#Jusayin, Madcap Touring, Mazdef Productions & Notomorrow Present: Lunice (Mad Decent | LuckyMe | Canada) Debut NZ Tour Tickets now available from Conch Records, 115A Ponsonby Rd, PonsonbyOn the 20th & 21st of February one of the worlds most in demand producers, Lunice (Mad Decent | LuckyMe | Canada), brings his unique blend of bass heavy electronica to New Zealand for two highly anticipated shows in Wellington and Auckland. After his collaborative project with bass impresario Hudson Mohawke as TNGHT in 2012, which garnered wide acclaim throughout the world from clubbers and journalists alike. The LA Weekly confirmed this by bestowing the title of, ‘Dance Single Of The Year’. The 22 year old producer has also produced remixes and collaborated with the likes of Diplo, Wacka Flocka Flame & Gucci Mane. A cast of of local producers and dj’s are set to adorn the support line up with bass weight and class. Tickets available via: www.undertheradar.co.nz Tour Dates:Wellington Wed 20th February Ivy with CTFD, Kamandi , Yvnalesca, Beat Mob, #4Chainz Auckland Thursday 21st February Ink and Coherent Support Line Up To Be Announced
RODRIGUEZ - Searching For Sugarman star to perform in New Zealand for the first time
Saturday 16th March - Wellington at the Wellington Town Hall Sunday 17th March - Auckland at The Logan Campbell Centre Tickets available from Ticketek from Tuesday 29th January
Plain and simple, Rodriguez spits the cold facts. He drops acute humanistic observations gleamed from a Detroit born and bred existence. And though this talented singer-songwriter's primary recorded output reaches back to the late sixties and early seventies, its enduring legacy has manifested itself in the most unexpected, far reaching, and mind-blowing of ways. While heads have been passing Rodriguez LPs around for a number of years in the American underground, a wave of mainstream acceptance in Australia and South Africa dating back to the 1970s has opened up new fragments of reality for the man born as Sixto Diaz Rodriguez.
SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN
The 2012 documentary Searching for Sugarman a hit at Film Festivals all over the world, has been nominated for an Academy Award and reveals a man as humble and generous as his songs suggest - he still lives in the same clapped-out Detroit house he has lived in for some 40 years and he has given most of the proceeds of his new-found fame to his friends and family. The award-winning documentary has launched Sixto Rodriguez into a global spotlight. 'Searching for Sugarman' - the story of two South African fans and their search over three decades to discover their hero - claimed two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Moscow Film Festival and the Audience Awards at Melbourne, Los Angeles and Durban Festivals. It's a fairy-tale story of an amazing musician, extraordinary wordsmith & talented performer ".
The album is Cold Fact, and what's more intriguing is that its maker - a shadowy figure known as Rodriguez - was, for many years, lost too. A decade ago, he was rediscovered working as a day laborer in Detroit, Michigan. He was unaware that his defining album had become not only a cult classic, but for the people of South Africa, a beacon of revolution. Rodriguez recorded Cold Fact - his debut album - in 1969, and released it in March 1970. It's crushingly good stuff, filled with tales of bad drugs, lost love, and itchy-footed songs about life in late '60s inner-city America. "Gun sales are soaring/Housewives find life boring/Divorce the only answer/Smoking causes cancer," says the Dylan-esque Establishment Blues. But the album sank without trace, thanks, in part, to some of Rodriguez's more idiosyncratic behavior, like performing at an industry showcase with his back to the audience throughout.
When the follow-up, 1972's Coming From Reality, also sold poorly, Rodriguez called an end to his recording career. He'd never even played a proper gig. And he got on with life. Over the years, he turned his hand to local politics, gaining a degree in philosophy, factory work and eventually, hard labour. As his music career became a memory, Rodriguez's legend was growing - on the other side of the world. In South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Cold Fact had become a major word of mouth success, particularly among young people in the South African armed forces, who identified with its counter-cultural bent. But Rodriguez was an enigma - not even the label knew where to find him - and his demise became the subject of debate and conjecture. Some rumours said he'd died of a drug overdose or burned to death on stage. Others said he was in a mental institution, or in prison for murdering his girlfriend. Barring a couple of sold out Australian tours in 1979 and 1981, nothing had been heard of him for almost 30 years. But the tide began to turn in 1996, when journalist Craig Bartholemew set out to get to the bottom of the mystery. After many dead ends, he found Rodriguez alive, well, free and perfectly sane in Detroit, ending years of speculation. Rodriguez himself had no idea about his fame in South Africa (the album had gone multi-platinum, Rodriguez has received not so much as a Rand in royalties), and embarked on a triumphant South African tour followed, filling 5,000 capacity venues across the country.
FINE-FORM and ARCADE in association with Conch Records Present:
PEANUT BUTTER WOLF (VJ SET) (USA - STONES THROW)
We are very proud to announce the return of Peanut Butter Wolf. Founder of indie raps most influential record label STONES THROW RECORDS (MF DOOM / J DILLA / MADLIB / MAYER HAWTHORNE) and long time producer and DJ, PBW will be performing one of his world famous VJ sets. PBW seamlessly blends between the decades and genres of visual achieves to create a spectacle for both ears and eyes.With a huge line up of local support including Cian, Submariner, Truento, Ev Love and Joel Paydirt this is not a show you want to miss.Tickets are available at UnderTheRadar and instore at Arcade and Conch. - Tickets $28.
Just received in a late Xmas delivery of t-shirts from Listen Clothing out of California, all $65. Check below for a few of the designs, plenty more in store.
Dunny celebrates the end of the world with a group of artists so badass, you'll wish every year prophesized mass destruction. Angels of death, soapbox protestors, Mayan feathered serpents, toxic meltdowns - so many versions of Doomsday, how do you choose just one way to go? The Apocalypse Dunny Series features 15 Judgment Day designs by 12 masters of their craft - from fine artists and illustrators, customizers and toy titans - this series is cataclysmic. The collection includes designs by Jon Paul Kaiser, Mishka, Jermaine Rogers, Jesse Hernandez, Sam Fout, Joe Ledbetter, Ron English, Huck Gee, Patricio Oliver, Chris Ryniak, Hydro74, and Kronk. An ode to the era when people still walked on Earth, you should line them up with the rations under your garage, because even canned sardines need friends.
#Jusayin, Madcap Touring, Mazdef Productions & Notomorrow Present:
Lunice (Mad Decent | LuckyMe | Canada) Debut NZ Tour
Tickets now available from Conch Records, 115A Ponsonby Rd, Ponsonby
On the 20th & 21st of February one of the worlds most in demand producers, Lunice (Mad Decent | LuckyMe | Canada), brings his unique blend of bass heavy electronica to New Zealand for two highly anticipated shows in Wellington and Auckland.
After his collaborative project with bass impresario Hudson Mohawke as TNGHT in 2012, which garnered wide acclaim throughout the world from clubbers and journalists alike. The LA Weekly confirmed this by bestowing the title of, ‘Dance Single Of The Year’.
The 22 year old producer has also produced remixes and collaborated with the likes of Diplo, Wacka Flocka Flame & Gucci Mane. A cast of of local producers and dj’s are set to adorn the support line up with bass weight and class.
Tickets available via: www.undertheradar.co.nz
Tour Dates:
Wellington
Wed 20th February
Ivy
with CTFD, Kamandi , Yvnalesca, Beat Mob, #4Chainz
Auckland
Thursday 21st February
Ink and Coherent
Support Line Up To Be Announced
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