22/10/2025

Bill Direen named as 2025 Arts Foundation Laureate

The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi has announced Bill Direen as one of eight 2025 Arts Foundation laureates - outstanding practising ...

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05/09/2025

Pearly*: Finding Dunedin’s Sweet Spot

Pearly* are fast becoming one of the new faces of Ōtepoti Dunedin music. The alt-rock guitar band of Joel Field, Phaedra ...

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13/07/2025

Ringlets: The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time For Walkies)

Bursting into the Auckland alternative music scene in 2021, Ringlets quickly built a solid reputation as providing the freshest ...

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03/08/2024

Loves Ugly Children One Night Only

It feels like the timing couldn’t be more perfect for Loves Ugly Children 's reunion show on August 22 at The Mothership ...

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16/07/2024

Vera Ellen Wins Taite Music Prize

Having just won the 2024 Taite Music Prize, as a self-proclaimed underdog among a number of what could be called modern classics ...

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12/05/2022

NewTracks New Artist: Soft Plastics

Wellington three-piece Soft Plastics have embraced a new shoegaze style whilst still paying homage to their garage-pop beginnings. ...

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23/02/2022

NewTracks New Artist: Freyja

Having not long completed a music degree at Massey University in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Freyja Appleyard is seemingly keeping ...

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11/01/2022

Celebrating 40 Years Of Flying Nun With Hocken Collections

Amanda Mills has been writing and reviewing for NZ Musician since 2007, and since 2011 has been employed at Hocken Collections ...

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18/10/2021

Womb: Like A Candle In The Wind

Made up of twins Charlotte and Haz Forrester, along with sister Georgette Brown, the popular Te-Whanganui-a-Tara trio Womb ...

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