Four mates from Parliamentary Services in Capital City pub-crawl their way up the country to slam out some high-energy Old-School Punk in front an enthusiastic K Road crowd. Above ground the street is shredded. In the dark pits below ground the DARTZ are shredding.
More from Rev Orange Peel on his three-day immersion in Kiwi Bluegrass!
The third New Zealand Bluegrass festival, held in the absence of international artists, establishes a NZ home for this vital American Roots country with home-grown acts both old and new.
The legendary Kiwi band are in their 49th year and they emerge from their quarantine bubble from some Chelsea Hotel of Ageless Rock Stars to lay down a spirited and heartwarming set of great Power Pop and Rock’n’Roll. Taking care of business, and working overtime.
The 48th Auckland Folk Festival went ahead this year despite some last-minute threats of a lockdown. It was a stunning success due to the quality and vast breadth of styles and genres that we all enjoyed over three days.
The 48th Auckland Folk Festival almost didn’t make it. Nervous times as the progress of coronavirus in Auckland dominated the news. Festival President Nigel Robertson is MC for Sunday night’s Showcase Concert, and it was nervous times right up to Opening Evening on Friday. Part 1 of 2.
The product of the Church and the Crossroads, Carmen and the Devil walking side by side. American Roots music with deep connections to Celtic, Folk and Africa. Up step two troubadours dressed in black. Delaney and Barry may not have a pretty face like that earlier legendary American outfit. Hell, they kind of look scary […]
The Tribute Quartet perform a rousing and compelling musical eulogy to the celebrated visionary and enigmatic underground Rapper MF DOOM. His death was announced just before the New Year by his family.
A debut album that has its heart in Americana and sounds like it has been fed from the same well that Dylan and especially The Band tapped into in the late Sixties in Woodstock, New York. Traditional Irish and Scottish music adding in ingredients of Jazz, Swing and Blues to make it sound simultaneously contemporary […]
Holy Ground is all about the culture and tradition of Rock music, and this album is a grand celebration of all its fine elements and ingredients. The continuing progression of White Revivalist Pentecostal and American Black Baptist Church music. Holy ground absolutely.