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Observation Posts

14/05/2025

Navigating Friendship, Funding, and Heartbreak in the Music Industry


In Aotearoa’s passionate, close-knit music scene, connection is everything. Our community is small - sometimes wonderfully so, sometimes painfully. It’s the kind of place where a former friend might be on a funding panel ...

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NewTracks New Artist

16/04/2025

NewTracks New Artist: Liberty

With over seven million likes across Instagram and TikTok, singer-songwriter Liberty has a unique freewheeling pop style that caught the attention of UK record label, B-Unique Records, all the way from Napier. More locally ...

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Interviews

15/04/2025

Goodwill: Extending A Helping Hand

Ōtautahi singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer Will McGillivray has already had an impressive career. He fronted the internationally successful alt-pop trio Nomad and has since gone on become the city’s most successful ...

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Interviews

02/04/2025

Mim Jensen: Shadow Working

Ōtautahi singer-songwriter Miriam ‘Mim’ Jensen’s confessional indie rock songs manage to be both incisive and reflective, and since she first emerged in 2022 they’ve already taken her places. She has performed at ...

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NewTracks New Artist

01/04/2025

NewTracks New Artist: Makayla

A product of the TikTok school of unexpectedly good fortune, Makayla is a vivacious and very natural 21-year old, albeit one with a far from average story. Engineer by day, singer by night, her debut single Nature of Love was ...

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News

19/10/2022

Oliver Sewell Wins Dame Malvina Major Award

Ōtautahi tenor Oliver Sewell has been announced winner of the $50,000 Dame Malvina Major Award, at what he says is a “critical junction” in his singing career. The singer recently took out first place in the Vincerò ...

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Opportunities

10/10/2022

Christmas In The Park 2022 Auditions

Producers of the Christmas In The Park 2022 celebration are looking for young musicians to join the line-up of this year's show, which is returning to the big stages after a two-year hiatus. Creative director Dixon Nacey ...

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News

05/10/2022

Shure Extraordinary Sound Comp Winners Announced

NSL, the NZ distributor of legendary microphone and headphone brand Shure, have announced the winners of their 'Shure: be the next Extraordinary Sound' competition, which was promoted during NZ Music Month earlier this year. “The ...

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News

28/09/2022

NZ Artists Succeed In Unsigned Only 2022 Competition

NZ artists claimed spots and a pair of Honourable Mentions in US-based Unsigned Only 2022 music competition, as well as a special promotion win for Kylie Price's song Stay. The Kiwi narrowly pipped for category wins were ...

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News

26/08/2022

NewMusic Development August 2022 Results

NZ On Air Music has shared the 17 recipients of their NewMusic Development August 2022 funding round. The selected producers will be working alongside developing artists to write and record at least three professional demos. Abraham ...

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MUSIC (163)

Davey Beige

Rise Above

06/05/2022

Silk Cut

Panda EP

03/05/2022

Brown Sugar Factory

Halina't Sumayaw EP

20/04/2022

Neive Strang

I Am The Ribbon EP

06/04/2022

Mousey

My Friends

23/03/2022

Jackie Bristow

Outsider

18/03/2022

Josette

Daytona Fair EP

11/03/2022

Admiral Drowsy

The Gutter Boy Spectates

26/01/2022

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LESSONS (72)

Finding Your Voice

29/06/2022

Finding Your Voice: The Effect Menopause Has On The Voice

Singing Through ’The Change’: The Effect Menopause Has On The Voice - After the 21st gig of a 22-date tour, I stayed with friends for a much-needed breather. As documented in a previous Finding Your Voice NZM column, ...

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Finding Your Voice

16/02/2022

Finding Your Voice: The Case For Creative High-performance Psychology

The case for creative high-performance psychology. In the merry Music Month of May 2021, Brave Caitlin Smith’s Imaginary Band toured Aotearoa to promote my new album 'You Have Reached Your Destination'. Arts On Tour set-up ...

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Finding Your Voice

28/07/2021

Finding Your Voice: The Whole Body

As a singer our body is our instrument. We must be entirely sovereign over how we take care of our inner landscape. If the cathedral that we are is filled with concrete, we cannot sing. Tension is that concrete. Opening and ...

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X-Factory

15/06/2021

X-Factory: Rosé – On The Ground

Rosé, hyperreality, harmony and the pop-drop. The term hyperreality was coined by French theorist Jean Baudrillard to describe the postmodern, semiotic condition of society in which we are unable to distinguish between reality, ...

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Finding Your Voice

08/03/2021

Finding Your Voice: Ways To Rebuild The Voice From Nodules

Dog whimpers and raspberry sirens: Ways to rebuild the voice from nodules. Late in 2019, Cailtin Smith was diagnosed with nodules on her vocal cords. ‘Singer’s nodules’ are calluses in the same place on both cords ...

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EVENTS (24)

Live Reviews

24/03/2021

Live Review: Ihitai ‘Avei’a – Star Navigator, Auckland March 19

The world premiere of New Zealand Opera’s production of Ihitai 'Avei'a - Star Navigator was rapturously received by a full house at the Vodafone Event Centre in Manukau, Auckland on March 19. Clare Martin went along to ...

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Event Guide

26/02/2021

2021 YAMI Sounz Summit Planned for Wanaka in May

The 2021 YAMI (Youth and Adults in the Music Industry) Sounz Summit has confirmed a packed-out weekend of musical workshops, seminars and showcases in Wanaka on May 8-9.  A grant from the Central Lakes Trust has allowed ...

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Event Guide

02/09/2020

NZM Presents: Rubita Album Release Tour

Rubita is thrilled to invite North Islanders to one of the stopovers of the release tour for her debut indie-pop album 'Distinctive Thrill' this September. Rubita is the stage name for singer/songwriter Rachel Kibblewhite, ...

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Event Guide

10/06/2020

Gig Guide: Kerryn Fields, Auckland June 19

Award-winning alt-country singer/songwriter Kerryn Fields is back in the country from Melbourne to play a one-off solo show at Auckland's Wine Cellar on June 19.  Rascal by Kerryn Fields Drawing comparisons with the likes ...

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Event Guide

18/09/2019

Those Lethals Spring Tour 2019 Catch Up

Those Lethals' singer Liz Cameron and guitarist Lane Twigden have been playing together since 2015 – when a friend set them up on a musical blind date. The two amalgamated their songwriting into an indie-folk sound, ...

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