Singer-songwriter and producer Emily C. Browning has been working up a head of steam over recent years, making creative waves in the Ōtautahi alternative music scene while building a powerful online presence ...
READ MORE >On Monday July 21, Play It Strange is launching an 'emerging musicians toolkit’ podcast series, hosted by award-winning Kiwi artist and Play It Strange alumni Rei. Called On The Record with Rei, over 10 episodes the popular bilingual urban and electronic musician talks with an array of artists, producers and industry insiders about breaking into the music industry in Aotearoa. His guests include musicians Don McGlashan, Paige, Hollie Smith and Dave Johnston (n1ghtmar3cat); studio specialists ...
READ MORE >NZ On Air, with support from the NZ Music Commission, have announced a pilot fund specifically aimed at local touring. The New Music Project Touring fund is designed to help local artists take their music on the road within Aotearoa. The New Music Project Touring initiative will provide between $10,000 and $50,000 per successful application, depending on the scale of the tour, to support a headline national tour for an NZ On Air New Music Project-funded album or EP. A total of $500,000 will be available ...
READ MORE >The 2025 APRA Silver Scroll Top 20, and the Maioha Award Top 10 finalist shortlists have been announced, four months out from the APRA Silver Scroll Awards, which will this year be held at the Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch, on Wednesday 29 October. Finalists in both awards are listed below. APRA members will now vote to decide the Top 5 Silver Scroll songs and Top 3 Maioha Award waiata. You can listen to a Spotify playlist of all the songs here. APRA Silver Scroll Award | Kaitito ...
READ MORE >APRA AMCOS have announced the 2025 APRA Professional Development Award recipients, a diversely talented group of five music creatives that includes; David Feauai-Afaese (LEAO), Hannah Lubamba (Jujulipps), Seth Haapu, Karoline Park-Tamati MNZM (Ladi6), and Jesse Austin-Stewart. Each recipient receives $10,000 to contribute towards the next step of their career enhancement, from mentorship and internships, craft development, to attending art residencies and upskilling camps. The award ...
READ MORE >Blending thoughtful post-punk with their own new take on new wave, Auckland quartet Ringlets range from vibrantly bright to ragingly angry across their energetic and articulate second album ‘The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies)’. Guitarist László Reynolds and bassist Arabella Poulsen talked about the new release with Richard Thorne. The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies) by Ringlets Ringlets’ vocalist Leith Towers seems to keep missing NZM interviews; like the one ...
READ MORE >Since lighting up in 2019 NO CIGAR have been captivating audiences on both sides of the Tasman with their infectious guitar-rich, semi-rock sound and compelling lyrical
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READ MORE >Extending a catalogue of diversely successful indie releases, Ōtepoti artist Neive Strang has returned with her third album. Compiled over a four year period, ‘Find Me in the Rabbit Hole’ is a collection of dreamily contemplative songs that hinge on the richness of her voice, along with the well-proven production genius of SJD. Michaela Tempany talked with her on the album’s release. Stretching with apparent ease from unadorned alternative folk to band-backed indie rock to bedroom pop, Neive ...
READ MORE >When Te Pūkenga dropped the bombshell news, early in 2023, that the flood-damaged Auckland MAINZ campus was not ever going to be re-opened, a group of dismayed MAINZ employees came together to mount a rearguard action in the hope of overturning that decision. It was a serious ‘save-our-school’ campaign, resulting in two very substantial crafted submissions about why and how MAINZ should continue, with letters of support from dozens of NZ music luminaries, but the die had been cast. No reversal ...
READ MORE >Inspired to build a legacy, Whanganui whānau band Come On Up perform a heartwarming fusion of reggae, gospel, R&B and soul. Rowie Martin is one of the founding members, and says Come On Up has been impatiently knocking on doors in the Aotearoa music scene over the past four years. As well as an occasional vocalist she is the six-piece act’s ‘manager extraordinaire’, and really the band mum, figuratively as well as in-part literally. “Along with my husband, Gus Martin (saxophone), ...
READ MORE >Bringing together the striking vocals of Ria Hall with the powerful sound of the Auckland Philharmonia, the Matariki with Ria Hall concert will be a soul-stirring evening of music fusion and a fantastic way to celebrate Matariki, at the Auckland Town Hall on June 19. For this magical 2025 Matariki celebration Ria Hall’s compelling songs will be recreated with an epic orchestral soundscape. Her waiata Te Ahi Kai Po (along with co-writers Tiki Taane and Te Ori Paki), won the 2018 APRA ...
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 ...
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