04/05/2022
Alayna Powley first made heads turn back in 2013 with a Youtube rendition of Nirvana by Sam Smith that went viral. She's since worked with the likes of Finneas and Sango; her sultry vocals and alluring tracks bewitching listeners. ...
23/12/2021
In a local hip hop and RnB scene bursting with talent, and this streaming age where music fans’ attention spans are limited, it can be quite hard to be seen and heard. However, one collective of musicians is using this ...
21/12/2021
Starting out in 2015 as a deliberately anonymous act, drip-feeding mysterious singles to student radio, Kiwi supergroup Leisure has come a long way in six years. At the beginning of December 2021 the quintet completed the ...
20/10/2021
It's green and it's Gooey, and it comes with a parental advisory – making it sound very much like the kind of slimey, tactile substance lucky kids all over the country find in their Christmas stockings. Bad Santa. But good ...
03/09/2021
Bedroom pop has proven to be the perfect music style for a pandemic. The affordable ease of recording from the confines of any small room at home makes the format appealing to up-and-coming musicians worldwide, leading to ...
24/08/2023
APRA AMCOS NZ have announced the Top 20 songs nominated for the 2023 APRA Silver Scroll Award Kaitito Kaiaka, the three finalist waiata for the APRA Maioha Award and the NZ Music Hall Of Fame inductee. The Silver Scroll ...
10/11/2022
Among the 2022 AMA winners announced (with considerably less than usual pomp and ceremony) on November 10 was a remarkable four-peat for L.A.B, the band securing a noteworthy spot in awards history by taking out the same ...
05/08/2022
Pacific music and musicians were celebrated at the 2022 Pacific Music Awards event held in Manukau on August 4, the first in-person PMA ceremony since Covid's arrival almost three years ago. As ever it was a night of praise ...
21/07/2022
APRA has published the list of the top 20 finalists for the 2022 APRA Silver Scroll Award | Kaitito Kaiaka, and the five finalists for the 2022 APRA Maioha Award. The Silver Scroll Awards presentation ceremony will be held ...
22/06/2022
The finalists for the 2022 Pacific Music Awards have been announced, and leading the finalist nominations are Tomorrow People with four chances to win as Best Pacific Group, Best Pacific Roots/Reggae Artist and Best Pacific ...
08/03/2021
Dog whimpers and raspberry sirens: Ways to rebuild the voice from nodules. Late in 2019, Cailtin Smith was diagnosed with nodules on her vocal cords. ‘Singer’s nodules’ are calluses in the same place on both cords ...
16/02/2021
As we’ve spent the last few issues doing some tricky stuff more suited to solo bass performances, I thought that this issue’s tune should feature some straight–ahead rock. I’ve chosen one of my favourite Crowded House ...
09/10/2020
Hi everyone, for this lesson, I have taken the liberty of using a piece that I wrote as a study for my UK students before I came to New Zealand. It is a cross-hand tapping piece that I wrote after the birth of my second son ...
15/09/2020
Hi everyone! Many movies have a prequel delivered after the main feature has been released, but this article is the other (right) way around, a warmer up that will hopefully prepare you for the next Deep Thinking article ...
17/01/2020
In this Deep Thinking session, we are going to look at a couple of tracks recorded by legendary US session bassist, Carol Kaye. Carol was a member of the Wrecking Crew, a team of recording musicians used by the great and ...
