The finalists for this years New Zealand Music Awards have been announce with the trailblazing Aldous Harding and Onehunga hip hop crew SWIDT up for a number of awards. Other noteworthy finalists include Fazerdaze and Nadia Reid for their recent releases, hip hop mainstay David Dallas, Alien Weaponry are up for best Maori artist, Leisure for album of the year and of course Lorde is also up for a number of awards.
