Ambient Light Singles Club: March 2022
Monthly Feature by Tim Gruar, Bridget Herlihy & Doug Peters. Welcome back to the second edition of the Ambient Singles Club. Our inbox has been pretty full this month as a many artists emerge out from under their lockdown rocks and braveContinue Reading
Album Review: Jackie Bristow – Outsider
Jackie Bristow – Outsider (Independent) Reviewed by Rob Harbers. There exists, out beyond the ken of many of us, a sizeable camp of “NZ artists not many New Zealanders know exist”. Among former residents of that enclave are numbered CrowdedContinue Reading
Album Review: Tears For Fears – The Tipping Point
Tears For Fears – The Tipping Point (Concord) Reviewed by Bridget Herlihy. On the thirty-seventh anniversary of the release of the critically acclaimed ‘Songs From The Big Chair’, Tears For Fears dropped ‘The Tipping Point’, an album that has apparentlyContinue Reading
A New Kind Of Honesty: A Jamie McDell Interview
JAMIE MCDELL: A New Kind Of Honesty An interview by Bridget Herlihy. Jamie McDell started making waves when she released her debut album ‘Six Strings and a Sailboat’ in 2012 when she was only 16 years old. Inspired by anContinue Reading
Flexing A Different Muscle: A Lawrence Arabia Interview
JAMES MILNE of LAWRENCE ARABIA: Flexing A Different Muscle An interview by Tim Gruar. Believed by the artist to be ‘the latest and best of a recent plague of anniversary vinyl re-release tours’ Lawrence Arabia has decided to ‘do’ hisContinue Reading
Foo Fighters announce surprise Geelong Concert
In a coup for the state of Victoria, Australia, 12-time Grammy Award-winning US rockers Foo Fighters will perform a one-off concert, and the first ever live music show at Geelong’s GMHBA Stadium in ONE WEEK. Foo Fighters will be joinedContinue Reading
Album Review: Forenzics – Shades And Echoes
Forenzics – Shades And Echoes (Warner Music) Reviewed by Tim Gruar. Tim Finn and Eddie Raynor are stepping back into the limelight with a project that steals from the past and brings it into the present. It’s their new colabContinue Reading
Album Review: Black Country, New Road – Ants From Up There
Black Country, New Road – Ants From Up There (Ninja Tune) Reviewed by Sam Smith. After delivering one of the best albums of last year in the form of ‘For the First Time’, Cambridgeshire post-punk group Black Country, New RoadContinue Reading
Julia Deans, Maraekakaho NZ, 2022
Julia Deans 16th February 2021 Maraekakaho Hall, Maraekakaho, New Zealand. Review by Rob Harbers, photography by Andrew Caldwell. Silence. Respect. Appreciation. Engagement. Captivation. Not concepts you may be accustomed to associate with a typical gig, but these are the qualitiesContinue Reading