More than any record before, Devour Your, captures the essence and aggression of Starcrawler’s gloriously unhinged live shows. The album is out now through Rough Trade. It’s no mystery the band have garnered support from some of the greats – Shirley Manson and Elton John count themselves as fans. They’ve also supported the likes of Beck, Foo Fighters, Spoon and more. Produced by Nick Launay (Nick Cave & the Bad...
Aldous Harding reunites with the visionary director behind ‘The Barrel‘ – Martin Sagadin – for an equally compelling visual for ‘Zoo Eyes.’ It is the third and final single from her latest album, Designer, out now via 4AD. Enter a hypnogogic state once more… The National also share a new visual – ‘Hey Rosey‘ lifted from the band’s sixth record I Am Easy To Find. The video marks the...
Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Bruce Springsteen’s Birthday. Lucy Dacus continues on her celebration of national holidays with another cover. ‘In The Air Tonight‘ is released ahead of Hallow’s Eve. In Lucy’s own words, “perhaps the best eerie bop of all time, and certainly the best drum fill. The image in the first verse is so unsettling- watching someone watch someone drown without moving to save them. People have wondered if this is...
Dyson Stringer Cloher – the iconic project of three of Australia’s most accomplished and dynamic songwriters, Jen Cloher, Mia Dyson and Liz Stringer – have released their debut self-titled album via Milk! Records. Mia Dyson, Liz Stringer and Jen Cloher have spent most of their lives thousands of miles from one another – Mia in Los Angeles, Liz in Toronto and Jen in Melbourne. Their debut self-titled album was recorded at Wilco’s studio The Loft in Chicago, with Jeff Tweedy’s guitars, as you do, with Wilco’s Glenn Kotche on drums and Tom Schick the Grammy Award-winning engineer. As you do....
‘Forgotten Eyes‘ – out now, and one final taste off the new album from Big Thief, before it’s released next Friday. Two Hands is out 11 October through 4AD. Two Hands is the band’s second album this year, following the May release of U.F.O.F., a universally beloved album which garnered a 9.2 score from Pitchfork, who called it “a true masterpiece of folk music from a band working together at the highest level.” Two Hands is a...
DIIV are back. The band’s third full length album, Deceiver, is out now via Captured Tracks. They return to Australia in April. Dates below. Tickets on sale now through Mistletone here. You’d have heard the darkly propulsive ‘Skin’, the melancholic ‘Taker’ and more recently the frenzied ‘Blankenship.’ Now hear them amongst a collection of some of DIIV’s most impressive, and darkest, work yet. Rebirth takes place when everything falls apart....
A pleasure to introduce Spencer. The latest signing to 4AD. Peep his single ‘Automatic’ ~ a bed of retro percussion groove, a hypnotic bass line, and Spencer.’s sheer magnetism flowing atop. At 20 years old, he’s already been named an Apple Music Artist To Watch, and of course – he’s defying and redefining ideas that cross R&B, hip hop and indie rock. The song is paired with a video chronicling...
Ending a 16-year hiatus since its last installment, the most mythical, longest-running rock n roll mixtape odyssey in existence, Desert Sessions will return this October with the most ambitious entries yet in its expansive and elusive catalog: Vols. 11 & 12 (a/k/a respectively as Arrivederci Despair and Tightwads & Nitwits & Critics & Heels) will be released October 25th on Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Vols. 11 & 12...
Sui Zhen’s new record Losing, Linda is out today! To celebrate she has shared the music video for ‘Matsudo City Life’. Speaking about the video, Sui said “Where Perfect Place touches on the artificial in its pristine, dreamlike atmosphere – a rose tinted memory, Matsudo City Life is the gritty cityscape, reality with the cuts and bruises and darkness we too easily forget. The Red Room represents death and decay...
Tiny Ruins have released Olympic Girls Solo, an acoustic recording of the widely acclaimed third album through Milk! Records, Ba Da Bing Records and Marathon Artists. Featuring Hollie Fullbrook’s arresting vocals and intricate guitar playing, the solo recordings reflect the sparse beauty of her earliest work. The album features some of Fullbrook’s most accomplished songwriting, recorded onto tape in whole live takes at Auckland’s Roundhead Studios. To celebrate the release of Olympic Girls Solo, Hollie will return to Australia to join New York-based...
Rough Trade and Remote Control are very excited to announce the exquisite debut solo album by award winning writer, singer and musician Josienne Clarke. Watch the video for ‘If I Didn’t Mind’ from the forthcoming album below. In All Weather is a new collection of songs, in which she goes it alone; musically, as this is her first solo record, and in her own life, laid bare and played out in...
Mistletone and Remote Control Records are proud to announce that Steve Gunn will return to Australia this November for a run of headline shows in Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart and Castlemaine, as well as appearances at Mullum Festival, Melbourne Music Week and Coalchella. For over a decade, Steve Gunn has been one of American music’s most pivotal figures — conjuring immersive and psychedelic sonic landscapes both live and on record, releasing...
MTV Australia today confirmed Courtney Barnett will return home as the next act to perform in the critically acclaimed MTV Unplugged Melbourne concert series in 2019. The Melbourne-based singer/songwriter will become the next Australian artist to be featured on MTV Unplugged Melbourne, joining Gang of Youths, Amy Shark, DMA’S and The Rubens, who have all taken to the stage with stellar stripped-back performances. Barnett said, “I’m looking forward to coming...
DIIV reveal new song ‘Blankenship‘ off their forthcoming third full-length album Deceiver out Friday 4 October via Captured Tracks. The song’s ominous bass line and crawling beat devolve into frenetic string bends and vitriolic lyrics that welcome inspection of the song’s namesake. The acerbic song is paired with the band’s first music video in six years, shot in California in Trona Pinnacles, Sequoia National Park, and in Los Angeles; and directed by Sean Stout (Deafheavan, Death Grips, Trash Talk). Preorder...
‘Lust’ is the brand-new single from Melbourne-via-Sydney-via-Perth artist Denise Le Menice (AKA Ali Flintoff). It premiered on triple j Home & Hosed and sees DLM aim her sublime guitar-based dream-pop straight at the dance-floor. On ‘Lust’ Denise Le Menice’s desire is set to four-on-the-floor rave-up, takes its lascivious subject-matter and presents it with a kind of purity and sweetness. “Butterflies, I’ve got a belly-full… I hope I run into you… I’m in lust with you” Catchy, post-psych-indie-pop, dance –...
Perfume Genius has released ‘Eye in the Wall’, a new track taken from The Sun Still Burns Here, a dance and music performance collaboration with Seattle-based choreographer Kate Wallich. The evening-long piece, set to debut in October, is co-directed by Perfume Genius and Wallich and stars Perfume Genius’s Mike Hadreas alongside dance company The YC. The track is 9 minutes of celestial hypnosis and sounds unlike anything Hadreas has done before. “I think of ‘Eye in the Wall’ as a cosmic peep show,” says Hadreas. “Watching,...
