15/04/2021
Brimming with excitement and speaking with the delight one has when they have a seven-week-old newborn baby, Emily Rice is clearly in a great space. The singer-songwriter, whose career spans folk duo We Stole The Sun and ...
07/04/2021
APRA has announced a new initiative aiming to support the growth of a bilingual music industry in Aotearoa. Oro (meaning to resound) is a strategy designed to increase the breadth of waiata reo Māori and waiata reorua (bilingual ...
10/02/2021
Having started well before her obligatory appearance at Smokefree Rockquest with her high school band, and, among other things, a small role on cult TV show The Tribe, the driven and talented Ainslie Allen has been around ...
21/12/2020
Maimoa Music are arguably the most important music collective in Aotearoa - a collection of young Māori artists with a kaupapa to benefit and develop te reo Māori, consciously creating positive footprints for the next generation ...
04/03/2020
With summer (officially) having come to an end, NZM asked readers, artists and industry types about their favourite NZ Music Moments Summer 2019/2020. Em-Haley Walker, Theia, Sydney Honestly, this summer was the best ...
16/09/2019
Te Kākono, a group of young Māori artists who created the Te Reo compilation album 'Te Kākono’, were major league winners at the 2019 Waiata Māori Music Awards, staged in Hastings on Friday, September 13. In front ...
09/09/2019
"E ora ai te reo whiua ki te ao! For the language to survive – share it with the world." That's the motto of the 2019 #1Miriona Waiata Challenge, encouraging you to sing (or even just lip-sync music) in te reo Māori and ...
09/08/2019
Finalists for the 2019 Waiata Māori Music Awards have been announced, the Kora brothers-founded group L.A.B. and Wellington band Grove Roots leading the way with four nominations each. Now in its 12th year, the Waiata Māori ...
11/07/2019
The top 20 shortlisted songs in the running for NZ’s 2019 Silver Scroll songwriting award were announced today. This year's pool of finalist nominees includes a strong representation of hip hop, including formerly-nominated ...
26/03/2019
IMNZ has announced Moana And The Moahunters' first album 'Tahi' as the recipient of the 2019 Classic Record award. To be presented at the Taite Music Prize ceremony in Auckland on April 16, the award acknowledges NZ's ...