31/08/2015
As inspired and inspirational as it was at the time, 15–plus years ago and counting, it is nonetheless remarkable just how enduring has been the legacy, mythology-even of Weta – the fun lovin’, hard rockin’ band ...
29/06/2015
July's first ever All Black test in Apia will attract a far bigger audience, and long before it is played has already received plenty more media coverage, but it's hard to imagine a bigger or better night for Pacific music ...
20/03/2015
The history of Wellington’s pretty well legendary Trinity Roots stretches all the way back to 1998, allowing for a five year hiatus from 2005 until late 2010 when they announced the original band was back together, and ...
12/12/2014
Most people around the country will know that Lorde left the 2014 NZ Music Awards with an armful of trophies. With 22 different awards plus performances on the night, plus all those network ‘stars’ to prop, inevitably ...
17/11/2014
Brendan Smyth may typically wear a black T-shirt and jeans, but he is a civil servant and master of government bureaucracy, with responsibility for the small packet distribution of $4.7M of taxpayer’s funds into the local ...
09/09/2019
"E ora ai te reo whiua ki te ao! For the language to survive – share it with the world." That's the motto of the 2019 #1Miriona Waiata Challenge, encouraging you to sing (or even just lip-sync music) in te reo Māori and ...
05/07/2019
At the Nga Whetu O Matariki Awards 2019 held in Auckland on July 4, legendary country singer Dennis Marsh received a Te Mata o te Ariki special award for his outstanding contribution to music. The Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Hine ...
25/06/2019
Nominations for the 2019 NZ Music Awards are open. T & C can be found here and you can sign up to nominate someone here. Awards are open to NZ artists who have had recordings commercially released between August 1, ...
26/03/2019
IMNZ has announced Moana And The Moahunters' first album 'Tahi' as the recipient of the 2019 Classic Record award. To be presented at the Taite Music Prize ceremony in Auckland on April 16, the award acknowledges NZ's ...
16/11/2018
It was perhaps too much to wish for the headline, ‘Six60 Win SixTui’, but the Auckland five-piece came perilously close to pulling it off, claiming a five Tui trophy haul at the 2018 NZ Music Awards held in Auckland, ...
