12/05/2022
Wellington three-piece Soft Plastics have embraced a new shoegaze style whilst still paying homage to their garage-pop beginnings. Their ironic latest single Day Job is very relatable, and comes accompanied by a similarly ...
25/08/2016
Separately frustrated with the strictures of the different variations of country music that their respective bands had hitched their wagons to, Wellington musicians Michael Keane and Harriett Ferry found a shared desire to ...
22/04/2016
Heavy metal, sludge metal, doom metal, stoner rock – call it as you hear it – but the key point is that Wellington’s Beastwars have earned themselves a variety of enthusiastic praise from all parts of the metal world. ...
04/03/2014
In 2009 Grayson Gilmour was awarded a $12,000 APRA Professional Development Grant, which he used to further his compositional studies overseas. In the years since, he has largely put his career as a musician aside, in favour ...
20/10/2021
From humble origins as a Canterbury University covers band, Mako Road have remarkably quickly become a force to be reckoned with, a staple act on annual summer festival lineups and selling out their own tour gigs in just ...
09/12/2020
NZ On Air Music announced the first batch of recipients for the New Music Development funding scheme this week. Launched in October this year, the new scheme is a result of extra investment from Government through the Arts ...