IMNZ Charts to April 1 2012

Week to 1 April 2012 www.indies.co.nz

There are only a couple of weeks to go now before the winner of the 2012 Taite Music Prize is announced on April 20! This week we talk to another of the finalists - or should I say two of the finalists, seeing as they're a duo - She's So Rad.

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TOP 20 ALBUMS

TAITE MUSIC PRIZE

In this video, She's So Rad talk about their album 'In Circles' - one of the seven finalists in the Taite Music Prize 2012. Watch video

Described (Sunday Star Times, NZ) as ‘warm clouds of distortion and feedback cloaking every sound and gorgeous hazy melodies that swirl around you like smoke’. Elements of shoegaze and 90’s indie rock.

She’s So Rad have been playing in New Zealand and Australia since the release of their first album ‘In Circles’ in August 2011 opening for Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Ghostwave, Anna Coddington, Haunted Love and also headlining shows such as Mum club night (Auckland and Sydney), A Low Hum - Flying Nun Tribute Night, 95bFM ‘in session’ & bStreet, Rekkit club night, Cheese on Toast birthday party.

2012 will see them open for Ladyhawke in the U.K. and also release their second album.

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TOP 10 SINGLES

RECORD STORE DAY

Real Groovy (now in its 31st year) have announced that this year on (International) Record Store Day they will be the first New Zealand record store to release a vinyl album especially for the occasion.

Strictly limited to 400 copies in two colours - 200 of each, on black and pink vinyl – Real Groovy will release a double album capturing the legendary Toy Love performing one of their last live shows – nearly 32 years ago on Friday 12th September 1980 at The Gluepot in Ponsonby, Auckland. Transferred and prepared for vinyl mastering by Steve McGough at Stebbings from a desk tape recorded by Toy Love’s front of house soundman Doug Hood, the record has been pressed in Nashville at United Record Pressing.

Toy Love are: Chris Knox, Jane Walker, Paul Kean, Mike Dooley and Alec Bathgate.

Record Store Day 2012 will be a festive event with the release of the Toy Love Live At The Gluepot LP, local bands performing live (playing a Toy Love song or two) and prizes galore. This is the first boutique release, but probably not the last, on vinyl by the store.

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Toy Love performing SHEEP live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ0D4zULVbQ
Toy Love Bride Of Frankenstein http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUu5wbUCbMo
TOP 10 AIRPLAY

IMNZ NEWS

International and Industry Action

Songs From The Inside follows New Zealand musicians Warren Maxwell, Maisey Rika, Ruia Aperahama and Anika Moa, who went into Rimutaka and Arohata correction facilities to teach songwriting to prisoners. Directed by Julian Arahanga (Once Were Warriors’ Nig Heke) the musicians taught 10 prisoners the step-by-step music programme developed by Evan Rhys Davies – a pilot programme he had tutored at Spring Hill Corrections Facility in the Waikato. There will be a thirteenth, hour-long special in which the songs the prisoners wrote, sang and recorded will be revealed. Music therapy is used in prisons throughout the world, but Songs From The Inside is the first production to bring in established musicians and record the workshops, challenges and outcomes on film. The show screens Sundays 8:00pm, and if you've missed it so far, repeats Fridays at 10.30pm from 20 April. Read more...

New release fanfare

Savage returns to the ring with an aggressive selection of new material in the form of The Orator EP available digitally Monday 16 April. Recorded In Hollywood, Los Angeles at famed producer and rapper DJ Quik’s “The Vault” Studio, The Orator title is a nod to the film of the same name that resonated with Savage as a modern day public speaker; one who is eloquent and skilled in story telling like his Samoan ancestors. To capture and reflect the images of being a Polynesian artist surrounded by a new concrete village, and now with a platform to reach millions of fans via hissuccess in the US, Savage enlisted a ‘who’s who’ of US-based Polynesian Hip Hop artists to give a The Orator a 2012 snapshot of life in different Polynesian neighbourhoods around the world. Produced by Twice As Nice and featuring Monsta G, Ganxsta Ridd (Boo Yaa Tribe), Baby Downn (Brownzville), Shaxe and Jah Free, The Orator EP is Savage’s first set of all new material since the US release of Tribal Council in 2011, and sets up the release of his brand new full length studio album Miracles & Mayhem, available on June 1st. In the lead up to the EP, Savage has made two tracks from The Orator available to fans for FREE download on Soundcloud. Get your copies here:
http://soundcloud.com/dawnraidmusic/come-out-wrath-of-a-menace

http://soundcloud.com/dawnraidmusic/block-exchange-feat-monsta-g

Module - aka Jeramiah Ross - has been releasing music since 2003 alongside his work as a composer and Sound Designer of music for games. His new album, Imagineering, is a collection of ultra detailed instrumental sonic photographs taken over a 6 year period. Module takes a journey out across wide stereo panoramic sound waves on a musical boat through his imagination. Each track another world, a concept and story. Engineered to perfection to take you away to another time and place. "These songs are soundtracks to strong visual concepts that play out in my mind in crystal clear high definition" - Module March 2012. www.module.co.nz

The Wellington-originating, Melbourne-based Gatherer are stoked to release the new video for Regular Frontier. Directed by Alastair Tye-Samson, Regular Frontier is the new single from the debut album SO BE IT, due for release May 2012 via 1157 Records (NZ/AUS). View Regular Frontier at Youtube...

