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Sundae Sessions
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NZ Music Month: Sundae Sessions presents Nightchoir
Nightchoir perform at York Street Studios for NZ Herald…
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Sundae Sessions: Grand Rapids perform The Men On The Horses
Recorded and filmed for nzherald.co.nz at York Street…
The Gordons score top record award
The self-titled debut album by noisy Kiwi rock pioneers the Gordons has won the inaugural Independent Music NZ Classic Record…
Taite Music Prize finalists
Lawrence Arabia, Home Brew, @Peace and Oppossum are among the finalists for the Taite Music Prize.
Lawrence Arabia explores new heights (+videos, stream)
James Milne, aka Lawrence, Arabia adds an orchestral manoeuvre to his latest album, reports Lydia Jenkin.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra take out the Taite
The Taite Prize (New Zealand's equivalent of the Mercury Prize) was awarded at a ceremony in Auckland last night, and it…
Taite Music Prize
Talking Heads: Cameron Bennett and John Taite
The late, great New Zealand music journalist Dylan Taite put his body on the line to get a scoop, going…
Album Review: The Bats, Free All the Monsters
The Bats' previous two albums (2005's National Grid and 2009's The Guilty Office) went largely unnoticed but this one arrives…
Album review: David Dallas, The Rose Tint
Mr D-a-double-l-a-s may have a cool and mellow nonchalance to his rhymes, and the production and beats are first rate, but…
Album Review: She's So Rad, In Circles
In complete contrast to Jeremy Toy's work as Opensouls soul-funk monster songwriter and guitarist, She's So Rad is his dreamy…
Album Review: Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Though there was always an inviting pop side to the Mint Chicks, what made their music most striking…
Album Review: Tiny Ruins, Some Were Meant For Sea
Auckland-based Hollie Fullbrook spins a delicate web of warm, but wintry stories on her debut album, Some Were Meant For…
Album Review: Beastwars
Like a mongrel mix of Kyuss, Neurosis, and the mighty Godflesh, Beastwars bring together pummelling intensity, beautiful…
Album Review: Andrew Keoghan, Arctic Tales Divide
With Dudley Benson's recent Forest existing between a cappella choral singing and waiata, and classical composer John…
Seven albums up for Taite's $10,000
The finalists for the annual Taite Prize have been announced with seven acts vying for the $10,000 prize given to what the…
Taite Music Prize awarded
Taite Music Prize Archives
Hip-hop soul diva Ladi6 beat out some noisy punks, a chart-topping electro pop band and a record made…
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Coming up at 3pm: The Drab Doo-Riffs
May is New Zealand Music Month, and to mark the occasion NZ Herald online is delving into our growing archive of live musical…
SXSW
SXSW: Cairo Knife Fight - The secrets of sin
Tooled up with an arsenal of drums, guitar, synth bass and loop pedals, Cairo Knife Fight brought the noise to SXSW for…
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