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Interviews
02/07/2025
Mirage: Showing Another Side
Finishing 2024 on a high with the chart-topping success of Summer Won’t Be The Same, Bay of Plenty psychedelic indie act Mirage unveil an intimate new side of their artistry with their latest single Before the Night, a ...
Interviews
19/06/2025
Powder Chutes: Wickedness Increase
Self-described garage rock upstarts Powder Chutes look to be carving a track towards Shihad’s just-vacated crown as the nation’s leading hard rock exponents. A band of their youthful calibre coming out of Wānaka may ...
Interviews
28/05/2025
Velveteen: Hypertrophic Developments
Released by Ōtautahi’s Winegum Records, the compelling debut album from newcomer rock outfit Velveteen blends ‘90s alternative rock with elements of punk, emo and electronica. Velveteen is the musical project of Jai ...
NewTracks New Artist
29/04/2025
NewTracks New Artist: Mylen
Mylen began his musical journey in 2017, with his entre into the world of drum & bass production coming somewhat by chance a few years later. After a period of performing as a DJ all over Aotearoa, the 2021 release of ...
Interviews
19/03/2025
blindr: Prize Redemption
Tāmaki Makaurau pop-punk outfit blindr have employed a fruitful blend of good fortune, music skills and good sense to produce a very good debut EP called ‘lover.fighter’. Having won a band competition in 2023 the self-managed ...
NEWS (33)
News
10/02/2020
Te Māngai Pāho Māori Music Strategy Consultations Underway
While RNZ finds itself in the middle of a bunfight over the future of Concert FM, Te Māngai Pāho has begun consultation on the development of its National Māori Music Strategy. A series of nine hui are taking place across ...
News
10/05/2019
Music Industry Figurehead Malcolm Black Has Died
Few people have contributed to or intersected with the New Zealand music industry in as many ways as Malcolm Black. It is with great sadness that we hear of his death in Auckland on Friday, May 10. He was 58. Malcolm had ...
News
06/12/2018
December 2018 New Music Singles Funding Outcomes
NZ On Air Music has published the results of their December 2018 New Music Singles funding round. Out of 159 songs that were submitted, 25 songs got through, including 10 artists who have not received NZ On Air funding ...
News
30/08/2018
2018 APRA Silver Scroll Awards: Everything You Need To Know
As of this morning, we know all finalists for the 2018 APRA Silver Scroll Award, Maioha Award, SOUNZ Contemporary Award, APRA Best Original Music In A Series and APRA Best Original Music In A Feature Film. The music of the ...
News
29/08/2018
Baritone Will King Wins Wellington Aria
Baritone Will King took first prize at the Dame Malvina Major Foundation Wellington Aria on Sunday night. Second place was awarded to soprano Sophie Sparrow. Originally from Auckland, Will is currently in his fourth year ...
LESSONS (51)
Deep Thinking
11/04/2019
Deep Thinking: Purple Haze
Hi Everyone, this issue’s challenge is to play some Jimi Hendrix. I have transcribed the introduction to Purple Haze as Hendrix played it on a Strat but added a bass trick that will probably annoy your guitarist! For ...
Deep Thinking
25/10/2018
Deep Thinking: Sidney Carton’s Steps
This Deep Thinking piece is a solo bass tune with a nod in the direction of Charles Dickens (a ‘nod’ being the important word…). I would like to say it is a ‘far, far’ harder piece than the last piece we looked ...
Building Blocks
12/09/2018
Building Blocks: Self-Manage Or Bust!
Self-manage or bust: Ask the average working musician how they’re doing these days and they’ll likely shrug and tell you, “I’m managing.” In other words, they’re managing to make a career out of all the little ...
Deep Thinking
07/09/2018
Deep Thinking: Sidney Carton’s Steps
This Deep Thinking piece is a solo bass tune with a nod in the direction of Charles Dickens (a ‘nod’ being the important word…). I would like to say it is a ‘far, far’ harder piece than the last piece we looked ...
Deep Thinking
09/05/2018
Deep Thinking: Addicted To Chic
As mentioned in previous Deep Thinking columns, I have always admired the bass playing of the late Bernard Edwards (1952–1996), one of the co-founders founders of Chic, a seminal disco band of the late 1970s and the early ...
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EVENTS (25)
Event Guide
10/03/2021
Gig Starters All-Ages Event Management Seminars
The NZ Music Commission has created a new, free seminar series called Gig Starters, aiming to teach young people about putting on all-ages gigs. The initiative will hit the road in March, visiting Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston ...
Event Guide
24/06/2019
Dirty Pixels & Smokestack Slim Winter Tour
Auckland bands Dirty Pixels and Smokestack Slim are joining forces this winter to embark on a double headline tour of Aotearoa. The two bands, fronted by Dillon Feeney (Smokestack Slim) and Ethan Moore (Dirty Pixels) have ...
Event Guide
22/02/2019
Mental Health & Wellbeing Seminars
Psychologist Grant Gunning will hold seminars on mental health and wellbeing in the music industry in Auckland, Dunedin and Christchurch this March. The key aims of the session is to improve the mental health and wellbeing ...
Live Reviews
14/02/2019
Live Review: Same Name Confusion in Wellington, Feb 8, 2019
Sharing a joint bill promoting both bands’ debut EPs, local Welly lads Same Name Confusion and Dunedin’s latest export, Lacuna, decided to bring their maiden tour of the country to the beloved confines of San Fran. With ...
Photo Galleries
10/10/2018
The Chills Live At Galatos, October 2018
On October 6, Dunedin kings of jangle The Chills, supported by singer-songwriter Hollie Fullbrook aka Tiny Ruins, played to an enthusiastic crowd at Auckland's Galatos. Pristine sound and the great shape of the band made ...