17/09/2024
In December 2023 the Hawke's Bay Music Hub launched 'Under The Sun (Vol.3)', the latest in a series of compilation albums featuring and promoting local artists, and this NZ Music Month will stage the first Hawke's Bay Music ...
23/03/2022
Split Enz’ international heyday came in the late 1970s/early ’80s, but the band’s origins as Split Ends date back to Tim Finn’s early university days - which means that the end of 2022 will mark the 50th anniversary ...
12/05/2021
If you’re intrigued by the NZ Music Month advertisement this year, it’s Rodney Fisher’s graphic homage to 10 Kiwi-made pieces of NZ musical equipment. Some it would be hard for a Kiwi music aficionado like you not to ...
28/11/2018
The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) is a copyright collective representing Australian and New Zealand composers, lyricists, and music publishers. Sam Smith spoke with NZ's head of APRA, Anthony Healey, ...
13/11/2015
It’s always a considerable priviledge to attend the national final of the annual Smokefreerockquest – the culmination of more than 40 heats and distillation of 700-plus hopeful entrants down the year’s best high school ...
28/11/2022
Winners of the Play It Strange 2022 competitions have been announced, with 11 awards to be presented to secondary school students at a ceremony in Auckland at the end of November. 2022 Songwriting Competition Grace Lawrence ...
22/11/2021
Te Kura's Young Musicians programme has been given the thumbs up by industry heavyweights, and two songwriting students at Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu have had their own songs released under the school initiative. Aidan Ripley ...
22/05/2017
A crowd of 600 people gathered on Saturday, May 13 at Sacred Heart College in Auckland, where Play it Strange presented the We Are One concert for autism awareness with Jordan Luck, Fiona McDonald, Larry Morris, Mike Chunn, ...
