15/06/2023
Currently a year 11 student at Rotorua Girls’ High School, 15-year-old Nikau Grace Chater is already a few years into her budding career as a musician. Her bilingual debut single Tōku Tuakiri is an introspective power ...
24/05/2023
The name may be slightly, if not downright mis-directional, because Mini Simmons are a big energy five-piece that readily fill the stage with their versatile and ever-developing bluesy Americana rock, now with a blush of ...
13/04/2023
Three Kiwis and four Australians make up Sydney-based dub-fusionists Sub-Tribe, who got an early break playing on Salmonella Dub's 2017 tour in Australia. Their latest single Orbit is a true blast of much-needed sunshine ...
19/10/2022
Jenny Mitchell released her third, and surely best-yet album in mid-2022. Bringing a sense of peace amongst the chaos, ‘Tug Of War’ seems to have arrived with perfect timing. Both romantic and heartbreakingly melancholic, ...
25/07/2022
It would be a bold and brassy move to engage the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra as a backing band for your album release gig, but then no Kiwi artist does bold and brassy quite like Tami Neilson does. As it happened though ...
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 ...
