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No wage subsidy for artists during red: 'Frightening and stressful'

Now that Aotearoa is in the Red traffic light setting, the arts industry has come to a grinding halt with events of more than 100 people…

Lorde releases new music video after arriving home to NZ

To celebrate returning to NZ on time for Christmas, Lorde has released a new music video.

Six60 beat Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber for NZ’s most streamed artist

For a second year in a row, Six60 is NZ's most streamed artist on Spotify.

The Dunedin band asking 'what are we going to do with all this shit?'

Dunedin Doom Pop duo Night Lunch’s new track ‘House Full of Shit’ really connects with the consumerist nightmare we are all living in.

“What are we going…

The artist making bangers in a te reo Māori renaissance | The Outliers

“I’m a bridge. I don’t have to belong to just one culture, occupy this one space. I can be this in-between.” Rei calls himself “the creator…

Our favourite music by NZ artists in 2020

A list of our favourite songs by artists in Aotearoa in 2020.

Lontalius and the rise of sad boi music

If there’s any year to be okay with being sad, it probably should be 2020. 



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South Aucklanders on how Jawsh685 is changing the perception of their area

'Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)' has hit 1 billion TikTok streams.

Benee's bandmates on the hunt for the next pop star

Tiare Kelly and Dylan Clark play guitar and bass for one of New Zealand’s biggest pop stars, Benee, at the same time as being third-year music…

New release: How to be The Beths in four easy steps!

The Beths make music that is jubilant, neurotic, carefree and anxious. I revisited their debut album Future Me Hates Me during a state-sanctioned walk around my…

Release of the Week: Auckland R&B singer-songwriter Jordan Gavet is both baby and baddie

One rhinestone-encrusted hair clip reads ‘BADDIE VIBES’. The other reads ‘HONEY BABY’. In the opening of her new music video, directed by Shae Sterling, Jordan Gavet…

Release of the Week: VÏKÆ talks escaping Chernobyl, being bipolar and her new song ‘Liar’

If you’ve ever fucked up, one thing you could do is write a song about it and hope the people you wronged will hear it. That’s…

Premiere: Merk makes door hinges sound cool in his new music video

There’s a metallic synth sound, almost like a squeaking hinge, in Merk’s latest single ‘H.N.Y.B’. You wouldn’t think a door hinge in need of lubrication is…

Kiwi songwriter reflects on writing Genie in a Bottle

Pam Sheyne is a New Zealand songwriter who co-wrote Christina Aguilera's debut hit 'Genie in a Bottle' - a song about finding someone who can "unlock…

Thomston

His parents gave him a year to make his music work, and now Thomston is moving to LA with 60 million on Spotify streams to his…

TONE6

Meet TONE6: the teens whose harmonies are straight out of heaven

Possum Plows - Openside

From belting out tunes while shooting hoops to opening for Ellie Goulding and Panic! At the Disco - Possum from Openside sure has come a long…