Ben Campbell’s nascent Christchurch creative co- operative Fledge is showing a bit of muscle. The former member of Zed and Atlas, who now channels his music into House of Mountain, is a mentor for the New Zealand Music Commission and a director of Fledge Records – and now he has found chart success with Jed and Hera’s debut album, Live At York St
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Best album, best song for Chch duo
Christchurch musicians dominated the New Zealand Country Music Awards in Gore last night.
Singer goes from Westport to the world
She has wowed producers on the other side of the Pacific Ocean and has shot a music video in Los Angeles. That’s not bad for a songbird from Westport, who took up singing because she wanted something to do after school
Westport singer takes her talent to the world
She has wowed producers on the other side of the Pacific Ocean and has shot a music video in Los Angeles.
Judges need a dash of X Factor
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Deerhunter draw from dark times
Bradford Cox wrote what would become the final track of Deerhunter’s forthcoming album, a song called Punk, at a friend’s house in New York during what he describes as a very difficult time.
Short songs with lots of mystery
When John Linnell and John Flansburgh were kids in Lincoln, Massachusetts, they used to love those cheap and cheerful TV ads for top-40 compilation records. Remember the K-tel pitch Twenty original artists, 20 original hits, with tiny grabs of each lined up to ring in your brain like rapid-fire sugar hits.
Greg Johnson’s Table for Six
Greg Johnson has been cooking up a feast. The Santa Monica-based Kiwi songwriter kicked off his Table For Six Tour in Auckland on Friday with six of his favourite musicians – Jan Hellriegel, Ben King, Lisa Crawley, Kurt Shanks, Wayne Bell and Mark Hughes.
Taylor Swift Shares Her Songwriting Process
“Songs start in strange, quirky ways” Swift on be a songwriter. Taylor Swift was recently the feature guest of VH1’s “Storytellers” where she shared, among other things, her song writing process. Swift Going to be Featured on VH1’s “Storytellers” When the news broke that Taylor Swift would be featured on an upcoming episode […]