by Sean Passmore | Dec 13, 2018 | Album of the Week
At the very heart of The Mavericks joy inducing latin fused country swing is none other than singer, songwriter and showman extraordinaire Raul Malo. One of the most accomplished tunesmiths of his generation, Malo handles big catchy hook laden swinging beats in ways...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 10, 2018 | Album of the Week
All four original Monkees are back (posthumously in Davey Jones’ case) in the shortest time between albums since 1970 (The Monkees Present 1969 and Changes 1970) for the band’s first ever full length Christmas record. Hot on the heels of the critically acclaimed Good...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 3, 2018 | Album of the Week
When faced with the impossibly difficult task of having to follow up one of the finest albums of the decade, Ray LaMontagne soldiered on through the release of Part Of The Light by shamelessly embracing the cosmic stardust of its predecessor, his criminally overlooked...
by Sean Passmore | Nov 17, 2018 | Album of the Week
Ben Howard is a 31-year-old British folk singer/songwriter from the Devonshire/Cornwall area of south western England. For a decade now he has been releasing EPs and long players channelling his own post millennial take on the acoustic British folk music renaissance...
by Sean Passmore | Nov 10, 2018 | Album of the Week
Once an integral part of New Zealand’s award winning noise rock/art punk quartet The Mint Chicks, lead singer Kody Nielson has come a long way from the chainsaw wielding corporate logo destroying stage antics of his past. Legendary for his death defying feats of...
by Sean Passmore | Oct 14, 2018 | Album of the Week
What immediately becomes most apparent when listening to The Voidz for the first time is the unmistakably familiar voice one hears from the outset, the voice that catapulted an unlikely mix of Manhattan prep school boys from their Swiss boarding school beginnings to...
