21/01/2014
Totems: Carving An Electronic Niche
There are moments in life when what you are feeling transcends description, when you struggle to find words to adequately ...
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Fresh Talent: Glass Vaults
The last time I saw Glass Vaults, they were performing four or five songs at the City Gallery Wellington after a screening ...
READ MORE >15/11/2013
Tom Larkin’s In The City
It was back in NZM’s ninth issue, December 1989, that NZM first covered a Wellington speed metal act then called Shihaad. ...
READ MORE >18/10/2013
Bailterspace: Two and a Half Decades of Spontaneous Combustion
Around the same time that the very first, and let’s be honest, somewhat primitive NZ Musician magazine rolled off the press ...
READ MORE >03/07/2013
Fat Freddy’s Drop: A Drop In Concentration
Admired by fans worldwide for their ability to jam single tracks for as long as many a punk album, live as well as on record, ...
READ MORE >The Upbeats: From Noisia Land
For the last decade, working together as The Upbeats, Dylan Jones and Jeremy Glenn have made an international career for ...
READ MORE >09/05/2013
BrownHill – Harmonies & Horns
Wellington reggae act BrownHill aren’t letting the grass grow under their feet, releasing a self-titled EP in 2011 and ...
READ MORE >02/05/2013
Luthiers’ Fancies: Bad Seed Custom Guitars
Bad Seed Custom Guitars (www.bsguitars.net) is by any measure a newly minted enterprise, it was literally just a couple of ...
READ MORE >23/04/2013
Fresh Talent: Estere
She's been compared to the likes of Erykah Badu and Kimbra, but the Wellington-based singer, songwriter and beat-maker Estere ...
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