Welcome to the first of a two-part article about surfing the net to further your band. In this issue we will look at websites that will promote your band for free, and in the second part we will look at sites that can give your band advice and ideas of how to become superstars!! ...more

Tali may be one of the rising stars of the UK drum'n'bass scene and a key member of Roni Size and Reprazent's influential Bristol-based Full Cycle collective but the Taranaki-born MC hasn't forgotten where she came from, or who helped her out along the way. ...more

After touring the world with her piano, Evolver's front woman Emmanuelle Gomez returned to New Zealand, heard the band play and decided if they didn't want her she would "die of a broken heart". ...more

Palmerston North trio Reflector is another one of those mystical conglomerations with family at the centre of the music. ...more

Asked what they have been up to since the release of Solo Bravo's first EP 'Action On Highways' back in 2002, it's slightly worrying that the Christchurch four piece's main songwriter Chris Walker says "... the band has been a bit of a revolving door actually". ...more

Lyttelton instrument maker Peter Stephen tells me he is one of only half a dozen people in New Zealand who make and repair acoustic stringed instruments, a craft he sees as a changing one rather than a dying art. ...more

Gareth Shute has provided a beautifully laid out and well pieced together history of hip hop in New Zealand since the early '80s. ...more

Membership of the NZ Order of Merit was bestowed upon three of our musical luminaries hailing from very different ends of the industry spectrum in the Queen's Birthday Honours announcements. ...more

Tall Dwarfs had been invited to participate in a four band collaboration thingy to be held over two nights in Arras, a town in northern France about which we knew little beyond the distinct possibility that NZ troops had died there in WW1... ...more

Sometime in May an anonymous email started doing the rounds of the local industry, raising the hackles of some and heckles from others. ...more

Benny 'Lee' Staples, New Zealand's original funky drummer, is one of this country's most eclectic and educated DJs. ...more

Wellington DJ/producer Chris Tubbs moved to London in 1997 with Auckland duo Breaks Co-op, aka Zane Lowe and Hamish Clark, with the aim of taking on the world together. ...more

Imagine being paid to watch music videos. ...more