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Interviews
24/06/2021
Dateline: Dumb For Their Age?
Indie pop supergroup Dateline is the project of Hastings singer-songwriter Katie Everingham. She writes the songs, but brings in some of the local indie scene’s best musicians to put her ideas into practice. The latest ...
Interviews
21/06/2021
Poetik: Keeping It Level
Ventry Parker, aka Poetik, respects the rap game, and if anything, it is this respect which he attempts to outline in his latest single Bosslane, a track he describes as being about levels. Sam Smith caught up with him for ...
Interviews
14/06/2021
Lips: Moving Uptempo
Your Deodorant Doesn’t Work. That’s the quirky title of indie-pop duo Lips’ new song as they enter album-release mode for the first time with an 11-track offering badged ‘I Don’t Know Why I Do Anything.’ Sam Smith ...
Interviews
04/06/2021
Sheep, Dog & Wolf: Finding The Strength
It has been eight long years since Daniel McBride released music as Sheep, Dog & Wolf. His first album, 2013’s ‘Egospect’ won instant local acclaim on its release, earning the then 19-year old McBride the (since ...
Interviews
19/05/2021
Hina: Going So Well
Hina is the project of singer and multi-instrumentalist Amy Boroevich. Her latest single release Go So Well is a quirky soul track from the Aucklander’s 2020 EP ‘Muse’, which sees Boroevich playing around with vocal ...
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News
25/05/2020
2020 Jazz Awards Finalists
The 2020 Jazz Awards Finalists have been announced with plenty of interesting additions among the category's 'usual' names. The three finalists for the Best Jazz Artist Tui award this year are Alchemy, Dixon Nacey and Michal ...
News
08/05/2020
Kiwis Place 1,2,3 In 2019 International Songwriting Competition
The grand prize of the 2019 International Songwriting Competition won't go to a Kiwi, but it remains downunder at least. Having made waves around the world and breaking records almost weekly last year, the ISC's top honour ...
News
09/03/2020
SXSW 2020 Cancelled by Austin City
Late last week it was announced that the City of Austin had cancelled SXSW 2020, which was due to start in little over one week, due to concerns around the Covid-19 coronavirus. The decision was evidently a reversal ...
News
20/05/2019
2019 Best Jazz Artist and Composition Awards Finalists Announced
Specialist independent label Rattle Records are already celebrating a win in the 2019 NZ Music Awards season – but are just not sure who it will be that picks up the 2019 NZ Jazz Awards Tui. This year's three finalists ...
News
30/08/2018
2018 APRA Silver Scroll Awards: Everything You Need To Know
As of this morning, we know all finalists for the 2018 APRA Silver Scroll Award, Maioha Award, SOUNZ Contemporary Award, APRA Best Original Music In A Series and APRA Best Original Music In A Feature Film. The music of the ...
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Deep Thinking
25/10/2018
Deep Thinking: Sidney Carton’s Steps
This Deep Thinking piece is a solo bass tune with a nod in the direction of Charles Dickens (a ‘nod’ being the important word…). I would like to say it is a ‘far, far’ harder piece than the last piece we looked ...
Deep Thinking
07/09/2018
Deep Thinking: Sidney Carton’s Steps
This Deep Thinking piece is a solo bass tune with a nod in the direction of Charles Dickens (a ‘nod’ being the important word…). I would like to say it is a ‘far, far’ harder piece than the last piece we looked ...
Finding Your Voice
23/07/2018
Finding Your Voice: The Yoga Of Voice
This column investigates and celebrates the connection between the physical body, spirit and sound. I combine vocal warm-ups with yoga. Or, you could say my yoga practice incorporates a vocal warm-up. Attending official ...
Deep Thinking
09/05/2018
Deep Thinking: Addicted To Chic
As mentioned in previous Deep Thinking columns, I have always admired the bass playing of the late Bernard Edwards (1952–1996), one of the co-founders founders of Chic, a seminal disco band of the late 1970s and the early ...
Finding Your Voice
13/04/2018
Finding Your Voice: Atawhai – Compassion For Your Own Voice
“What the world needs now, is love sweet love. That’s the only thing that there’s just too little of” – thanks Hal David. It’s a universal truth, especially applied to our relationships with voice and creative ...