october/november 2016 Archives

14/12/2016

Fresh Talent: Battlecat

Hamilton’s Battlecat formed in 2015 when metal band The New Kill augmented their line up with guitarist Chris Vallett. ...

An album of originals in the style of Great American Songbook, and like that musical institution the songs here are quietly ...

13/12/2016

Recorded out of the back of a van on the Wellington coast, Nikita Tu-Bryant’s eight track release is about as DIY as it ...

12/12/2016

Looking for Alaska are working towards the release of their self-titled debut. An album this year was not part of the plan ...

Sky Machine is a project by Christchurch’s Brydon Hulse. His debut EP is sparkly and full of synths, a colourful fizz. ...

09/12/2016

When newly established British audio company Aston Microphones set out to design a new vocal recording device for an already ...

07/12/2016

This Deep Thinking bass lesson concerns how two sources of bass in a band can sound big and grunty (is that a word?). I did ...

Andy Richards has been playing music for well over 10 years – a mix of covers and originals, and this is his second ‘solo’ ...

06/12/2016

‘Humid Nights’ is Eva Prowse ’s second solo album, following 2010s ‘I Can’t Keep Secrets’. The two are drastically ...