SoundBites: NZMM, Shihad, Mint Chicks, Bailey Wiley

Jon Toogood performs with Shihad.

To mark New Zealand Music Month we've put together a Spotify playlist of 31 Kiwi tracks - one a day for the month of May.

Featuring artists from a variety or eras and genres, there's something for everyone, and something new for everyone too. Search for target="_blank">SoundBites NZMM16.

Twenty years ago Shihad reminded everyone which way to set their clocks at the end of Daylight Savings with the opening line of their hit song Home Again.

The track was the most popular single from their self-title third album, also known as the "Fish" album, a record which has at last made its way to vinyl.

It has been released in a deluxe double album format along with a 10-inch EP Blue Light Disco (remember them?) and a download card.

Shihad this weekend play three shows in one day, in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

The band will perform 50-minute sets on Sunday in Christchurch at CPIT at midday, Wellington's Meow at 4.30pm, and Auckland's Powerstation at 9pm.

Meanwhile, 10 years ago the Mint Chicks crossed the divide from student to mainstream radio with a single and album both called Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!.

This album has also been remastered and rereleased, this time into a world already privy to the brilliance of the Nielson brothers through their more recent musical endeavours Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Silicon.

Neo-soul artist Bailey Wiley has released her new EP.

The Auckland-based singer spent three months in Berlin working on the material and playing live shows, and split recording between Germany and home in New Zealand.

The S.O.M.M. EP (Still On My Mind) features eight songs including the title track and the single Take It From Me, described by the massive Indie Shuffle music blog as a "golden voice filtering neo-soul classicism with modern, pulsating beats".

Revisit a classic

In On The Killtaker was Fugazi's breakthrough album. The 1993 record arrived amid the popularity of alternative rock, but the DC quartet couldn't have been further from the titans of grunge.

Killtaker was their third studio album of six, and married post-hardcore punk with delicate melodies, all the while retaining their political edge.

It's an album lover's album, in that you need to listen from start to finish, with a seamless, 14-minute central three-song arc that blows you away. Check it out - tracks five to seven.