15/07/2021
Waipu-to-the-world metallers Alien Weaponry are getting ready to release their second album ‘Tangaroa’. It's been a three-year gap since their breakthrough debut album and the first single, also named Tangaroa, or god ...
05/07/2021
As far as ambitious album releases go, nothing much comes close to the new project from Loopy Tunes Preschool Music. The Christchurch duo of sisters Leah Williams-Partington and Siu Williams-Lemi have released 'Pasifika ...
19/05/2021
On May 29 last year the Prime Minister (and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage) announced details of an arts and music sector recovery package. Part of a bigger initiative to aid the creative sector in riding out the ...
11/05/2021
Taking a break from their #FirstFriday campaign, Wellington reggae act Tomorrow People released an important new song especially for this year’s Anzac Day remembrance. The track called Ōku Rā addresses the issue of PTSD ...
21/04/2021
Meeting at an APRA’s Reo Māori Songhubs, Auckland solo artists Theia and Vayne realised they had a lot in common musically, and working together soon recorded Creep, a hip hop beat-laden track straight out of the clubs. ...
05/08/2020
August 1 marked the start of the fifth annual Te Marama Pūoro Waiata Māori - Māori Music Month, designed to nurture, grow and inspire up and coming performers and established artists alike. The start of the month also ...
18/06/2020
Nominations are now open for the 2020 NZ Music Awards | Ngā Tohu Puoro o Aotearoa. The awards are open to NZ artists who have had recordings commercially released between 1 August 2019 and 31 July 2020. The nomination ...
02/05/2020
A tiny pony with a lofty goal, shuffling worms underground and te reo Māori are all thoroughly explored by the finalists for the Children’s Music Awards 2020 – an annual presentation celebrating music written for kids. The ...
03/10/2019
Aldous Harding (Hannah Harding/Topp) has won the 2019 APRA Silver Scroll Award with her unsettling but incredibly beautiful earworm of a song, The Barrel, the first single from her third album 'Designer'. “I’ll put ...
25/09/2019
Neo-soul outfit 78 District from Papatoetoe High School, in Auckland, took out the National Final of the 2019 Smokefree Tangata Beats staged in Manukau on Saturday, September 21. 78 District include vocalists Silika Isaia ...
