News Archives - February 2010

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Tauranga based metal band Puppeteer will release their debut album ‘Tucked In By Brutality’ on March 31 ...more

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BASE FM is once again holding its annual Shake ‘N Bake festival. ...more

The Mt Smart Super Top - or Boiler Room as fans of the Big Day Out will know it - is for sale. ...more

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As reported on the Facebook grapevine, promoters Matthew Crawley and Jim Rush, aka Strange News and Galesburg are hanging up their hats for the time being. ...more

After taking a break last year, the NZ-developed art and music mash-up, Tiger Translate is returning to Auckland in 2010. ...more

As reported by Tim Hume in last the Sunday Star Times, the newly resuscitated (and once again privately owned) Flying Nun record label has been divvyed up four ways. ...more

The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band will play their final gig on Saturday 6 March ...more

To celebrate the release of Connan Mockasin’s much anticipated debut album ‘Please Turn Me Into The Snat’, Connan will perform four dates around NZ ...more

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MySpace NZ has announced the act for the first Secret Show for 2010. ...more

To celebrate Arch Hill Recordings' 10th birthday, a shindig will be held on Sunday 28 February at the Kings Arms Tavern. ...more

Sounds in the Sun & the Tour of Dirty ...more

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New Zealand’s largest combined jazz and blues event, the International Jazz & Blues Festival, will take place in Christchurch from April 5 to 11, 2010. ...more

Kiwi rockers Shihad and award-winning Director Sam Peacocke are looking for people to take part in a video concept ...more

Kiwi rapper, King Kapisi has joined forces with an early education music school ...more

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The NZSO is on the road in March touring the South Island with an ensemble of 20 musicians ...more

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Josephine Costain will celebrate the completion of her debut solo album, by touring the country and releasing the brand new single ...more

Minuit will 'march' across the country next month for a tour of intimate club shows. ...more

To coincide with the 2010 Pasifika Festival, Dawn Raid Entertainment and Universal Music will release 'Pasifika: The Collection' on March 8 2010. ...more

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and Hawkins Theatre have joined forces and are on the lookout for a guitar maestro to rip it up on the gat ...more

Following a two year hiatus since the release of her highly acclaimed debut album 'Long Player', Hollie Smith is back ...more

Little Bushman will release a live album featuring recordings from their collaboration with the NZSO ...more

In an attempt to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that will appear when users listen to music on the social networking site. ...more

Best known for their iconic song Nature, NZ pop band The Fourmyula, will return to the stage ...more

London based four piece I Am Giant have been crowned the winners of the Jim Beam Homegrown band search. ...more

Loyalty New Zealand, the operator of Fly Buys, has signed a contract with Universal Music NZ ...more

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at Britain's classical music awards ...more

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Minuit’s track I'm Still Dancing, from their latest album 'Find Me Before I Die a Lonely Death dot Com' is set to appear in the latest season of the US TV show Grey's Anatomy. ...more

Dunedin band The Verlaines' will be heading out on a nationwide tour ...more

Three years on since the release of their acclaimed mini-album ‘Club Poems’, Pig Out will release their new album, ‘RAVE X’ ...more

Auckland City Council Arts Alive invites proposals twice each year, from individuals, organisations or venues seeking funding for their projects. ...more

Songwriter Jane Siberry has been announced as the first Songwriter Speaks guest presented by APRA in 2010 ...more

A competition to find an original song for the Leukaemia & Blood Foundation’s 2010 ‘Shave for a Cure’ ad campaign is open to NZ primary and secondary school students. ...more

Australian band Men at Work have lost a controversial court case over the rights to their most famous hit. ...more

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A gathering will be held tonight to celebrate the life of singer and songwriter Pauly Fuemana, who died last Sunday. ...more

RedBull Madcap is a new touring event that will showcase established and up and coming NZ dub, electro and drum & bass acts. ...more

MARCHFeST, the craft beer and music festival held in Nelson, will return for its third year this April ...more

Online band merchandise company www.closet.co.nz, run by Dave Gibson (Elemeno P), are releasing a range of charity tees with all the proceeds going to Oxfam's Haiti Relief Effort. ...more

There may be no appetite for another NZ Idol but another nationwide search for new musical talent has begun with registrations now open for City Showcase, ...more

The finalists for the inaugural Taite Music Prize have been decided ...more

The maps and schedules are now available for Jim Beam Homegrown 2010. ...more

Julie Sperring has taken up the role of Executive Director of SOUNZ, the Centre for New Zealand Music. ...more

Three years on since the last Crowded House album, a new album is due for release in May. ...more

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Wellington singer-songwriter-accountant Chris Prowse has beaten out Christchurch group Emeralds & Greenstone and singer-songwriter Mel Parsons to take home the 2009 Tui for Best Folk Album ...more

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Wellington's sleepy noise pop band Force Fields will release a 7” clear vinyl double A-side ...more

On Saturday 6 February Kiwi FM will mark Waitangi Day, 2010 with an afternoon of songs by Kiwi artists about New Zealand ...more