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It was, to paraphrase Sergeant Pepper, 40 years ago today. It was an eight day watershed week, not just in our musical history, but also in our social history. ...more

'See Me Go' arrives at a time when the local music industry is hovering on the fulcrum of good things - and there's nothing like a bit of history, a sense of pedigree, to give it a push in the right direction. ...more

Okay, 'fess up! You don't really know what you are doing when you are playing music, right?' If you are anything like me, you have muddled your way through years of rehearsals and performances according to what sounds 'right' to your ear. ...more

Buskers, comediennes, TV personalities, musicians, recording artists and now autobiographers. You'd be hard pushed to find entertainers as original and multi talented as this unique pair. ...more

If you haven't heard of guitar speed you will soon. As documented in the Truth newspaper recently, and by Mike Hoskings a week earlier on Television One's Assignment program, the drug guitar speed is rampant. ...more

For close to a hundred years, New Zealanders have been consuming recorded music. This well-researched and beautifully-presented book comprehensively documents, for the first time, the many record labels (and the entrepreneurs and artists behind them) which came in, and out, of New Zealand. ...more