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On Foreign Soil: Ewan Clark
Winner of the 1998 NZ Young Composers’ Award, Ewan Clark began his compositional study at the University of Otago before moving to Victoria University in 2001, where he completed a Bachelor of Music and Graduate Diploma in Arts. He’s a composer, teacher and conductor who was accepted last year into the Royal College of Music in London, in fact ranking among the top percentile of all applicants to the Composition for Screen course at RCM. He is currently studying there towards a Masters of Music, condensing the normally two year course into one.

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It's a brilliant four weeks and believe me, we're all for it, but to be honest, it can be hard to...
It's a brilliant four weeks and believe me, we're all for it, but to be honest, it can be hard to...
For Kiwi musicians a move abroad has always made sense for those who want to expand beyond New Ze...
It’s with great sadness that we learned of the recent death of New Plymouth-based guitarist, Stev...
 

OBSERVATION POST

We've invited some folk known for their keen-eyed music industry observations to comment on events and trends in the biz, both here at home and abroad.
… and the Quote du Jour goes to Iggy Pop.
NZM Newswire: … and the Quote du Jour goes to Iggy Pop.
"What has a record company ever done for me but humiliate and torment and drag me down?"

Kimbra - representing the '90s
NZM Newswire: Kimbra - representing the '90s
As reported over at Billboard.biz, NZ's very own musical wonder woman Kimbra (Johnson) is the first female '90s-born artist to top the Billboard Hot 100
Volume’s Off
Richard Thorne: Volume’s Off
News that NZ Herald owners APN have decided to turn off their A4-sized newsprint music street press, has come with Volume’s 33rd weekly issue, and a tad awkwardly right on the eve of the 12th annual NZ Music Month.
There’s more to a free music campaign than free music
Mr Observation: There’s more to a free music campaign than free music
Thinking about giving your music away for free? Well, there's more to it than simply posting your track online and talking about it on Facebook.
 
 
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Apr/May 2012
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LATEST NEWS

2012 Music Managers Award winners announced
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2012 Music Managers Award winners announced
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Illegal Musik celebrate five years in the biz with digital album
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Illegal Musik celebrate five years in the biz with digital album
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NZ Music Month Summit announced
15.05.2012
NZ Music Month Summit announced
The annual New Zealand Music Month Summit will return on May 26, offering a wide range of seminars on how to succeed in the market more...
 
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Australian singer-songwriter Allan Caswell is suing his music publisher, Sony ATV, for failing to collect royalties for a song that he penned for the 1980s television soap, ‘The Prisoner’.
Organisers of this year’s London Olympics have reportedly invited the Who’s Keith Moon to perform at the closing ceremony, not realising drummer has been dead for 34 years.
US-label Third Man Records tried their hand at non-traditional music distribution over the weekend by releasing Jack White’s latest track, Freedom at 21, into the atmosphere via helium balloon.
In the latest ticket scalping headlines, concert promoter Michael Chugg has called for federal ticket on-selling legislation, as fans fume over scalpers dealing Radiohead tickets.
All those burning questions answered with a simple step by step flow chart.
New Order should be in a chipper mood when they play Auckland on February 27, with the recent news that some of their long buried master tapes have been unearthed in Manchester.
Dutch copyright group BREIN has been accused of infringing music by not gaining permission to use a track for their anti-piracy campaign.
Kiwi hip-hop artist David Dallas is following the mantra of his song Big Time with news that the track So Close Now has been picked up by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) to be used as entrance music for a tag team duo
An Auckland teenager has appeared in Manukau District Court after suggesting explosives were hidden in a government building. Ifraaz Joseph (18) pleaded not guilty to one charge of threatening to harm people or property in what was allegedly a protest against the new Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act.
American band MGMT were pelted with shoes at a show in Huntington Beach, California after band member James Richardson said, trying to hype the crowd up, "...everyone give me your left shoe now..."
The Phoenix Foundation's Samuel F Scott has revealed details of his most painful gig for music website drownedinsound.com.
Courtesy of our fellow Kiwi music enthusiasts at www.amplifier.co.nz you can check out the latest NZ music videos, catch a visual from the act you have been reading about or maybe revisit some past faves.
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