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Primer: Auckland Live Fringe Town 2021 Annabel Kean / Image: KITA / Wednesday 20th January, 2021 2:35PM       For those of you still coming to terms with your impulse lockdown bangs, here's hoping this year's Auckland Live Fringe Town can shift your attention to a non-cringe fringe. In conjunction with the 2021 Auckland Fringe Fest, Fringe Town is like the fest's cool muso cousin who gave you a USB of pop-punk that one time. For a whole week from February 15th, Fringe Town takes over the Auckland Town Hall for a packed schedule of Aotearoa's finest musicians, dancers, actors, ac...

Waitangi Six60 concert promises bright future for te reo Māori music 17 Jan, 2021 04:00 AM 5 minutes to read Six60 frontman Matiu Walters - who hails from Northland - performing at Waitangi on Saturday. Photo / Supplied The future of mainstream te reo music appears bright if Saturday night's Six60 concert in Waitangi is to be believed. About 14,000 music lovers sold out the Waitangi Sports Grounds in picturesque conditions to witness one of the biggest music productions in the world currently, headlined by Six60 and featuring Drax Project, Troy Kingi and The Clutch, Paige and Eleven7four. Gr...

Press Release – Taite Music Prize Dare to take a shot at who the next winner of theTaite Music Prize will be? *Nominations now open* The Taite Music Prize highlights outstanding New Zealand albums released in the past year. The award is open to all genres of music and judged on artistic merit regardless of genre, sales, or record label. IMNZ General Manager, Dylan Pellett says, “It’s an honour to present the Taite Music Prize every year, and this one is no different – excepting the fact that everyone has had a challenging time over the last twelve months! With those far-reaching cha...

Northland band Alien Weaponry hailed as 'future of heavy metal' by international magazine 8 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 3 minutes to read Northland's Alien Weaponry, from left, Turanga Morgan-Edmonds, Lewis Raharuhi de Jong and Henry Te Reiwhati de Jong, has been hailed as the future of heavy metal. Northern Advocate An international heavy metal magazine has declared that the future of the genre comes from Northland - in the shape of Waipū thrash metal trio Alien Weaponry. Alien Weaponry has been making a name for itself internationally over the past few years, playing at some of the largest music f...