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International and Industry Action
Katie Thompson in World’s Largest Online Music Contest
Self-managed artist Katie Thompson is a force to be reckoned with, not only when she takes the stage but also when it comes to the online music world. After reaching the top spot on theaudience.co.nz in May she went on to be the first Australasian artist to win global competition Artist Signal. Not one to rest on her laurels she’s aiming for the trifecta – Global Rockstar. Global Rockstar has been labeled the “worlds largest online music contest”. The online competition is seeking to uncover the next music phenomenon with the winner taking home a cash prize of USD 25,000. Organisers state that in 2013, more than 2,400 artists from 73 different countries took part in the Global Rockstar pilot project. A multi-stage process will be used to select the Global Rockstar 2014. The national preliminaries begin on 1 September and last until 4 November 2014 – after which the winner from each country will have been decided. Katie needs as much support as she can get to go forward and represent New Zealand.
Vote for Katie here: www.globalrockstar.com/artists/katie-thompson
Download the FREE app for your smartphone or tablet – search “Global Rockstar” in your device’s app store.
2014 New Zealand Music Award Finalists
NZ Musician have kindly compiled a list of the finalists, and winners to date, of the 2014 Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards. The main event will take place at Vector Arena in Auckland on November 20, and the Critics Choice event contenders will perform a live showcase at The Kings Arms in Auckland on October 29 with the winner being announced on the same night.
Starting with acts who have already won an award, we’ll move down to the finalists for each category:
Best Album Cover
Winner: Anna Taylor & Ken Clark – ‘The Nihilist’ (Liam Finn)
Best Producer
Winner: Joel Little – ‘Pure Heroine’ (Lorde)
Best Engineer
Winner: Joel Little – ‘Pure Heroine’ (Lorde)
Auckland Council Best Pacific Music Album:
Winner: Sol3 Mio – ‘Sol3 Mio’
Best Country Album
Winner: Kaylee Bell – ‘Heart First’
Best Folk Album
Tattletale Saints – ‘How Red is the Blood’
Best Jazz Album
Winner: Nathan Haines – ‘Vermillion Skies’
Legacy Award
Supergroove
NZ On Air Critics Choice Prize line-up
Estére
Lake South
Randa
2014 NZ Music Awards nominees
Album of the Year
Tiny Ruins – ‘Brightly Painted One’
Ladi6 – ‘Automatic’
Lorde – ‘Pure Heroine’
Sol3 Mio – ‘Sol3 Mio’
The Naked And Famous – ‘In Rolling Waves’
Single of the Year
Broods – Bridges
David Dallas – Runnin
Ladi6 – Diamonds
Lorde – Team
The Naked And Famous – Hearts Like Ours
Best Group
@Peace – ‘@Peace and the Plutonium Noise Symphony’
Sol3 Mio – ‘Sol3 Mio’
The Naked And Famous – ‘In Rolling Waves’
Best Male Solo Artist
David Dallas – ‘Falling Into Place’
Liam Finn – ‘The Nihilist’
Stan Walker – ‘Inventing Myself’
Best Female Solo Artist
Tiny Ruins – ‘Brightly Painted One’
Ladi6 – ‘Automatic’
Lorde – ‘Pure Heroine’
Breakthrough Artist of the Year
Doprah
Broods
Sol3 Mio
Best Rock Album
Clap Clap Riot – ‘Nobody/Everybody’
Blacklistt – ‘Blacklistt’
Ekko Park – ‘Tomorrow Tomorrow Today’
Best Pop Album
Benny Tipene – ‘Toulouse’
Lorde – ‘Pure Heroine’
Stan Walker – ‘Inventing Myself’
Best Alternative Album
Tiny Ruins – ‘Brightly Painted One’
Grayson Gilmour – ‘Infinite Life!’
Liam Finn – ‘The Nihilist’
Best Urban/Hip Hop Album
David Dallas – ‘Falling Into Place’
Ladi6 – ‘Automatic’
PNC – ‘The Codes’
Best Roots Album
House of Shem – ‘Harmony’
Mark Vanilau – ‘Dark Horizon’
Tama Waipara – ‘Fill Up The Silence’
Best Electronica Album
Bulletproof – ‘#Listen’
Opiuo – ‘Meraki’
Sorceress – ‘Dose’
NZ On Air Best Music Video
Campbell Hooper – Hearts Like Ours (The Naked And Famous)
Thunderlips – Stranger People (Doprah)
Tom Gould – Runnin (David Dallas)
Best Maori Album
House of Shem – ‘Harmony’
Rob Ruha – ‘Tiki Tapu’
Tama Waipara – ‘Fill Up The Silence’
Best Gospel Christian Album
Lifestyle (of Worship) – ‘Lifestyle (of Worship)’
Mosaic Music – ‘You Surround’
Saving Grace – ‘The Urgency’
Best Classical Album
Dame Gillian Whitehead – ‘Alice’
Jack Body – ‘Poems of Love & War’
Voices 16 – ‘Voice of the Soul’
People s Choice Award
Lorde
Sol3 Mio
David Dallas
Broods
Stan Walker
NZMusician
TRINITY ROOTS start to crack the Aussies with their ‘HAIKU’
Yes its true – Trinity Roots’ first single, Haiku, from upcoming new album has been added to playlist on massive Aussie radio Triple J’s digital radio station Double J - go you good things! You can listen to it here.
Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition now open for entries
APRA AMCOS, Alberts and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Australia (NRMTA) are pleased to announce that entries for the 2014 Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition – the largest charity songwriting competition in the world – are now open. With thanks to Alberts and APRA AMCOS, this year’s winning songwriter/s will take home a cash prize of A$50,000 and join the illustrious company of past Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition winners – Megan Washington (2009), Kimbra (2011) and The Preatures (2013). Three runners’ up cash prizes are also on offer with second place receiving A$10,000 thanks to AMPAL (Australasian Music Publishers Association) and third place taking home A$5,000 courtesy of new sponsor, AEG Ogden. This year’s competition will also include the Encouragement Award with a cash prize of A$2,000 which has been graciously donated by last year’s winners, The Preatures. The Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition is one of the world’s most prestigious songwriting competitions in the world, supporting talented songwriters whilst raising much needed funds for music therapy that has been proven to help people with developmental disorders such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Rett Syndrome and Angelman Syndrome and disabilities such as Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Dyspraxia and Spina Bifida. The competition is open to songwriters worldwide with each applicant paying an entry fee of A$50.00 per submission with money raised going directly to supporting Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Australia. To date, the Vanda & Young Song Competition has raised over $485,000 for NRMTA over the past three competitions.
The 2014 Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition will be judged by a panel of songwriters and industry professionals.
Entries close on the 24 October 2014.
Visit www.apraamcos.com.au/vandayoungsongcomp for more information and terms and conditions.
Little Oceans in the Big City
As part of Parachute’s Artist Development initiative, Little Oceans have become familiar faces at Parachute H.Q. The Parachute crew have gotten to know them through strategy sessions and their work downstairs at Parachute studios, where they’ve just put the finishing touches on their new single ‘Northern Eyes’. Josh checks in with an update on life in the big smoke, 4am smash n’ grabs and the evolution of the band’s sound.
Read the update here.
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On the live front
Auckland Jazz Festival – 17-26 October 2014
The inaugural Auckland Jazz Festival presents 10 days of local and international jazz, across some of your favourite venues from 17-26 October 2014. Featuring international guests the Mike Nock Trio(Sydney), Benny Lackner Trio (Berlin), Francisco Torres (USA) with Rodger Fox; with The Troubles (Wellington) alongside many great local groups: The Troubles, Yoko-Zuna, The Jazz Age, Trudy Lile, Allana Goldsmith, Ruckus, Spammerz, and more. The Auckland Jazz Festival is presented by CJC Creative Jazz Club Aotearoa, with 1885 Britomart, Tom Tom, The Golden Dawn, The Portland Public House, Hallertau and others. Visit aucklandjazzfestival.co.nz for more details.
Jam Jar-Tober Tour
Jam Jar Management is going on tour, taking acts Melting Faces,Tunes Of I and Pea Stew on a three-date hikoi around the South Island to play the mainstage at Wanakafest Community Festival 2014! Tunes of I are a six-piece dub/roots/psychedelic band born out of the NZ School of Music in 2011. After a number of lineup changes they’re bringing their brand new drummer south ahead of a new single release in November and a 22-date Summer Tour kicking off in December of this year. Melting Faces are a 4-piece psychedelic garage folk blues soundscape who released their EP ‘From the Boardroom’ earlier in 2014. This 3-date tour also doubles as their EP release shows in the South Island. Pea Stew is a music producer who also features in national acts Brockaflower and Paddy Fred. His live shows feature an enigmatic combination of self-produced beats that he assembles using various instruments including keyboard, bass and MPC and cements together with improvisational transitions to create a seamless performance.
The Grand Ole Topp’ry: North Island Tour Dates Oct 22 – Nov 2
Our National Tour kicked off October 1st. We have had a great time down South and look forward to bringing this show – our take on the famous Grand Ole Opry with some of New Zealand’s hottest country music stars – to a town near you. So if you haven’t bought your tickets yet click here . The Southland Times described it as “sheer all-round entertainment …the show is a slam-dunk hayride to hitsville.” So saddle up and join us for a rollicking good show at a theatre near you. See ya’ll there!
MINUIT: The Final Fling
Saturday 1st November – The Granary, Nelson
Minuit ‘The Final Fling’ presents “The Day of the Dead Masquerade Ball”
NELSON SHOW. FINAL FLING TICKETS. OUT NOW!
http://www.ticketdirect.co.nz/event/details/114782/minuit-the-final-fling
This is a big one. It’s where it all began. And it’s where we’re kicking off our Final Fling. Costumes / Masks / Makeup encouraged. The “Skeleton Crew” will be in attendance to facepaint your needs. A Mexican-styled bar will be in place courtesy of Elsewhere. With DJ support from Serpico Beats and CIA. 8pm until the stroke of midnight.
