A Piece of Me feels like a celebration and, dare I say it, a little bit of a relief for singer songwriter Sandy Mill. This is the first time she has stepped up to the microphone in her own right and taken the spotlight, and in my opinion it’s about time. You may not immediately recognise […]
You know you need to take a second look at your musical choices when you finally give in to ‘the Tonight chorus’ – a soaring hand-on-heart chorus beginning with the word “Toniiiiight”. It is one of popular musics’ strongest signifiers of blandness, and it’s exactly what we get on Counting Sheep, the opening track of […]
Parquet Courts’ new album, Wide Awake! is due later this month, but today you can hear a new track, Mardi Gras Beads.
In December 2017, Wellington-based ambient producer Mantle (George Johnston) released his fourth EP A Sandcastle, A Wave and it’s taken me this long to process the quiet brilliance of this latest offering.
Tickets to Kendrick Lamar’s Auckland show at Spark Arena on Thursday, July 19 went on sale at midday today selling-out at meteoric speed – 24 minutes! Due to demand from Lamar’s fans, Live Nation has confirmed a second and final Auckland show on Friday, July 20 at Spark Arena.
Janelle Monáe’s new album Dirty Computer is firmly rooted in Sex and Politics and I love it. For months, I have been wondering how and what would it take to outdo and outperform Monáe’s Electric Lady in 2013. As I watched and listened to each new single, my apprehension grew until I finally heard Dirty Computer in its […]
Three years ago, Texan soul man Leon Bridges arrived on the scene with a beautiful retro soul album Coming Home which took things back to basics in a glorious fashion. For his second album Good Thing, Bridges has undertaken a massive transformation moving away from Sam Cooke and Otis Redding as primary influences towards a more contemporary […]
2018 sees the genre Trap, one developed in the late 1990s to early 2000s from Southern hip hop in the US, still exerting its hold and remaining loud and dominant.
Honeycomb is the new offering from Auckland’s Dead Little Penny.
The hype was real, but very little else was. Cleveland rapper Machine Gun Kelly’s packed out show had flashes of energy, showmanship and a fantastic backing band. However, this was balanced out by his limited technical skill and the jumbled array of musical pastiches that made up his set list.
