We love hearing local artists grow and develop, so when Sophie Burbery emailed earlier this week we were excited to hear about her new album Hope is Rubbery.Welcome to the world Hope is Rubbery - today is your birthday! And to celebrate we're giving away two lovely tracks for free. Read the full post

Tomorrow sees the launch of a great new site called Daily Beat, which offers a free download of a track by a New Zealand every day. Awesome idea! Founder Ki Mansell explains the idea behind the site:"Daily Beat (www.dailybeat.co.nz) is a great new kiwi music site for people to discover the fantastic array of New Zealand musicians that are right under all of... Read the full post

The other day I stumbled across three lovely folks who are making musical video magic in Christchurch as, If I Were An Animal.Conceived, scripted, shot, presented, edited, promoted and made beautiful by three New Zealand Broadcasting students, Libby Dallison, Karl Stanley & Phillip Gow, If I were An Animal has just released their professionally presented first episode. Read the full post

The results of last week's Rocktober poll are in - the most rock 'n roll band of all time according to you is... Read the full post

Hurrah - the Vinyl Club at the Southern Cross was a great success!The lovely Laura and Alana (wo)manned our MusicHy.pe table with our shiny blue LPs and 1GB USB mixtapes.It was a bustling afternoon and thanks to all the lovely folks we met who supported our artists! Read the full post

Just a reminder, like you didn't already know, the Wellington vinyl fair is on tomorrow at the Southern Cross! And what you might not know is that we'll be there! That's right some crew from MusicHy.pe will be manning a table and showing off our beautiful blue vinyl. Fresh vinyl full of NZ indie's!Come and say hi! We're very friendly and we'd love... Read the full post

This weekend I drove up to Hunterville with some mates to drop off some of our NZ Indie Mixtape's to a new store called Lucky that has opened there. It's a really cool shop - all sorts of cool stuff: clothes, books, furniture and a very nice selection of NZ music. Read the full post

Got your black t-shirt, your face paint and your glitter? Then it is time to Rocktober!Rocktober is a Dress Up and Rock Out event in the style of Wayne’s World meets Tenacious D meets Spinal Tap! And it's happening right here in Wellington on 1 October.We're proud to be helping the Rocktober posse raise money for the Wellington Division of the Cancer Society... Read the full post

Every week at Musichy.pe we run weekly polls on subjects picked and voted on by our members. We've been leaving them open indefinitely so people can comment and rank them whenever they want, but I thought it would be a good idea to collate the results for you every few months or so.Remember that you can still vote, comment or watch the videos... Read the full post

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