Tickets are limited. Do not miss out. TICKETS OUT NOW
TicketDirect http://www.ticketdirect.co.nz/event/details/114782/minuit-the-final-fling
Or in person from Theatre Royal, Nelson.
And if you haven’t already, you’d be a fool not to follow Minuit’s Facebook page for more crafty announcements, photo journals, touching memories and giveaways coming over the next couple of weeks.
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New release fanfare
Electric Wire Hustle – ‘Love Can Prevail‘
Okayplayer Records and Somethinksoundsjoin forces to present the New Zealand duo’s second LP. Their critically-acclaimed self-titled 2010 debut thrust the group into the international spotlight and achieved cult status following its release, garnering support from the like Gilles Peterson and Benji B on BBC Radio, which has continued with the release of their latest singlesIf These Are The Last Days and By & Bye. Deep and rootsy the EWH sound draws influence from an array of cultures and traditions, always on the pulse their ‘far out’ approach to soul, rock, beats and blues separate them from near enough every band in todays contemporary music spectrum. The group recently returned from a string of US live dates, including a much praised set alongside Questlove at The Roots Picnic in Philadelphia, marking an end to their 4 year hiatus.
Jakob ‘Sines’
It’s been eight years in the making but the day has finally arrived, Sines by Jakob is now out in New Zealand and Australia. Already garnering positive reviews on home turf and from across the ditch, it’s only a matter of time before more roll in. All CD orders for Jakob are now in the post with vinyl editions expected to send at the end of November. Click here for a taster ofSines or go whole hog and buy a copy of LP or CD.
@PEACE and Dictaphone Blues share new music videos
@PEACE have premiered their brand new music video for “Matter” over at Vice’s Noisypage. You can watch the clip, which is beautifully shot and directed by Motion Sickness Studios here. It’s imagines band and the Young, Gifted and Broke collective as they might be in fifty years time, attending one of their own funerals. It also features Keisha Castle-Hughes as a funeral home cleaner.
http://vimeo.com/108850651
Speaking with Noisy, @PEACE’s Tom Scott explained the inspiration for the clip:
“It was inspired by the little sandwiches they have at funerals. It was my great uncle’s funeral. He’d died totally absent and I doubt he could’ve told you his own name. The funeral just reinstated to me the meaninglessness of this shit…” To co-incide with the video’s release Tom Scott, aged by 50 years, graces the front cover of this week’s issue of THE FOLD which is out today.
The music video for DICTAPHONE BLUES’ “Her Heart Breaks Like A Wave” doubles as a report from this years Shredisloe Cup. It’s hilarious. Watch it here.
Read more from Cheese on Toast
Emily Edrosa – New Video – Animal
Last week saw the release of a video forAnimal, the opening track to Emily Edrosa’slatest eponymous EP. Side project for Street Chant’s Emily Littler, Animal’s video was filmed by her sister Anna, with the track being one of six that detail how life, death and the various spaces between are communicated and occupied and experienced through the all-pervasive lens of the internet. Click the above image to watch Animal or here for details on her performance at November’s instalment of The Other’s Way
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Around the World
AIR announces its new CEO
The Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR) has announced Dan Nevin as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Nevin takes over from ex-General Manager Nick O’Byrne, who announced his departure in June after a five-year tenure. AIR’s last CEO was Stuart Watters, who exited in 2009.
Nevin steps into the role from his position as Digital Music Manager at JB HI-FI; prior to that he was AFL Media’s Digital Marketing & Subscriptions Manager, Internet Operations Manager at book retailer REDgroup and perhaps most notably the General Manager of Export for Shock Records, a post he held for over 12 years from 1998 – 2010.
Read more on TheMusicNetwork.com…
The 20 Most Influential Music Blogs…
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
by
Nina Ulloa
We often discuss which bands are getting the most online buzz, like in the 50 most blogged artists list. But who is talking about these bands and creating the buzz?
Enter this list of the most influential music blogs, Style of Sound created a list of the top 100. They included web-only sites, no blogs that are associated with print magazines, newspapers, or radio stations. I’ve included the top 20 here so you can see who the major players are.
Their list was created using a scoring system based on post frequency, quality, SEO, social media, and Klout score. It isn’t perfect… they excluded XLR8R because they thought it was still a print magazine, but they’ve been web only since 2011. They also list Tiny Mix Tapes ahead of Resident Advisor, which I’m not so sure about.
All of that aside, this will give you general knowledge of the most important music blogs. If you care, I’ve put stars next to the ones that I read regularly.
1. Pitchfork*
2. Consequence of Sound
3. Tiny Mix Tapes
4. Resident Advisor*
5. Stereogum
Read the full list here on Digital Music News…
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