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Interviews
16/03/2012
Caitlin Smith: In Sight Of The Finishing Line
In her regular NZM column called ‘Finding Your Voice’, celebrated Auckland jazz vocalist Caitlin Smith freely passes on a broad range of tips, both physical and spiritual, invaluable for singers of all ages and stages. ...
Interviews
04/05/2022
Alayna: Just So
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. ...
Interviews
23/12/2021
Y$O: $trategic Collectivi$m
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 ...
Interviews
21/12/2021
Leisure: No Need For A Sunset Clause
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 ...
Interviews
20/10/2021
Leaping Tiger: What’s That He Said?
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 ...
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News
04/07/2024
2024 Silver Scroll Award Lists Announced
APRA AMCOS NZ have announced the top 20 songs nominated for the 2024 Silver Scroll Award Kaitito Kaiaka and the top 5 waiata nominated for the APRA Maioha Award. The winners will be announced at the Silver Scroll Awards ...
News
24/08/2023
2023 APRA Silver Scroll & Maioha Award etc. Finalists
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 ...
News
10/11/2022
2022 AMA Winners Announced – L.A.B Grand Slam
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 ...
News
05/08/2022
2022 Pacific Music Awards Winners
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 ...
News
21/07/2022
2022 APRA Silver Scroll Award & Maioha Award Finalists
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 ...
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LESSONS (68)
Finding Your Voice
08/03/2021
Finding Your Voice: Ways To Rebuild The Voice From Nodules
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 ...
Deep Thinking
16/02/2021
Deep Thinking: Black And White Boy… On Bass
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 ...
Deep Thinking
09/10/2020
Deep Thinking: Alex And His Ragtime Bass
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 ...
Deep Thinking
15/09/2020
Deep Thinking: Cross Hand Exercises
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 ...
Deep Thinking
17/01/2020
Deep Thinking: Carol Kaye Of The Wrecking Crew
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 ...