BENEE Drops Summer Pop Bop 'Snail' & Releases Video For 'Night Garden'

New Zealand’s sensation BENEE unveils her new single 'Snail' today.

Broods and Sola Rosa join L.A.B on Downtown Shakedown line-up

The Capital’s newest music festival Downtown Shakedown, has added alt-pop duo Broods and funk-soul, electronic act, Sola Rosa to their first ever line-up.

New Single from Chris Bates Feat. Jarna to be released on 21 August

'Find a Way' is a sweet, playful love song about innocent miscommunication in a relationship. It explores the idea of modern technology in our social lives and how it can get in the way of friends and loved ones.

NZ MMF's How To Market and Promote Your Music seminar returns

NZ Music Managers Forum announce 'How to market and promote your music' in Dunedin and Christchurch.

Split Enz’s 'True Colours' Takes Out #1 Spot on The Official New Zealand Top40 Album Chart

The 40th Anniversary edition of Split Enz’s 'True Colours' has reached the #1 position on the Official New Zealand Top40 Album Chart today - 40 years after the album’s initial release in 1980.

New Album for Anecdata

Fuzz guitars, slamming drums and biting lyrics come to the fore on this new record, which bursts out of the gates hard.

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  L.A.B.
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  Devilskin
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  Dave Dobbyn
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  Shihad
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  The Feelers

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  NoReason
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  Swerve City
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  The RVMES
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  NEEKOH
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  VÏKÆ

Sola Rosa
Since 1999 Sola Rosa’s Andrew Spraggon has been tantalising listeners with otherworldly aural experiences, honing his craft and taking Sola Rosa from a self-released one man project to fully-fledged live powerhouse along the way. He’s kept good company on the road and in the studio, Sola Rosa counting members of Dimmer, Goldenhorse, Pluto and Sommerset amongst the ranks over the years, not to mention pilfering the best members of Che Fu, King Kapisi and Anika Moa’s bands and tapping the talents of internationally renowned artists like Nathan Haines and Spikey Tee. Add to the mix a succession of highly regarded releases the world over on stunning labels that include household names Ministry of Sound, Guidance, Different Drummer, Stereo Deluxe, and Satellite K, and you’ll see why so many eager ears and heavy-lidded eyes are always fixed to fasten on what Sola Rosa does next.

First coming to local music-lovers’ attention as guitarist and vocalist for angular rock band Cicada in the 90s, over the course of the last 9 years Spraggon has been on the receiving end of a Tui (2001’s 'Solarized'), b-net awards (for 2000’s 'Entrance To Skyway' and 2003’s 'Haunted Out-takes'), and a bevy of other accolades and nominations as Sola Rosa, but there’s little doubt when pressing play on 2009's 'Get It Together' that it is his finest accomplishment to date. Taking in a wide swathe of genres, and walking an ever-erratic line between organic and electronic elements, Sola Rosa’s songs continue to pull off Spraggon’s patented trick of electrifying your ears while ensuring that your feet don’t get confused along the way. Three years in the making, 'Get It Together' is best differentiated from its predecessors by a more beat-driven, direct, dance-demanding sound.

Picking up where the performance-based 'Moves On' album left off in 2005, there’s a sweating, smoking live band at the heart of the new record, made up of long-term members of the Rosa roster - Will Scott (drums), Matt Short (bass), and Ben White (guitar). Spraggon studio sorcery has then come into play, tooling up 'Get It Together' for maximum dancefloor impact, and bolstering the album with a roll-call of vocalists, musicians, and compositional contributors running headlong into Sola Rosa’s sonic stirrings at full force – with vocal cuts from Spikey Tee (best known for his work with Jah Wobble, Bomb The Bass, Mark Rae and on some of Sola Rosa’s finest moments); German globetrotter, poet, and singer Bajka; UK MC Serocee; and emerging Wellingtonian songstress Iva Lamkum. Underpinning these outstanding lyrical performances and further illuminating the album’s instrumentals you’ll find an eclectic batch of collaborators that includes the likes of Victoria Kelly, Julien Dyne, Juse, Scratch 22, Hadyn Godfrey, John Highsted, James Duncan, and Miguel Fuentes (who’s played with Isaac Hayes, George Benson, Grover Washington, Patti La Bell and other luminaries).
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