November is New Zealand Blues Month. Why not? I was thinking about the recently-minted Blues Roots & Grooves Festival in Palmerston North and I reckon it would... Read More

Musicians tend to do a bit of everything - but not Mike Garner. Particularly in a place the size of Tauranga you'll find most musicians have played a broad range... Read More

This week - a couple of live shows. There's a blues afternoon at the end of the month but, first, a fella coming to Katikati who needs no introduction. So what... Read More

There is, as is often noted, a lot of music out there. Exactly how much is open to speculation... For a while now people have been touting figures from Spotify... Read More

I've got a bunch of disparate things for you today, much of it live music of various sorts. But first of all I wanted to mention the death of yet another from... Read More

I feel a sense of returning to normality with this column - for the past week I've been living with Tall Dwarfs. To live with Tall Dwarfs - the New Zealand duo... Read More

This week it's a gig and a round-up of recent releases. Let's get right to it... First the gig, which is one I mentioned a few weeks back. More information has... Read More

This week I review a new album by Liam Hagan, which has amazed and fascinated me. But first, a gig I wanted to mention since it's celebrating a debut release.... Read More

This week: gigs and new music. The gigs are easy to describe, the music? Hmm... Okay. Two gigs. One word: folky. This Sunday, August 28, The Harmonic Resonators... Read More

Sometime musing is in order: this week's arises from last weekend, which was musically unusual. For starters, music was a tad light on the ground here as no fewer... Read More

It's deja vu all over again this week - more upcoming local gigs... Once again I'm going to look two weekends ahead, to give everyone the chance to assemble their... Read More

Last week it was new recordings in the Bay - this week it's gigs. After a relatively quiet winter, people seem to be more relaxed about Covid and there is... Read More