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The Home Brew Crew tour kicked off yesterday and continues throughout the month and ends with a one-off gig on Great Barrier Island in October. We’ll be posting our interview with them next week but in the meantime check out our interview with  Chris Graham to find out the latest on his collaboration with the group including a Home Brew TV show, and when we’ll finally see the video for Underneath The Shade. Grab the Crew’s EP’s over here and check out the IV below.

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Kimbra, the Melbourne-based New Zealander is a singer in a getting-longer list of a new breed of female pop singers ready to take over our airwaves. Add Zowie and Ruby Frost and suddenly Gin, Brooke Fraser and Anika Moa have some competition. The 20-year-old’s latest single Settle Down is from her forthcoming album Vows and she’s been keeping busy lately with the attention from the Australian music media and even Perez Hilton. Catch up New Zealand. Interesting fact: “Did you know the percussion in ‘Settle Down’ included a vigorously shaken tampon packet?”

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PRESS RELEASE: From the hell they came 30 years ago in a small town in New Jersey called Lodi. It was there, at the dawn of the punk movement in April 1977, that the Misfits were born.

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The nominees for the most important industry event in New Zealand music were announced yesterday evening at the Langham hotel in Auckland. The Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards take place on October 7 and this year it’s Gin Wigmore and Dane Rumble that lead the nominations with six each, followed by The Phoenix Foundation with five and J. Williams and Anika Moa with three. Naturally, there’s some discrepancies with the most obvious being that Stan Walker who had the number one single in the country for nine weeks is merely nominated for a People’s Choice Award. But even if Walker  has been relegated to the back of the room he should easily pick up the award for Highest Selling NZ Single (the same award Ben Lummis won back in 2004 for what it’s worth) and Airplay Record of the Year; two awards where there weren’t any nominees announced.

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Interpol’s fourth album is also their last album with longtime bassist Carols D, who left the band shortly after the album was wrapped up. So in a way, it’s a new start for the group; this time around it’s a self-titled album and  we’ve got our fingers crossed that the band will be touring down here sometime next year. The album gets released next week and until then you can stream it in it’s entirety over at MySpace.

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The first Big Day Out announcement for January 2011 is about a month away. It’s the country’s biggest music festival and already the rumours for next years line-up are rife. We decided to weigh up each artist separately to judge just how likely it would be if they played. Rankings are out of five (one being not likely, five being highly likely). Let’s do this.

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Arcade Fire have teamed up with director Chris Milk and Google for The Wilderness Downtown project, which is an interactive music video experience for We Used To Wait from their latest album The Suburbs. The kicker here is that the interactive video aims to be a personalised experience; enter the address where you grew up and see what happens. Keep in mind that the project works best with Google Chrome and enter here.

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PRESS RELEASE: After taking on the United States Gin Wigmore is heading back to New Zealand with The Grave Train national tour this October.

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Dunedin band Knives At Noon have been garnering an audience lately with their much talked about show at Homegrown as well as their opening gig for Vampire Weekend earlier in the year. The band are about to release their brand new EP Glitter Guts and we hit up keyboardist Oli Wilson to ask him a few questions about their songwriting process, Creative Commons and when we can get expect to see them play.

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The Corner interviewed Home Brew Crew a few days back but before we put up the IV — where they talk about their upcoming EP, their ode to Anika Moa and how they’re taking notes from U2 for their live show — we’ll be putting up a series of posts on the band. The first of course has to be on their upcoming tour, where they’re hitting spots such as Gore, Ohakune and Great Barrier Island. Check out their latest video for the tour where they visit the Goldmine above and peep the dates for their tour which starts on Thursday below.

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