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Lamb Of God
VII - Sturm Und Drang
Fatboy Slim
The Fatboy Slim Collection
Chelsea Wolfe
Abyss
Silicon
Personal Computer
Bob Marley & the
Wailers
Kaya
Disturbed
Immortalized
The Phoenix Foundation
Give Up Your Dreams
The Bohicas
The Making Of
Motörhead
Bad Magic
Public Image Ltd
What The World
Needs Now
50 AUGUST 2015 JB Hi-Fi
visit THIS MONTH at MUSIC
w ith the APRA Silver Scroll Awards’
longlist out and nominations closed for
the New Zealand Music Awards, we
thought it would be a good time to remind
ourselves what another great year it has been for
homegrown music.
Although the Silver Scrolls celebrates individual
songs, it’s still a good place to start because
it’s likely that at least some of the albums they
appear on will also end up in contention when the
Tuis nominations roll in.
The APRA shortlist is due to be unveiled this
month but both Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s
Ruban Neilson and SJD – aka James Donnelly
– have nabbed two nominations apiece for their
songs on Multi-Love and Saint John Divine,
respectively.
Producing wizard Joel
Little (Lorde, Broods, etc) is
also in the running this year,
having a hand in three of the
other longlisted songs, while
other nominees include Nadia
Reid, Marlon Williams, Six60
and Anthonie Tonnon, all of
whose new albums are well
worth checking out.
Voted on by the 10,000-
plus APRA members, this
year’s awards will be held on
September 17 at Auckland’s
Vector Arena and it's the 50th
time that the Silver Scrolls
have been presented.
As part of the celebrations,
this year’s ceremony will also
see the presentation of the
‘Lost Scroll’ of 1981, which
was never actually awarded.
It was actually a terrific year
for Kiwi songs as the shortlist
indicates: as well as The
Clean’s fantastic debut single
Tally Ho, the nominated
songs include The Swingers’
classic Counting The Beat
(which went to #1 here and in Australia), The
Screaming Mee Mees’ See Me Go (another
chart-topper here), and Blam
Blam Blam’s much-loved
satirical anthem There Is No
Depression In New Zealand.
The New Zealand Music
Awards also celebrates its
50th anniversary this year,
but the nominees won’t be
announced until October.
However, as well as
the aforementioned APRA
nominees, this year has
already seen a host of
excellent new releases from
some of our favourite local
artists – Anika Moa, Don
McGlashan, Gin Wigmore,
The Warratahs, Trinity Roots,
Princess Chelsea, and Cairo
Knife Fight, to name just a
few – so the judges face a
tough job in narrowing things
down to a shortlist.
But in the meantime, if you
have missed out on some
of great new Kiwi albums of
2015, get busy exploring!
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Silver Scrolls long-list offer first clues to this year's award contenders.
awards countdown
Public Image Ltd
Marlon Williams
Six60
Nadia Reid
Unknown Mortal Orchestra