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We've got some pretty cool music industry people in New Zealand, and some of them are putting on a free "How to Make Money from Your Music" seminar in Dunedin on Wednesday.

There's something magical about shuffling about in the winter darkness and coming across a strange little "interruption".

Nestled between Subway and an antiques shop on Princes St is "Becoming Darkness".

Beastwars 2016 release The Death of All Things was also meant to signal the death of Beastwars as a band, Fraser Thompson writes.

If you haven't heard of Lonnie Holley, you're not alone, writes Fraser Thompson.

Him is the musical project of Auckland's Jazmine Rose Phillips, performed live with the help of Aaron Longville on saxophone and Saoirse Chapman on synth, and her latest album, Snakes at Night, is...

New Jersey-based rock band Screaming Females have been wowing the crowds of the underground since 2005, and now they're heading to our shores for a five-date tour. I caught up with the band just...

It's New Zealand Music Month! The month for celebrating the underground artists and venues who willingly provide us with so many good times ... So if you've ever needed an excuse to go see some...

Finally, the wonderful time of the year when the public holidays align and we get two gloriously long weekends to eat chocolate and acknowledge the horrors of war respectively, writes Fraser Thompson.

Lines of Flight opened with a rendition of John Cage's silent 4'33'', both an empty space to symbolise what we've lost and the epitome of the idea that any sound can constitute music. This would be...

Fraser Thompson holds a Q&A with Invercargill duo Murgatroyd.

Te Reo metal band Alien Weaponry has taken the world by storm with its pummelling combination of groovy, thrashy, metal and Maori legends, writes Fraser Thompson.

Wellington in the late 1970s and early '80s was a time of anti-establishment nihilists and anarchist revolutionaries. Rent was cheap and the government sucked, writes Fraser Thompson.

No Age is a two-piece from Los Angeles which has been ripping up stages internationally with its jagged noisy art rock for the best part of a decade. Next weekend, it will be bringing the noise to...

It's a little embarrassing to admit but, until recently, I had never heard of Orchestra of Spheres.

The holiday gig drought is officially over. Starting with last night's Francisca Griffin EP release, the next few weeks are filled to the brim with musical events of all flavours and viscosities.

Francisca Griffin, once a member of seminal and often overlooked mid-'80s Flying Nun band Look Blue Go Purple, has released her new album, the spaces between.

As per tradition, we find ourselves nearing the end of one of the many arbitrary divisions of time we've invented to help make the endless expanses of tomorrows more bearable. Also, as per...