Music News - Vince Staples in Auckland and Wellington Headline Shows
04 October 2016 - 0 Comments
2016 has
been hectic for Vince
Staples. The streetwise social commentator has given
showstopping performances across the festival circuit, headlined his own US
tour and found time to release his new EP, PRIMA
DONNA. It was only back in February that Vince Staples
was here for a Laneway Festival set that was dubbed “ground-rattling and
triumphant” by The Wireless. We’re excited to announce that he’s heading back
to New Zealand this December for shows in Wellington and Auckland.
Vince Staples,
whose astonishing double-CD debut Summertime
’06 was one of the most critically acclaimed albums of
2015, recently returned with PRIMA
DONNA, his long awaited new 6-song EP. PRIMA DONNA solely features production from No
I.D., DJ
Dahi and singer, songwriter James Blake.
Accompanying the PRIMA
DONNA release was a self-titled short film, conceived by Vince Staples and
directed by award-winning director Nabil [Elderkin], who is well known for his work with Kanye West (Welcome to Heartbreak and Paranoid), Frank
Ocean (Swim Good), Bruno
Mars (Grenade), and FKA
Twigs (Two Weeks). Check out short film HERE.
Vince Staples was the subject of one FADER’s coveted 2016 Summer Music cover stories: “[He]
has used his songs to indict police brutality, civic apathy, gentrification,
racial profiling, and the failed educational system,” wrote Jeff Weiss.
“Instead of chasing radio anthems or major co-signs, he made an artful
double-album with a cover inspired by Ian Curtis, mournful dirges
(‘Summertime’) that could be Sparklehorse songs, and haunting videos
(Señorita) that attack the safari mentality that outsiders often apply to
hip-hop.” Read the full cover story HERE.
“At its best,” the
New York Times wrote about Vince
Staples in 2015,“his new major label debut album, Summertime ’06 is exceptional, a
modern gangster rap classic full of clear-eyed detail and tart social
commentary.” Just a few months later, the Times returned with
the ultimate accolade for Summertime
’06 when its closing track “’06” was singled out as one of 25 Songs That Tell Us
Where Music Is Going in the
Sunday magazine’s historic “one-time spectacular” issue:
Jace Clayton (aka DJ/ rupture) wrote, “Vince
Staples… has established himself as a singular new voice in rap, one whose
urgency matches his precision. ‘’06’ and ‘Summertime ’06’ refer to the season
when Staples turned 13, in Long Beach, CA….Out of that hardship, Staples
emerged as a streetwise Everyman whose lyrics and musical productions are
uniformly lean and unsentimental.”
Vince has worked with dozens of today’s hottest artists, most
recently; he has been featured on tracks with ScHoolboy Q (Ride Out), Flume
(Smoke &
Retribution), Childish Gambino (Waiting For My Moment) and Clams Casino
(All Nite).
The new EP Prima Donna is available now.
VINCE
STAPLES
Tuesday December 6 |
San Fran, Wellington | http://www.nonstoptix.com/
Wednesday December 7
| Powerstation, Auckland | http://www.aaa.ticketing.co.nz/
Laneway
members pre-sale from 9am on Wednesday, October 5
General on sale from 9am on Thursday, October 6
http://www.vincestaples.com/
http://www.lanewaypresents.com/
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