Hearing a sold-out Vector Arena crowd scream and stamp their feet for an encore makes you appreciate how far the Black Keys have come since playing Auckland's little old Kings Arms Tavern in 2005.

The limited edition of this album comes with a DVD doco about this New York garage band. It's entitled Pardon Us For Living But the Graveyard is Full and that's apt, as the Fleshtones have been around forever.

Continuing their exploration of folk-influenced rock and the ethos, if not the actual sound, of 60s psychedelic rock, the quartet come over reflective and quasi-cosmic on this third studio album.

The Queen of Scream, PJ Harvey, reconnects with her folk-blues roots on her eighth album, Let England Shake.

It's been more than five years since Grammy Award-winning R&B singer Faith Evans put out her last album, the chart-topping First Lady, which spawned the hit Again.

Mayfield was just a teenager when a copy of an album she'd recorded in her bedroom fell into the hands of Dan Auerbach from The Black Keys.