10/06/2025
The website banner describes Inward Bound as a ‘London-based community supporting Kiwis in music’. The inwardbound.uk site includes pages of online resources covering things like visas, grants, venues and industry contacts, ...
04/03/2025
After two decades working in Auckland’s music scene as a sound engineer and producer Dave Rhodes returned to his hometown of Whitianga, established his own professional recording studio and went freelance. NZM talked with ...
22/01/2025
They’re definitely not two peas in a pod, but entrepreneurial musicians Marshall Smith and Tom Fox have nonetheless maintained a close business partnership in the challenging environment of music / sound design and audio ...
02/10/2024
Having released music on international labels like Norman Foreman and Rubricate Records, music producer and DJ Joel Malcolm-Smith, aka Altercation, specialises in the more soulful side of drum and bass. Originally from Tāhuna ...
25/06/2024
If you're a fan of royally good mosh pits, and sick but melodious delivery, this one's for you! New metalcore act Crowns & Lunacy is something of a supergroup combo drawn from Blenheim and Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Nomen est ...
18/12/2015
Sometimes as musicians we just expect things to work and to work properly. I plug in my gear and it should just go. But, unfortunately, this is not always the case. After all the time, effort and money we spend on getting ...
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 ...
23/10/2015
Inflatable dolls & wide-mouth frogs & the spaghetti-sucking pucker! (Vowel shaping, facial anchoring and facial stretches…) Think of your favourite singers… what do they all have in common? That's right, ...
26/08/2015
After the tricky introduction that we looked at in the last issue of NZM, we are now in a relatively easier section of the Rush track YYZ, but it's still quite fast. The easiest way to build up hand speed is to practice ...
13/08/2015
When we haven't sung in a long spell we can be disheartened when confronting our singing voice. This column deals with voice recovery, how to get back on the horse and ride like the wind. Having the courage to rebuild your ...