Over the past four years, The Drab Doo Riffs have captivated gig-going audiences throughout the country. Their love of ’60s surf and garage rock has also seen them latch onto sci-fi imagery and create ...
Certainly he's not beyond self-promotion, but it's likely that Bruce Aitken wouldn't rate himself as one of this country's better, or even better known drummers. Yet this self-described "pint-sized ...
Being Kiwis we instinctively admire those who are good enough to be entirely laid back with their natural musical gifts, and refuse to pretend that they are anything or anyone they are not. Even the best ...
At the end of July, Andrew (Drew) McMillan became the recipient of Arts Access Aotearoa’s Big ‘A’ Artistic Achievement Award 2013. A leading figure in Auckland’s improv music scene, the multi-talented ...
HUFF is two-piece live electronic band fresh outta Swampton – Palmerston North, that is racking up some international experience. HUFF readily admit to being a basic warehouse-rave-punk-party act. No ...
Over several years from the late 1990s, Charlotte Yates provided NZ Musician with a regular songwriting advice column. In the decade since has released a steady stream of albums under her own name, alongside ...
Any readers who may have shared with me the dubious distinction of "learning" Latin at high school will know that once in a blue moon it actually comes in handy. While essentially a dead language, outside ...
It may not seem glamorous, but there’s good money to be made with music tailored to children. Successful kid groups like The Wiggles sell out stadium-sized venues worldwide, and one good idea, ...
Not many (if any) other Kiwi rock acts of recent decades have swept all before them in the way that Blindspott did with their self-titled debut album released by EMI NZ back in November 2002. That album ...
Pickups and onboard pre-amps on acoustic instruments can be harsh and lack the dynamic range and tone of the instrument, making a good guitar sound thin and brittle on a large stage. This review is of ...
Socialising, eating and sleeping are a big part of most teenagers' everyday lives, but for 19-year old Daniel McBride it's a common occurrence to go long periods without anything except, well, music. The ...
Mix a bit of math rock with post punk, a few good friends and a lack of vowels, and you've got HDSPNS. This experimental four-piece have been thrashing the Auckland music scene lately and are due to ...
Into The East 's Liv McBride and Graeme Woller started with a covers group in Invercargill that all fell apart on one under-rehearsed night in front of an angry crowd. Taking their guitars and voices ...
Currently performing as a folk/country duo with upright bassist Richard Pickard, Nadia Reid has travelled the country extensively, always with a hard working musician ethos in the forefront of her mind. ...
Many a band has been brought together through a mutual friend. So it was with live production and vocals duo Black City Lights – against the backdrop of a quintessential Wellington existence, selling ...
You know their music. You’ve probably found yourself humming along to one of their tunes in the shower or absent-mindedly chanting through one of their hooks at the supermarket. Their songs have been ...
Associated most recently with Latin-funk, soul trio LatinAotearoa, we also know multi-instrumentalist, DJ, afro-wearer and producer Isaac Aesili from his various stints with Funkommunity, ...
In a previous music video she was being bothered by a giant pink elephant but in her latest video, for the song Elizabeth, Lisa Crawley is both a glamorous headless body and a well-coiffured head, being ...
From one man to four, Auckland act Paquin play a poppy and synth-heavy brand of shoegaze-slash-dance pop. It’s hard to be specific because they seem to be on a continuum of change, away from rocky guitar ...
Throughout this series of articles I've mostly focused on self-management strategies and techniques that include the whole band rolling up their sleeves. It's always best this way, because the job ...
We're often way too negative, judgemental and overly critical of our voices and creative output. So, this column is about objective awareness – getting macro-cosmological and real. Many singers/creatives ...
When learning any musical instrument a major part of what you do is to learn how to finger and hear intervals. It’s no different for guitarists. It can get a little tedious learning all your intervals ...
This article is about soloing from the melody. As guitar players there can be a tendency to know the chords to a song, but not the melody. If you play a lot with singers, sax players etc. who always take ...
Ever since it became possible to convert analogue audio into digital bit stream, setting a loudness standard for this new digital audio has been associated with certain difficulties. The dynamic range ...
