Anglebox: Days In The Sun Remembered
Blending nostalgia with modern rock, while steering-locked to an unmistakably pre-millennium Kiwi pub rock sound, newcomer Christchurch rock band Anglebox are picking up their undies from the lawn and ...
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Jack Panther: Coming Over To Celebrate
Jack Panther titled his 2022 EP with the lyrical query ‘why won’t you come over?’, and his just-released 2025 follow up EP follows suit with the even more curious title, ‘when i’m feeling better ...
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News
2025 Pacific Music Awards Entries Open
Entries for the 2025 Pacific Music Awards are now open and the Pacific Music Awards Trust is encouraging all Pacific artists who released music in 2024 to submit nominations. 2025 will be the 21st anniversary of the Pacific Music Awards, with this year’s celebration and awards ceremony being held on Thursday 21 August, at the Due Drop Events Centre in Manukau, Auckland. All entries need to be submitted online through the official entry system, with the deadline being Tuesday 15 April, 2025. Local ...
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Creative New Zealand’s long-term strategy feedback
Creative New Zealand is seeking feedback to the draft long-term strategy, Tū Mai Rā, Toi Aotearoa which sets out the vision, direction and goals for the next 15 years as the national arts development agency of Aotearoa New Zealand. The agency wants feedback on the draft strategy from anyone with an interest in the arts, creativity and ngā toi Māori. The deadline is 6 April 2025. “We’re setting ourselves a long horizon, to 2040, because we know our ambitions for the sector and ourselves ...
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Recorded Music NZ board shuffle
Recorded Music NZ has announced that Myra Hemara, currently an observer on the Board, will take Universal Music’s Threshold Director seat on the RMNZ board from the start of May 2025, following the recent announcement of longtime Universal Music NZ head Adam Holt’s retirement. Holt is retiring from his role as Chairman of Universal Music NZ from 30 April, when he will also end a 25-year role on the boards of RMNZ and its predecessor organisations. He was appointed to the PPNZ Board in 2001 and ...
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2025 APRA Professional Development Award Applications
Applications are now open for the 2025 APRA Professional Development Awards. The awards are to support songwriters and composers in their creative development and five awards will be given out, with each recipient receiving a $10,000 cash grant. Funds are intended to help recipients attend workshops, musical education courses, composer seminars, co-writing sessions, mentoring opportunities and other relevant activities - locally or internationally. Read all about the awards, past recipients, ...
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Interviews
National Jazz Festival, Tauranga, April 7-21
This Easter weekend (April 18-21) will bring the culmination of the 62nd National Jazz Festival with some of Aotearoa New Zealand’s top jazz musicians performing in the Downtown Carnival across five stages on The Strand, Wharf Street and Red Square in Tauranga. Enjoy the hospitality of Tauranga’s many excellent waterfront bars and restaurants while enjoying the festive family carnival atmosphere. With events scheduled across Tauranga from April 7-21 (including the National Youth Jazz Competition, ...
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blindr: Prize Redemption
Tāmaki Makaurau pop-punk outfit blindr have employed a fruitful blend of good fortune, music skills and good sense to produce a very good debut EP called ‘lover.fighter’. Having won a band competition in 2023 the self-managed four-piece have taken full advantage of various music professionals’ mentoring included in the prize package to record five tracks that traverse a variety of styles. They talked with Richard Thorne ahead of the EP’s release party at the beginning of March. The blindr ...
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Louisa Nicklin: Making Room To Breath
Introspective, engaging, ethereal and intimate; these are all words used to describe the first album of Tāmaki Makaurau-based Louisa Nicklin. With her second album ‘The Big Sulk’ Nicklin expands on her signature sound, creating a mesmerising tapestry of folk-infused rock that is sure to hypnotise listeners. Evie Bamford spoke with her for NZ Musician. Outside of her own music Louisa Nicklin performs a smorgasbord of instruments in multiple local bands, balancing that with an active outdoor ...
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NewTracks New Artist: PONZ
A wicked run of new year's shows saw drum and bass artist PONZ kick off 2025 in style, performing at Rhythm and Alps in Wanaka on December 30, Famous Last Words in Tauranga on the next day, and following that with the Coro Classic in Matarangi on January 4. PONZ is songwriter, vocalist, DJ and MC all in one, and NZ On Air Music included her recent dancefloor banger Shifting Seas on the March 2025 NewTracks compilation. PONZ · Shifting Seas What’s your given name, where are you from and ...
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Levi Patel: Finding Gravity and Voice
For the past ten years Matakana-based producer Levi Patel has shared his soothingly ambient instrumental compositions with the world. He’s met with some success, amassing millions of streams of Spotify and having his music feature in Lucasfilm’s ‘It’s Snowing Outside.’ In 2024, a new side of Patel’s artistry is revealed - we hear his singing voice for the first time on his third album, ‘Sailing On The Light Of A Passing Star.’ Nur Peach spoke with him for NZM. “I never actually ...
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Industry: Dave Rhodes Productions
After two decades working in Auckland’s music scene as a sound engineer and producer Dave Rhodes returned to his hometown of Whitianga, established his own professional recording studio and went freelance. NZM talked with the acclaimed producer (and rock drummer) about his diverse career and what’s up next. With waves crashing in the near distance and sea salt on the breeze, there’s a sense of tranquillity at Dave Rhodes’ boutique recording studio in Whitianga. While not a typical location ...
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NewTracks New Artist: Just Janie
The now Christchurch-based indie folk artist Just Janie recorded her recently released country/folk single Musings in the Breakfast Aisle at Saltbox Studios as part of Ōtautahi’s 2024 OMAP programme. A vocally rich and powerful lament of indecision, the song was part of the menu on NZ On Air's February 2025 New Tracks compilation. Musings in the Breakfast Aisle by Just Janie What's your given name, where do you hail from and what instruments do you play? Janie Shaw. I was born and ...
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Event Guide
National Jazz Festival, Tauranga, April 7-21, 2025
This Easter weekend (April 18-21) will bring the culmination of the 62nd National Jazz Festival with some of Aotearoa New Zealand’s top jazz musicians performing in Tauranga, with the Downtown Carnival across five stages on The Strand, Wharf Street and Red Square. With events scheduled across Tauranga from April 7-21 including the National Youth Jazz Competition, a celebration of Rodger Fox and a NZ Army Band showcase, there’s a lot more to the annual National Jazz Festival than just that fun-filled ...
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NZ Trip Hop Show Live
Tāmaki Makaurau artist Vanessa Tottle (Radio Trip Hop Brazil) is excited to showcase a two-hour set from her hugely successful NZ Trip Hop Show at the Portland Public House on September 19. More info here, entry is free.
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Wāhine In Jazz Anniversary Party
With the second anniversary of Wāhine In Jazz 's creation looming, what better way to mark the date than to host a party! Join the team at the Audio Foundation in Tāmaki Makaurau on August 23 to celebrate. The evening will topped off with a performance from a specially curated WIJ Band, featuring; Minju Kim (tenor saxophone), Jenna Aspeling (alto saxophone), Crystal Choi (piano), Kat Tomacruz (guitar), Wren Probett (bass), Wynefred Wang (voice) and honorary wahine for the night, Maximilian Crook ...
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