22/12/2017
Peter Skerrett has worked in the New Zealand and Australian music scenes as a session bassist and singer for over 60 years. He played bass on Peter Posa’s 1963 hit White Rabbit as well as for numerous show bands and jingles. ...
20/09/2017
The local awards season is now in full swing (two down, two to go) and it’s proving to be a BIG year for the ladies. The Waiata Māori Music Awards turned 10 in Hastings mid-September. The night’s big winner was Maisey ...
28/08/2017
Em-Haley Walker first started creating a buzz with her 2015 track Silver Second, released under her then-moniker Plum. By the time her Josh Fountain-produced single Roam was released in late 2016, she was recording and performing ...
15/07/2017
Soulful newcomer Teeks is a real show stopper, with a surprisingly classic soul voice and a magnetic stage presence that belies the natural shyness of the young man. If you’re unfamiliar with his music that’ll because ...
16/06/2017
A few days out from the release of his second album Auckland-based rapper Callum McDougall aka Rei passed through Wellington, finding time for a coffee with NZM writer Andrew Witty. ‘A Place To Stand’ encapsulates Rei’s ...
16/11/2020
For the second year running, Benee has claimed the crown as Kiwi music’s ‘Queen Bee’, taking home another set of four Tuis from the freshly re-named Aotearoa Music Awards 2020, held at Spark Arena in Auckland on Sunday, ...
29/10/2020
The 2020 APRA Silver Scroll ceremony became something of a hybrid event this year with the uncertainties of future Covid-19 lockdowns obliging APRA to move their annual awards celebration to an online streaming platform ...
09/10/2020
Finalists for the newly renamed Aotearoa Music Awards | Nga Tohu Puoro o Aotearoa, (the Tuis) have been announced. Longtime fan favourites Six60, who coincidentally have a feature film due out in November, are frontrunners ...
29/09/2020
Recorded Music NZ and Massey University will celebrate the behind-the-sound heroes of Aotearoa’s music industry at the re-branded 2020 AMA Artisan Awards in November. Due to the uncertainty surrounding a live audience ...
28/09/2020
In a year of changes that's including multiple changed event dates and changed event modes, Recorded Music NZ have announced a major rebrand of their annual NZ music awards ceremony – to become the Aotearoa Music Awards. Sarah ...
