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Shapeshifter 2013

In celebration of their highly anticipated new album Delta, Shapeshifter announce a national tour throughout July.

MMF 2013 Winners

The MMF New Zealand and PPNZ Music Licensing are proud to announce the winners of the 2013 Music Managers Awards.

Jello Biafra

Jello Speaks!! Auckland and Christchurch spoken word shows confirmed.

Hot on the heels of his captivating band concerts here and in Australia, Jello Biafra returns to our shores in late May for his What Would Jello Do? speaking shows - this time in Christchurch and Auckland.

Leading fashion e-retailer boohoo.com is giving musicians the chance to have their music featured on the brand’s TV channel and product videos.

Last years winner Levity Beat

Entries are now open for the 2013 Children's Music Awards.

Silver Scrolls 2013

Entries are now open for the 2013 APRA Silver Scroll Awards.  The Silver Scroll Awards celebrate excellence in three areas – the APRA Silver Scroll for the best original song, the APRA Maioha Award for the best contemporary waiata, and the SOUNZ Contemporary Award for the best contemporary classical work.

Smokefreerockquest 2013

Around 700 entrants every year, regional heats and finals in towns from Invercargill to Whangarei, and a legacy that includes some of the greatest names on the Kiwi music scene, from Kimbra to Nesian Mystik and from Ladyhawke to OpShop.

Awakened Inferno

Pics from Chartfest 2013 Rock and Metal show at Bourbon Street, Saturday 11 May 2013.

Big thanks to Tainted, Lockjaw,  Awakened Inferno and everyone who came down!

Populate! Saturday 11 May 2012

This Saturday 12-5pm: a full day of events including artist talks, guided exhibition tours, a free concert featuring New Zealand music legend David Kilgour and local stars Delaney Davidson and The Eastern, and an ‘Imagination Playground’ for children.

FEATURING:
- Jen Turner
- The Byllie Jean Project
- Delaney Davidson

Jed & Hera Dux Live Sunday 19 May

Music, pretty lights, yummy beer, a mellow Sunday evening at Dux Live...

The artwork has been printed, it's all go, and we are set to release our debut album 'Live at York St' on the 19th of May as part of NZ Music Month!

The Lion King Open Call

THE LION KING is the multi award winning musical based on the 1994 Disney animated film of the same name.

THE LION KING will open at the Capitol Theatre, Sydney in December 2013.

Flip Grater

Sometime in 2011, somewhere in Paris, in a dirty, cheap hotel, Kiwi indie-folk songwriter Flip Grater had something of an epiphany. Why not move to Paris? What was stopping her? She’d always dreamed of doing so, she was broke, yes, but why not be broke in a city where being broke was part of a long-standing romantic ex-pat tradition?

Sylvie Simmons Middleton Grange Christchurch Tuesday 14 May

Sylvie Simmons is a renowned music journalist and award-winning writer. A Londoner, she moved to Los Angeles in the late 1970s where she began writing about rock music for Sounds, Creem and Kerrang!, then Rolling Stone, the Guardian and MOJO.

Sleeping dogs album release tour

This Autumn, Sleeping Dogs are on the road again, with a 17-date, two-month long tour of the country. This follows a hugely successful last twelve months for the band; in 2012 they completed their latest album, Death of a Muse, with veteran producer Greg Haver, and completed their first ever international tour of the UK and Europe.

Tiny Ruins

An idea arose to brush the dust from some older, bluesier TR songs - to test out our friend Jon Pearce's 8-track tape machine & get ideas for recording the second album we'd demoed. We headed North to Waipu, transforming Cass's childhood home into a temporary studio space over the course of three days.

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