Following the release of their single “Journey” in November, Cornerstone Roots spent the summer capturing a day in the life of 12 year-old band member, Reiki Ruawai. Filmed in their hometown of Raglan, Reiki is followed on his own journey to the legendary waves of the Whaingaroa coastline. “Journey” is a reflective song about how we respond to life’s ups and downs”, says bandleader Brian Ruawai. After a busy summer bringing their conscious roots reggae to audiences at Kaikoura Roots Festival, Raggamuffin and One Drop, Cornerstone Roots are proud to feature the son of band members Brian Ruawai and Naomi Tuaopepe in their stunning new video. Journey is the first single off their fourth studio album due for release later in the year. Watch Journey

To mark their 25th anniversary as a band, Kiwi country/folk legends The Warratahs will release a re-mastered compilation of their best bits, as well as a five track EP of new material. 'The Warratahs 25 Year Collection' is a 19-track best-of, with tracks dating back to their 1987 release ‘Only Game In Town’ through to 2006's 'Keep On'. To celebrate the album’s release through Ode Records on April 20, The Warratahs will embark on a six-date tour of the country in May. Find tour dates here.

The debut album by The Shifting Sands is the kind of psychedelic pop they love at Fishrider Records, alternating between the dreamy and the urgent. While the hyper-melodic jangle-pop sometimes references the “Dunedin sound” for some listeners, the injection of synthesizer and even sitar into the mix turns everything on its head. As indeed does the balance of extremes provided by the almost weightless floating-on-air of the title track “Feel” or “Whatever we Can” against the surging Eastern drone-pop of “The Kitchen Sink” or the insistent drive of “Tonight”or “Worth our While”. What began as a solo album by Mike McLeod turned into collaboration with many of Dunedin’s finest musicians past and present, including David Kilgour (The Clean), Tony de Raad & Tom Bell (both of David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights), Robert Scott (The Clean, The Bats), Robbie Yeats (The Verlaines, The Dead C), Lesley Paris (Look Blue Go Purple), Jay Clarkson (The Expendables, Breathing Cage), and Rob Falconer (Operation Rolling Thunder). Production duties were shared between Tex Houston (The 3Ds -Hellzapoppin, The Clean - Mister Pop) Thomas Bell (The Clean - Getaway, David Kilgour and Sam Hunt - Falling Debris, Left by Soft), and McLeod himself. The Shifting Sands has grown to become an entrancing live band. Mike McLeod, Tom Bell and drummer Jake Langley will be taking the album on the road during April. The album - released 2 April 2012 - will be distributed by Yellow Eye music. It can also be listened to, downloaded and the CD ordered from Bandcamp - http://theshiftingsands.bandcamp.com/

The highly respected Conscious Roots series comprises a mixture of classic roots, fused styles, genre busters and beautiful raw acoustic songs. It showcases the fertile roots music scene in New Zealand. The philosophy of this compilation series is that we should give voice to the spirit within and develop our own roots genre rather than following overseas musical trends. The 30 tracks on 'The Best of Conscious Roots' bring together highlights from all five volumes - a diverse range of musical bliss from Aotearoa. Artists on this special 2-disc set include Unity Pacific, Katchafire, The Black Seeds, Cornerstone Roots, Trinity Roots, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Che-Fu, Tiki Taane, Hollie Smith and many more. Read more...

On the live front

Fresh from 15 months of tearing up stages across the U.S., hometown heroes Rapture Ruckus return with their biggest show ever and they’ve brought Grammy-nominated hit makers P.O.D along for the ride. With sales of over 10 million albums worldwide and a swag of chart-topping hits including “Alive” and “Youth of the Nation”, P.O.D have made a name for themselves as stadium fire starters. Combined with Rapture Ruckus’ barnstorming live show, ALIVE 2012 will be the double-headed rock and roll sucker-punch of the year. The freight train’s coming. All aboard. Get your tickets here.

In celebration of the release of her new single Bankrupt Visa, Iva Lamkum is pleased to announce two shows in April - Saturday 21 April in Wellington at The Matterhorn and Saturday 28 April in Auckland at The Ponsonby Social Club. Iva was recently named Number 5 in USA MTV Iggy's Top 13 Real Divas from Around The World (beating Yukimi Nagano from Little Dragon who was #6), a massive achievement for the NZ funk soul songstress! Prior to these shows, Iva is supporting Six60 at two of their sold out Powerstation shows on Friday 13 April and Saturday 14 April. Read more...

Sinate are heading out on tour to celebrate the release of their latest album To The Death. To The Death is Sinate like you've never heard them before. The band which released their first two albums barely a year apart may have taken some time to put out this record, but the final product has only benefitted. With Sweden-based Pelle Seather (Corporation 187, Carnal Forge) taking care of production duties for a second time, this recording has that monster production the swedish metal releases are revered for and at the same time sees Sinate reach new heights in terms of song writing and technicality.
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