26/01/2022
Born in Iran, raised in New Zealand and based, for a few months at least, in sunny Los Angeles, Aotearoa hip hop newcomer and multi-hyphenate talent Chaii has the world both in her music and at her fingertips. Fresh off the ...
04/03/2021
With two years between them, Auckland siblings Brody Glanfield and her younger brother Ben aka Ben & Brody have been learning and making music together since their early primary school days. Both have long had a passion ...
11/01/2021
Music is fashion and movements within the musical landscape often come in waves that follow, or sometimes herald the arrival of the latest industry trend. The closing end of 2020 saw a flurry of initiatives aimed squarely ...
21/12/2020
Angel is the first song Jacqui Siu released in 2020 and it feels like a consistent effort to explore the mixture of melancholic RnB and electronic music she has been making since her two strong earlier singles, Fluorescent ...
11/11/2020
Auckland pop duo Laiika is made up of two 18-year-old girls who have been making music for a lot longer than you might imagine. A similar time warp can be observed of the music they make; dream-pop dosed with the musical ...
23/06/2021
The 2021 APRA Professional Development Award recipients have been announced with Emi Pogoni, Jolyon Mulholland, Lisa Crawley, Maree Sheehan, Phodiso Dintwe and Valentine Nixon rewarded. Every two years the PDAs are presented ...
09/12/2020
NZ On Air Music announced the first batch of recipients for the New Music Development funding scheme this week. Launched in October this year, the new scheme is a result of extra investment from Government through the Arts ...
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 ...
28/09/2020
The Aotearoa Music Producers Series 2020 (AMPS) will take place at Auckland’s Roundhead Studios from October 26 - November 6. Obviously impacted by Covid, it will feature 10 one-day music production workshops from an ...
14/07/2020
APRA have revealed the top 20 songs which have been identified as potential finalists for the 2020 Silver Scroll Award. Distilled from over 200 entries, it's a wide ranging list that includes a number of little known artists ...
