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This Weeks LOCAL EYES video of the week is Esther Stephens & The Means with thier jam ‘French Kiss‘. The video was directed, Edited & Produced by Reuben Stephens with Georgia Schofield as director of photography. Be sure to check out Esther Stephens & The Means at Young Gifted and Broke’s Red Bull Sound Select at the Bacco […]
This week’s Turn It Up local tune comes off what Louie Knuxx calls his best album ever. The rapper’s third full length album, Tiny Warm Hearts, coincides with a recent move back to New Zealand and as it was funded by fans, he’s now giving away the finished product for free. The album features a variety […]
Yesterday the news that Malik Isaac Taylor, better known to us all as A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg, was dead sent shock waves around the world. Immediately, people did that thing they do when they’re dealing with the loss of someone great, and started sharing their favourite Phife memories. Favourite Phife lines, favourite A […]
Red Bull Sound Select Presents: Mo Kolours (UK) Esther Stephens & The Means, Groeni, and Lapis. Curated by Young Gifted & Broke Friday 1st April, 9pm Bacco Room, 53 Nelson St, Auckland $3 w/ RSVP $10 door sales. RSVP HERE For one night only half-English producer, singer and percussionistMo Kolours is set to perform on our […]
A few weeks ago Tom Scott and Lui T’s Average Rap Band surprised us all with a debut album that is the result of their post “sci-fi-psych-rap existential crisis” desire to create “a song you could listen to without 7 tramadols”. The album is full of feel good, happy songs without being “super posi-vibes ‘you […]
This weeks LOCAL EYES video of the week is NAME UL with his jam ‘Only Sixteen’, produced by the one and only Race Banyon. The video was directed & edited by Jamie Lawrence of the production company 8. Find out more about Name UL OFFICIAL | SOUNDCLOUD | BANDCAMP | FACEBOOK Find out more about Race Banyon OFFICIAL […]
This weeks LOCAL EYES video of the week is TOURETTES (aka. Dominic Hoey) with his track ‘No Losers @ Winz‘. The track speaks to the irony of reliance of our social services many Kiwis have to deal with day to day. Be sure to check out the Surrounded By Ghosts exhibition with Tourettes as well as Margarita Vovna which follows a day […]
For this year’s annual celebration of the life and music of James Dewitt Yancey aka J Dilla, Leonard Charles aka Jeremy Toy recorded the ultimate tribute to the producer. Tucked inside a small basement studio here in Auckland, Leonard Charles and his friends re-recorded the all 31-tracks off Dilla classic DONUTS on live instruments. Charles gives […]
This weeks LOCAL EYES vid of the week is a throw back from 96′ – DLT and Che Fu with ‘Chains’. The track is from the albums ‘The True School‘ by DLT as well as ‘2b S.Pacific‘ by Che Fu and reached #1 on the NZ music charts as well as winning best single at the New […]
Melbourne-based duo Fortunes (Conor McCabe & Barnaby Matthews) return with their second release Jacket EP. Deep soulful and electronic, this follow up to 2015’s Hoodies EP is a step up in production & delivery. “On ‘Bomber’, Barnaby encases Conor’s melodramatic and theatrical R&B/disco informed vocal inside sleek, minimal production, taunt drum machine funk and shimmering […]