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NewTracks New Artist
18/11/2025
NewTracks New Artist: Goodspace
Shape-shifting Tāmaki Makaurau artist Goodspace has always been a project of multiple collaborations and forms, Jefferson Chen performing as a soloist or indie band, composing for immersive theatre and short films, and ...
Interviews
05/09/2025
Pearly*: Finding Dunedin’s Sweet Spot
Pearly* are fast becoming one of the new faces of Ōtepoti Dunedin music. The alt-rock guitar band of Joel Field, Phaedra Love, Josh Nicholls and Ryan Hill formed in 2023, very quickly establishing themselves as the ones-to-watch ...
Ex-Pat Files
10/06/2025
Ex-Pat Files: Lucie Watson
The website banner describes Inward Bound as a ‘London-based community supporting Kiwis in music’. The inwardbound.uk site includes pages of online resources covering things like visas, grants, venues and industry contacts, ...
Industry
04/03/2025
Industry: Dave Rhodes Productions
After two decades working in Auckland’s music scene as a sound engineer and producer Dave Rhodes returned to his hometown of Whitianga, established his own professional recording studio and went freelance. NZM talked with ...
Industry
22/01/2025
The Sound Room: 20 Years in Post-Production
They’re definitely not two peas in a pod, but entrepreneurial musicians Marshall Smith and Tom Fox have nonetheless maintained a close business partnership in the challenging environment of music / sound design and audio ...
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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 ...
Finding Your Voice
01/06/2016
Finding Your Voice: Avoiding Self-Sabotage
I could write a book about self-sabotage… if ever I overcame those insidious barriers to self-activation and singing success myself. Oh the irony! It can be difficult recognising when we’re (often subconsciously) getting ...
Finding Your Voice
05/04/2016
Finding Your Voice: The Paua Of Evaluation
Good singers and songwriters are master-craftspeople and artists – albeit, often sensitive and insecure ones. Therefore, I’m upset when an armchair critic or unqualified non-musician argues that assessing great songs ...
Deep Thinking
20/12/2015
Deep Thinking: Chris Squire – Godfather of Prog Bass
Deep Thinking is making a brief return to the world of progressive rock in this issue to make a tribute to the great Yes bassist, Chris Squire (1948 - 2015). Squire died in June this year, but the number of tributes ...