Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain (Fat Possum Records) Reviewed by Mike Thornton. Let’s just get straight to the point, here. This is a terrific album. It’s country in style, it’s folk in content, and it’s borderline gospelContinue Reading
Boom! Boom! Deluxe – Boom! Boom! Deluxe (Bear Family Records) Reviewed by Mike Thornton. Take a good dose of Country and Western twang, a little R&B soul, combine with a driving Rock & Roll sound and you have the ingredientsContinue Reading
So Below – II (Independent) Reviewed by Bridget Herlihy. So Below’s (aka. Madeline North) ascent from relative obscurity to international recognition and acclaim has been steady over the couple of year. The proudly Kiwi chanteuse’s latest offering comes in theContinue Reading
The Mockers – Live At The Powerstation (Independent) Reviewed by Mike Thornton. It’s a little over a year since the recording of this album from The Mockers, and at that time it had been a full three decades since thisContinue Reading
Scorn Of Creation – Scorn Of Creation (Deadboy Records) Reviewed by Kate Taylor. Wielding brutal solos and chaotic blood-ripped vocals in their bag of tricks; Wellington’s Scorn of Creation march all over your face with their vitally heavy self-titled debutContinue Reading
Turbonegro – RockNRoll Machine (Burger Records) Reviewed by Doug Peters. It’s been a long time between drinks for the Denim and Scandinavian Leather clad fans of the Norwegian deathpunk band Turbonegro – RockNRoll Machine being their first album in fiveContinue Reading
Starcrawler – Starcrawler (Rough Trade Records) Reviewed by Bridget Herlihy. To be labeled as the band that is reinvigorating rock n roll is an accomplishment in itself, but to have earned such an accolade on the strength of a debutContinue Reading
KINGS – Chapter One (DRM NZ) Reviewed by Kate Taylor. No pressure for Kings on his release of Chapter One; with a super positive response to his 2016 self titled debut EP, a collection of high-profile international artist support slotsContinue Reading
BULLETBELT – Nine Centuries (Headless Horseman) Reviewed by Kate Taylor. Bulletbelt are one thing and one thing only; completely dedicated to bringing the most heavy, very best metal they can, in all aspects of what they share with their audience.Continue Reading