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NewTracks New Artist
14/05/2026
NewTracks New Artist: Loa Loa
Their band photos are blurred and the online description helpfully starts, ‘The loa loa is a filarial nematode…’, indicating Loa Loa are quite private types and happy to keep the Dunedin band’s identity a little ...
Interviews
29/04/2026
Anderson Rocio: In The Grand Scheme
Aotearoa-adoptive American/Spanish citizen of the world, Anderson Rocio has worked in various aspects of the music industry since heading to Los Angeles in 2017. Success arrived in 2020 with a song she’d written being heavily ...
NewTracks New Artist
23/04/2026
NewTracks New Artist: The Mentalist Collective
Mostly school teachers, hailing from a variety of southern hemisphere backgrounds, and aged around the 40 mark, The Mentalist Collective are a musically eclectic Ōtepoti songwriter five-piece, with roots going back almost ...
Interviews
22/01/2026
Anna van Riel: Pitching Her Wooden Leg
Anna van Riel’s music career by now spans over two decades, but having spent the past 10 years or so focused on recording children’s music, along with writing and performing an environmental rock opera for kids, it’s ...
Interviews
17/10/2025
Echomatica: Technicolour Dreamscapes
The August 2025 release of first single Love Isn’t Always introduced Auckland four-piece Echomatica to an audience wider than those, fans of shoegaze and dream pop mostly, who had already discovered them through live performances. ...
NEWS (33)
News
15/09/2022
South Island 2022 Arts Excellence Awards Winners
Coloratura soprano Calla Knudson and composer and musicologist Ihlara McIndoe are the winners of the 2022 Arts Excellence Awards for the South Island, each receiving $5000 towards their future studies from the Dame Malvina ...
Opportunities
13/07/2022
2022 Amped Music Project
The 2022 Amped Music Project in Dunedin is calling for young bands, performers and musicians in the city to apply for their annual series of workshops and all-ages gigs, aimed at sharing an insight into how the music business ...
News
08/06/2022
2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours in Music
Nine New Zealanders have been honoured for their service among the 2022 Queen's Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours list for their contribution to various aspects of the NZ music industry. Officers of the Order (ONZM) Faafetai ...
News
20/04/2022
Hook, Line and Singalong 2022
Winners of the Hook, Line and Singalong 2022 songwriting contest have been announced. Funded and curated by the NZ Music Commission in conjunction with MENZA, the winning song will get professionally recorded, printed, ...
Opportunities
01/11/2021
SongHubs Ōtepoti Applications Open
SongHubs is coming to Dunedin, with applications open now for SongHubs Ōtepoti. SongHubs Aotearoa is a series of collaborative song-writing retreats that APRA AMCOS is presenting across Aotearoa New Zealand during 2020 ...
LESSONS (51)
Deep Thinking
01/02/2023
Deep Thinking: Building Basslines – Part 2
Following on from the last two Deep Thinking online columns here we continue the quest to build a unique bassline, whether from a chord chart or from a songwriter playing a chord sequence to you. We have previously looked ...
Deep Thinking
27/07/2022
Deep Thinking: Building Basslines
In this instalment of Deep Thinking we are looking at a way you can use different scales when confronted (or even challenged!) with some previously unheard music or a new song. As bass players, what's expected of us is ...
Deep Thinking
06/04/2022
Deep Thinking: Using The Pentatonic Scales
The last couple of Deep Thinking columns that featured one of Jaco Pastorius’ best pieces (IMHO) have maybe made the learning too difficult for bassists, so in this column, I am going right back to some simple stuff that’s ...
Deep Thinking
02/02/2022
Deep Thinking: Weather Report’s Teen Town (Part 2)
Admittedly it's been a while now, but in the last NZM issue we tackled one of Jaco Pastorius’ compositions for Weather Report, Teen Town. Having got to bar 20, there was a repeat to bar 5 but, when you get to bar 13 this ...
Deep Thinking
14/07/2021
Deep Thinking: Heavy Weather Hombre
This issue’s piece is a bit of a tough hombre. (See that, I used Spanish, not bad for a bassist!) I have transcribed one of Jaco Pastorius’ signature compositions, Teen Town from the Weather Report’s legendary 1977 ...
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Event Guide
29/08/2023
French For Rabbits On Tour With Chamber Music NZ
As part of Chamber Music NZ Puoro Taiwhanga Aotearoa’s flagship CMNZ series, dream pop luminaries French for Rabbits are about to embark on a four main-centre tour that will see the band perform new songs from their soon ...
Event Guide
10/03/2023
Midwave Breaks May Tour
Tauranga alt rock duo Midwave Breaks will be celebrating NZ Music Month with nine headlining shows across the motu! Since their debut release Lemonade Hand Grenade in 2021, Midwave Breaks have continued to make serious ...
Event Guide
30/06/2022
Simona Smirnova: Bird Language Album Release Tour
Simona Smirnova is returning to perform in New Zealand for the fourth time and this year she will be presenting her new album in five cities, performing with local jazz talents. The Lithuanian-born jazz vocalist, composer ...
Event Guide
15/06/2022
Jan Hellriegel and Catherine Tunks Live
Toi Toi Music announces Jan Hellriegel performing live, solo and acoustic on June 25 at Lopdell House Theatre Titirangi, Auckland, with guest support from fellow west Auckland songstress Catherine Tunks. After cutting ...
Events
08/06/2022
SoundCheck Aotearoa: Professional Respect Training
SoundCheck Aotearoa is an action group with the mission to foster a safe and inclusive culture for the music community. As part of their commitment to addressing sexual harm in our music community they are offering a series ...