03/07/2013
The Chills have a long history full of stories: leather jackets, line-up changes and curses, (to name a few). The band is still well-loved and respected, a major part of the lauded Dunedin Sound genre. They are adored internationally ...
23/02/2022
Having not long completed a music degree at Massey University in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Freyja Appleyard is seemingly keeping well busy with a number of projects, like indie bands King Fish and Sure Boy. In late January ...
16/08/2021
The rise of Auckland indie pop supergroup Phoebe Rings has been monumental. Within the space of two years they have gone from having not existed to opening for the likes of The Beths andLips, and just released their own self-titled ...
10/06/2020
French Concession is the solo art-pop endeavour of the Kiwi electronic songwriter, artist and producer Ella Chau Yin Chi, who in recent years has called both Hong Kong and Sydney home. Following numerous EPs she's just released ...
28/06/2019
There are some musicians whose careers are fluid, moving between styles, instruments and bands with ease, often at the periphery, but always with a familiar sound. Caroline Easther is one such musician, a drummer, multi-instrumentalist, ...
10/03/2021
APRA have announced the 14 songwriters who will be taking part in SongHubs Ōtautahi | Christchurch in late March. Curator Delaney Davidson will be supported by guests Julia Deans, Troy Kingi, Tami Neilson and Jol Mulholland. Each ...
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 ...
02/07/2020
The winners of NZ’s first 24-hour Bubble Bop songwriting competition have been announced by Massey University's student-led creative organisation Something Something. The competition, a truly changing-with-the-times initiative, ...
03/10/2019
Aldous Harding (Hannah Harding/Topp) has won the 2019 APRA Silver Scroll Award with her unsettling but incredibly beautiful earworm of a song, The Barrel, the first single from her third album 'Designer'. “I’ll put ...
19/10/2018
Of the 240 initial artists released for inclusion at SXSW 2019, a record-setting number of eight NZ bands has been invited to play. The percentage of band count vs country population puts Aotearoa at the top of the world’s ...
23/06/2020
Damn! Someone has beaten me to it! When listening to Digebasse by Chaii, arguably one of the most prominent features of the track is its use of rhythm, in particular the regular use of triplets, quavers/semiquavers, polyrhythm ...
10/05/2019
And the award goes to... Bene for the quickest earworm I have ever experienced – I think I may have even dreamt about this song last night! The number one New Zealand song (at time of press) is Soaked, enjoying 20 weeks ...
19/09/2018
Tattletale Saints’ bass player and singer Vanessa McGowan has previously provided NZM readers with insightful lessons and tips on working with session musicians and being a ‘badass’ backing vocalist. In this article, ...
13/06/2018
A great instrumentalist who also sings will frequently get work over a great instrumentalist who doesn't, especially in the harmony-rich world of country, folk and pop. As a bonus, singing is also incredibly fun! So here's ...
20/02/2018
Go on, do it! Google the word ‘soulquarians’. You may already be familiar with this term or you may, as I was, be on the brink of discovering something truly wonderful. Looking back at movements in the history of popular ...
