Music News - The Internet Announces 2 NZ Shows
18 May 2016 - 0 Comments
After a stonking Laneway
2015 performance, it’s an enormous pleasure to welcome back The Internet, for two
dates in Auckland and Wellington this August 2ndand August 4threspectively. Tickets go
on sale Wednesday 25th May.
The LA-based soul collective began as two people - Syd Tha Kyd and
producer/synth player Matt
Martians. An offshoot of Odd Future, The Internet blends
smooth electronic urban soul, with chugging drums and slinking bass lines
overlaid by front-woman Syd’s
honeyed vocals. Syd taught herself how to record, engineer, and
produce at age 15. She also sings, imbuing every song with a sultry,
mellifluous, quiet power. Matt produces and plays synths. Like all
post-modern relationships, the duo initially met on MySpace in 2008, only to
meet in-person three years later.
The Internetbranched off from the Odd Future collective and started their own band in
2011. Syd had been writing music since she was small; she put this on
hold to become OF’s DJ and producer, and picked her songs back up in 2011 to
make her first full-length album with Matt. The Internet have now
released three albums – 2011’s Purple
Naked Ladies, 2012’s Feel
Good and 2015’s Ego
Death which they are currently touring.
When they play live, The Internet is a full band – swelling to a six-person outfit with Patrick Paige II, Christopher Allan Smith,
Jameel Bruner
and Steve Lacy
joining Syd and Matt. They began playing together to tour behind Feel Good, and since
then the band members all contributed their talents to The Internet’s latest
album, the Grammy nominated Ego
Death– their most evolved album to date, featuring guest appearances from the likes
of Janelle Monae, Tyler,
the Creator, and
Vic Mensa.
Recorded in the band’s hometown of Los Angeles, Ego Death is a heady mix of confessions
and come-ons, shiny Rhodes keyboard glimmers, chugging drums, slinking bass
lines, and Syd’s honeyed voice anchoring the mix. It’s a record that
connects the dots between Digable Planets, Erykah Badu’s Baduizm, the warm,
inviting breezes of the West Coast, and the stories that only happen very late
at night or very early in the morning, all played by musicians who are carrying
the soul torch for the new generation.
Do not miss your chance to see The Internet perform their beautifully crafted and genre-defying
funk-tinted R&B soul - these shows will sell fast!
THE
INTERNET NEW ZEALAND SHOW DATES:
TUESDAY 2 AUGUST –
POWERSTATION - AUCKLAND
http://www.aaaticketing.co.nz/
THURSDAY 4 AUGUST -
SHED 6 - WELLINGTON
http://www.ticketek.co.nz/
TICKETS GO ON SALE
WEDNESDAY 25 MAY
Listen to THE
INTERNET HERE:
Click to listen to SPECIAL
AFFAIR
Click to listen to GIRL
Click to listen to DONTCHA
Follow
The Internet:
http://www.internet-band.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TheInternetOddFuture
https://twitter.com/intanetz
https://instagram.com/sydofwgkta/
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