Featuring a blindfolded and gagged newspaper reader and clever two-colour printing on its fold out cover, Ekko Park 's new album 'Know Hope’ looks for all money to be a statement of rock activism. Track ...
Shana Llorando, it seems, has a winning way. 2015 has seen her complete a BMus (Popular Music) degree, just a few months after winning the year’s University of Auckland Songwriter of the Year award. ...
Joe McCallum has been the regular drummer guy in the wave of popularly alternative musicians who have emerged from Christchurch's port city in recent years. As musician, songwriter and producer Delaney ...
Christchurch trio No Broadcast have slowly but surely been building a strong following for their inspired vision of indie post rock, one that is coloured by a willingness to experiment with their sound. ...
With a few more radio hits it could be the album story of the century – well two centuries actually, given that it was started back in 1987. Having recorded the demo tracks for an artful concept album, ...
Incredibly the story of Ill Semantics runs over more than two decades – albeit with an eight year break ahead of their getting back into the studio to record their third album. With that length of ...
Chris Priestley is a musician who has been pivotal in the Auckland folk music scene for over three decades. He is equally a business entrepreneur and culture creator. One of the founders of Real Groovy ...
Smaller guitars have been grabbing themselves quite a lot of attention lately, in the particular case of this slightly under-sized Dreadnought model from Martin, largely due to the huge success of ...
She may not readily admit it but the title of Lisa Crawley's just-released EP, 'Up In The Air', provides a fair indication of where things are at for the Auckland singer/songwriter. 2015 also saw her travelling ...
With a decade-long history of putting on all-ages gigs Savina Kim is something of a youth music entrepeneur. In November 2015 she announced a new music and events industry mentoring scheme called Ignite. ...
Having settled in Melbourne for a couple of years, Rachel Bailey and John Howell these days call Dunedin home, and fittingly recorded the fourth The Broken Heartbreakers’ album in the living room of ...
"We've actually known each other since about 2006 when we played shows together in Auckland as members of Save Tom's Dog and Midnight Trio," remembers Alex Ferrier, aka Alex Elvis, guitarist of progressive ...
Adison Whitely (guitar and vocals), Fraser Hunter on drums and Tom Dennison (bass) make up Auckland surf/punk/rock/fuzz/cockrock/garage band Heroes For Sale. Formed by Hunter and Whitely at Green Bay ...
In his endeavours managing, marketing and making his own music, Declan Ramsey is a self-described nerd, the kind to be found geeking out over gear and tour cost spreadsheets. Declan's band, The Lucid ...
With a playing history that encompasses the diversity of French For Rabbits, Glass Vaults and The Wellington City Shake-Em-On-Downers, Hikurangi Schaverien-Kaa has in recent years been establishing himself ...
Deep Thinking is making a brief return to the world of progressive rock in this issue to make a tribute to the great Yes bassist, Chris Squire (1948 - 2015). Squire died in June this year, but the ...
Many music teachers will have students who say they want to be great guitar players, but have no idea how to escape mediocrity, who to be great or how to even get there. Many students cite the popular ...
Sometimes as musicians we just expect things to work and to work properly. I plug in my gear and it should just go. But, unfortunately, this is not always the case. After all the time, effort and money ...
In my last Building Blocks article I charted the path that it took for a breakout band to establish itself in a local scene. Now we're going to look at the next step: Established Bands. What does it ...
How do we cope with the uncharted/unplanned day? Some people can account for and wisely spend every waking hour, planned well in advance. That’s not me. This article is about making time and prioritising ...
In the last couple of Lawful Truth columns we went through the Top 10 legal tips for surviving in the NZ music industry. I've since received a few questions about some of the points covered in those ...
