The Monochrome Set, somewhat memorable for two albums and two singles from their late 70s, early 80’s period, as they trail blazed UK post-punk. The single The Jet Set Junta from their third album Eligible Bachelors was a hipster (before they were called hipsters) badge of honour. Through almost 50 years of break-ups and reformations, […]
Here, three years ago, in Aotearoa, Tamaki Makauarau infact, Ty Segall wowed at the Avondale Hollywood. Then they did it again at Whammy Bar the next night. So, in the wake of 2025’s corker of an album – Possession, show anticipation ran hot. Hotter still with the addition of Japanese garage rockers Guitar Wolf to […]
Rob Zombie is theee Goreman!!! Way back when, his past band White Zombie (with Sean Cummings) exploded with two awesome albums; 1992’s La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One, and 1995’s Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head, Zombie was creating a magnificent melding of no wave, goth […]
AW is Andrew Wilson, one-third of 2000’s formed Ōtepoti band Die! Die! Die!, live, he is usually joined by Tamaki Makaurau musicians Kim Martinengo (Drums) and bassist Morgan Leary (Bass), on THE NERVE, Andrew Wilson took on three roles, vocals, bass and guitar, while Stephan Neville (Pumice & O/PUS) contributed the drums and worked the […]
Poneke Born, Berlin based, duo-band Earth Tongue, aka Gussie Larkin (Guitar & Vocals) and Ezra Simons (Drums & Vocals), third Album – Dungeon Vision, strays a little more from their originator Black Sabbath infested reverberation.
KMFDM, the medium for Sascha ‘Käpt’n K’ Konietzko’s musical machinations, with an ever changing array of fellow musicians, artists and beat merchants, have been creating industrial rock since 1984. A journey that peaked in the 1990s with a quartet of albums: Angst (1993), Nihil (1995), Xtort (1996) and Symbols (1997), selling well into the 100,000s […]
SUMAC is an American/Canadian avant-metal supergenus comprising of Vancouver based Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists), Seattle based Brian Cook (Russian Circles) and Vashon-based Aaron Turner (ex-Isis).
On a whim, thanks to the wonder of the web, Pan Amsterdam turned out to be a musical odyssey. Pan Amsterdam is a construct, an alter ego for Houston born, NYC trained, Jazz trumpeter Leron Thomas, whose resume includes collaborations with Erykah Badu, Mos Def, Robert Glasper, and yes, Iggy Pop.
2026 sees The Damned celebrating their 50th anniversary year of creation, and being the first UK punk band to release a record, New Rose (beating The Sex Pistols Anarchy in the U.K by a month).
In 2015 a band was born. Five Swedes walked into a karaoke bar and a yank was singing a Mariah Carey song. True story! Finally Aotearoa, well Tamaki Makaurau got a Viagra Boys show (two in the end)…a chance to see in the flesh this irreverent post-punk phenomena.
