Playing seven album launch parties in almost as many different time zones, and almost as few days sounds like the stuff of fantasy. Not so for Auckland DJ/producer act Sweet Mix Kids who achieved the feat ...
With a collection of releases under their belt and a new album on the horizon, Wellington blues-rock trio Sea Mouse are forging a path as one of the country's most promising acts in the genre. Thomas Friggens ...
Perhaps it's a function of the (mostly) slow pace and deliberately sparse backing, but there is a real fragility in Greta O'Leary 's songs. Treasure Horse by Greta O'Leary The Wellington folk artist's ...
It's not every day that I get that chance to travel to the opposite side of the Papatūānuku (earth) to discover a whole world of music, walk the paths of my ancestors, share Te Ao Māori and acquire ...
You don't need to have lived in a parochial small town, or have worked in a bureaucracy the size of say, local council, to recognise the kind of human that ridiculously fancies themselves the big fish ...
Alternative four-piece Ringlets are bringing blistering energy and artistic edge to the stages of Tāmaki Makaurau. After releasing debut single Feeling Of The Body in April, Ringlets have spent the year ...
Finn Johansson is a charismatic creative with an intriguing sound, and while studying, has embraced a fresh take on how to make music a career in an oddly sustainable way. His music has a subtle way of ...
Singer-songwriter Miriam Clancy is no stranger to experimentation and innovation. Her album career has seen her diversely backed by acoustic guitar, by a rock band, and by synths and drum machines. These ...
'It's just a pipe dream', sings Te Whanganui-A-Tara-based singer-songwriter Danica Bryant on the first track of her recently dropped EP, 'Ego Death'. Likely not so because a career in music seems plenty ...
Originating as an Auckland band back in 2015, Blue Ruin have since expanded both membership and horizons to tour throughout the UK and Europe, where the now half-Kiwi / half-Euro pop punk band all live. ...
How did L.A.B. go from writing on pizza boxes to writing radio hits? Was it their musical talents alone or were there other factors involved outside of the music? L.A.B.'s live monitor engineer and Southern ...
Jason Parker recorded much of his debut EP 'How To Be Lonely' in his bedroom during the 2021 Covid lockdown – and it's about as well named as any production sharing that same genesis. The EP is a collection ...
How did L.A.B. go from writing on pizza boxes to writing radio hits? Was it their musical talents alone or were there other factors involved outside of the music? L.A.B.'s live monitor engineer and Southern ...
With a distinctive, gravelly yet ethereal voice, and a penchant for reflective, inspirational lyrics, singer-songwriter Renée Millner 's third EP 'Fly Me Back' sees her beginning to experiment with new ...
Over the last two decades, Gareth Shute has taken a wide range of roles within Lil' Chief Records – band member, CD distributor, event organiser, media rep, and even tour driver for a visiting US records ...
Tāmaki Makaurau-based keyboard player Alan Brown reviews Casio's Privia PX-S7000 digital piano. The look of Casio's latest top-end Privia digital piano incarnation, the PX-S7000, is modern and striking ...
Do what moves you. Tension is a singer's greatest enemy. It disables the very areas of the body we need open to resonate sound in. Tension is generated mentally; anticipating threat or danger, or unconsciously, ...
I'm not quite sure why but Kimbra hasn't really been on my radar before. We primarily listen to music to be moved emotionally, and our taste and intrigue is ultimately guided by personal aesthetics. Of ...
Popular learning mistakes - there are a few that guitar players commonly make that can quickly become habits, but are easily fixed if you are aware of them. Entrenched bad habits can take time to get rid ...
Following on from the last two Deep Thinking online columns here we continue the quest to build a unique bassline, whether from a chord chart or from a songwriter playing a chord sequence to you. We have ...
