The Cavemen have released their second album Born to Hate.
The Cavemen have released their second album Born to Hate.
Pro tip: Don't read the publicity about Kiwi punk rockers The Cavemen. It'll leave you feeling so grimy you'll need a scalding hot shower to feel clean again.
The London-based expats who've just wrapped up a European tour, have released their second album Born to Hate - "a record to shake the cobwebs out of your ears".
Listing their influences as including the Stooges, the Cramps and Dead Moon (as well as Buddy Holly and Elvis), the four-piece, who released their debut last December, have a sound that's been described as "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll conveyed via lo-fi, psychotic '77 era punk rock".
One review site says The Cavemen are as filthy as they are prolific and describes the album as "latter day GG Allin puke-o-rama".
Song titles on the 13-track release include Satan Is Her Name, I Hope They Drop The Bomb On Me and I'd Kill (To See You Dead).
Charmers.
Another four Kiwi lads living in London have released a record with a strong British influence, though this time it's much more sunny Britpop than raucous punk.
The Eversons' new album Stuck in New Zealand has singles including the effervescent Good At Making Enemies and the title track.
The video for What a Weird Year, released on Wednesday this week, is a self-made clip for a song "that truly sums up the bizarre, uncomfortable and at times, harrowing year that was 2016".
The Eversons have released the album Stuck in New Zealand.
The band's sound is described as "full of in-your-face psychedelic indie rock" influenced by the likes of The Modern Lovers, Pulp, and Blur.
Stuck In New Zealand has been featured on Brooklyn-based podcast The Sounds In My Head, as an album not to miss. Listen here: www.thesoundsinmyhead.com/12.05.16
Shapeshifter, whose single Her is one of the tracks of the summer, have announced an Auckland Anniversary Weekend show at Whangamata.
The January 28 concert at Williamson Park is an R18 event and will include performances by The Upbeats, P-Money and The Sunshine Sound System.
Revisit a classic Living Colour will visit these shores next year on their 30th Anniversary Tour. The rock band are best known for the 1988 album Vivid and the single Cult of Personality.
Other tracks include Glamour Boys, Open Letter (To A Landlord) and the Talking Heads cover Memories Can't Wait.
Living Colour will release their sixth studio album Shade next year.
Living Colour trivia: Singer Corey Glover acted in the movie Platoon.
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Tegan and Sara have announced an Auckland show for 2017.
The pair, who haven't played in New Zealand since supporting Jack Johnson (remember him?) in 2010, are touring in support of their eighth album Love You To Death.
Tickets for the March 11 concert at the Bruce Mason Centre go on sale this week. See livenation.co.nz for more details.
The Canadian twin sisters have sold more than 1 million albums and earned multiple major awards and nominations.
