29/09/2025
It takes time to become a cowboy, and the gentle, rolling ‘aotearoa americana’ songs of US-raised, but these days Wellington-based, singer-songwriter Sig Wilder ‘hold a cracked mirror to the long, slow work of making ...
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 ...
03/10/2016
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 ...
