11/09/2025
Having returned to his homeland from Melbourne, after four decades as a working musician across the ditch, multi-talented Kiwi musician Brian Baker has hung out his shingle in Whanganui, with a newly built recording studio ...
18/07/2025
With a new single every few months, 2025 has been another productive year in the development of Tāmaki Makaurau singer-songwriter Emily Bateman. Her own Spotify artist description cuts to the chase as 'yearning-girl pop', ...
19/06/2025
Self-described garage rock upstarts Powder Chutes look to be carving a track towards Shihad’s just-vacated crown as the nation’s leading hard rock exponents. A band of their youthful calibre coming out of Wānaka may ...
27/05/2025
Gordon Marr talks with NZM columnist Frank Gibson Jr... Longevity is not everything, but it's not difficult to comprehend that anyone who has been 'cutting it' since making his mark as a six-year-old in 1952, must be something ...
03/03/2025
It seems each new Fazerdaze release attracts glowing praise from major international music press, and that history is already repeating for the Auckland artist’s just-released sophomore album ‘Soft Power’. But Amelia ...
05/04/2018
APRA AMCOS NZ has announced the participants of SongHubs 2018 - a professional songwriting workshop to be held at Auckland's Roundhead Studios this month. Out of 150 applications, producer and curator of the SongHubs ...
18/09/2017
Last Friday, the 10th annual Waiata Māori Music Awards took place in Hastings. The biggest winner of the night was artist Maisey Rika, who cleaned up with four wins. Rika's awards included Best Traditional Maori Album ...
03/10/2016
Hosted by an enthusiastic John Campbell at Auckland's Vector Arena, the Silver Scrolls 2016 proved both collegial and contentious. Well-judged to avoid any challenge regarding racial balance, the choice of finalists and winner ...