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FEATURES (100)
My Song
26/09/2025
My Song: Jed Skuse – You Only Call Me on the Weekend
Happy to admit that he's still learning his way around pro recording studios, Gisborne singer-songwriter and guitarist Jed Skuse has long shown ample mastery of the loop pedal. At 16 he claimed first place in the East ...
Industry
20/07/2025
Industry: The Cultures and Musicians of This Place Here
‘Diversity and Collaboration’ was the title of Michael Hollywood’s feature on then-emerging four-piece Yoko-Zuna for the Feb/March 2016 issue of NZM. Those concepts are obviously important to drummer and filmmaker Swap ...
Interviews
03/07/2025
LEIGH: Welcoming Her Future Self
LEIGH is the art pop solo project of Cameron McCurdy (she/her), a trans musician, multi-instrumentalist, comic maker and animator from Tāmaki Makaurau. Her self-produced album titled ‘Empathy for My Future Self’ traverses ...
NewTracks New Artist
23/06/2025
NewTracks New Artist: Frank on Tap
With a constant trickle of carefully-measured alt rock singles since 2021, Auckland-based four-piece Frank on Tap released a five-song EP titled 'Beside You' early in 2024, and are now shaping up for the release of their ...
Interviews
01/04/2025
Henry Charles: Southern Funkadelic
File under Funk / Soul / Jazz. Highly versatile Wanaka-based guitarist and composer Henry Charles has just released his groove-filled debut album. In a nod to the music and movie culture that inspire him, he has reasonably ...
NEWS (13)
Opportunities
30/09/2020
Applications Open For 2021 Girls Rock Tāmaki Makaurau
Applications are open for the 2021 Girls Rock Tāmaki Makaurau, to be held at SAE Auckland in January 2021. Girls Rock! Aotearoa is a music-based school holiday programme for young women, transgender and gender non-conforming ...
News
31/05/2019
2019 NZ Country Music Awards
It was a 'wildfire' heartwarming case of local-girl-does-good at the announcement of winners of the 2019 NZ Country Music Awards, held as part of the annual Gold Guitar Awards, in Gore on May 30. Jenny Mitchell received ...
News
03/05/2019
2019 Country Music Awards Finalists
The 2019 Country Music Awards finalists include some of the country's finest releases of the last year, the album and song categories both dominated by female artists whose music readily straddles radio-defined genre boundaries. Finalists ...
News
08/04/2019
National Youth Jazz Competition 2019 Winners
The winners of the National Youth Jazz Competition 2019 were announced at Baycourt Community and Arts Centre in Tauranga at the end of the first week of April. The judges for 2019 were Dr Rodger Fox and Dave Wilson from ...
News
05/10/2017
Golden Dusk?
The good people behind Auckland’s Golden Dawn bar and live music venue have announced their intention to shut up shop. With the venerable Kings Arms due to close in late Feb, the upstart Ponsonby venue will now follow ...
LESSONS (18)
Road Rules
13/05/2020
Road Rules: Setting Up Your First Home Recording Studio
For years I’ve been saying I was too busy to get into home recording. True, there are times I’m on the road touring and I am actually too busy, but in the last few weeks of Corona-virus lockdown I’ve had the time to ...
Tutors' Tutorial
24/01/2018
Tutors’ Tutorial: Why Ableton Doesn’t Suck!
To the people who use Ableton, you know why it doesn’t suck. In fact, the case is quite the opposite. It blows! Blows audio fish out of the audio ocean with audio dynamite. Far too often I’ve heard stories of people’s ...
Tutors' Tutorial
24/04/2017
Tutors’ Tutorial: Mix Buss Processing
The mix is close to being finished and it’s time to add the final touches. Time then to talk mix-buss or mix-buss processing – the plugins that are often used to finish off your mix. The overall approaches to the ...
Tutors' Tutorial
05/01/2017
Tutors’ Tutorial: Mixing In The Box – Part 4
Panning is one of the first concepts people become familiar with when getting into music production. The pan pot (panorama potentiometer) is right there on the channel strip and moving it around probably feels very intuitive. ...
Building Blocks
05/10/2016
Building Blocks: Street Fairs & Festivals – Stage Trek 3
The last stop in our quest was the unpredictable but often quite fun planet of All-Ages & School Gigs. Now let’s journey to the stage at street fairs or festivals. That’s not just another world, it’s a whole different ...