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30 days of ideas - Radio Alerts

Andrew Dubber

Over the next month, music author, public speaker and blogger Andrew Dubber will be posting 30 days of ideas on his personal blog ...

Who to send promos to

Andrew Dubber

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Coalition for Culture

Andrew Dubber

I love the music business. I think musicians are great. I believe they do amazing things that are richly deserving of great rewards, the lot of them. I think it’s appropriate that e...

Applying for your first job in the music industry - 7 tips

Andrew Dubber

This is a guest post by my friend Dave Haynes, UK Manager of ...

Tim Prebble on his new net-label and recording empty paddocks

Steve

Kiwi sound designer Tim Prebble has pos...

Boybrand

Peter McLennan

I saw the funniest thing on the tv news on Tuesday night - an item on a new local boy band (called Boyband - now there's some honest branding) put together by radio station The E...

Something Awesome - the drawing competition

Steve

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OK Go on video embedding

Steve

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Bullet For Your Gun - Cable for your Mic?

Steve

I managed to catch the NZ music focused TV show Homegrown, on C4 last week. Does anyone...

Bad vibes ahead?

Richard Thorne

News over the Xmas period revealed that Roger Shepherd had regained control of his old Flying Nun label ...

New Merch ideas

Steve

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A brief chart talk

Chart Man

Not a lot has changed in the Top 40 singles chart over the past week(s). We have the regular Kiwi residents scattered across the board with Gin Wigmore ...

NZ Lawyer Article by Kevin Glover of Shortland Chambers

Richard Thorne

The debate over Section 92A of the Copyright Act has gone quiet whilst submissions relating...

Always on my Chart?

Chart Man

Jumping from #21 up to #7, ...

Social Media Revolution

Steve

If Facebook were a country, it would be the fourth largest in world...Gulp. ...

Music is Lush and Fertile

Hennessy Love Machine

Music is an amazing thing that is part of our existence, but what is its function for humanity? It doesn't provide in a hunter gatherer sense, a means of p...

Four Non Blondes

Steve

If you've ever wondered how many blondes it takes to do an interview, this may give you a good idea. While waiting backstage to play in front of an overly excited crowd of teenagers at a recent...

Music and Money

Hennessy Love Machine

Money and Music (in my opinion) are mutually exclusive entities in the current schematic of our little universe, but in turn, they can have a complex marriage ...

3 vs 5 vs 9 or More

Hennessy Love Machine

3 vs 5 vs 9 or More As NZ music month is getting closer, I have been reacquainting myself with the sounds and the beats of the motherland, mainstream and...

The Seven Deadly Sins of Digital Distribution

Richard Thorne

The Seven Deadly Sins of Digital Distribution According to RoyaltyShare's self-promotional email, it is an industry first Content Management Service which has eliminated the need for reco...