Paper Cranes - Album Review: The Road Home
13 Apr 2015 // review by RodrigoHidalgo
The warm, familiar feeling of serenity surrounded me as I was listening to the newly released album by the incredible Paper Cranes titled The Road Home. I had previously reviewed this band and have been a devoted fan since so when the opportunity to review this album was presented to me I had to take it!
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Primacy - Gig Review: Primacy @ Bar Eden, Auckland 7/02/2015
20 Feb 2015 // review by RodrigoHidalgo
The air was thick with excitement outside Bar Eden as everyone knew that tonight three brilliantly picked bands were due to output their musical artform under the category of heavy metal, and heavy it was indeed. Tonight we are graced with instrumental specialists Love Of Chaos who are new to the spotlight, but rest assured are made up of a great selection of experienced, talented musicians from the lands of Auckland..
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The Datsuns - Deep Sleep Album Review
13 Nov 2014 // review by RodrigoHidalgo
So today I'm doing a review on the album Deep Sleep by
the legendary 4 piece psychedelic rock outfit The Datsuns, hailing from the
depths of Cambridge, New Zealand.This is the sixth full length album they have under their belt, and being a big
fan of their previous stuff and having seen them live a number of times I
couldn't pass up doing a review for their new album.
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Paper Cranes - Paper Cranes @ Wine Cellar, Auckland - 13/08/14
12 Sep 2014 // review by RodrigoHidalgo
Paper Cranes with White Rabbit Black Monkey & Evan Sinton @ Wine Cellar, Auckland on 13 August 2014
The much anticipated August night had arrived, Paper Cranes, White Rabbit Black Monkey & Evan Sinton were playing at the Wine Cellar on K road. I was freaking out a bit because I was running a bit late… when I arrived everyone was outside socializing as if if nothing else was going on so I asked a few people when it starts… Turns out that the event was running a bit late too so essentially I arrived just in time.
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Riqi Harawira - Please Find Me Girl Single Review
02 May 2014 // review by RodrigoHidalgo
Listening to Riqi Harawira's new song Please Find Me Girl the first thing I noticed is the really well produced clean acoustic guitar playing in harmony to Riqi's voice which is a brilliant way to start a reggae song with a tasty blend of Blues, Jamaican Reggae and solid syncopated rhythms.
Riqi seems to be singing to a beautiful woman that he is absolutely infatuated with.
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Eden Roberts - Crying Birds EP Review
28 Mar 2014 // review by RodrigoHidalgo
Already hearing of Eden Roberts through X-Factor last year, I was pretty interested to hear what her EP would sound like and in which direction Eden has decided to take her music. Eden Is an 18 year old X-Factor Contestant hailing from Auckland, New Zealand.
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Dead Teach the Living - The Feeding Begins Album Review
11 Feb 2014 // review by RodrigoHidalgo
Dead Teach The Living are a 5 piece Auckland based band that's been injecting fans with their fix of pure heavy metal for the last 3 and a half years and are quickly rising in the New Zealand metal scene with their reputation of hectic, insane music both live and in studio.
The Official music video for their first single, Cystic Eyebrosis was released late last year and left me eager to listen to the rest of their self-produced debut album The Feeding Begins which definitely delivers 13 tracks of metal with high energy, solid production and a tasteful blend of progressive metal, thrash metal, extreme metal, hardcore punk with a sense of groove.
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Lorde - Pure Heroine Album Review
14 Dec 2013 // review by RodrigoHidalgo
I was surprised to hear that the artist that has completely dominated the US Charts for the last 9 weeks is a 16 year old girl hailing from Auckland, with the stage name Lorde. Lorde is A singer/songwriter that seems to have become famous overnight with her debut single Royals that was originally released on her first EP The Love Club that was released late last year.
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