23/07/2024
Explaining the title she's given her debut album, JessB says it's about feeling at home with where you're at, where you've come from, and where you're going - a sense of sanctuary she's rightly celebrating in her own artistic ...
16/11/2022
Can't Fake It is the latest single from Kiwi rapper JessB. It comes almost a year after the exciting and dynamic artist's previous track, From Tha Jump, and is accompanied by an impromptu music video filmed in London. Committed ...
06/01/2020
Intersecting between being Afro-Kiwi, female and queer makes Auckland MC JessB even more multi-faceted than many humans – importantly able to connect and offer a voice to some less visible communities. Of Kenyan descent, ...
08/09/2021
At 22 and wholly self-taught, Connor Pritchard ’s work as a music video director has already taken him to China and across Europe, won awards, and seen him work with some of the nation’s best known and most respected ...
03/05/2021
Reported by the Bay of Plenty Times in early November, Mount Maunganui College students released what they claim as the first original school album coming from the BoP. The album features songs from school bands and artists ...
11/09/2025
APRA AMCOS Aotearoa have announced the five songs chosen as finalists for the 2025 APRA Silver Scroll Award | Kaitito Kaiaka, as well as the three waiata in line for the APRA Tohu Maioha | Maioha Award. Selected from the ...
14/08/2025
The annual two-day Going Global Music Summit returns to Tāmaki Makaurau on Thursday, 28 and Friday, 29 August, uniting Aotearoa’s brightest artists with international speakers, festival bookers, and tastemakers from across ...
10/07/2025
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 ...
08/04/2025
Finalists for the 2025 Aotearoa Music Awards have been announced and for the second year running Stan Walker leads the field with five finalist nominations in 2025, including Single of the Year for Māori Ki Te Ao, which ...
02/04/2025
Applications are now open for the inaugural Afro Link SongHubs being held in Tāmaki Makaurau this May. With support from NZ On Air and the NZ Music Commission, APRA AMCOS Aotearoa are staging this first songwriting ...
01/10/2025
As usual there are five songs chosen as finalists for the 2025 APRA Silver Scroll Award, as voted by New Zealand APRA members. We're into the final month run up to when the Silver Scroll trophy will be awarded to one/some ...
05/11/2018
Combine a long-standing rock artist, some very current Kiwi vocalists, a rapper or two, a Sudanese culture and set it all in the sub-genre of electro dance, and what do you have? An awful lot of buzz about the latest album ...
17/04/2023
SOLE Music Academy has announced its upcoming Speaker Series in support of Canterbury artists and emerging music professionals. The three-event series will take place in May at the SOLE Music Academy Studios in Addington, ...
30/05/2018
A few more days left to spot #MusiciansOfAotearoa 2018 on a street near you. Photographer Hayley Theyers' portraits were showcased successfully countrywide by the ever-supportive Phantom Billstickers for the first ...
16/05/2018
The official Music Month Summit 2018 is tackling some of the issues the music industry has been facing up to over the last year. The summit features a stellar line up of music industry professionals and speakers, who will ...
08/05/2018
20 Bands In 2 Hours 2018 will take place on May 18 at Galatos in Auckland. 20 acts, one song each. Tickets are available here. The idea to fill an entire radio show with live music originated as a crazy student radio folly. ...
