11/01/2022
Amanda Mills has been writing and reviewing for NZ Musician since 2007, and since 2011 has been employed at Hocken Collections in Dunedin, as a Liaison Librarian and Curator of the Music and AV Collections. With 2021 marking ...
04/03/2014
Tasmanian Tiger, the longest track on the EP ‘The Self Fulfilling Prophecies of the Flying Sorcerers' stands at a diminutive but palatable, one minute 45 seconds. In a world of soundbytes, seven second-long Vine videos ...
28/08/2024
In 2004 a young Glaswegian stepped off the plane onto the tarmac of Auckland Airport with the hopes of making a name for himself in the graphic design arena of the NZ music industry. Now, 20 years and hundreds of local album ...
16/07/2024
Having just won the 2024 Taite Music Prize, as a self-proclaimed underdog among a number of what could be called modern classics of Aotearoa music, Vera Ellen Williams remains charmingly grounded. Ideal Home Noise by Vera ...
24/01/2024
All the Nadia Reids, Aldous Hardings and Tiny Ruins start somewhere in small venues across Aotearoa. Picked up by student radio, fellow musicians' whispers, and word-of-mouth would carry reviews of their extraordinary talent ...
13/07/2018
The Alexander Turnbull Library, part of the National Library of New Zealand, has become the safe and secure repository of Flying Nun Records’ collection of master tapes. The library’s archive of NZ music now includes ...
15/12/2021
With a live video stream presented by 95bFM Breakfast's Rachel Ashby and Zoë Larsen-Cumming, the first-ever SRN Awards was a nationwide celebration of those artists who energised Aotearoa's student radio airwaves in ...
21/04/2020
A long-lost Chills video of the band’s 1982 debut single Rolling Moon has risen out of unfinished obscurity. Veteran cinematographer Peter Janes, who in the early 1980s filmed many of the first wave of Flying Nun bands ...
22/08/2018
On Friday, August 24 Vitamin S will host two meaningful tributes to valued local musicians at Auckland’s Wine Cellar (8pm, koha entry). Steve Cournane and John Bell will present two beautifully crafted pieces, in tribute ...
