Music Month flashback: Pink Frost by the Chills
Today's flashback is a Flying Nun great from 1984.
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Music Month flashback: Not Given Lightly by Chris Knox
Today's flashback is one of our favourite local love songs.
Music Month flashback: Brother by Smashproof
Today's flashback features guest vocals from Gin Wigmore.
Music Month flashback: Welcome Home by Dave Dobbyn
Today's flashback is a 2005 favourite from Dave Dobbyn.
Music Month flashback: Tears by the Crocodiles
Today's flashback was the beginning of the road to Australasian pop stardom for singer Jenny Morris.
Music Month flashback: For Today by The Netherworld Dancing Toys
Today's flashback is a song that is famous for the work of a talented backing singer.
Music Month flashback: Bliss by Th' Dudes
Today's flashback was directed by Tony Holden.
Music Month flashback: Sensitive to a Smile by Herbs
Today's flashback was directed by Lee Tamahori for Pacific reggae heroes Herbs.
Music Month flashback: Room that Echoes by Peking Man
Today's flashback is the number one song that helped Peking Man to dominate the 1986 Music Awards.
Music Month flashback: How Bizarre by OMC
Today's flashback was our first independent record to achieve global success.
Music Month flashback: Glad I'm Not a Kennedy by Shona Laing
Today's flashback is Shona Laing's biggest international single.
Music Month flashback: Pulsing by The Body Electric
Today's flashback is an early electro-pop hit that signalled the talents of producer Alan Jansson long before the days of his worldwide hit with OMC's How Bizarre.
Music Month flashback: Lydia by Fur Patrol
Today's flashback is an anthem for the jilted that topped the charts in 1999.
Music Month flashback: Asian Paradise by Sharon O'Neill
Today's flashback involves a shark tooth ear-ring and a rippling pool.
Music Month flashback: Tally Ho by The Clean
Today's flashback is a Flying Nun great with a video that marked the directing debut of Chris Knox.
Music Month flashback: Counting the Beat by The Swingers
Today's flashback is one of NZ music's catchiest songs, and the opening imagery for the video is iconic.
Music Month flashback: Computer Games by Mi-Sex
Today's flashback has NZ's most famous attempt at the great rock'n'roll stutter - all together now, com, pu, pu, pu, pu, pu, computer games...
Music Month flashback: Trippin' by Push Push
Today's flashback is from 1991 and involves a lot of long hair being shaken about.
Music Month flashback: April Sun in Cuba by Dragon
Today's flashback was a hit on both sides of the Tasman in the late 1970s, and has had Australians and New Zealanders singing about Cuba ever since.
12 cool things Kiwi artists have achieved in past year
To celebrate New Zealand Music Month, here are 12 cool things kiwi musicians have achieved in the past 12 months you might've missed.
Music Month flashback: Nobody Else by Rikki Morris and Tex Pistol
The Herald has partnered with NZ On Screen to bring you a music video of a NZ song every day this month. Today's flashback is a number one from 1988.
Music Month flashback: Sierra Leone by Coconut Rough
Today's music month flashback is an extreme ear-worm and could lead you to pronounce the name of an African nation incorrectly.
Music Month flashback: Forever Tuesday Morning by The Mockers
Today's music month flashblack is the most well-known single for 1980s pop heroes The Mockers.
Music Month flashback: Victoria by The Exponents
Today's music month flashback is the song that started it all for The Exponents.
Music Month flashback: Sweet Lovers by The Holidaymakers
Today's music month flashback was the biggest selling single in NZ in 1988.
Music Month flashback: I See Red by Split Enz
It's NZ Music Month and the Herald has partnered with NZ On Screen to bring you the music video for a classic New Zealand song every day of the month. Today's pick is a frenzied great from the band that was our first international rock success story.
Remember this? Music month flashback
The Herald has partnered with NZ On Screen to bring a music video of a classic NZ song every day of the month. We kick the series off today with a song about a legendary Auckland road.
NZ guitar pedal firm launches crowdfunding campaign
Guitar pedal company Red Witch is seeking to raise up to $700,000 through a crowdfunding campaign.
NZ Music Month: Go Kiwi groovers
With more than 800 events countrywide, Music Month will be an epic celebration of home-grown talent, finds Sarah Ell.
St James Theatre will re-open this May
It has been announced this morning that the St James Theatre in Auckland will re-open on May 2, eight years since it was shut down in 2007 after a small electrical fire raised concerns about safety.
Broods on tour: Vitamins, crazed fans, sell out shows
Kiwi alt-pop duo Broods - aka Georgia and Caleb Nott - are on tour in America and they're compiling their experiences for nzherald.co.nz. Here's part one of their tour diary.
Flip Grater: Making Of Pigalle
Watch this behind-the-scenes short documentary about the making of Flip Grater's latest album - Pigalle.
REPLAY: Beck's Sets NZ Music Month launch party
Watch again nzherald.co.nz's stream of the opening of NZ Music Month. Beck's Sets #1 featured Delete Delete, Paquin and She's So Rad, live from Auckland's Tyler Street Garage.