. So, she was in Hank William’s Home on High heaven when she started her maiden show at the boutique West Auckland music venue.
Steve Hackett delivers an epic extravaganza bursting with treats at Auckland’s Town Hall. Many fans here have waited almost three years for this experience, amidst the carnage that is the pandemic. They stood to applaud throughout the show. They stood to applaud at the end. Progressive Rock at its most triumphant and indulgent.
We Mavericks are Folk duo Victoria Vigenser from Auckland and Lindsay Martin from New South Wales, and tonight at the boutique Art gallery and intimate music venue in Boganville (Auckland’s Wild West), they lay out timeless acoustic Roots music featuring their sophomore album Grief’s a Gardener, released last year.
Tidal Rave, Wellington Indie Pop outfit, drop a very interesting sophomore album that pushes many of the buttons from around the time of the Punk Explosion. Like the stars you see at night, the actual physical elements have long gone but the light continues on. What Pete Townshend really meant when he sang Hope I […]
A Place to Bury Strangers drop a highly enjoyable and easily accessible EP Hologram on us. New York City noise merchants deliver great atmospheric Indie Pop as everything rises up like a slow-building tsunami to wash over us all.
The first impression listening to Thomas Isbister’s brand-new album is Beatles. Specifically, 1966 and the switch to studio artists. Revolver to Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane. Pop music as myriad and quietly subversive. Psychedelic and hallucinogenic. Unsettling but what a nice trip, and at the end you find yourself in a changed world.
A tribute band to the era of Hard Bop arising from East Coast America, the New Bop Quintet have a fling and dance with some of the classic songs and artists of the time and lay out a brace of originals which shine in and amongst the stellar company.
White Chapel Jak are a band for music obsessives. They also take care of business and make sure the partygoers get their money’s worth. Call them a Covers Band, or a Tribute Band. At the core, they are a polished, hard-working unit and they love to stretch out and jam a little.