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NewTracks New Artist
13/05/2021
NewTracks New Artist: Brutha Rodz
You might well remember him fronting Whanganui band Cool Meditation, or the shorter-lived RTI Vibration, but reggae singer Rodney Te Tawhero has since taken up a new challenge, going it alone as a solo artist under the name ...
Interviews
11/05/2021
Tomorrow People: Opening Up
Taking a break from their #FirstFriday campaign, Wellington reggae act Tomorrow People released an important new song especially for this year’s Anzac Day remembrance. The track called Ōku Rā addresses the issue of PTSD ...
My Song
21/04/2021
My Song: Theia x Vayne – Creep
Meeting at an APRA’s Reo Māori Songhubs, Auckland solo artists Theia and Vayne realised they had a lot in common musically, and working together soon recorded Creep, a hip hop beat-laden track straight out of the clubs. ...
Interviews
15/04/2021
Emily Rice: Being Face to Face
Brimming with excitement and speaking with the delight one has when they have a seven-week-old newborn baby, Emily Rice is clearly in a great space. The singer-songwriter, whose career spans folk duo We Stole The Sun and ...
Industry
07/04/2021
Oro: Growing a Bilingual NZ Music Industry
APRA has announced a new initiative aiming to support the growth of a bilingual music industry in Aotearoa. Oro (meaning to resound) is a strategy designed to increase the breadth of waiata reo Māori and waiata reorua (bilingual ...
NEWS (142)
News
06/04/2022
IMNZ Classic Record For 2022 Is Proud
Independent Music NZ has announced the 2022 recipient of the Classic Record is the seminal 1994 album 'Proud - An Urban-Pacific Streetsoul Compilation'. The award annually acknowledges one Aotearoa New Zealand record, ...
News
01/04/2022
Delaney Davidson Next Artist In Residency At Massey
Delaney Davidson has been invited to be Artist In Residence at Massey University's Te Rewa O Puanga, the School of Music and Creative Media Production, during 2022 and 2023. This position follows on from his highly successful ...
News
08/03/2022
2021 Local Music Airplay Hits Record High
NZ On Air reports that in 2021 local music airplay on New Zealand radio hit a new record high, with stats revealing nearly one in every four songs played on our main contemporary commercial music networks was from a local ...
News
18/02/2022
RMNZ CEO Damian Vaughan To Step Down In March
Recorded Music NZ CEO Damian Vaughan has announced that he will soon be leaving the role he has filled for almost a decade. Previously head of the comparatively diminutive IMNZ, Vaughan's nine-year stint as CEO of RMNZ ...
News
18/01/2022
Jerome Kavanagh Is Victoria Uni’s Composer-In-Residence 2022
Taonga pūoro artist and practitioner Jerome Kavanagh (Mokai Patea, Maniapoto, Kahungunu, Irish: Caomhanach) has been announced as Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington’s 2022 Creative NZ/Te Kōkī NZ School ...