About RSS APRA Silver Scroll contender heads to Nashville APRA Silver Scroll contender, Lauren Thomson, is planning to leave the New Zealand shores of rock and pop for the home of country music, Nashville, Tennessee later this year. +more Johnny Barker & Reb Fountain's Winter Tour Rug up and grab your knitted hats and gloves! Auckland based musicians, Johnny Barker and Reb Fountain are teaming up for a solo winter tour, spreading their folk-rock flavors across the country. +more THE 2008 NEW ZEALAND POST NATIONAL SCHOOLS POETRY AWARDS ANNOUNCED THE SHORTLIST OF WINNERS For the Best lyric prize – poems listed in no particular order • ‘Downtown Bazaar’ by Saxon Adams of St Andrews College, Christchurch • ‘Passage Over Water’ by Cara Chimirri of Rangi Ruru Girls’ School, Christchurch • ‘Mrs Potts’ by Sonya Clark of Karamu High School, Hawkes Bay • ‘All You Can Eat’ by Jimmy Garden of Wellington College, Wellington • ‘Molly’ by Taylor Hughson of Wellington College, Wellington • ‘A pinker shade of blue’ by Jennifer Yeh of St Cuthbert’s College, Auckland +more Society Of Heavy Metal And Hard Rock We at SocHMHRinc. have recently set up and incorporated New Zealand's First National Heavy Metal and Hard Rock Society. +more The Funky Monkeys video for ‘The Thank You Song’ is the best children’s video of the year, as voted by the viewers of What Now. Based in a small patch of jungle just south of Auckland, the Funky Monkeys were popular winners among the thousands of children who voted on-line. New Zealand’s own children’s supergroup received their award for the What Now Children’s Video of the Year in Christchurch Friday July 18 at the James Hay Theatre. +more APRA Silver Scroll contender heads to Nashville APRA Silver Scroll contender, Lauren Thomson, is planning to leave the New Zealand shores of rock and pop for the home of country music, Nashville, Tennessee later this year. + more Johnny Barker & Reb Fountain's Winter Tour Rug up and grab your knitted hats and gloves! Auckland based musicians, Johnny Barker and Reb Fountain are teaming up for a solo winter tour, spreading their folk-rock flavors across the country. + more THE 2008 NEW ZEALAND POST NATIONAL SCHOOLS POETRY AWARDS ANNOUNCED THE SHORTLIST OF WINNERS For the Best lyric prize – poems listed in no particular order • ‘Downtown Bazaar’ by Saxon Adams of St Andrews College, Christchurch • ‘Passage Over Water’ by Cara Chimirri of Rangi Ruru Girls’ School, Christchurch • ‘Mrs Potts’ by Sonya Clark of Karamu High School, Hawkes Bay • ‘All You Can Eat’ by Jimmy Garden of Wellington College, Wellington • ‘Molly’ by Taylor Hughson of Wellington College, Wellington • ‘A pinker shade of blue’ by Jennifer Yeh of St Cuthbert’s College, Auckland + more + Click here for more news.