17/11/2021
Six60 might continue to dominate the numbers game and Lorde still horde international media attention, but if there’s one Kiwi artist defining the local music landscape in the 2020’s it’s surely actor/musician Troy ...
15/07/2021
Waipu-to-the-world metallers Alien Weaponry are getting ready to release their second album ‘Tangaroa’. It's been a three-year gap since their breakthrough debut album and the first single, also named Tangaroa, or god ...
15/06/2021
Born in Kawakawa and Northland-raised, indie singer-songwriter Scott Cleary made his start in music as a member of the super-successful 2010-ish power pop group Kingston. These days he calls LA home and musically is going ...
04/06/2021
Originally from the Tutukaka Coast, Wellington-based singer-songwriter Zoe Jennings makes music under the name Zö, a nickname she says makes it hard to find her on Spotify but that she chose as an artist name due to the ...
27/08/2020
Sugar highs anyone? Of course you've had ’em. Then what about a soda dream? Well, if not, one 3min 42 second exposure to the addictive new song from Raglan newcomers Masaya will likely make you wanna give it a try, such ...
24/09/2020
Neo-soul RnB band Jam & Jelly from Papatoetoe High School in Tāmaki Makaurau have taken out the national final of the 2020 Smokefree Tangata Beats competition. Jam & Jelly are Skylah Hewett (vocals), Ozarius Tu'ua ...
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 ...
25/09/2019
Neo-soul outfit 78 District from Papatoetoe High School, in Auckland, took out the National Final of the 2019 Smokefree Tangata Beats staged in Manukau on Saturday, September 21. 78 District include vocalists Silika Isaia ...
26/09/2018
It was a big weekend for the 20 finalist acts competing in the national finals at the culmination of the 2018 Smokefree Rockquest and Tangata Beats competitions. And, as it turned out, the weekend of a lifetime for Tim Randle ...
21/07/2016
The 2016 NZ Battle of the Bands event reaches its climax with a two-night national finals event this weekend, July 22/23 in Auckland. 35 bands, hailing from Whangarei to Wanaka, will somehow take the Kings Arms stage over ...
12/10/2018
Celebrating the release of their singles With You and For You, Whangarei funk-soul-jazz five-piece Otium will be hitting the roads of the North Island over the next few weeks. Since their establishment in 2014, Otium ...
