New York City rap prodigy Wiki returns to Australia for the first time in three years, for two special headline shows, at Sydney’s The Lansdowne and Melbourne’s The Toff, this summer. Further tour details below! Last on our shores in 2015 with his former rap outfit Ratking. Formed in Harlem in 2011 when Wiki was just 18 years old, Ratking went on to perform with Skepta and tour alongside Death...
Tune-Yards have released a new single ‘ABC 123’, from their forthcoming album I can feel you creep into my private life, out January 19. Watch the companion video, directed by Dear Mr Quistgaard, below! Bandleader Merrill Garbus’ politically-infused lyrics set a foreboding scene, as she laments, “California’s burning down / Sitting in the middle of the sixth extinction.” I can feel you creep into my private life is the fourth studio album and...
Honey Hahs release their new single ‘Forever’. The accompanying video was filmed on their first visit to Paris to perform at LesInRocks Festival last month. Watch the clip below! Honey Hahs describe the meaning behind the song; “Forever was written about our Dad who was worried about the world coming to an end. He started buying loads of food in case you couldn’t buy it in the shops anymore. He...
Montreal staple, Jackson MacIntosh, announces his debut solo album My Dark Side, coming early 2018. He has also unveiled his first single ‘Lulu’, listen below! MacIntosh explains that “‘Lulu’ was the first song I’d written after a dry spell that lasted about a year, which is pretty unusual for me, because I usually can’t stop myself from writing. It was sort of an unusual song for me, and was a song that led...
Following on from his single ‘Anyting’,London’s Renz is back with ‘Want Me ft. Trinna Carter’, another laid-back summertime jam. Watch the new clip below! Filled with Renz’ blissed out approach to vocals and production, it’s an unassuming earworm. Bringing summer-vibes to the basement club of Birthdays in Shoreditch. Having executive produced the first New Gen record as well as creating one of the most popular songs on it (Flexin’), Renz steps...
The third & final EP in Overmono’s acclaimed Arla series, Arla III, is out now! Overmono have also shared a new video for ‘Phase Magenta’, watch it below! Arla III finds Ed & Tom Russell’s Overmono project again reinvigorating & reshaping rave culture, through a deep personal affection for UK electronic music’s past acting as fuel for the inexorable forward momentum of their music. Over the series’ 14 tracks, they have...
The National have released the video for ‘Dark Side Of The Gym’, directed, choreographed and starring NYC Ballet Resident Choreographer and soloist Justin Peck and executive produced by former Miami City Ballet dancer and current dance filmmaker Ezra Hurwitz. Also starring former Miami City Ballet mentor and Principal dancer, Patricia Delgado, the video finds the duo gracefully move around a balloon filled auditorium. Watch it below! The National will return to...
The xx release ‘We See You – Berlin’, a short film supported by and exclusively available on YouTube that celebrates the incredibly close bond between The xx and their fans, affectionately turning the spotlight onto the band’s audience. It’s the first in a series of ‘We See You’ films. Watch it below! Directed by Berlin-based filmmaker Sylvie Weber, the film features live and documentary footage from The xx’s headline set at...
RVG has been announced as the national support for Future Islands’ Australian tour. RVG’s debut LP A Quality Of Mercy finds band leader, Romy Vager, trying to move beyond ego, beyond the simple confessional of the songwriter, hoping to find perspective on both world and self. They will join Future Islands for all their headline shows. Production holds have been released for both Melbourne shows and final tickets remain for...
Smerz have released their third new track and video in as many months. The new single ‘Have fun’ is a groovier cut of their breathed vocals and minimal beats. Watch the clip below! The video was produced and directed by Smerz, and as with all Smerz music, the track was produced, programmed and sung entirely by the Norwegian duo. Prolific doesn’t even cover it. Henriette and Catharina, who comprise Smerz, were...
2017 marks a decade of U.S. Girls. The multi-disciplinary artist, Meg Remy announces the release of her sixth studio album, In a Poem Unlimited, out Friday 16 February. Watch the video to new single ‘Velvet 4 Sale’ below! In a Poem Unlimited was tracked in collaboration with Toronto-based instrumental collective the Cosmic Range, and features arrangements by long-time contributors Maxmilian Turnball and Louis Percival. Following ‘Mad As Hell’, the album opener ‘Velvet 4 Sale’ concerns...
London’s King Krule will play headline East Coast dates on his return Australian visit in 2018. In addition to an already announced appearance at Golden Plains festival, Archy Marshall will take in Sydney’s Metro Theatre, Brisbane’s The Triffid and Melbourne’s The Croxton Bandroom in March. Further tour details below! Since his last Australian visit in 2014, during which he played St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival, Marshall has released music under a range of different...
Belle & Sebastian return to Australia in May next year for the first time since their tour in 2015. With performances confirmed for The Sydney Opera House, Melbourne’s Palais Theatre, Perth’s Astor Theatre and The Tivoli in Brisbane. Further tour details below! To commemorate 20 years since the bands previous multi-EP release – 1997’s Dog On Wheels, Lazy Line Painter Jane and 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds Of Light – they have three...
The video for ‘The Way You Used To Do’, taken from Queens Of The Stone Age’s album Villains, is now available to view on Youtube for the first time. The devilish promo has been realised as a fever dream Satanic dance ritual extravaganza—featuring QOTSA founder and frontman Joshua Homme. Conceived by Joshua Homme, directed by Jonas Akerlund and produced by Serial Pictures, ‘The Way You Used To Do’ somehow fit its...
Kurupt FM are bringing back UK Garage once again with The Lost Tape, out now. Performing live in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge this week with their latest single ‘Suttin Like That’ followed by something from Chabuddy G, and a classic cover of Ross Young – ‘Smooth operator’. Watch it below! Once lost in a backpack in deepest Brentford, The Lost Tape has now been uncovered, remixed and mastered for the very first...
The Bennies have announced a huge list of supports for their national ‘Get High Like An Angel’ tour which kicks off next week. Full list of supports & tour details below! The party legends will be performing tracks from their new album Natural Born Chillers on an epic thirteen date national tour. The album captures the extreme live energy the band has made a name for itself on, and features some of the...
