Over the following pages we take a look at most of the past 99 issues to find out where the cover artists are now, and just what they have been doing in the months and years since featuring in NZM. ...more

In the last day of February this year, Phillip Fuemana died of a heart attack at his South Auckland home. ...more

It’s been a long time between albums for one of New Zealand’s original hip-hop acts. ...more

Think Christchurch and for most people the picture includes the Crusaders, the cathedral, farming and the quiet. It has been a long time since the city has been associated with a flourishing music scene. ...more

Cold By Winter has spearheaded the post-hardcore movement in this country for some years now. ...more

First Edition is more than just an album title. It’s a name intended to represent the beginning of Dei Hamo, the professional. ...more

Dunedin’s music scene has had its genuine ups and downs over the 17 year life of NZ Musician magazine. Industry and media focus has come and gone, and so too have many musicians, shifting inexorably northwards and away from our sunny coastal village. ...more

Perhaps the nicest thing about reaching this one hundred issue milestone is that it coincides with a period of extraordinary success for New Zealand music at home, and also overseas. ...more

How does one efficiently describe an event that is about the biggest music industry festival in the world, that economically impacts on a single city to the tune of around $US50 million annually, that brings together 20,000 international music industry delegates, 1300 diverse acts and a whole host of record, distribution and licensing deals in the space of four days? ...more

It’s decidedly appropriate that the Heavy Jones Trio’s singer/guitarist Kelly Hogan picks Long Time Waiting as his favourite song on their debut album ‘Nobody Town’. ...more

Waikato’s eight-piece reggae disciples Katchafire are definitely smoking. ‘Slow-Burning’, their second album, went platinum on Valentines Day this year, just 10 weeks after its release and has now been resident in the Top 40 for four months. ...more

New Zealand’s first ever Pacific Music Awards were held as part of the Pasifika Festival launch in Auckland mid-March. ...more

There I was, ready to berate Marty Squire for what I was harbouring as this great loss to New Zealand music. ...more

It’s late afternoon at Fraser’s café in Mount Eden, Auckland. Nursing a coffee, I notice The Bads entering cautiously. ...more

The Beat Buster, aka Daimon Schwalger, is probably best known by his stage moniker The Nomad. This prolific Wellington-based producer of electronica is about to celebrate the release of album number five, ‘Quinessence’. ...more

It’s great to be invited back onto the pages of NZM, especially on such an auspicious occasion. Happy 100th edition everyone! ...more

In the early days of NZM Wellington was known best for its eclectic, arty roots bands which included the still-active Windy City Strugglers, Six Volts, Chicago Smokeshop and country faves The Warratahs. ...more

When it was announced a year ago that Moana Maniapoto had won the 2003 International Song Competition, it seemed quite incredible that a New Zealander could be the overall winner in this major US-based event. ...more

I'm at Bar Bodega in Wellington. It's rock'n'roll late, suitably dark, sticky, and there is a pre anti-smoking legislation haze resting over the well-lagered crowd. ...more