14/05/2025
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 ...
16/04/2025
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 ...
15/04/2025
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 ...
02/04/2025
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 ...
01/04/2025
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 ...
19/10/2022
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 ...
10/10/2022
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 ...
05/10/2022
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 ...
28/09/2022
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 ...
26/08/2022
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 ...
29/06/2022
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, ...
16/02/2022
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 ...
28/07/2021
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 ...
15/06/2021
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, ...
08/03/2021
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 ...
24/03/2021
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 ...
26/02/2021
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 ...
02/09/2020
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, ...
10/06/2020
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 ...
18/09/2019
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, ...