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Silver Scrolls long-list offer first clues to this year's award contenders. awards countdown

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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

Lamb Of God VII - Sturm Und Drang

Fatboy Slim The Fatboy Slim Collection

Chelsea Wolfe Abyss

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

(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

Silicon Personal Computer

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

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!

Bob Marley & the Wailers Kaya

Nadia Reid

Disturbed Immortalized

The Phoenix Foundation Give Up Your Dreams

The Bohicas The Making Of

Marlon Williams

Motörhead Bad Magic

Public Image Ltd What The World Needs Now

JB Listener

Six60

Public Image Ltd

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