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 ...
14/02/2022
Recorded Music NZ has announced the three finalists for the Te Kaipuoro Taketake Toa | Best Folk Artist 2022. They are Miles Calder, Troy Kingi and We Mavericks. Usually presented at the Auckland Folk Festival, the 2022 ...
15/07/2021
APRA have announced the top 20 songs in line to claim the 2021 Silver Scroll Award and the 2021 Maioha Award top 5 shortlist. The relatively shortlist was chosen from over 250 entries by a judging panel of 10 songwriters ...
02/02/2021
US-based Kiwi duo Tattletale Saints won the 2021 Folk Tui on Sunday for their third studio album, 'Dancing Under The Dogwoods'. The award was presented at the Auckland Folk Festival, held over Auckland Anniversary weekend ...
11/11/2020
APRA have announced the producers and songwriters who will be taking part in the new Reo Māori SongHubs 2020 programme. The collaborative songwriting wānanga, will bring together experts in music creation and waiata reo ...
29/10/2020
The 2020 APRA Silver Scroll ceremony became something of a hybrid event this year with the uncertainties of future Covid-19 lockdowns obliging APRA to move their annual awards celebration to an online streaming platform ...
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 ...
20/12/2019
One of THE most debilitating mindsets, that destroys all enjoyment and ease, is perfectionism. Sure, it’s great to work hard, be diligent, discerning and conscientious, but when perfectionism takes hold, you’re goneburger. There ...
02/08/2019
For this issue, I have transcribed the opening bass part on the seminal Weather Report track Birdland from the band’s 1977 album ‘Heavy Weather‘. The transcription features the band’s bassist, the legendary Jaco Pastorius, ...
