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 ...
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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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X-Factory: 2018 APRA Silver Scroll Award Finalists – The Art Of Surprise
No matter what the accumulated critics’ choices or popular picks might leave us expecting on the night, the winner of the ...
READ MORE >21/09/2018
X-Factory: Carnivorous Plant Society – Don’t Go Outside
On first hearing Carnivorous Plant Society ’s Don’t Go Outside I felt transfixed by the performance, recorded live for ...
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X-Factory: Te Vaka – We Know The Way
Multi-award winning group Te Vaka are again amongst the finalist nominees for the 2018 Vodafone Pacific Music Awards, this ...
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X-Factory: Leisure, Money and the Soulquarians
Go on, do it! Google the word ‘soulquarians’. You may already be familiar with this term or you may, as I was, be on ...
READ MORE >01/12/2017
X-Factory: Six60
Six60 - two new NZ Top 10 songs in 2 weeks - how do they do it? The word Authenticity (in existentialist philosophy) is ...
READ MORE >06/09/2017
X-Factory: Rounding Up The Silver Scroll Finalists
The five songs in with a chance to win this year’s APRA Silver Scroll Award are Close Your Eyes by Bic Runga, Life of the ...
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X-Factory: Lorde – Green Light
It must be challenging for any artist to follow up a successful debut album, let alone a Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum ...
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