05/03/2024

2024 Taite Music Prize Finalists

Independent Music NZ (IMNZ) has announced 10 finalists for the 2024 Taite Music Prize. The prize acknowledges outstanding ...

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13/02/2024

Shepherds Reign: Samoan Industrious Metal

Shepherds Reign are a Kiwi heavy metal band from the Polynesian stronghold suburbs of Tāmaki Makaurau. The band have reached ...

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13/09/2023

Shepherds Reign: Ala Mai

Five long years after their eponymous first album release and building on the success of recent kickass single Le Manu, heavy-weight ...

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19/04/2023

Shepherds Reign: Drawing Energy From Their Ancestors

Shepherds Reign is a Kiwi metal band with a difference. The group’s five members all live in south Tāmaki Makaurau, but ...

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05/08/2022

2022 Pacific Music Awards Winners

Pacific music and musicians were celebrated at the 2022 Pacific Music Awards event held in Manukau on August 4, the first ...

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07/07/2022

Pacific Music Awards 2022 People’s Choice Award

Voting is now open for the Pacific Music Awards' 2022 People's Choice Award. With a stacked line up of acts such as Shepherds ...

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22/06/2022

2022 Pacific Music Awards Finalists Announced

The finalists for the 2022 Pacific Music Awards have been announced, and leading the finalist nominations are Tomorrow People ...

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01/06/2022

2022 NZ Music Month Summit In Summary

The 2022 NZ Music Month Summit was presented by the NZ Music Commission and NZ Music Managers Forum on Saturday May 28, at ...

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13/12/2021

2021 Pacific Music Awards Winners

The love was unusually well spread among the winners of the 2021 Pacific Music Awards, though the savage love was appropriately ...

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