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Sweetman on NZ On Air funding

Mr Observation

Kiwi music critic Simon Sweetman has posted a blog over at stuff.co.nz set to ignite an i...

Cocaine Mouth

NZM Newswire

The Sneaks have recorded a new song titled Cocaine Mouth, while on a break from touring with ...

The R&V Protege

Steve

Organiser of New Year's festival Rhythm & Vines are on the search for an Assistant Program Director to work with bands and choose the acts for the 2011 fes...

Billboard challenger Chart launched in the States

NZM Newswire

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US album sales

Richard Thorne

Okay, so we all know that the music industry’s in a precipitous decline and that it’s become a singles-dominant market, but these recently publicised stats on the US album market (f...

ALC5 RIP

Mr Observation

Coco Soild's long-time collaborator and producer ALC5 (Alan Cameron) recently passed ...

Phoenix Foundation erotic fan fiction

NZM Newswire

To celebrate NZMM, Unitec student Joseph E. Harper wrote an erotic fan fiction blog for free student magazine 'In Unison'. The tale follows Joseph on...

Connan Mockasin's NZ mixtape

Steve

Connan Mockasin has made a NZ mixtape for Vice magazine. It features tracks including an exclusive number from Neil Finn and wife Sharon's project ...

Chartfixer. The Aussie way

Mr Observation

Chartfixer, an Australian website has claimed it can legally "...get any song from your album into the ARIA and iTunes charts..."...

Brendan Smyth on Radio NZ

Mr Observation

Brendan Smyth sits down with Radio NZ to discuss the present and future of NZ On Air's funding scheme. &...

Zach de la Rocha to boycott Arizona

Steve

You could say - long gone are the days where musicians take a...

Derty Sesh - You Really Don't Want That

NZM Newswire

Introducing the music video for the third single U Don't Really Want That from Derty Sesh's debut album, 'Sic Love'. A follow-up to the highly controversial video for ...

Tahuna Breaks' new video has some balls

Steve

The video for Tahuna Breaks’ latest single Giddy Up has been taken down from video sharing site...

The Hill, the Howe and the Nun

NZM Newswire

Arch Hill records head honcho Ben Howe has written an interesting guest blog on the history of Arch Hill and his situation with Flying Nun over ...

Feelin' it?

Watchdog

Following the debacle over the choice of...

Kiwi band robbed

Mr Observation

As reported at http://whitebirdsandlemons.blogspot.com, Melbourne based Kiwi four-piece Whi...

All On Our Own with three maybe four videos

NZM Newswire

Midnight Youth have released a third video for their 2009 smash hit All On Our Own. The first video, directed by Zac Blair, was re-made for unkno...

Home Brew on raising funds

Steve

In response to the lack of NZ On Air funding thrown Kiwi hip hop group Home Brew Crew's way, the group head out on the streets in a attempt to a rais...

MTC - If it's on the news or in the papers, then it must be true

Steve

Move The Crowd's head honcho Kirk Harding has written a thrilling read on the label's blog in response to the attention Kiwi rappe...

RWC Poi e - P Money mashup

Peter McLennan

On the lighter side of the recent Feelers/Jesus Jones/Rugby World Cup song debacle, Peter McLennan of http://dubdotdas...