05/09/2016
Two trophies as the artist behind his ’Rare Vision’ EP, plus a third as producer of the Stan Walker/Samantha Jade pop single Start Again, made Vince Harder the biggest winner at this year’s Pacific Music Awards. While ...
03/12/2013
It’s one of those stories where the numbers are out of date by the time you type them, and risk embarrassment by the time they are printed, distributed and read. Still, one number stands inspection – No. 1 on the U.S. ...
07/12/2020
In late November Auckland indie jazz fusion RnB neo-soul hip hop alt-folk outfit Skilaa released their debut EP 'Fantasy Life'. It's rare to find a band that is this hard to place within common genres, but between one another ...
04/01/2001
Lately, on Auckland's bFM the odd slower, beautiful, enigmatic track has been slipped in among the dance beats and rock tracks, resulting in a number of listeners phoning to ask 'Who was that?'. The answer many times has ...
29/07/2016
NZ on Air has published the results of its first New Music Single funding round. Out of 120 applications the following 25 will receive support with their next single/music video. NZOA's July panel was made up ...
11/07/2019
The top 20 shortlisted songs in the running for NZ’s 2019 Silver Scroll songwriting award were announced today. This year's pool of finalist nominees includes a strong representation of hip hop, including formerly-nominated ...
17/05/2018
NZ On Air Music has published the results of their May 2018 NewMusic Singles funding today. Out of 152 songs submitted to this funding round, the panel picked 30 new songs to be recorded and/or treated to visuals. Congratulations ...
13/07/2017
The 'Top 20' songwriter finalists for the 2017 Silver Scroll Award were released last night. The APRA Silver Scroll Award recognises outstanding achievement in the craft of songwriting and the finalists were chosen ...
24/04/2017
After close to 30 years of publication NZ Musician Magazine has today released its final bi-monthly issue. Rather than continue publishing as a regular print title NZ Musician will henceforth be a digital entity, offering ...
17/05/2017
It must be challenging for any artist to follow up a successful debut album, let alone a Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum single like Royals. Prior to the release of Green Light, Lorde discussed how she was looking to ...
28/09/2016
The longest running NZ TV theme of all time has by now ear-wormed its way through the conscious (and subconscious) sound world of multiple generations of Kiwis and international listeners alike. The 26-year consistency of ...
12/05/2016
Looking at the NZ music Top 20 (NZ artists ranked by sales) singles chart recently I couldn’t help noticing that it looked very similar to the Top 20 chart I observed a month (actually year) or two back. Many of the ...
13/11/2015
Writer, producer and music lecturer Godfrey de Grut takes a closer than usual look and listen to see what makes Don McGlashan's single, Lucky Stars, tick the pop song success boxes. I first heard Lucky Stars on National ...
23/06/2015
This is the second time I've looked at an UMO song in as many years. Multi-Love's unconventional design stood out from the moment I heard it by being characteristically quirky on the surface, yet still allowing the ...
