01/09/2022
Late in July, stand-out dance pop artist Harper Finn released his debut long player ‘Newcomer’ along with a music video for focus track Euphoria. Finn has been drip-releasing his artful, crafted solo music since 2018, ...
10/08/2022
Four new friends from different corners of Aotearoa came together during their time at Otago University to form a band. Sound familiar? This version is a dream-pop, indie-rock act so chill they named themselves Mild Orange. ...
27/07/2022
Five years since the release of their ‘Fabric’ album, The Black Seeds have emerged out of the bleak debris of the pandemic with multiple singles heralding their new album ‘Love & Fire’, dropping mid-June 2022 ...
11/07/2022
Ōtepoti-based country-pop artist Kylie Price was simultaneously nervous and excited to find out she would perform at South By Southwest 2022. The SXSW conference and associated creative sector festivals (tech, film and music) ...
11/07/2022
New York City-based, Lithuania-born jazz-fusion artiste Simona Smirnova has just arrived in Aotearoa to tour the length of the country for the fourth time since 2018. Enthralled by her latest release 'Bird Language', Silke ...
09/06/2016
As promised in the last NZM issue, we are going to do some slap exercises. These have a very slight difference from exercises I have written in the past – none of the riffs are in E or A! All notes in the examples have ...
12/05/2016
Looking at the NZ music Top 20 (NZ artists ranked by sales) singles chart recently I couldn’t help noticing that it looked very similar to the Top 20 chart I observed a month (actually year) or two back. Many of the ...
08/04/2016
This issue’s Deep Thinking column presented a dilemma. The last couple of years have seen the bass world lose two of its innovators and I provided columns in tribute to both. I was going to do some slap stuff for this issue, ...
20/12/2015
Deep Thinking is making a brief return to the world of progressive rock in this issue to make a tribute to the great Yes bassist, Chris Squire (1948 - 2015). Squire died in June this year, but the number of tributes ...
26/10/2015
This issue's Deep Thinking bass column is the result of a conversation between some of the University of Otago Music Department staff while we took a break during recording at our Albany Street Studios. We were discussing ...