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 ...
06/06/2025
As one of six rangitahi who featured in the 2021 Crescendo Trust music mentoring docuseries The Collective, Iris G publicly revealed plenty of her back story, in particular the loss of her voice in 2017 due to the trauma ...
14/05/2025
The 2025 Taite Music Prize ceremony held in Tāmaki Makaurau mid-April was memorable for several reasons. One of significance was the prevalence of Māori winners, with Mokotron taking out the night’s main award. Perhaps ...
19/02/2025
Shivers believe in playing genre fluid music, but it’s easiest to describe the Pōneke four-piece as being a soul-pop group bringing positive and uplifting vibes. Composing infectious melodies they also pride themselves ...
19/09/2024
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Ben Horlock of Mirage was among the successful applicants for APRA NZ's SongHubs Waikato event staged in October 2023. The week-long Raglan songwriting camp resulted in a just-released single ...
10/02/2020
While RNZ finds itself in the middle of a bunfight over the future of Concert FM, Te Māngai Pāho has begun consultation on the development of its National Māori Music Strategy. A series of nine hui are taking place across ...
18/04/2018
"Headless chickens and human remains" - if you told anyone from overseas about last night's Taite Music Prize 2018 ceremony they would likely shake their heads. "Only in NZ...!" We can hardly blame them, even many in the ...
19/10/2017
Rotorua musician Rob Ruha has been named as one of five recipients of the coveted 2017 Laureate Award. Described as a 'Haka Soul Musician' Ruha is among the 11 extraordinary New Zealand artists to become 2017 New Zealand ...
31/03/2016
Ara Institute of Canterbury was announced on March 30 as Canterbury's new vocational educational provider, in dawn services at campuses in Christchurch and Timaru. Ara, meaning arise or pathway in te Reo Māori, is the ...
02/12/2025
Results of the November 2025 Waiata Takitahi funding round have been announced with 15 waiata to benefit from grants of up $15,000 per single, to be released in the coming year. Waiata Takitahi looks to support bilingual ...
