09/07/2025
Elysia Brontë’s Instagram bio reads ‘attempting to see the whole world’, and at 21 she’s doing a good job of that. Through Minerva University’s innovative global experience undergraduate programme the indie pop ...
02/07/2025
Finishing 2024 on a high with the chart-topping success of Summer Won’t Be The Same, Bay of Plenty psychedelic indie act Mirage unveil an intimate new side of their artistry with their latest single Before the Night, a ...
25/06/2025
Dave Johnston is a music producer, mixing engineer, musician and educator. As the artist-producer behind n1ghtmar3cat he has adopted Substack as the online home for his n1ghtmar3cat Music Factory creative communications, ...
19/06/2025
Self-described garage rock upstarts Powder Chutes look to be carving a track towards Shihad’s just-vacated crown as the nation’s leading hard rock exponents. A band of their youthful calibre coming out of Wānaka may ...
17/06/2025
Anna Robinson has a family history of moving around, and since her 2018 breakthrough single Nothing To Regret propelled her to international status the Greymouth-born pop artist has mostly made London her home. April saw ...
20/09/2023
Smokefree Rockquest 2023 winners have been announced at the 2023 National Final event staged at central Auckland’s Q Theatre on September 16. SFRQ continues to break its own records with more than 750 acts having played ...
01/08/2023
Showcasing the strength of music by Pasifika artists in Aotearoa across the last year, the 24 finalists for the 2023 Pacific Music Awards have been announced. This year's winners will be celebrated at an event on August ...
10/05/2023
The Dame Malvina Major Foundation Awards is now available countrywide, offering talented young performing artists across the country a financial boost. The Foundation’s Arts Excellence Awards support young Kiwis of outstanding ...
19/04/2023
The 2023 Taite Music Prize was awarded to Princess Chelsea for her critically-praised album, 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright', released on Lil Chief Records. Everything Is Going To Be Alright by Princess Chelsea The ...
18/01/2023
Recorded Music NZ have announced the finalists for the 2023 Best Folk Artist Tūī | Te Kaipuoro Taketake Toa. The three finalists are Butter Wouldn’t Melt, Mel Parsons and T-Bone. The winner will be presented with the ...
18/03/2024
‘Finding your voice' is just as much about what you're saying or singing, as what you sound like. I'd like to unpack the figurative notion of finding and having a voice. Intricately understanding the mechanics of my vocal ...
13/03/2023
Do what moves you. Tension is a singer's greatest enemy. It disables the very areas of the body we need open to resonate sound in. Tension is generated mentally; anticipating threat or danger, or unconsciously, manifesting ...
21/02/2023
I'm not quite sure why but Kimbra hasn't really been on my radar before. We primarily listen to music to be moved emotionally, and our taste and intrigue is ultimately guided by personal aesthetics. Of course, I did appreciate ...
16/11/2022
Hi songwriters. The title might sound a bit complex but this a relatively simple and cool idea to have in your songwriting tool belt - relative major & minor diatonic chord substitution. It’s a methodology that’s ...
10/08/2022
Looking for some easy songwriting inspiration? This is one of my favourite melodic and harmonic manipulation techniques. A very simple but effective idea. Retrograde basically means to play backwards, and it works well on ...
03/05/2022
Tauranga singer-songwriter Georgia Lines has announced a five-date national tour to accompany the release of her upcoming single Leave Behind, out May 6. She will be performing in a stripped-back style on this tour with ...
23/09/2021
Following contracts composing soundtracks for documentaries, including sister Gaylene Preston's Helen Clark documentary My Year With Helen, Jan Preston, Aotearoa's own queen of boogie-woogie, is taking her latest album, ...
11/08/2021
In high demand around the globe, smart Kiwi folky Graeme James is coming to the end of his 2021 nationwide tour, with the main centres of Wellington and Auckland still ahead this weekend. Following the release of his recent ...
16/06/2021
The last time NZM spoke to Shana Graham, aka Valere, she had just released her second EP, titled ‘Blue’. Having graduated from Auckland University's pop music degree the singer-songwriter found that the EP particularly ...
03/05/2021
It’s been a busy 2021 so far for The Wine Cellar on Auckland’s K’ Rd, but near the end of April, Echo Children brought a striking new character to the venue. By the end of the night the local band had compelled their ...
