Stan Walker and CHAII are leading the nominations for the 2025 Aotearoa Music Awards.

2024 Mana Reo and Te Manu Taki Māori o te Tau winner TAWAZ returns as a finalist in both categories in 2025. His Mana ...

The singer-songwriter’s new album wasn’t intended to be political, but it arrives at a tense moment for Aotearoa politics.

What are the five best groove metal albums of the 2020s? We’ve tasked Alien Weaponry, masters of groove themselves, with ...

The New Zealand metal band talks their new album, metal snobs, and how they became the pioneers of Māori metal ...

New Zealand’s government plans to have 1 million Kiwis speaking basic te reo – the language of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori population – by 2040. There are also calls to make the ...

A Māori woman in New Zealand showcased how she is supporting the Justice for Cwecwe movement in a TikTok video. The clip went viral online, sparking reactions.

A Wellington Library is trialling a new way of cataloguing its mātauranga Māori books, organising them by atua (deity) rather ...

Following the 1854 signing of New Zealand’s founding document ... schooling forced him to choose between learning Te Reo Maori or music (“which was insane”) in the equivalent of year ...