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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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24/06/2016

Fresh Talent: Rubita

When her band Cinco broke up mid-2015, Hamilton vocalist Rachel Kibblewhite started focusing on her own acoustic jazz-pop ...

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23/06/2016

Damien Binder: A New World

Singer/songwriter Damien Binder left Auckland for Sydney before the release of his third album, 2009’s ‘While the Wind’s ...

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01/06/2016

Pop Stars In Waiting

RNZ have published an excellent article by Kate Robertson  on future Kiwi pop stars - musicians who already have one ...

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31/05/2016

Dave Dobbyn: Harmony House

Taking just 37 minutes over 11 harmonious tracks, Dave Dobbyn shows clearly and concisely that he remains a songwriter of ...

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18/05/2016

Hollie Smith: Water Or Gold

From the sweet scatted intro of Hollie Smith’s voice on the opening title track to the end of the album, ‘Water Or Gold’ ...

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Why We Love Repetition In Music

The Guardian published an interesting article on why repetition in music - and pretty much everywhere else - is so popular ...

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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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Fresh Talent: Openside

Let’s start by getting this out of the way. OpenSide’s members Possum Plows (vocals), George Powell (drums), PJ Shepard ...

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