19/12/2016
By Ian Chapman, Bateman Publishing, rrp $50 One of the many endearing aspects of Dr Ian Chapman’s book, 'The Dunedin Sound - Some Disenchanted Evening', is just how much of it is taken up with the very question of whether ...
07/03/2013
As a music writer, reviewer, and collector, I am always fascinated by places that value music, and acquire collections of it. Not only public libraries, who provide access to material that may not be always available in this ...
15/11/2021
The name ZExII seems somehow to embody energy (including the challenge of figuring just how to say it), and the Ōtepoti popstar artist who goes by that name has a view that a good single is a song that has "leadership energy". ...
27/10/2021
Maxine Funke is an enigmatic Dunedin musician, a creator of quiet, acoustic guitar-based folk songs that are closely delivered with a warmth of recording and sentiment that draws the listener in. She has been performing and ...
26/08/2021
With the celebration of the 2021 Taite Music Prize behind them, Independent Music New Zealand (IMNZ), the trade association for independent record labels and self-releasing artists, announced a revised board lineup for the ...
21/06/2017
How many bands can say that their music caused an inner city evacuation? Dunedin noise band LSD Fundraiser can add that questionable trophy to their band CV after police mistook one of their demo tapes as a bomb last week. While ...
01/11/2021
SongHubs is coming to Dunedin, with applications open now for SongHubs Ōtepoti. SongHubs Aotearoa is a series of collaborative song-writing retreats that APRA AMCOS is presenting across Aotearoa New Zealand during 2020 ...
12/03/2021
Artist applications are already open online for the Whare Flat Folk Festival 21/22. Set amid native bush in the idyllic setting of Waiora Scout Camp near Dunedin, Whare Flat is a place where the ancient strains of Celtic ...
10/03/2021
The NZ Music Commission has created a new, free seminar series called Gig Starters, aiming to teach young people about putting on all-ages gigs. The initiative will hit the road in March, visiting Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston ...
10/03/2021
APRA have announced the 14 songwriters who will be taking part in SongHubs Ōtautahi | Christchurch in late March. Curator Delaney Davidson will be supported by guests Julia Deans, Troy Kingi, Tami Neilson and Jol Mulholland. Each ...
14/07/2021
This issue’s piece is a bit of a tough hombre. (See that, I used Spanish, not bad for a bassist!) I have transcribed one of Jaco Pastorius’ signature compositions, Teen Town from the Weather Report’s legendary 1977 ...
16/02/2021
As we’ve spent the last few issues doing some tricky stuff more suited to solo bass performances, I thought that this issue’s tune should feature some straight–ahead rock. I’ve chosen one of my favourite Crowded House ...
09/10/2020
Hi everyone, for this lesson, I have taken the liberty of using a piece that I wrote as a study for my UK students before I came to New Zealand. It is a cross-hand tapping piece that I wrote after the birth of my second son ...
15/09/2020
Hi everyone! Many movies have a prequel delivered after the main feature has been released, but this article is the other (right) way around, a warmer up that will hopefully prepare you for the next Deep Thinking article ...
17/01/2020
In this Deep Thinking session, we are going to look at a couple of tracks recorded by legendary US session bassist, Carol Kaye. Carol was a member of the Wrecking Crew, a team of recording musicians used by the great and ...
20/09/2017
Trading as: Lysbeth Rose Video Email: lysbethrosevideo@gmail.com Web: www.lysbethrosevideo.com phoebelysbethk.com Facebook: facebook.com/Lysbeth-Rose-Video Based in: Dunedin Clients: Kane Strang, Nadia Reid, French ...
20/09/2017
Trading as: Lysbeth Rose Video Email: lysbethrosevideo@gmail.com Web: www.lysbethrosevideo.com Facebook: facebook.com/Lysbeth-Rose-Video-902540976484938/ Based in: Dunedin Clients: Kane Strang, Nadia ...
06/07/2016
Dunedin E: info@fishrider.records.com Website: www.fishriderrecords.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/fishriderrecords Twitter: @FishriderNZ Dunedin-based Fishrider Records specialises in the international release of ...
21/06/2018
The 2018 Nook And Cranny Music Festival was held on May 27 at the Dunedin Public Library for the third time. Paul Allen went along with his camera. In over 50 performances by different Dunedin based musicians, singer-songwriters ...
19/12/2017
It’s been a big and busy 12 months for Aldous Harding, topped off with a top 10 placing in Mojo magazine’s canonical ‘Albums of the Year’ list. Critically Harding’s year has been one of polarised opinions ...
08/02/2017
Following the release of their fifth album 'Total Depravity' , The Veils played Refuel at Dunedin's Refuel on February 4 2017. Photos by Adam Binns.
23/09/2021
Following contracts composing soundtracks for documentaries, including sister Gaylene Preston's Helen Clark documentary My Year With Helen, Jan Preston, Aotearoa's own queen of boogie-woogie, is taking her latest album, ...
26/08/2021
The last time NZM caught up with award-winning Gore songwriter Jenny Mitchell was not long after the release of her 2018 album 'Wildfires'. Currently preparing for not one, but two tours this spring, NZM invited Jenny to ...
