12/05/2021

10 Kiwi-Made Pieces Of Musical Kit For NZ Music Month

If you’re intrigued by the NZ Music Month advertisement this year, it’s Rodney Fisher’s graphic homage to 10 Kiwi-made ...

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13/12/2019

Wired For Sound: The Stebbing History of New Zealand Music

Setting out to document and pay tribute to the contribution Eldred Stebbing made to the NZ music scene over seven hard-working ...

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24/07/2019

Vox Pops: Places That Inspire My Creativity

This week NZM asked some people in the music industry about places that inspire them to be creative. We got a lot of great ...

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11/09/2017

Asta Rangu: Spiritual Cartoon Music

Having worked his way up the musical (snakes and) ladders board since boyhood, Richard Ley-Hamilton is by now an integral ...

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22/05/2017

Play It Strange’s We Are One Concert

A crowd of 600 people gathered on Saturday, May 13 at Sacred Heart College in Auckland, where Play it Strange presented ...

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09/03/2017

Phil Judd: UniQue

As a co-writer of one of the most ubiquitous pop songs in local music history (Counting the Beat, in case you were wondering) ...

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03/02/2017

Jeremy Ansell: Sifting Through Neil Finn’s Private Universe

Crowded House fans had a September to remember with the announcement that the seven albums the band produced between 1986 ...

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15/12/2016

Ray Columbus OBE (4/11/1942 – 29/11/2016)

For those going out to popular music venues or at home watching TV in the 1970s and ’80s, Ray Columbus was a very familiar ...

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24/11/2016

Volume: Making Music in Aotearoa

‘ Volume : Making Music in Aotearoa’ has been over two years in development, a joint venture between the Auckland Museum ...

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