Made up of Katalyst and Steve Spacek, Space Invadas return after a seven year break with brand new single ‘Wild World’, featuring Melbourne MC Remi. Watch the clip below! On ‘Wild World ft. Remi’ Spacek sings about the search for our own meaning and identity in the world and the natural beauty of our planet that most of us take for granted. Remi returns the call and makes social comment...
Good Boy have shared their second single, ‘A Waste Of Approximately 122 Million Dollars (Taxpayer Funded)’, from their EP Shirk Life, due November 10. Watch the accompanied (claymation!) video directed by Fin Marx below! The song spits a frustrated and self-explanatory message about the absurd, insulting and embarrassing marriage equality plebiscite in Australia. As singer Rian King explains, “122 million dollars of public funding for an opinion is disgusting. In...
Following on from her inclusion on the Meredith, Fairgrounds and Laneway Festival lineups, Aldous Harding is pleased to announce headline shows in Sydney & Melbourne in 2018. Aldous Harding will bring her extraordinarily captivating live show to the Sydney Festival Spiegeltent on Thursday 25 January and The Croxton Bandroom in Melbourne on Wednesday 7 February. Further details below. Having spent the majority of 2017 touring in Europe and North America, this...
Before the release of his debut album, Getting The Team Back Together, next Friday 3 November, Jeremy Neale has shared a second cut from the record ‘Small Talk’, featuring Jaimee Fryer who helped the track reach its full potential. Watch the video below! Written during a very introspective point last year when Jeremy was trying to create a life of balance, ‘Small Talk’ is about relying on alcohol to get by socially, and...
Tune-Yards reveal the first single ‘Look at Your Hands’ from their forthcoming album I can feel you creep into my private life, out 19th January 2018. Watch the video to ‘Look at Your Hands’ below! Bandleader Merrill Garbus explains “Yes, the world is a mess, but I’ve been attempting to look more and more inward: how do all of these “isms” that we live in manifest in me, in my daily activities, interactions? Some of the...
The National have released the video for ‘I’ll Still Destroy You’, from their most recent album Sleep Well Beast, The video was directed by Allan Sigurðsson and Icelandic performance and installation artist Ragnar Kjartansson. Watch it below! Ragnar, who also appears in the video, collaborated with The National for A Lot Of Sorrow which saw the band play their song ‘Sorrow’ for six hours in front of a live audience at MOMA’s...
Bing & Ruth – the ever-evolving collective steered by composer and pianist David Moore – have a new EP, Dorsal. A short collection of songs written and recorded alongside the group’s recent album, No Home of the Mind, released earlier this year. Moore says, “as the full length came into view it became clear that these sounds were a small family deserving of their own house separate. So here they are....
Everything Is Recorded have released ‘Show Love feat. Syd & Sampha’. The new single comes with an accompanied lyric video, watch below! Back in August Richard Russell stopped by Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show in which he discussed his respect for Syd and working with her for Everything Is Recorded. Bridging the gap between London and Los Angeles, ‘Show Love’ begins with Russell’s percussive instrumentation, interlaced with an introductory verse from Sampha,...
Jaye Bartell has released his new album In a Time of Trouble a Wild Exultation. To celebrate, he has shared the Angel Olsen-assisted video for ‘Give Erin A Compliment (So Kind)’. Watch below! “’Give Erin a Compliment (So Kind)’ was written as a birthday present for Erin Kennedy” Bartell states. “The title itself comes from a poker chip one of Erin’s friends found that said, “give Erin a compliment” on it. It’s...
Melbourne’s Jess Locke, has released her new album, Universe. To celebrate Jess has shared a video for new single ‘Drive To Drink’. Watch it below! With a few years playing and then recording with her full band, Universe emerged consisting of both brand new and older previously released home-recordings, now re-written: “the album was very much about exploring the sound of things, and capturing an atmosphere, more than any particular concepts. There are definitely themes that...
Remote Control Records are thrilled to announce the signing of HANDSOME to Dot Dash Recordings. The announcement comes with the release of a new single and video for ‘Late Night Ball Game feat. Joyride’, lifted from an EP, No Hat No Play, coming early 2018. Watch the clip below! Sydney-based HANDSOME crafts a mix of tomboy pop and brooding electronica. The new sounds herald a celebration of self-expression and carefree creativity,...
Jess Cornelius has released new single ‘Love And Low Self Esteem’ from her forthcoming debut EP Nothing Is Lost, out Friday 27 October. Watch the video below! The song finds Cornelius taking stock of a relationship in ruins, confessing, “Sometimes I can’t tell the difference / Between love and low self esteem / ‘Cause it’s when I’m feeling tiny as an eyelash / That’s when I want to be all you...
To celebrate the release of Jeremy Neale’s debut solo album, Getting The Team Back Together on Nov 3, Jeremy is heading to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne to play some special free, all ages in-store performances. Catch J Neale play Brisbane at Jet Black Cat on Friday 3 November, Melbourne at Oh! Jean Records on Sunday 5 November and Sydney at Red Eye Records on Thursday 9 November. More info below. As...
Barely Dressed Records welcome Brisbane punks Good Boy to their roster with the release of their brilliant impending EP Shirk Life out Friday 10 November. Along with announcing an Australian headline tour in December, Good Boy have released a video for first single ‘Fishing With A Shotgun’. Watch below! Produced and engineered by Tim Fitz, and mixed and mastered by Mikey Young, ‘Fishing With A Shotgun’ is a burst of hyper-intelligent garage punk energy. Infused...
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker share their six track EP, The Birds, out now both digitally and as a very limited edition 12”. Josienne and Ben will play their debut Australian shows this coming March as a part of Port Fairy Folk Festival. Further detials below! The Birds is a suite of six songs that explore the themes of migration and departure. These are songs of autumn and shorter days, of flying...
King Krule returns with his dense, sprawling new album The OOZ. Watch the video to most recent single ‘Half Man Half Shark’ below! Drifting and seeping through the cracks of South London like the album title, King Krule (Archy Marshall) transforms his observations of all the disorientation and heartbreak of his youth into piercing narratives and poetry that are both startlingly honest and brutally beautiful. The OOZ as a title proves oddly...
