07/07/2016

Third3ye: Liiight Side of The Moon

As artists Third3ye challenge the boundaries of contemporary hip hop through experimentation and shared messages of philosophy, ...

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01/07/2016

Moments Like These: Upper Hutt Posse’s Te Kupu aka Dean Hapeta

At the 2016 Taite Music Prize Awards held in April Upper Hutt Posse were announced as recipients of this year's Classic Record ...

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30/06/2016

Making Tracks June 2016

NZ On Air Music's Making Tracks June 2016 funding results have been released! In the last round of Making Tracks before ...

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22/06/2016

On Foreign Soil: Anonymouz in Guåhan – The Festival of Pacific Arts 2016

Nearly 100 Māori and Aotearoa-based Pasifika artists represented this country at the 12th Festival of Pacific Arts in Guåhan ...

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07/06/2016

The Grow Room Evicted

The Grow Room’s era on the second floor of Auckland's St Kevin’s Arcade is coming to an end following an eviction notice ...

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12/05/2016

X-Factory: Seeking The Secrets Of Top 20 Chart Success

Looking at the NZ music Top 20 (NZ artists ranked by sales) singles chart recently I couldn’t help noticing that it looked ...

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09/05/2016

Lucid Hiest: Welcome To The Show

Never mind the spelling, rhyme Hiest with Feist, as Isiah Ngawaka evidently intended in adopting the name. Rhyming is his ...

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07/05/2016

Esoligh: Walking Up EP

Following the 2014 album, ‘The Way I See The World’, Esoligh (aka David Patterson)’s new EP opens with a mystical Scottish-accented ...

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20/04/2016

Fresh Talent: LVJ

Auckland hip hop artist Elvin Alfaro performs under the alias LVJ. He started making music as an impressionable 14-year-old ...

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