X-Factory: The Beths – I’m Not Getting Excited
Occasionally, like once in a blue moon, when the conditions are just right, and the stars align for a nanosecond, maybe the impossible can become possible, and truly ...MORE
X-Factory: The Beths – I’m Not Getting Excited
Occasionally, like once in a blue moon, when the conditions are just right, and the stars align for a nanosecond, maybe the impossible can become possible, and truly ...MORE
02/09/2020
X-Factory: Silver Scroll Finalists 2020
It almost seems ritualistic now. I see the email announcing the five finalists for this year’s APRA Silver Scroll Award ...
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X-Factory: Chaii – Digebasse
Damn! Someone has beaten me to it! When listening to Digebasse by Chaii, arguably one of the most prominent features of the ...
READ MORE >17/04/2020
X-Factory: Aldous Harding – The Barrel
Question: What do Finding Nemo, Taylor Swift and Aldous Harding have in common? Answer: Perhaps more than you might think. ...
READ MORE >02/10/2019
X-Factory: 2019 Silver Scroll Award Finalists
2019 Silver Scroll Award finalists - Songs of the year gone by - Okay, I am biased. Straight up. No lies. Time to fess up. ...
READ MORE >20/09/2019
X-Factory: Sorrento – Look Up
Somewhere deep within the NZ music scene lies a musical entity called Sorrento. In the Top 20 shortlist for the 2019 Silver ...
READ MORE >10/05/2019
X-Factory: Bene – Soaked
And the award goes to... Bene for the quickest earworm I have ever experienced – I think I may have even dreamt about ...
READ MORE >11/01/2019
X-Factory: Nostalgia, Semiotics, and Drax Project
Nostalgia, Semiotics, and Drax Project: Nostalgia’s not what it used to be – perhaps an overly theatrical beginning to ...
READ MORE >05/11/2018
X-Factory: In Praise of The Adults’ ‘Haja’
Combine a long-standing rock artist, some very current Kiwi vocalists, a rapper or two, a Sudanese culture and set it all ...
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