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16/02/2018
Unchained XL: Giving It A Good Shot
Hugh Ozumba is an artist on a mission. The Liverpool-born Nigerian New Zealander, who goes by the name Unchained XL, has recently quit his full-time job at Serato to become a full-time rapper. He has lofty goals for the local ...
Features
22/07/2016
Aaradhna: A Girl That Likes To Sing
At the 2013 Pacific Music Awards Aaradhna staged the awards’ first ever clean sweep, setting a record with six awards including Best Album for ‘Treble & Reverb’ and best song for the fantastic Wake Up. No surprise ...
Interviews
14/08/2026
Toby Lloyd: Paper Mountains & Other Triumphs
The producer/owner of boutique Wellington studio Tiny Triumph Recordings, Toby Lloyd has made a major contribution to Aotearoa’s music scene over the past several years. Not just with the number or quality of artist recordings, ...
Interviews
13/08/2026
Lung: Clear As Day, Loud As…
Punk noise-makers Lung have been a storied Palmerston North act since the early 1990s, the trio’s leader Dave White a legend in his own right with getting The Stomach up and pumping around the same period. A few years of ...
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06/07/2026
Menzies: Magic Hands
Menzies’ songs are populated with famously Kiwiana things like our national rugby team, sausage rolls, inter-island ferry crossings and mashed potatoes. Attracting parallels with the Kiwi-conscious likes of The Front Lawn, ...
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Deep Thinking
26/06/2016
Deep Thinking: Bass In Your Face
In the last NZM issue, we looked at some iconic Afro-American funk bass lines that used a 'less is more' approach. We'll continue the theme here by looking at two significant bass tracks (one from the 1960s and one from the ...
Deep Thinking
26/06/2016
Deep Thinking: Funk Meets Jazz – James Jamerson (1936-’83)
As promised in the last issue, we are going to look at some of the aspects of James Jamerson's bass playing that made him an individualist who has influenced bass players since the early days of the Tamla Motown record ...
Deep Thinking
26/06/2016
Deep Thinking: Jack Bruce (1943 – 2014)
Many readers of the Deep Thinking column will be familiar with British trio Cream, one of the bands of the late 1960s that moved from blues-based improvisation to experimental progressive rock, and influenced later bands ...
Deep Thinking
26/06/2016
Deep Thinking: Arpeggios on Bass
Welcome to NZ Musician's new bass column we've badged Deep Thinking! Over the next few issues, we are going to look at aspects of bass playing at various skill levels. The idea behind this column is to make you able to create ...
Deep Thinking
26/06/2016
Deep Thinking: Mr. Faun’s Afternoon
A very happy and successful New Year to you. Following on from the last issues cross-handed tapping piece, I have written another piece combining some harmonics with fretted root notes and some cross-handed technique. As ...