12/04/2024
The drive and prolific output of Whakatū high school student Alyahna Sanson-Rejouis, featured with her band Jola Burns in NZM's December/January 2024 print issue, is rather remarkable. Aged 15 and now also going solo as ...
25/03/2024
As if Te Matau-a-Maui wasn't already punching well above its weight in the music and arts scene, Flaxmere College and Tamatea High School have just produced Tangata Beats-winning band Te Whānau Puoro. Jasper West catches ...
19/03/2024
Coming from a background of session music and cover gigs, husband-and-wife duo Rā Toia-Booth and Hayden Booth have turned towards performing their original material that come with a chilled-out reggae infusion, under the ...
14/03/2024
What better way to release some of the anxiety in these crazy times than through music? And as an artist, why not scream your message from the rooftops through songs exploring your worries and hopes for our future? Tāmaki ...
13/02/2024
Shepherds Reign are a Kiwi heavy metal band from the Polynesian stronghold suburbs of Tāmaki Makaurau. The band have reached a pivotal point in their career with the 2023 release of their sophomore album 'Ala Mai', which ...
14/07/2021
Applications are open now for the 2021 Reo Māori Songhubs which will take place over a week, starting September 26, at Tāmaki Makaurau’s Roundhead Studios. Reo Māori SongHubs is a collaborative songwriting wānanga, ...
18/06/2021
Recorded Music NZ has announced that from June 19 Aotearoa will have a new te reo Māori music chart – introduction of the Official Top10 Te Reo Māori Singles of the week. In order to be eligible for the Official Te ...
18/05/2021
In what they believe is a NZ first, local community group Awa Puoro ki te Ao and the Alexander Library Te Rerenga mai o te Kāuru in Whanganui have come together to provide a selection of traditional Māori instruments (taonga ...
11/11/2020
APRA have announced the producers and songwriters who will be taking part in the new Reo Māori SongHubs 2020 programme. The collaborative songwriting wānanga, will bring together experts in music creation and waiata reo ...
12/10/2020
Due to the continuing threat of Covid-19 the 2020 Waiata Māori Music Awards event was staged online on Friday, October 9. L.A.B further illustrated their recent dominance of the local scene with four major awards for 2020 ...