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The Paper Kites Release New Album Roses The album features ten new tracks, including Walk Above The City. by TV News Desk Ever quiet achievers, premier Australian indie-folk act The Paper Kites release their fifth studio album, Roses. With their brand of weather-beaten ballads and rain-drenched pop, the ten-track album bleeds with gentle significance, full of power and sentimentality. If you were to walk along a busy street, and something caught your eye - something small that had no business being there-but you picked it up and put it in your pocket, you couldn t say why-but for some reason, you kept it with you - to me, that s our music, says frontman Sam Bentley. ....
RICKY WILSON Singer songwriters Lydia Cole and Possum Plows with music manager Amy Goldsmith; they spoke out about harassment and misuse of power in Aotearoa s music industry in a Stuff #metooNZ investigation. ANALYSIS: Aotearoa s music industry has been rocked this week by stories of harassment and harmful behaviour. Now at a crossroads, will it choose to reform completely for the safety of its most vulnerable? Once you look closely at the music industry in Aotearoa, the juxtaposition of the artists who make the songs that make the money, and the executives who manage those artists and that money, is tellingly stark. ....
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Skip to main content Currently Reading Benee s Manager Forced to Exit Company He Co-Founded as Sexual Harassment Allegations Roil New Zealand Music Biz Chris Willman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Allegations of abuse and impropriety in the New Zealand music business have caused a second major manager to resign, following earlier news that Lorde’s ex-manager had stepped down from his firm. Now the manager of “Supalonely” singer Benee, Paul McKessar, has left the firm he cofounded and directed, CRS Management director, after after days of addressing charges of sexual harassment. The scandals have arisen largely as a result of the New Zealand publication Stuff publishing an investigative report revealing a rampant culture of misogyny and exploitation behind the scenes in the business. ....
On Sunday, Stuff published a months-long investigation by Alison Mau detailing allegations of harassment and exploitation within the local music industry. The piece, ‘Music industry professionals demand change after speaking out about its dark side’, includes allegations of inappropriate behaviour and abuse of power by male artists, international acts and executives; the men named are Scott Maclachlan, the man who ‘discovered’ Lorde, and Paul McKessar, who manages Benee. Here broadcaster and music industry veteran Charlotte Ryan writes of her response to the article, and her own experiences, past and present, within the New Zealand music industry. This story first appeared in Ensemble magazine ....