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KRIT & LANCE SAVALI 

Krit catches up with hip hop dancer Lance Savali in Jersey City before he hits the Madison Square Garden stage with Rihanna at the MTV Video Music Awards.

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Krit & the Iron Squad 

Humans of the Islands - Kristian Fanene Schmidt 

COCONET EXCLUSIVE 

Full 'Adorn' documentary coming to the Coconet soon 

The brothers have been back in Australia and New Zealand the last couple of weeks before they end the international leg of their 'Music with a Message' tour in Samoa.

If you're in Wellington, New Zealand you can catch them at Sacred Heart College Performing Arts Centre tonight (Tuesday 02 August) and for our Samoan friends and family they'll be performing in front of the Apia Samoa Government Building on both Friday & Saturday night.

More info & more US tour dates and cities on their website here 

Here's a few highlight pics of their performance at Equippers church in Auckland on Sunday night.

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How singing the gospel changed Fiji

The Garden - TJ Taotua ft Fiji & Kiwini Vaitai

PNC brings the fire with his latest release 'The Luke Vailima' EP which dropped today.

It's PNCs first release in a couple of years since his album 'The Codes' & is the first of a 3 part series.  We asked PNC (real name Sam Hansen) if there was a story behind the name 'Luke Vailima' and he told us it's his middle names.  He explained the name further in an interview with Stuff'I just wanted a real basic title about me. It kind of explains how I am half Samoan, half European and it all just made sense to me'

Local NZ talent PT, Rokske & Jeremy Redmore (former member of the band Midnight Youth) also feature on the EP and PNC doesn't disappoint with his signature straight talking bars on bars on bars!

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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson & Dany Garcia's Seven Bucks Productions Digital studios has launched its own YouTube channel which will feature The Rocks own videos and others from Seven Bucks Productions.

The "YouTube Factory" launched the channel last week and this week they released their second video introducing us to 'Pokerock' - a Pokemon Go inspired character voiced by 'The Rock' himself.  

He says of Pokerock "You take this global sensation - Pokemon Go - which is incredibly succesful, highly addictive, so much fun and then we create a little character called 'Pokerock' and he turns into an a#$hole which is the funniest thing"

Here's an excerpt of the Forbes magazine review & you can read the full article here - “Pokerock” stars MatPat (of The Game Theorist) and features other talent like Ali A. The video also features an original spoof song sung by Jason Paige, the voice of the original Pokemon theme song.  In this parody of the popular Pokemon Go game, Pokerock proves uncatachable.…more

'More More' or 'More Momoa'?

Warner Bros released special footage of their upcoming movie 'Aquaman' for Comic Con over the weekend and we're pleased to report Jason Momoa is lookin mighty FIIIIINE dangerous as Aquaman - HOTNESSSSSS!

Some more pics below for your viewing pleasure .... Enjoy ;)

You're welcome!

BTS with Jason as Aquaman on the set of Justice League

Congratulations Benson! 

So awesome to see Polys doing well in Opera!  Check him out in the promo vid above for Operanesia (a collaboration between four classically trained singers who all hail from Auckland via the Pacific Islands of Samoa and Tonga)

The Baritone singer won the acclaimed Lexus Song Quests Grand Gala Final last night and was crowned 'Most Promising Opera Singer'.  He was up against 3 other finalists - 2 of whom were also of Pasifika descent.  His prize package included an immediate cash prize of $20,000, a Study Scholarship of $27,000, plus economy international travel up to the value of $3,000.

He has been a member of the New Zealand Youth choir since 2011 and also works as a vocal coach at several high schools in Auckland.  He's hoping to pursue post graduate training at one of the elite music institutions in the UK next year.

We're looking forward to hearing more from #BaritoneBenson in the future - Bravo Benson!  

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Bravo to our Lexus Song Quest Finalists

Sole Mio's Amitai Pati discusses new album

Our very own Poly Soul Queen Aaradhna drops her highly anticipated album "Brown Girl"  today.

We went behind the scenes of her Fresh TV shoot where she talked about the making of "Brown Girl", experiencing racism, her favourite Poly dishes and more ....

On the making of Brown Girl:  

I started working with Jeff Silverman - they sometimes call him Jeff Dynamite - from Truth & Soul Records based out in New York.  He'd worked with a lot of people that I admire, Adele, Aloe Blacc and just a whole bunch of people that their music I connect to and I felt like it was the right fit to do a whole album with him.  It was an awesome experience because I got to work on the album organically and like have musicians together and just jam in the room and thats the way I like to do things - just have a jam and see what fits.  So we got to do that out in Brooklyn, New York.…more

 KJ Apa has landed a lead role in Altar Rock, an indie thriller from director Andrzej Bartkowiak. 

Kristin Alexandre and A. Wayne Carter wrote the script. The film is described as a millennial romantic thriller where family loyalty threatens the new love between an American girl and a young immigrant boy on the island of Nantucket.

Apa’s profile will get a boost when he stars as Archie in the CW’s midseason drama series Riverdale. The New Zealand native also has a role in A Dog’s Purpose, Lasse Hallstrom’s pic about one dog’s quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners. Apa’s other credits include the NZ drama series The Cul-de-Sac and Kiwi nighttime soap Shortland Street.

India Eisley will star alongside KJ Apa in the indie thriller Altar Rock, the millennial romantic thriller from director Andrzej Bartkowiak. Eisley and Apa will play star-crossed lovers on the island of Nantucket whose romance is threatened by family loyalty. Sydney Park and Scott Adkins also have joined the film in unspecified leading roles.…more

Professional wrestler turned Hollywood blockbuster mainstay,Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, was officially declared the world’s highest paid actor according to the Forbes Celebrity 100. 

Johnson, who has garnered quite a tally of top-grossing films in recent years, has brought in a total of $64.5m earnings in the 15 years since his silver screen debut in The Mummy Returns. He is ranked 19th on Forbes’ coveted list, on which he first appeared in 2012. 

“Receiving news like this will always serve as my anchoring reminder to continue to work even harder,” the Central Intelligence actor said in his announcement on Instagram. “We not only want to ‘embrace the grind’, but take the grind to new levels.”

His drive, he described, is akin to a  "wolf" scratching at the door.…more