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02/04/2025

The Audio Visual Drop Kicks: Betterland

Providing a hazy, immersive journey through youthful uncertainty and nostalgia, ‘Betterland’ is the debut album from ...

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19/03/2025

blindr: Prize Redemption

Tāmaki Makaurau pop-punk outfit blindr have employed a fruitful blend of good fortune, music skills and good sense to produce ...

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27/02/2025

NewTracks New Artist: Just Janie

The now Christchurch-based indie folk artist Just Janie recorded her recently released country/folk single Musings in the ...

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19/08/2024

Deep Thinking: Stevie Wonder’s Masterblaster (Jammin’)

I always used to say to bass students in the UK and here that two of Stevie Wonder's most challenging bass lines are from ...

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21/09/2023

My Song: Flying Man – Make A Living

Flying Man is the stage name of Irish-born guitarist and singer-songwriter Alan Ned Gray. Sitting firmly in an intelligent ...

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23/08/2023

Deep Thinking: An Exercise For Both Hands

An exercise for both hands with some sight reading thrown in! Over the last few NZM issues, we’ve been looking at building ...

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06/06/2023

Industry: MAINZ To An End

Back in the 1990s, the tiny Greymouth-based Tai Poutini Polytechnic was offering a unique musician and audio engineering ...

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01/02/2023

Deep Thinking: Building Basslines – Part 2

Following on from the last two Deep Thinking online columns here we continue the quest to build a unique bassline, whether ...

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15/09/2022

South Island 2022 Arts Excellence Awards Winners

Coloratura soprano Calla Knudson and composer and musicologist Ihlara McIndoe are the winners of the 2022 Arts Excellence ...

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