Music Industry

9th January 2008 - Press Release
Award winning Christchurch top 40 pop singer Yulia announces engagement to Manager & TV & Film Composer Glyn MacLean. Yulia rose to fame with the albums Into the West and Montage achieving 6 times platinum status with two number one hits. She has previously won Tui's for "Best Female Artist" and "Album of the Year"...

20th December 2007
Congratulations to folk-rockers The Delorians who won the RDU Big Day Out Band Competition this morning. They sent in their track 'Dream Number One' in to RDU made the final few with the ultimate winner being decided by public txt vote...

21st December 2007
The finalists for New Zealand’s Best Folk Music Album of 2007 including Phil Garland, the man often referred to as ‘the father of NZ folk music’ who is a finalist for ‘Southern Odyssey’, his 18th album. It’s the fourth time the Culverden-based folklorist and balladeer has been a finalist for the award...

18th December 2007 - c/o Radioscope.net.nz
With more than 10,000 spins on NZ radio in 2007, there were no ifs, no buts or even maybes about it... OpShop ruled the airwaves this year. Maybe, from the ex-pat Christchurch band's Second Hand Planet album, tops this year's RadioScope End of Year charts by a healthy margin, the only song to break the 10,000-play barrier this year, based on the airplay logs of every major contemporary music station in NZ...

17th December 2007
Grymeworks are super pleased to announce that Jay Roacher has been nominated for the "Best MC" category at the second annual Nesian Vibes Award. Nesian Vibes is the premier Australian RnB & HipHop show dedicated to the sounds, talent and entertainment coming out of New Zealand....

13th December 2007
A useful new website is now up and running and aims to assist both musicians looking to join bands, and bands looking for musicians to complete their lineup. The site is 100% free to all users and at the moment is principally serving New Zealand, Australia and Ireland.

6th December 2007
Latest news from Christchurch hiphop label Grymeworks...
Poisonous Youth
Grymeworks is STOKED to announce that Poisonous Youth (Orakle & Prolifik) have recently joined the Grymeworks crew with their debut album to be released in 2008...