There’s talk of a new Motocade album waiting in the wings, for a time when the stars and the band members re-align, but in the meantime the band’s guitarist Geordie McCallum has slipped out his own recording entitled ‘Layers’, under the band name of SinSin. He talked with Richard Thorne about the EP’s decidedly low rent and drawn out recording process, video making frustrations and good fortune, and about finally getting his own band together.
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.

Vivian Lees and Ken West, the co-promoters of the annual Big Day Out festival, have ended their business partnership - months before the 20th anniversary of the festival in Australia.

According to Peter McLennan’s blog - DubDotDash, Auckland Zoo's annual Zoo Music series has been canned.

NZM Newswire: Put struggling artist's songs on the WINZ hold music
A Facebook page has been created calling for Work and Income NZ to put struggling artist's music on the hold playlist ahead of established musicians like Dave Dobbyn.

Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries is the owner of Warner Music