19/10/2022
Working alongside Auckland's Establish Music, Frances Dickinson is hosting the Music Accessibility Workshop Series, with events in our three biggest cities, plus online via Zoom, during November - kicking off in Tāmaki Makaurau ...
28/06/2022
Tess Liautaud grew up an American in France and she has now brought her softly honest folk-pop sound to NZ. Travelling Te Waipounamu in her van, Tess considers herself a nomad and goes wherever the music takes her. Her most ...
14/06/2022
These days based in the big smoke of Auckland city, Becca Caffyn has spent a year writing songs and developing her sound through the Parachute Artist Development Programme. She knew gentle folk-pop tune Stair Kids was going ...
14/06/2022
Originating in Wellington as a schoolboy skater band back in 2009, Bakers Eddy have this March released a debut album that has drawn enthusiastic praise for its freewheeling blend of indie and punk, music that’s as exuberantly ...
20/05/2022
Turkish-Kiwi artist YASHAR is an up-and-coming EDM producer from Tāmaki Makaurau. Brand new dancefloor-shaking tune Without You is his sixth single released in the last year or so – the man is prolific! NZ On Air Music ...
30/09/2020
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 ...
31/05/2019
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 ...
03/05/2019
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 ...
08/04/2019
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 ...
05/10/2017
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 ...
24/01/2018
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 ...
24/04/2017
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 ...
05/01/2017
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. ...
05/10/2016
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 ...
31/08/2016
Mixing in the box: Okay, valuable cliché time. ‘Start with the end in mind.’ There is a temptation to just start pushing faders around and see what happens. If you have an idea of what you want your final product to ...