Amplifier

New Zealand music online.

AudioCulture

Online history of New Zealand popular music.

Blue smoke

The website of music historian Chris Bourke.

The Film Archive – ready to roll?

100 New Zealand music videos, from the Film Archive.

New Zealand Music Commission

The New Zealand Music Commission works to promote and support the New Zealand music industry.

Nothing’s going to happen: the story of New Zealand rock

American music critic Alex Ross’s 1995 article on New Zealand rock music.

Radio New Zealand: Blue smoke

Chris Bourke’s radio series about the birth of popular music in New Zealand.

Bourke, Chris. Blue smoke: the lost dawn of New Zealand popular music, 1918–1964. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2010.

Dix, John. Stranded in paradise: New Zealand rock and roll, 1955 to the modern era. Rev. ed. Auckland: Penguin, 2005.

Eggleton, David. Ready to fly. Nelson: Craig Potton, 2004.

Shute, Gareth. New Zealand rock: 1987–2007. Auckland: Random House, 2008.

Spittle, Gordon. Counting the beat: a history of New Zealand song. Wellington: GP Publications, 1997.

Thomson, John Mansfield. The Oxford history of New Zealand music. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1991.