July's first ever All Black test in Apia will attract a far bigger audience, and long before it is played has already received plenty more media coverage, but it's hard to imagine a bigger or better night ...
Literally fresh from claiming the 2015 Taite Music Prize for their breathtaking come-back post rock album 'Sines', Jakob embarked on a European tour that, as much as anything, was a symbolic return after ...
"That's a cool radio," says my eight-year-old son as I slide the Digitech Live Performance Intelligent Vocal Harmony Processor out of its box. He inexplicably but rather endearingly loves all things ...
One regular criticism of music in this hyper-creative digital era is that too little attention is given to the details, to perfecting recordings, to ensuring a consistency of quality and to the presentation ...
That's a big name for a small band but Auckland's Heavy have been doing a great job of living up to it in the last year, culminating recently in the release of an album they've named 'Lock In'. James ...
'A Kiwi amongst the Kangaroos' was how currently Melbourne-based songwriter Lisa Crawley introduced this account of her recent time spent attending a pair of major early summer North American music industry ...
Christchurch electronic music artist Gemma Syme recently dropped an ethereal five-track synth/vocal release she emotively branded 'The Wet EP'. In asking regular NZM contributor Briar Lawry to interview ...
A natural storyteller who has made a living as a magazine contributor and filmmaker for the last decade, Dunedin’'s Bill Morris well knows how to look beyond the picture in front of him to see the scene ...
Campbell Paget is Bayker, recently added to the Crazy Planet Records/BMG publishing stable, and even more recently a Berlin-resident songwriter. It's been a whirlwind few years for Bayker as he reveals ...
Formed in 2011, The Wellington City Shake-'Em-On-Downers play music inspired by classic New Orleans' brass bands and the greats of the early jazz and swing era. Having recorded live at Orange Studio in ...
The musical journey that The Clevedonaires took, from the small rural community of Clevedon in the mid-1960s to Australia and later London in the early 1970s, is a story that has re-surfaced with the release ...
Before embarking on their about-to-be released sophomore album, Opposite Sex had to kill off an album that had been all-but completed under the watch of Dunedin's international-focused Fishrider Records. ...
'Well Princess it looks like depression is at least highly creative for you. Happiness sometimes is too distracting :)' So reads one of the comments on Princess Chelsea's Facebook page. The comment seems ...
Lysithea. A small moon of the planet Jupiter, one of Zeus’ lovers in Greek mythology and also the name of a dynamic Dunedin-based death/doom metal duo. 'Realms' is the title of Lysithea’'s recently ...
Eighteen months ago NZM reported on the outstanding debut EP ('The Ends') from The Means, the Auckland three-piece of Abraham Kunin, Tom Broome and Marika Hodgson. Writer Sam Carswell described them as ...
This issue's multi-love gear review saw SAE Institute's Recording Arts degree class test five portable and inexpensive MIDI keyboard controllers, all within a very comparable price range – only a ...
In 2010/11 songwriter/rapper Kaleb Vitae (K.One) announced his arrival within our national music industry through a series of Top 40-charting singles recorded with Jason Kerrison (Walking Away) and hip ...
Caution, the uplifting music of Othersun may cause happiness. Formerly from the U.K, Josh Holmes has found new inspiration in New Zealand and he's not afraid to commit that zest to his music. Fox, ...
Talking up the 'Cairo Knife Fight II' EP back in NZM's August/September 2011 issue, Nick Gaffaney had this to say to writer Mark Bell. "I think there's a strong chemistry between Aaron and I that neither ...
Ciaran McMeeken came out of rural north Otago, without a musician in the family, so it took a while for him to find music. "It's funny, growing up in Arrowtown there's all this sport and rugby, and ...
When The Moots turned up to a recent bFM studio session, drummer Alexandre 'Zander' de Reuck found he had nothing to play his drums with. Musical improvisation was needed. "I forgot my sticks, so I grabbed ...
Many guitarists have difficulty with playing guitar and singing together. Although it looks easy when you see a confident performer playing and singing at the same time, it is not all that easy to begin ...
The last few Deep Thinking columns have been funk-orientated, so I thought we might get into some prog rock in this issue and I have transcribed the opening of YYZ by the Canadian band, Rush. This ...
In the last edition of NZ Musician we began a discussion of the key issues to be aware of in music Synchronisation Agreements, with a particular focus on the use of music in film or TV shows. In this Lawful ...
Cost / benefit analyses –– you're not alone if those words make your eyes glaze over. What do cost/benefit whatchmadingies have to do with music anyway? The fact is that people always weigh the ...
Fray zing... or how to get the Em-PHA-Sis right. I believe the most important element of phrasing is feeling: feeling the pulse, feeling into the 'one' to sing (swing) around it, feeling the sentiment ...
