Category: Writing about Music
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Don’t Panic at the Disco — Findings From a New Music Discovery Survey
This project explores the many ways in which new music and artists are discovered by the everyday listener. A music engagement survey was created to find out how people discover new music in the digital age. 114 people took part. About one billion people and counting stream music online, ( 616 million people/businesses pay for subscriptions and…
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The Sun is on Fire
Everyone sings with you. At least that’s how it feels. Each time you sing the chorus, it gets brighter and brighter and has exponentially more emotion. You are feeling a oneness with everyone you can see. You realise this chorus is projecting around Newtown. You feel a part of this celebration. Then, in the last…
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STALKER: A BAND CALLED STALKER
It’s been four years since Stalker ’s first demo release ‘Satanic Panic’ and three years since their 2017 debut album ‘Shadow of the Sword’ was released through Austrian record label Napalm Records. Covid-19 didn’t prevent them from managing an appearance in Osaka for Japan’s True Thrash Festival in February, or from releasing their sophomore album ‘Black Majik Terror’…
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Lake South Interview
https://nzmusician.co.nz/features/lake-south-capital-chap/h By Frank Eggleton Lake South is a musician, producer and a director. He makes most of his own music videos and was the director and writer of NZ Idle, a web-series about an artist on the dole. In 2019 he released an album that is a paean of sorts to the country’s capital Wellington. He…
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An Interview with Departure Party
by FRANK EGGLETON Departure Party: Cajons And Cronies (First Published in NZMusician.co.nz) Departure Party is a folk-punk, maybe emo/anti-folk three-piece, that has released two albums (the first in 2017 under then-band name Yor Cronies, titled ‘I Want To Quit’) and the just-released ‘Departure Party’. Based in Wellington, they have supported the likes of Joyce Manor, Listener, Wolfpack and…
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Interview: Kirin J Callinan
Originally published on Undertheradar.co.nz Interview: Kirin J Callinan Talks About His ‘Return To Center’ Album & NZ Tour Australia’s controversial solo artist, the Los Angeles based Kirin J Callinan, has recently released his third record – Return To Center. To give himself a challenge, he took his credit card and used the Guitar Center’s pro audio section’s fourteen-day…
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Review: Newtown Festival 2019, Wellington
By FRANK EGGLETON Review: Newtown Festival 2019, Wellington Images by BIRGIT BACHLER You awake to a light grey day, with a smidgen of fuzz— because you couldn’t resist going to Moon to see Hex and an Australian touring band called Cable Ties. You behaved yourself, sleeking home straight after the last note. Which is just as well, as your group is…
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2019 NZSA Writer Mentorships announced
Recipients have been selected for the New Zealand Society of Authors Mentorship Programme 2019 with thirteen chosen from a pool of 79 applicants. With a high level of commitment shown by the applicants and a wide variety of fascinating projects the judges had quite a task making their selection. Our 2019 mentees are emerging writers…
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NZ Muscian: Josie Moon
FRESH TALENT: JOSIE MOON by FRANK EGGLETON Fresh Talent: Josie Moon Living in Wellington, Josie Moon is an inspired artist of indie pop who is pushing herself in every direction – production, songwriting, performing and producing videos. “Music was always around, but I didn’t really start doing it as a hobby or writing that much, until my first…