Music Industry News

Calling all songwriters and composers! Entries for the 2026 APRA Silver Scroll Awards are now open.

CAITLIN, the Te Waipounamu-born, Ōtautahi-based indie-pop singer and “prolific songwriter” (Sniffers), today releases her new EP Guardrails, grounded by the focus track, ‘Tied’.

After more than four decades as a defining voice in Aotearoa music, singer-songwriter Betty-Anne Hall (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Tainui, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) is beginning a new chapter with the release of her debut solo album, ‘Slow Burn’.

Aldous Harding releases a second single from her forthcoming fifth studio album, Train On The Island (out 8 May).

Today, Aotearoa’s boundary-pushing producer Sola Rosa returns with his eighth studio album In The Mids, marking a bold new chapter in a career spanning more than two decades. To celebrate the release, Sola Rosa is heading out on a nationwide tour this May and June.

Aotearoa-raised Niuean-Samoan pop artist Tyrun opens up
in the release of his debut EP ‘Fall In Love Again’, blending
Vagahau Niue (the Niuean language) with contemporary
pop and R&B to explore identity, love and belonging.