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 ...
READ MORE >You Can't Just Sell Records is a heartfelt new Kiwi documentary film that delves into the heart of independent record store culture, celebrating music, community, and vinyl records. In keeping with the film’s focus on physical music formats, You Can't Just Sell Records will initially be available on limited edition DVD and will be on sale at independent music stores across the country with the release smartly timed for Record Store Day on April 12. A production by Whanganui-based documentary ...
READ MORE >Applications are now open for the inaugural Afro Link SongHubs being held in Tāmaki Makaurau this May. With support from NZ On Air and the NZ Music Commission, APRA AMCOS Aotearoa are staging this first songwriting retreat for artists of black diasporic identity, which will be curated by JessB. The four day event will take place at Auckland's Big Fan Studios, May 6-9, with spaces for six NZ-based writers or writer/producers working alongside five writer collaborators from Australia. "I've ...
READ MORE >Independent Music NZ (IMNZ) has announced finalists for the 2025 Auckland Live Best Independent Debut Award, the recipient of the IMNZ Classic Record, and three finalists for the NZ On Air Outstanding Music Journalism Award. The awards will be presented alongside the Taite Music Prize 2025 ceremony on April 15 at Tāmaki Makaurau’s Q Theatre. The Auckland Live Best Independent Debut Award winner will receive a $2000 cash prize and technical upskilling opportunities courtesy of Auckland ...
READ MORE >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 ...
READ MORE >Ōtautahi singer-songwriter Miriam ‘Mim’ Jensen’s confessional indie rock songs manage to be both incisive and reflective, and since she first emerged in 2022 they’ve already taken her places. She has performed at SXSW Sydney, opened for Shihad and enjoyed international radio and streaming success. Released in March, Jensen’s sophomore EP ‘Shadow Of The Gift’ represents an important step on her personal and artistic evolution. Nur Peach talked through the EP’s six tracks with her. “A ...
READ MORE >File under Funk / Soul / Jazz. Highly versatile Wanaka-based guitarist and composer Henry Charles has just released his groove-filled debut album. In a nod to the music and movie
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READ MORE >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 ...
READ MORE >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 ...
READ MORE >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 ...
READ MORE >Internationally acclaimed jazz clarinetist Adrian Cox is a leading exponent of the New Orleans’ clarinet, with a huge wealth of knowledge of the music and the players of the era. He is touring NZ in April with his own Adrian Cox Trio performing a remarkable show of old-style Orleans' magic called Makin’ Runs. Jazz fanciers should absolutely not miss this opportunity. April 18 - The Undercurrent, Wellington April 19 - 62nd National Jazz Festival, Baycourt Community & Arts Centre, Tauranga April ...
READ MORE >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 ...
READ MORE >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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