august/september 2014 Archives

26/06/2016

Deep Thinking: Bass In Your Face

In the last NZM issue, we looked at some iconic Afro-American funk bass lines that used a 'less is more' approach. We'll ...

18/10/2014

Wellington artist J.Bird Taylor certainly can’t be faulted for any lack of commitment, drive, or passion. Taylor’s been ...

18/09/2014

It’s blues, with some rockabilly tied in too. So where do we go from there? The album is well titled as the songs were ...

Anna Van Riel ’s country music style has a real crossover sound. From first track Break Down you’ll play it all the ...

Satire, humour, politics, but mainly rock (in caps!), this is definitely an acquired taste. Gold Medal Famous reference points ...

As well as holding down the drum stool for Auckland indie-rockers Beach Pigs, Suren Unka dabbles in the field of electronica, ...

Leaving behind his life as frontman for the evidently too successful for his liking Midnight Youth, Jeremy Redmore has set ...

‘White City’ is a lovely walk through stories of Oamaru’s early colonial years, tales of the “…settlement, growth, ...

After a 12-month mentorship with American master fiddler Casey Driessen, George Jackson delivers a lush collection of bluegrass ...