17/12/2015
With a few more radio hits it could be the album story of the century – well two centuries actually, given that it was started back in 1987. Having recorded the demo tracks for an artful concept album, musician/producer Tim ...
17/12/2015
Incredibly the story of Ill Semantics runs over more than two decades – albeit with an eight year break ahead of their getting back into the studio to record their third album. With that length of history and the association ...
16/12/2015
Chris Priestley is a musician who has been pivotal in the Auckland folk music scene for over three decades. He is equally a business entrepreneur and culture creator. One of the founders of Real Groovy Records, he moved ...
13/11/2015
Robbie Hewson, One Waka’s vocalist, guitarist and spokesperson, admits to being obsessed with classic dub production, the likes of Lee Scratch Perry and King Tubby. The Christchurch dubsters, he says, always thought they’d ...
14/09/2015
As the ‘righteous’ son of legendary vocalist The Mighty Asterix, it was inevitable that Israel Buchanan would play a part in the future of reggae Aotearoa. Originally an Aucklander, via Tokomaru Bay (Ngati Porou), he ...
04/12/2019
The NZ Music Commission is inviting potential interns to apply for 16 short term roles across the music industry. Its Industry Internship Programme 2020 will run for the third time next year, with the goal of growing the ...
15/11/2019
Brilliantly hosted by Laura Daniel and Jon Toogood, accompanied by a large ‘swear jar’, the 2019 NZ Music Awards were staged at Spark Arena in Auckland last night. As the hosts regularly riffed, it may well be the last ...
03/10/2019
Aldous Harding (Hannah Harding/Topp) has won the 2019 APRA Silver Scroll Award with her unsettling but incredibly beautiful earworm of a song, The Barrel, the first single from her third album 'Designer'. “I’ll put ...
27/09/2019
Recorded Music NZ has announced the 2019 NZ Music Awards finalists, with alternative music artists to the fore. Heading the pack are indie-pop band The Beths, who released their debut album 'Future Me Hates Me' in 2018, ...
25/09/2019
Neo-soul outfit 78 District from Papatoetoe High School, in Auckland, took out the National Final of the 2019 Smokefree Tangata Beats staged in Manukau on Saturday, September 21. 78 District include vocalists Silika Isaia ...
