16/02/2018
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 ...
22/07/2016
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 ...
14/08/2026
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, ...
13/08/2026
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 ...
06/07/2026
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, ...
26/06/2016
I have written (or arranged!) something extremely different from our recent rock and funk escapades for this first issue of the new year. It is actually a piano piece composed by the French composer, Claude Debussy (1862-1918) ...
26/06/2016
This issue is the second part of the bass arrangement I have scored of Claude Debussy's Claire de Lune. What happens after this section will require you to find three or four bass-playing mates, as the piece becomes impossible ...
26/06/2016
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 ...
26/06/2016
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 ...
26/06/2016
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 ...
