Jaye Bartell has announced his new album In a Time of Trouble a Wild Exultation, to be released Friday 20 October. Jaye Bartell has also offered up first single ‘The Wilderness’ which you can listen to below! Bartell returned to his former home of Asheville, NC in April. With friends from recordings past – Angel Olsen, Shane Parish, Michael Libramento, J Seger, Emily Easterly, Ryan Oslance and Noel Thrasher – brought together by producer and engineer...
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Following ‘Night Song’, The Lemon Twigs share the second single ‘Why Didn’t You Say That?’ from their upcoming six-track EP, Brothers of Destruction, out on Friday 22 September. Listen below! Brothers of Destruction was written and recorded by the D’Addario brothers on their 8-track at home in New York during 2015, not long after recording their debut album, Do Hollywood. The half dozen songs will be available digitally and as a 12”...
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Cults share their latest video for single ‘I Took Your Picture’ from their upcoming new album Offering, out on October 6. Watch it below! The video, directed by Elliott Sellers, was shot in Piermont, NY, where Cults first recorded Go Outside and their first EP. The ending scene was shot on top of Brian Oblivion’s roof in NYC. ‘I Took Your Picture’ follows the release of the title track from the...
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Future Islands announce a second Melbourne show date, after selling out their first show, following the announcement of their Australian tour dates last week. The Baltimore trio will now also play Tuesday 12 December at The Croxton Bandroom in Melbourne, on top of headline shows in Sydney and Brisbane as well as festival appearances. More details below. Samuel, William and Gerrit began writing new material in January 2016 on the coast of...
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Naomi Punk don’t do things halfway. Therefore it’s no surprise the Olympia, WA band have released not one, not two, but three new videos. Watch ‘Cardboard’, ‘Journey To The Top’ and ‘My Shadow’ below! The tracks are off their newly released double-album Yellow, which contains 25 tracks clocking in at almost 75 minutes. The album was recorded by the band beginning in 2015 at various locales throughout Olympia. Naomi Punk is singer/guitarist...
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Everything Is Recorded have released a new single, ‘Mountains Of Gold’. It sees the record producer and XL Recordings head collaborating with Sampha, Ibeyi, Wiki and Kamasi Washington and is accompanied by a Nick Walker-directed video. Watch it below! “‘Mountains of Gold’ is sound system inspired, you can hear a lot of strong and different personalities and voices in the one song, but the feeling is consistent. Everyone has plenty of...
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Princess Nokia has released her 1992 Deluxe album, and shares a video for new track ‘Flava’ (produced by Kadi Haze) and directed by Destiny Frasqueri & long-time collaborator Milah Libin. This video is the 15th music video Princess Nokia has co directed since 2014, and the 7th since the release of the original 1992. Watch it below! Princess Nokia states that she “wanted to make a cinematic short film, with a...
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MOURN have released their new EP Over the Wall, a collection of four covers and an unreleased track from their recent album, Ha, Ha, He! Listen below! The group of Catalonian teenage wunderkinds are making authentically great guitar-based music in an era when it’s considered almost unfashionable. The four covers featured on Over The Wall are by various heroes and influences that belie the band member’s ages (The Replacements, Husker Du, The Sound, and Echo & The Bunnymen)....
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The National have released their seventh studio album, Sleep Well Beast. The video to their latest single ‘Day I Die’, directed by Casey Reas, compresses the frenetic energy of performing with the grind of touring. Watch it below! The National will arrive in Australia in February 2018 as part of their world tour, playing shows in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. This will mark the first time Australian audiences will hear live performances from...
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The Black Seeds have released their sixth studio album, Fabric, it’s their first album in over five years. Watch the clip to their most recent single ‘Back To You’ below! Created with the support of NZ On Air and recorded at Lee Prebble’s Wellington studio The Surgery, Fabric is a twelve-track album of bold, groove-heavy tunes that perfectly captures The Black Seeds’ characteristic brand of reggae-funk fusion. The almighty 8-piece bring their electrifying...
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Future Islands have announced Australian tour dates. Following the release of their fifth studio album The Far Field, and having just played at Splendour In The Grass, the band will return for a run of headline shows and festival appearances this December 2017. Full details below. Samuel, William and Gerrit began writing new material in January 2016 on the coast of North Carolina, and continued throughout the year in Baltimore before road-testing...
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Daughter have released Music from Before the Storm, an original musical score with Square Enix’s new game Life Is Strange: Before The Storm. Created in London earlier this year, this is Daughter’s first experience working on an original soundtrack. Listen to first single ‘Burn It Down’ below! BEFORE THE STORM is the prequel to LIFE IS STRANGE. It was a boundary-breaking videogame, with principal characters drawn from real life facing everyday...
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French-Cuban twins Ibeyi announce their second album Ash, a record that tackles subjects as diverse as womanhood, spirituality, activism and racism. Set for release on September 29, Ibeyi share a video for album track ‘Deathless’ directed by Ed Morris. Watch below! While firmly rooted in Afro-Cuban culture and history, Ash finds itself entirely concerned with Ibeyi’s present: Who Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi are, what’s important to them, and how they live today,...
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We’re thrilled to announce the signing of Donny Benét to Dot Dash Recordings. To celebrate the occasion, Benét has unveiled new single ‘Konichiwa’ — wafting from the quiet streets of Kyoto, a song as smooth as the silken tofu famous to the region. Watch the accompanied video below! ‘Konichiwa’ was recorded in the infamous Donnyland studios using the finest Japanese, American and Italian synthesisers and features Don’s brother Dan on saxophone....
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Front man of Brisbane’s Velociraptor, Jeremy Neale has announced his debut solo album Getting The Team Back Together, released Friday 3 November. To celebrate, he’s dropped the video for first single Dancin’ & Romancin’. Check it below! As Jeremy says of the track: “Dancin’ & Romancin’ is about how hard it can be to maintain a relationship when you and your partner have very different working schedules. When the stars eventually...
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Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile have joined forces to release a collaboration as unique and unusual as their talents, in the form of a brand new album Lotta Sea Lice, out Friday 13th October. To mark such exciting news, they have shared jam opener and first single ‘Over Everything’. ‘Over Everything’ was the first song written for this project, accompanied by a video from Australian director Danny Cohen which features...
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