11/07/2022
New York City-based, Lithuania-born jazz-fusion artiste Simona Smirnova has just arrived in Aotearoa to tour the length of the country for the fourth time since 2018. Enthralled by her latest release 'Bird Language', Silke ...
01/06/2022
The 2022 NZ Music Month Summit was presented by the NZ Music Commission and NZ Music Managers Forum on Saturday May 28, at Auckland harbour-side venue The Tuning Fork. Jemilah Ross-Hayes went along and summarises her impressions ...
09/02/2022
Kiwi-born electronic/dance producer Baynk has been playing away from these shores for more than five years, cutting his own (evidently successful) path on two different northern hemisphere continents in that time. Jock Nowell-Usticke ...
15/10/2021
'Southside Run It' is the third EP offering in as many years from Tāmaki Makaurau hip hop artist Freddy Reynold. This release moves into new sound territory by melding healthy doses of EDM, house and hip hop into a collection ...
25/08/2021
Cantabrians Jenny Payne and Lucy Hiku met when studying at Christchurch's jazz school (now known as Ara), and have been performing as childrens' music duo Itty Bitty Beats for seven years now. Two children's music awards ...