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Podcast: The Front Page
Episode: Future of music: How the collapse of coverage is limiting Aotearoa
Description: Musicians are facing a deathly silence. With the gutting of the magazine industry now well-bedded in, many of the specialised titles that once relished in telling tales of bands on the road have disappeared. Most of the coverage of music and arts in wider mainstream media has also vanished. So now how do Kiwi acts get their voices heard? And who will step up to be the cheerleaders for the up-and-coming talent capable of placing Aotearoa on the global pop culture map? Chris Schulz, a long-time pop culture journalist, who now blogs in his...