It takes a while to form the mental image of where you are going, muses drummer, beat-maker, producer, DJ and visual artist Julien Dyne.With a performance history that includes Opensouls, FFD, James ...
It’s been one of Palmerston North’s best kept secrets for 25 years, but thanks to TV3’s X-Factor at least 400,000 people have now heard of The Stomach. Third-placing finalist Benny Tipene is a regular ...
Apart from having one of the most catchy names in Kiwi hip hop, Raiza Biza is one of the most considered and stylish rappers we’ve got. Increasingly dividing his time between his family home in Hamilton ...
For most of us the story of Ibanez begins over 30 years ago in Philadelphia. The brand's introduction into the market was making inexpensive copies of just about every other guitar ...
It’s one of those stories where the numbers are out of date by the time you type them, and risk embarrassment by the time they are printed, distributed and read. Still, one number stands inspection – ...
It was back in NZM’s ninth issue, December 1989, that NZM first covered a Wellington speed metal act then called Shihaad. In short order the band gained a reputation for their fearsome live performances, ...
When he's not busy being a member of Auckland rock band Doppler, Sam Edgar happily drums for a diverse array of other artists, Lisa Crawley and Danny McCrum among them. He's also just turned 25 so we asked ...
Haz Huavi graced the cover of NZM’s Dec/Jan 2012 issue as part of Home Brew, the accompanying article to which revealed some of his beat-making technique and noted that he also had a second crew, along ...
"I try not to write songs for as long as I can, then one day I’ll sit around and a fully formed song will appear in my mind," says Jaisi Sheehan, singer and songwriter of Auckland retro-pop foursome ...
Singer, entertainer, supporter and more recently curator, Tama Waipara’s journey is already a well-documented staple of our music scene. A type of rebirth and evolution has wound its way through his ...
Fishman's clever TriplePlay synth/MIDI guitar system is a compact wireless guitar controller set up that non-destructively attaches to almost any electric guitar and, via your computer, ...
Even the most avid of the band’s fans struggle to put a ready handle on The All Seeing Hand’s exotic genre-creating sound. The combination of drummer, DJ and throat-singer is enough to throw anyone ...
There’s always a place in the city for a big band that can really rip it up on the dance floor – especially a band that dresses the part and has the smarts to do more than simply rework some previous ...
Kiwi guitarist Aaron Nevezie first visited New York after playing LA, Vegas and Chicago with the Rodger Fox Big Band. When he and a bandmate nipped off to the Big Apple for three days his fate, or his ...
From their debut in late 1995, Dunedin ‘psychedelic rock’ threesome High Dependency Unit, or HDU, wowed audiences with their brooding and heavy mix of sonic landscapes and visceral, bludgeoning rock. ...
Short-term residents maybe, but Otago University's uber-popular Kiwi roots/rock exports Six60 have been living warmly in Berlin for much of New Zealand's dry-as winter and our blustery-as spring. They've ...
When Anna Schlotjes did a Fresh Talent piece on Auckland band Black River Drive back in NZM's Dec/Jan 2011 issue she described them as a band earmarked for success. 2013 has seen BRD spending months ...
In his first year out of high school, Evan Sinton has already had much success. He has recorded an EP, released videos for his songs Tables and Chairs and Prisoner’s Cinema, and has opened for international ...
The tracks from Southland four-piece The Sparrow Thieves' self-titled first EP shift effortlessly from perky avant garde with a southern rock twist, to the atmospheric and minimalist. ...
who retains a self-effacing Kiwi charm despite the bombast one expects of hip hop. He is a man of enigmatic dualities, negotiating the divide between public and private, music and theatre, ...
Fire At Will was spawned in 2010 from the ashes of My Asylum after singer Caleb Dillner left and the group needed a new vocalist. Drummer Charlie Smith had previously met Hanu De Jong when auditioning ...
Asked to describe her band in five words or less, Annabel, the guitarist of Grrlfriendz, pauses for a moment, before laughing and saying, "Welcome to Planet Lesley." It couldn't really be anything ...
Legal disputes have long been a part of the music industry and the words of one famous song "send lawyers, guns and money," often don't seem to be too far from the truth in some of the crazier situations ...
Familiar as one of the Teacups’ trio and as an eye-catching, if shy, live backing vocalist to various break out acts including James Duncan and Punches, Chelsea Jade Metcalf effectively burst onto the ...
Twenty-five years ago, author John Dix published the original Stranded in Paradise (New Zealand Rock'n'Roll 1955 - 1988), a benchmark and defining book that documents the history and development ...
Rave reviews from French press. Charting on California radio stations. Being played on BBC6. Not your average response to a band from the deep south. So, who are The Prophet Hens? NZM’s resident Dunedin ...
The Naked And Famous’ career trajectory has been stratospheric since the release of their critically acclaimed and commercially successful debut album ‘Passive Me Aggressive You’ in 2010. Their international ...
Around the same time that the very first, and let’s be honest, somewhat primitive NZ Musician magazine rolled off the press 25 years ago, a unique, uncompromising and famously loud band began plying ...
In celebrating NZ Musician magazine's 25 years of publication, let's look at one of the fundamental progressions in jazz harmony – the II V (two five). Some context first. The V to I progression ...
When I first heard Nobody Else back in 1988 I assumed that like the Tex Pistol hit, Game of Love, the previous year, it was another '60s classic reworked with Simmons drums and DX-7s. No mere Kiwi could ...
For most musicians, the road to a viable career is gradual, not instantaneous. You get there by baby steps, by continued presence in your scene, and by the accumulation of experience and perspective. Eventually ...
There has recently been a flurry of upgrades for DAWs and associated software. Generally my first reaction to an update is, Great, let me at it. But this approach can sometimes (and often does) lead ...
Before I get into this lesson I would like to congratulate Richard and the team at NZM, along with all the past contributors, for all their efforts to make this magazine a number one NZ musical resource. I ...
