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Interviews
05/09/2025
Pearly*: Finding Dunedin’s Sweet Spot
Pearly* are fast becoming one of the new faces of Ōtepoti Dunedin music. The alt-rock guitar band of Joel Field, Phaedra Love, Josh Nicholls and Ryan Hill formed in 2023, very quickly establishing themselves as the ones-to-watch ...
Book Reviews
19/12/2016
The Dunedin Sound – Some Disenchanted Evening
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 ...
Industry
07/03/2013
Industry: Dunedin’s Hocken Collections – collecting the gift of sound & vision
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 ...
Interviews
07/07/2026
Natasha Griffiths: DUN Records Maverick
There’s a lot happening in Ōtepoti Dunedin music right now, a distinct feeling that there is Something Going On. Bands including Pearly*, Ivy, Deaf Raccoon, and Seek Help are part of a new, diverse alternative scene, while ...
NewTracks New Artist
14/05/2026
NewTracks New Artist: Loa Loa
Their band photos are blurred and the online description helpfully starts, ‘The loa loa is a filarial nematode…’, indicating Loa Loa are quite private types and happy to keep the Dunedin band’s identity a little ...
NEWS (33)
Classics & Clangers
21/06/2017
Dunedin Band LSD Fundraiser Causes CBD Shutdown
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 ...
News
11/11/2025
Aotearoa Alternative Awards 2025 Winners
Winners of the Aotearoa Alternative Awards 2025 (formerly the Student Radio Network Awards) were announced in a ceremony hosted by Massey University's Radio Control 99.4FM, in Palmerston North on Saturday November 8. In ...
News
13/09/2025
2025 Smokefreerockquest National Final Winners
Climaxing another year of record entry numbers the 2025 Smokefreerockquest national final took place at the ASB Waterfront Theatre in Tāmaki Makaurau on September 12, with Burnside High School four-piece Equilibrium named ...
News
30/06/2025
2025 Aotearoa Children’s Music Awards Winners
Winners of the 2025 Aotearoa Children’s Music Awards have been announced, with Christchurch-based Loopy Tunes breaking records as winners in a three categories, including the Tūī for Best Children's Music Artist. This ...
News
05/10/2022
Young Jazz Band-it Competition Winners 2022
On October 1, some 230 high school musicians from all around the country descended upon the NZ School of Music - Te Kōkī in Te Whanganui-A-Tara, for the inaugural Young Jazz Band-it competition 2022. Ten high school big ...
LESSONS (51)
Deep Thinking
18/02/2026
Deep Thinking: Some Handy Warm Up Exercises
Here are some of the warm up exercises that I recommend for any readers as an aid to developing strength and ability on bass guitar. Exercise 1 is a hand stretcher. It involves making your fretting hand stretch from finger ...
Deep Thinking
18/03/2025
Deep Thinking: In Praise of the Humble Pick
When I turned pro as a teenager, back in the mists of time, I was always a ‘pick’ player, i.e. I used a plectrum, or pick. It didn’t occur to me that it would become unfashionable as the ‘fusion’ era in the UK started ...
Deep Thinking
19/08/2024
Deep Thinking: Stevie Wonder’s Masterblaster (Jammin’)
I always used to say to bass students in the UK and here that two of Stevie Wonder's most challenging bass lines are from Sir Duke, with its Duke Ellington inspired line doubling the brass, and Masterblaster (Jammin') from ...
Deep Thinking
21/05/2024
Deep Thinking: Come Together Over A Classic
Come together over a classic. After a few Deep Thinking articles, in which I've talked about the theoretical issues of bassline building from scratch (i.e. new songs needing a bassline), I thought it might be fun to dip into ...
Deep Thinking
23/08/2023
Deep Thinking: An Exercise For Both Hands
An exercise for both hands with some sight reading thrown in! Over the last few NZM issues, we’ve been looking at building bass lines from modal scales and arpeggios (broken chords). This exercise is fairly simple, being ...
DIRECTORIES (4)
Education: Tertiary Courses
14/09/2017
University of Otago, Dunedin
Address: University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin Contact: School of Performing Arts, University of Otago Phone: (03) 479 8885 or (03) 479 4180 Email: spa@otago.ac.nz Website: www.otago.ac.nz/performing-arts
Music Video Directors
20/09/2017
Phoebe Lysbeth Kay Mackenzie
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 ...
Music Video Directors
20/09/2017
Emily Rose Berryman
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 ...
Record Labels
06/07/2016
Fishrider Records
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 ...
EVENTS (25)
Photo Galleries
21/06/2018
2018 Nook And Cranny Music Festival, Dunedin
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 ...
Live Reviews
19/12/2017
Aldous Harding, Party Tour 2017, Dunedin
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 ...
Photo Galleries
08/02/2017
The Veils Live In Dunedin
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.
Event Guide
06/07/2026
Ammonita celebrate releasing ’Spore’
Otago uni alt-rock stand outs Ammonita are celebrating the release of their debut EP ‘Spore’ on July 24 at Pearl Diver in Dunedin, where they’ll also be joined by two more rocking Ōtepoti bands, FUBAR and Monkey ...
Event Guide
09/09/2025
Dani Josie – The Suckerpunch Spring Tour
Wellington pop-punk artist Dani Josie is stepping into the spotlight with her first-ever headline tour. The SUCKERPUNCH Spring Tour will hit Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Auckland this September and October, with ...