Well hello there! As you may have noticed - Loop is well and truly back in the game of champion-ing New Zealand music, and our busy start to 2016 is a taste of an epic year to come! Recent releases from Chambres, Miloux, Bailey Wiley and Yoko-Zuna are all worthy of some ear-time, and still to come in 2016 we have new albums from Electric Wire Hustle, Anna Coddington, Chambres, A Girl Named Mo & Fly My Pretties! 

Also - in a hark back to the founding block of Loop (Loop Magazine = fun/vision/change), we are now committed to bringing disruptive and innovative global thinkers to New Zealand, because now, more than ever, music and great thinking are both weapons of mass disruption. Loop’s not going to sit on the sidelines. Let’s make some change, dance and disrupt!

This newsletter puts this all into perspective. Some great new music and two disruptors coming to our shores!

So follow us on Facebook and Twitter and let's make some noise!

Released last Friday was the new EP from NZ's most exciting and innovative live act, Yoko-Zuna! Luminols is five tracks showing a varied sound from Yoko-Zuna, and a band which have become incredibly comfortable in their own skin. Ranging from the pulsating electronic sounds of ‘Lightning Sabres’ to the brooding slow-burn of ‘Orchard St’, Yoko-Zuna is a band taking their sound to the next level.

All the links to stream and purchase Luminols can be found HERE. And if you're in Auckland, Yoko-Zuna are celebrating the release this Friday night at the King's Arms. 

Yoko-Zuna Luminols EP Release
w/ Miloux, LarzRanda & Lukan Raisey
Friday June 3, King's Arms, Auckland
Tickets from Eventfinda or the door

Ahead of a run of intimate shows to perform and record album #6, Fly My Pretties are set to release the Live at the Isaac Theatre Royal EP!

On February 12, 2016, Fly My Pretties played the Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch for the second year in a row. Again, Christchurch came to the party and again, Fly My Pretties delivered a truly memorable show. We were lucky enough to get blessings from a few of the artists involved to create this EP, and Live at the Isaac Theatre Royal celebrates both this beautiful theatre and NZ creativity. 

Featuring FMP classics 'Bag Of Money' and 'Old Friend', along with a few new tunes including Tiki Taane's 'Always On My Mind' performed with a full band for the first time ever, pre-orders are available now for the digital only EP from Bandcamp (available now) and iTunes (available Fri June 3), with all pre-orders getting ‘Take It From Me’ instantly. All links to pre-order are available HERE. 

FMP will record and perform a brand new show and album in August, with a run of intimate shows in Auckland and Wellington. Limited tickets remain, and all the info can be found HERE for String Theory! 

As part of a partnership between Loop & Think INC., the first in a series of disruptive thinkers we are helping bring to NZ is Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak! An Evening With Steve Wozniak is a chance for Kiwi audiences to hear from one of the most influential people in the history of modern technology. This August, the innovative and inspiring force that is Woz will land in Auckland for one night only.

With a hefty resume of accomplishments in the digital world (across Atari & Hewlett-Packard) and the humanitarian sphere (founding the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to protect digital rights of internet users worldwide), the sweetest fruit of Woz’s laborious pursuits was Apple: the corporation that has revolutionised how we communicate, how we work, how we live. This is our chance to hear the legend himself!

An Evening With Steve Wozniak
Tuesday 23rd August, ASB Theatre, Auckland

Get your tickets now from Ticketmaster! 

One month after Woz graces our shores, British science communicator, academic, researcher, rationalism advocate, physician and best-selling author Dr. Ben Goldacre will be in New Zealand for the first time this September to inform the public – in his unique comical nature – of the dangers implicit in the modern trend of spreading scientific misinformation, and how to calibrate our bullsh*t meters!

A graduate of Oxford University, a licensed physician, and imminent researcher and academic, Dr. Ben Goldacre is best-known as the author of Bad Science and Bad Pharma, along with his long-running column in The Guardian. This one-off evening will give audiences a chance to not only hear Dr. Ben Goldacre bring down pseudoscience, but also interact with the audience with a Q&A session. 

An Evening With Ben Goldacre
Saturday 24th September, Mercury Theatre, Auckland 

Grab exclusive pre-sales now from Eventfinda using the code THINK.  

And if you've gotten this far along, congratulations! Let us reward you with a link to check out all of the visual goodness Loop has released so far in 2016. 

Brand new videos from Fly My Pretties, Electric Wire Hustle, Miloux, Yoko-Zuna, Anna Coddington and Rhian Sheehan can all be found HERE, along with the hours of classic Loop clips. 

Love Loop xx