Let's not mince words: Wing was a terrible singer. So terrible that she was great. GARY STEEL pays tribute to the international singing phenomenon.

GARY STEEL interviews Vanessa Daou, the woman behind the most erotic album ever made. Another deep delve into Steel’s vault of 30-year-old stories.

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The odds are stacked against NZ music on streaming platforms, where overseas sounds dominate. So Witchdoctor figured it was time to give NZ music pride of place. And who better to write it than words-...

Martin Bell, one of Witchdoctor's favourite audiophiles and owner of one of our favourite amplifier brands, JAVA Hi-Fi, has announced the imminent opening of a dedicated listening lounge called Love A...

GARY STEEL once again delves into the deep recesses of his bulging archive with a revealing piece about Cook Islands-born Kiwi vocalist supreme Annie Crummer.

From Auckland’s North Shore to Saint Petersburg, Russia, Simon Patterson has built a life in music through distance and discipline. CAMERON OFFICER talks to the author of more than 1,500 songs, who fi...

Bürgen exiting Aotearoa leaves us with a miserable selection of wholemeal breads to choose from. GARY STEEL has a surprising fix.

GARY STEEL pays tribute to Lee Underwood - Tim Buckley guitarist, music journalist, poet - who died last week.

On the eve of the premiere of John Pain's brilliantly captured (and captivating) From Scratch performance film, Songs For Unsung Heroes, GARY STEEL asked the director some leading questions.

PHIL PARKER has been imbibing the delectable drinkable produce of iconic Central Otago Rockburn winery.

Peter Hook & The Light — Get Ready 25th Anniversary, Wellington Opera House, 10 July 2027 From the first rib-cage wobble of ‘Crystal’ cracking open – keep it coming. There were a lot of ghosts in the ...

At last PAT PILCHER finds a smartwatch that really goes the distance with incredible battery life and looks to kill.

On the eve of the premiere of John Pain's brilliantly captured (and captivating) From Scratch performance film, Songs For Unsung Heroes, GARY STEEL asked the director some leading questions.

Sigur Rós make girly guys (like GARY STEEL) cry. Gazza chatted with bassist Georg Hólm way back in 2006 on the eve of the ensemble's Auckland concert.

Another ultra-premium phone, another ultra-premium day, but PAT PILCHER genuinely likes Motorola's Signature smartphone.

In October 1986 GARY STEEL attended a performance by former Velvet Underground member John Cale in Wellington, New Zealand.

PAT PILCHER's room had just started stinking like mouldy old dough when a fabulous LG smart dehumidifier arrived to review. Good timing, great product, so sayeth he.

The king of valve amplifiers will release its mighty MA2375 2-channel vacuum tube amplifier later this year.

Logitech's latest gaming headset is aimed at the mid-tier market and does a solid job, but is not for Xbox users.

The odds are stacked against NZ music on the streaming platforms, on which overseas sounds dominate. So Witchdoctor figured it was time to give NZ music pride of place. And who better than to write th...

Are the government's plans to further slash the public service and replace it with AI realistic, or just austerity with a shiny digital sticker on its rump? PAT PILCHER opines.

ASHTON BROWN checks out the latest emission from the DC motion picture universe and finds it unexpectedly very pleasing indeed.

Witchdoctor's vacuum connoisseur PAT PILCHER knows what sucks in a good way and what just sucks, and Shark's mid-tier stick vacuum gets a resounding thumbs up.

Despite being a comics connoisseur, MATT KELLY is shocked and appalled at the album of the comic that the world forgot.

Fancy watching a movie that nobody else can see, wherever you be? PAT PILCHER is amazed by the next-gen quality of Viture's latest AR glasses.

ANNA BUTTERFIELD soaks in a performance that's a living embodiment of why live music gives the listener more than simply a recorded artefact.