Achievement unlocked. Remote Control are thrilled to announce new partnership with Boss Battle Records, a new video game music record label. Focusing to bring the best of new, obscure, and esteemed video game music to global audiences, and in doing so, facilitate VGM culture the world over. Founded by Fabian Malabello, after running The Otherworld Agency for five years, Boss Battle Records marks a serious shift in the way video game soundtracks are...
Total Giovanni have returned with new single ‘Your Light’. The first new music from the band since 2015, watch their new video below! “It was the first time we’d recorded with a live drummer instead of using drum machines and samples,” the band say, “we wanted the song to have a warm organic feel that reflected the sentiment and tone of the song.” “The song got written around the time my...
The Black Seeds have dropped the boogie with their new video ‘Freakin’, from their forthcoming album Fabric, out Friday 8 September. Watch it below! “It’s the party, pick-me-up track on the album,” says The Black Seeds co-frontman, Barnaby Weir of the new track created at Lee Prebble’s The Surgery. “It’s for the end of the week, end of the line, letting loose, shaking it off. It’s a good dose of feel-good funk.” The...
Kamasi Washington’s new EP Harmony of Difference will be released on September 29th. Watch the short film to the single ‘Truth’ from director A.G. Rojas below. The EP is an original six-movement suite, featuring artwork by Kamasi’s sister Amani Washington. It explores the philosophical possibilities of the musical technique known as “counterpoint,” which Kamasi defines as “the art of balancing similarity and difference to create harmony between separate melodies.” Beyond the artistic impulse to...
Melbourne’s electronic-rap pioneers Milwaukee Banks return with new single ‘The City’. It’s their first new music since their debut album Deep Into The Night. Listen below! The production on ‘The City’ gives way for a booming bass line, surging through a neon-bright, electrified soundscape. Dyl Thomas guides you through, delivering some of his most uninhibited, direct lyricism and flows to date. Resonating with an energy of ambition, this marks the...
NYC-based artists John Barera and Will Martin link up for their second collaborative album Proceed To The Root, released 22 September. Sharing with us ‘Polaris’, the first track from the album. Listen below! John Barera and Will Martin’s musical partnership grew out of a close friendship. Their chemistry with production and DJ’ing has been honed through many years of working, and sometimes living, together. The recording process for Proceed to the Root started almost immediately...
Jim Lawrie has shared shared a new video for ‘Lost on Earth’, taken from his new album Slacker of the Year. Teamed up with filmmaker James Ruse to create the clip, ‘Lost on Earth’ captures the magic of unearthing something new and exciting in someone else. Watch it below! As Jim explains; “The majority of this planet is accounted for by Google maps. This song is about the fact that, even when every...
LA’s Starcrawler share two tracks from their Rough Trade Session. The catchy as hell live favourite ‘Used To Know’ and ‘Ants’ which were previously released on a limited edition 7″. Watch the recordings below! Frontwoman Arrow de Wilde’s restrained menace is balanced with guitarist Henri Cash’s energy. On the day, Arrow remembers: “It was pissing rain. We recorded these sessions, Henri lost his voice, we played a crazy show at this club,...
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Purity Ring’s debut LP Shrines, Megan James and Corin Roddick have released a new song, ‘Asido’. Accompanied by an animated lyric video written and directed by Megan and illustrated by Tallulah Fontaine. Watch it below! Tallulah took videos of Megan walking and falling, then traced the movement to create the character frame by frame. In order to situate their meaning, Megan had her mother...
With her forthcoming self-titled LP, Jen Cloher plays it fearlessly close to the bone, with raw, unflinching dissections of her life, love, and home of Australia. With her first single ‘Forgot Myself’, a deceptively upbeat track about the sacrifices and difficulties of maintaining a long-distance relationship with a high profile partner. Cloher turns that unfiltered lens onto her complicated relationship with Australia in ‘Regional Echo’, a title inspired by legendary Australian poet...
Goat Girl have released their new single ‘Crow Cries’. The track comes from a 7″ out Friday 25 August. Listen below! Goat Girl formed a few years ago in South London, all four members of the band have just turned 20, being busy on the road for the last 18 months playing with everyone from The Fall to Parquet Courts. The band’s furious sound represents how it feels to live...
This Is The Kit, the musical project which holds Paris-via-Bristol songwriter Kate Stables, share a new video to ‘Hotter Colder’, taken from their new album Moonshine Freeze. Watch below! Video Director James Hankins explains how the video came about; “Kate was very keen on the video involving water and wanted quite a dark feel to it. Seeing as her and Rozi both love wild swimming we thought we’d go for...
The Lemon Twigs have announced Brothers of Destruction, a six-track EP of previously unreleased material, slated for Friday 22 September. The siblings shared the first single from the EP ‘Night Song’ with fans during a Reddit AMA. 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. “Many of you will...
Celebrating the international release of Diplomatic Immunity and their collaboration with Tina Arena, Client Liaison will reward audiences worldwide with their biggest production yet for A Foreign Affair World Tour. Client Liaison will reveal the benchmark for what’s to come, when they ignite the Splendour In The Grass main Amphitheatre this Sunday evening. A Foreign Affair World Tour will be the final mark of their Diplomatic journey, starting in Australia, with support from...
The Fresh & Onlys share their second single from their new album Wolf Lie Down, out Friday 25th August. Listen below! Singer Tim Cohen tells us, “Impossible Man came from a song I came up with called “Invisible Man”, based loosely on Ralph Ellison’s sole but legendary novel. In it, I fancied myself figuratively invisible, like Ellison’s protagonist, but realising it would be construed as either a pure homage to another,...
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