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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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08/06/2021

Musicians Recognised In 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours

Seven members of the Kiwi music industry are among those recognised with 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours.  Singer Hinewehi ...

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20/06/2019

The Verlaines: Dunedin Spleen

The Verlaines have been a seminal Dunedin band since 1980, creating songs that mix astute lyrics with complex, visceral music ...

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11/09/2017

Asta Rangu: Spiritual Cartoon Music

Having worked his way up the musical (snakes and) ladders board since boyhood, Richard Ley-Hamilton is by now an integral ...

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21/12/2016

Deep Thinking: Some 12/8 Xmas Trickiness With The Verlaines!

As it’s the Christmas period, I thought I would do some shameless marketing. There is a new album, ‘Dunedin Spleen’ ...

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19/12/2016

The Dunedin Sound – Some Disenchanted Evening

By Ian Chapman, Bateman Publishing, rrp $50 One of the many endearing aspects of Dr Ian Chapman’s book, 'The Dunedin ...

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10/08/2016

Get Yer Kit Off: Stu Harwood

Not many local drummers will have built their own acrylic drum kit, or constructed a vintage drum machine. Stuart Harwood ...

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21/03/2013

Moments Like These: Dr Graeme Downes

Dr Graeme Downes is a rock musician well-versed in classical overtures. He did his PhD on the symphonies of Mahler. He is ...

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