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30 years ago Murray Cammick named a new free music magazine after a rock'n'roll song and Rip It Up was born. Three decades is as much a miracle as a milestone for a small, stand-alone music magazine… Read more Audio

In a quote from 1978 Bob Dylan recalls New Zealand as a place where "the sky was deep and the flowers are strange and the birds were interesting". Probably a bit flamboyant to think that NZ has had as… Read more Audio

While we live in an era where much of the music industry continues to face a tsunami of change … Some things stay pretty much the same! The arrival of a bunch of new free fanzines would suggest that… Read more Audio

Trevor Reekie talks to veteran deal maker Roger Shepherd - founder of Flying Nun Records - and modern-day equivalent Lil Chief Records co-owner Gareth Shute about how local artists are securing… Read more Audio

The Prince album Planet Earth was released worldwide by Sony/BMG except in the UK. Trevor Reekie talks to Prince-o-phile Shane Lust about the latest confrontation Prince has initiated with the music… Read more Audio

Recently theres been a lot of noise made by a variety of studio and mastering engineers about a technique that makes everything sound "loud". The complaint these engineers are making is that the… Read more Audio

Andrew Dubber, ex-pat Senior Lecturer in the Music Industries at UCE Birmingham and author of the New Music Strategies Manifesto called 'The 20 Things You Must Know About Music Online'. Trevor Reekie… Read more Audio

In 1995 Phonographic Performances of New Zealand (PPNZ) established the Recording Artists and Producers (RAP) Fund in order to distribute royalties to local artists and copyright owners. It's one of… Read more Audio

New Zealand's first music survey dates back to 1946 when the Life Buoy Hit Parade began on radio, running until the late '50s. From 29 May 2007 the Official New Zealand Music Chart will include… Read more Audio