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AARADHNA, TYRA HAMMOND & THE TORNADOES, ESTÈRE + THE HIPSTAMATICS FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23rd The Powerstation TICKETS For one night only this September get up with the get down at The Powerstation for the inaugural Super Soul Revue featuring an all stellar local line up… CURATED BY THE QUEEN OF PACIFIC SOUL – AARADHNA BROWN GIRL- AARADHNA’s […]
Hot off the press, this week LOCAL EYES video is K+LAB with ‘Pull Up’ also featuring the vocal stylings of MeloDownz as well as Mustafa Akbar direct from Washington DC. The track is also first single off his forthcoming album ‘The Worldly’s’ to be released early September on Gramatik’s Lowtemp recordings. Find out more about K+LAB soundcloud | twitter […]
TALKING POINTS on Base FM – hosted by Dylan C Thanks to NZ On Air Music Date: August 2016 Guest reviewer: King Kapisi Featured release: HOLLIE SMITH & MARA TK ‘Band Of Brothers Vol 1” Link: https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/ban… Featured track #1: AUTUMN RAIN Featured track #2: LIVES FOR LIVING Featured track #3: THE SPIRIT RACING THE […]
Brandon ‘Brandn Shiraz‘ Rangi-Dixon & Angelo ‘Lightskin John‘ Tuteao present JIVEDAYS, an amalgamation of music that aims to capture the joys of their present experience, minding a distant future when it will all be a pleasant memory. The Auckland-based duo have emerged from The Grow Room camp and have released a 2-track single ahead of the […]
Returning home from a brief hiatus abroad Tali aka. The first lady of D’n’B is back with her new single and this weeks LOCAL EYES video of the week ‘Berlin’. Far from the big budget productions we’ve all become accustomed to, this video was shot and edited on a smartphone by the artist herself while travelling […]
Taste Nasa is the artist name for Pirongia born, Los Angeles based, multi-instrumentalist & vocalist Leroy Clampitt. ‘Do What You Feel’ is the first release from Taste Nasa since the ‘Time Goes By EP’ 2015. Somewhere in between writing/producing songs for Justin Beiber and Akon, this song slipped out of Tastes brain! FACEBOOK | TWITTER […]
“I think ‘First World Problem’ is about modern love in a crumbling empire,” says Ruban Nielson aka. Unknown Mortal Orchestra about the tune behind this weeks LOCAL EYES video. The video described as a dance through the desert for the psychedelic rockers, was the brain child of directors James Lees and dancer Kiani del Valle who also performs […]
Between 2012 -2104 Raiza Biza released 4 artist albums and recorded a bunch of guest features, which was followed by a relatively quiet period for the Hamilton-based MC with no new releases and only the occasional guest appearance. That’s all about to change with the forthcoming EP, the first new material since ‘The Imperfectionist” LP […]
Earlier this year Devin Abrams aka. Pacific Heights released his long anticipated 3rd solo LP ‘The Stillness‘, a monumental collection of tunes featuring a number of equally epic collaborations. This weeks LOCAL EYES video ‘Buried by the Burden‘ is the result of one of those joint efforts featuring Fellow Wellingtonian Louis Baker. The video was directed by Sam Peacocke of Ariel […]
New Zealand’s favourite collection of soul-infused earth-rappers Third3ye have just released 3P, their first new material as a collective in nearly two years. A body of work exploring their own place and experiences as musicians in NZ in 2016. Since the release of their debut album On3ness in 2014, Third3ye have developed a reputation and large […]