11/08/2023
Fresh Talent: Sabreen Islam
“These six songs are like an introduction to the inner workings of my brain; they lay bare how I think, love, dream and ...
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Industry: MAINZ To An End
Back in the 1990s, the tiny Greymouth-based Tai Poutini Polytechnic was offering a unique musician and audio engineering ...
READ MORE >24/05/2023
Mini Simmons: Foundation, Eye Shadow, Lip Gloss & Rock
The name may be slightly, if not downright mis-directional, because Mini Simmons are a big energy five-piece that readily ...
READ MORE >26/04/2023
Damien Binder: Glass Half Full Kind Of Guy
With a strong stake in NZ music’s ’90s rock narrative and four subsequent solo alt-pop albums, his just released ‘Bright ...
READ MORE >27/03/2023
Fresh Talent: Greta O’Leary
Perhaps it's a function of the (mostly) slow pace and deliberately sparse backing, but there is a real fragility in Greta ...
READ MORE >20/02/2023
Big Scout: Redwood Street Massive
You don't need to have lived in a parochial small town, or have worked in a bureaucracy the size of say, local council, to ...
READ MORE >24/01/2023
Pressing Vinyl The Stebbing Way
The Jervois Rd location of the Stebbing Recording Centre in Auckland is a local landmark, the two-level building with its ...
READ MORE >20/12/2022
Sweet Mix Kids: Multi-genre Pop Eclectics
Playing seven album launch parties in almost as many different time zones, and almost as few days sounds like the stuff of ...
READ MORE >24/08/2022
Amber Beaton: Ms Beaton’s Recipe For Video Creativity
The music video to The Inevitable Fate Of The Universe heightens the already disturbing aural assault of Ōtautahi death ...
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