02/04/2025
Ōtautahi singer-songwriter Miriam ‘Mim’ Jensen’s confessional indie rock songs manage to be both incisive and reflective, and since she first emerged in 2022 they’ve already taken her places. She has performed at ...
31/03/2025
With unrivalled feel and virtuosity for the music he plays jazz clarinetist Adrian Cox is internationally acclaimed, and currently right at the top of his game. Unrivalled feel and virtuosity for the music he plays has led ...
24/03/2025
Blending nostalgia with modern rock, while steering-locked to an unmistakably pre-millennium Kiwi pub rock sound, newcomer Christchurch rock band Anglebox are picking up their undies from the lawn and releasing a contrarily ...
27/02/2025
The now Christchurch-based indie folk artist Just Janie recorded her recently released country/folk single Musings in the Breakfast Aisle at Saltbox Studios as part of Ōtautahi’s 2024 OMAP programme. A vocally rich ...
18/02/2025
After three years of daily streaming Christchurch artist Veryhandsomebilly Twitched himself off. Not entirely as it turns out but Billy Mills, the artist who goes by that bodacious handle, is now a budding singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist, ...
20/01/2021
This March, APRA are holding SongHubs Ōtautahi in Christchurch, and applications are now open! The programme will run from March 22 to March 26 out of The Arts Centre from where they'll run 5 writing rooms and make places ...
24/07/2020
Results are in for the New Music Single July 2020 funding round – the first singles round since NZ On Air were allocated additional budget to invest in New Music, via the Arts Recovery Package announced by the Government ...
01/05/2020
Entries are open for the 2020 APRA Silver Scroll Awards, which also include the Maioha Award, SOUNZ Contemporary Award / Te Tohu Auaha, Best Original Music in a Feature Film Award and Best Original Music in a Series Award. You're ...
15/04/2020
Christchurch's Sole Music Academy are running their very first songwriting competition, one that's open to South Islanders only. There are two categories, an open one for adults, and a second for those 17 and under. In terms ...
10/02/2020
While RNZ finds itself in the middle of a bunfight over the future of Concert FM, Te Māngai Pāho has begun consultation on the development of its National Māori Music Strategy. A series of nine hui are taking place across ...
