Sept News: Street Chant, Fleet Foxes, Going Global
STREET CHANT "Alternative" Music Award Nomination and Australia
STREET CHANT are nominated for "Best Alternative Album" at the New Zealand Music Awards - in New Zealand we call them the "Tui's" - zoiks! Check their video acceptance speech here!
The band are taking a break from recording their new album and on tour in Australia, including Big Sound Conference in Brisbane - check the Australian tour details here. At the start of October they are playing a few shows with Cut of Your Hands and they're also heading to CMJ in New York.
Recently they played the 95bFM bStreet and there are a few photos over here. Check their video for "Stoned Again" here.
FAMILY CACTUS on Tour - South Island Dates
FAMILY CACTUS are in the middle of touring New Zealand and still have the South Island leg to complete - see the full NZ tour dates over here. They recently played a show at Tabac in Auckland and there are some photos over here.
Their new album "Spirit Lights" was released on transparent vinyl (with a giant poster) and they got a whopping five star review in Groove Guide.
There is a FREE three track tour download EP with a previously unreleased track available here.
And if you missed the video for Fields and Fields check it out over here
Good Word on PUNCHES "Etheria"
Last month PUNCHES released "Etheria" and since then it has been picking up the good word from around the place.
Graham Reid, in the New Zealand Herald and Elsewhere wrote "Etheria is engrossing, often otherworldly and a fascinatingly uncomfortable state to be taken to. Scarifyingly good." (4.5/5 Stars)" And others have said equally nice things.
You can listen to and buy the CD or download from the Arch Hill Website. There is also a FREE download of the track "Give it Up" and the video (made by John Campbell and Toby Longbottom) that can be viewed over here
Going Global Music Summit Auckland & Wellington - With GHOST WAVE, FAMILY CACTUS & other cool bands
Independent Music NZ, The NZ Music Commission, and the Music Managers Forum are putting together a pretty sweet event called Going Global Music Summit. It happens in Auckland and Wellington, is free and features a whole bunch of great bands including GHOST WAVE (pictured), FAMILY CACTUS and heaps of others.
In addition there are a bunch of music industry seminars in the afternoon from various international guests, from record labels like Matador, French Kiss Records to radio stations like The BBC6.
To find out more visit the IMNZ Website
Mystery Girl Presents FLEET FOXES and EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY New Zealand Shows
Our sister company Mystery Girl Presents is bringing back the FLEET FOXES to Auckland and Wellington in January 2012! For full details head over here. Last time they were incredible and this time we expect tickets to fly out the door.
And in December Mystery Girl are also super excited to be bring EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY to New Zealand...full details over here.
The Laneway Festival 2012 will be announcing it's line up very soon as well...so it is going to be another great summer!
New AEROPLANE Website and THE UNFAITHFUL WAYS Single Download
Arch Hill's friends at AEROPLANE MUSIC are releasing THE UNFAITHFUL WAYS and they have just been nominated for the Critics Choice Music Award (Street Chant won this last year!) which is especially rad. They are due to drop their debut album "Free Rein" this October.
You can download their first single "Katie My Daring" for FREE over at the Aeroplane Music Website.