ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT: Dick Move
Dick Move have officially announced their debut album ‘Chop!’, to be released both digitally and physically on October 16th , 2020 via 1:12 Records. The band have also shared the final single ‘Femoids Attack’ ...
ANNOUNCEMENT: DIE! DIE! DIE!
New single and video 'I Seek Misery' out now
"One of the most prolific bands to emerge out of New Zealand's indie, noise rock, and punk scenes over the last decade" - VICE "Die! Die! Die! could set fire to...
NEW MUSIC: Wing Defence
Wing Defence release long-awaited debut EP FRIENDS
It has been some time in the making but things fall into place for a reason and this July, Adelaide's Wing Defence unleash their debut EP, FRIENDS. A fitti...
NEW MUSIC: The Ghost Inside – New Album
The Ghost Inside, the fifth studio album from metalcore band The Ghost Inside is out today via Epitaph Records.
The self-titled album arrives as the follow-up to the band's 2014 release Dear Youth, which de...
NEW MUSIC: All Time Low – Some Kind Of Disaster
On the 9th of January American pop-punk band All Time Low went completely dark on social media, even going as far as to delete their website. This sent whispers (or should we say screams) across the internet, ...
IN REVIEW: Screaming Females @ The Cook, Dunedin
Photography and words by Sarah Bowden.
New Jersey's Screaming Females hit Dunedin for the last date of a whirlwind New Zealand tour this Saturday. As anyone can tell you, eyes are often focused on Marissa P...
GALLERY: Mermaidens @ The Cook, Dunedin
Photography by Sarah Bowden
With the release of their latest 7" spilt 'You Maintain The Stain' / 'Cut It Open', New Zealand indie rock band Mermaidens played at The Cook in Dunedin on Saturday night. Openi...
IN REVIEW: Alien Weaponry @ Fifty Gorillas, Dunedin NZ
Photos: Sarah Bowden
Fast rising thrash metal kiwis Alien Weaponry are on their first every Australasian tour. The 2016 Smokefree Rockquest winners have are taking the world by storm in 2019, having already...
NEW MUSIC: Simple Creatures ‘Drug’
Header photo: Matty VogelWe all have dreams of someday meeting our heroes. Well Alex Gaskarth, front man for pop-punk icons All Time Low, has taken his dreams one step further and has been working with Mark Ho...
In Review: UNIFY 2018
Words and photography by Shelley Te Haara
UNIFY: A Heavy Music Gathering is a rather new addition to the Australian festival scene and it was very wet to say the least. Just as I arrived, a...
Cameron Boucher of Sorority Noise releases 14 minute track – hell is warm
Cam Boucher is the lead singer of one of my favourite small-time American bands Sorority Noise, and I'm lucky enough that he is continually creating and releasing music without the constraints that come with be...
The Smith Street Band recreate AC/DC Video for their song Shine
Sometimes I get complacent and stupidly think that I couldn't love The Smith Street Band more than I already did, and then they go and pull something like this and I am proven completely and utterly wrong.
T...
In Review: Girlpool – Powerplant
From the high pitched screams in Jane, a song about punching boys in the mouth, to singing about the fears of stepping out of your teenage comfort zone in Plants and Worms, folk punk band, Girlpool, consisting ...