Archive for June 2015

Last night, the independent label community came together at NYC’s Highline Ballroom for the fourth annual A2IM Libera Awards, known to the community as “The LIBBYs,” which celebrates the past year of achievements in independent music. With two of the nine nominations in the category for “Best Sync Usage,” which celebrates the most creative or…

Bestselling children’s recording duo Bobs & LoLo are set to release their new album Dirty Feet on July 31 via Kidswerk Music (a children’s music imprint from Nettwerk Music Group, the umbrella company for Nettwerk Records, Nettwerk One Publishing and Nettwerk Management).    Dirty Feet follows 2014’s holiday album Wave Your Antlers, JUNO-nominated for “Children’s Album Of The Year,” a third nomination in this category. What…

Pictured (L-R) Michele Samuel (Beautiful Day Ent.), Shane Hines, AJ Burton (Nettwerk) Nettwerk One Music (NW1) and Beautiful Day Entertainment has signed artist and songwriter Shane Hines to its expanding roster of talented songwriters, which includes Jessie Jo Dillon, Neil Mason (The Cadillac Three), Mike Fiorentino, Kyle Cook, Austin Jenckes, Tammi Kidd Hutton and others.…

Nettwerk Music Group is thrilled to announce the signing of Vancouver based folk duo Twin Bandit to its label, publishing and management rosters. Twin Bandit – Hannah Walker and Jamie Elliot – will release their debut album For You on June 29, 2015. “There is a certain musical magic that happens when Twin Bandit sing…

WATCH + SHARE FRAZEY FORD’S “DONE” VIDEO:   Nettwerk congratulates Frazey Ford on her inclusion in the 2015 Polaris Prize Long List with her latest critically acclaimed solo album Indian Ocean.   Now in its ninth year, the Polaris Music Prize, honors the best Canadian music from the past year. A $50,000 award will be presented to what the esteemed jury of voters deem…

Iconic frontman Peter Murphy today releases Remixes From Lion, a companion piece to his last summer’s critically acclaimed album of the same name. This new release features seven remixes from Killing Joke bassist Youth, who also produced last summer’s Lion. It also includes four bonus songs from the Lion recording sessions. The album is available…

Australian outfit The Paper Kites return with their sophomore album twelvefour on August 28 via Nettwerk Records.  Written entirely between midnight and four in the morning, twelvefour is a concept record that explores the theory that an artist’s creative peak lays within these hours. For two sleepless months lead singer/guitarist Sam Bentley worked, reversing his sleep patterns and penning 30 songs in his home studio. “I…

Oli Bayston’s Boxed In has shared a new video for track “False Alarm” from their acclaimed self-titled debut album. The video premiered yesterday on Stereogum (here: http://bit.ly/1GiqnDY).   Boxed In will spend the summer between UK festivals and their first run of North American tour dates, which launches July 20th in Seattle and includes a stop in Los Angeles for KCRW’s Sound In Focus free summer concert series, where Boxed In will…

Following appearances at Shaky Knees, Hangout and Summer Camp music festivals along with a run of headline dates, Xavier Rudd & The United Nations return to North America throughout October and November to further celebrate the acclaimed studio album, Nanna (out now via Nettwerk Records).   With 30+ dates, the band heads across North America, beginning October 8th in…