Chastity have signed to Brooklyn label Captured Tracks, we are pleased to announce the reissue of TAPE – 4 tracks recorded in 2014 and 2015 which should be viewed more as a collection of demos as opposed to the traditional EP. TAPE is available now, currently on cassette and digitally via Captured Tracks / Remote Control Records. Chastity (Brandon Williams) hails from Whitby, Ontario, a suburb whose spirit is well removed from the city of Toronto. Chastity channels the angst...
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Warpaint have added a show in Perth when they return to Australia this February 2017 in support of their new record Heads Up. Catch the band at Perth International Arts Festival on February 19, Brisbane at The Triffid on February 22, Melbourne at Zoo Twilights on February 24 and Sydney Opera House on February 25. More tour details below. This will be the band’s third tour of Australia after very successful headline shows nationally...
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Two years after the release of his celebrated debut album Tremors, SOHN has confirmed details for its follow-up, along with new song ‘Conrad’. Entitled Rennen, the new SOHN album will be released on Friday 13th January 2017 via 4AD / Remote Control Records. The London-born artist has traded Vienna for the warmth of Los Angeles, but the influence of his former home still lingers (Rennen is a German verb meaning...
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Leading into the end of the year, ANOHNI shares a video for her newest album’s title track. ‘HOPELESSNESS’ is a song that demonstrates how a cry of despair can transform into a call for re-engagement doubled and tripled in a mix whose rhythms recall South African freedom songs, it deconstructs the process of uplift arising from the ashes of grief. Watch the new visual below. “I am a human, a warm-blooded creature. I love...
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On a weekday evening, scores gather at a basement club in Dalston, for ‘New Gen Live’ the second in a string of sold-out events. Bonkaz, Avelino, Stormzy and Kojey Radical stand side by side on stage, trading tracks and premiering new material. A few streets away in Old Street, the New Gen team convene on Sunday afternoons for ‘New Gen Radio’, one of the most popular shows on Radar Radio,...
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Gabriella Cohen has shared a wonderful new video for her track, ‘Downtown’, directed by Sky Richards. The track is taken from the excellent debut album Full Closure and No Details out now via Dot Dash / Captured Tracks in North America and Dot Dash / Remote Control Records for the rest of the world. Gabriella Cohen had this to say about the track and video: “Downtown was written in the summer of 2014 in Highgate Hill, Australia. I remember...
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Bing & Ruth have announced their third studio album No Home of the Mind out on Friday 17th February 2017 via 4AD / Remote Control Records. Continuing with the deft minimalism that has marked them out in critical circles in recent years, the New York ensemble’s has marked the announcement with its opening track, ‘Starwood Choker’, out today to stream/download and with an accompanying video. Watch via the image below. Established in 2006,...
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Remote Control Records in partnership with Dot Dash are thrilled to share the debut album from Melbourne associates Client Liaison. Diplomatic Immunity is released in Australia & New Zealand today Friday 4th November. Having known each other since primary school, Harvey Miller AO and Monte Morgan first started performing and writing music together in 2009. Their early shows as Client Liaison around Melbourne at house parties and gigs in warehouses communicated an ineffable...
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Sampha announces details of his highly-anticipated debut album. Titled Process, the ten track album will be released on Friday 3rd February 2017 via Young / Remote Control Records, featuring the singles ‘Timmy’s Prayer’ and ‘Blood On Me’. Since the release of his debut Sundanza EP in 2010 and 2013’s Dual EP, Sampha has quietly but assuredly become one of the UK’s most enigmatic and respected artists. Still just twenty seven years old,...
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Methyl Ethel have shared their first new music in eighteen months – the striking new single ‘No. 28’ was world premiered last night on triple j’s Good Nights. Co-produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Foals), in collaboration with the Perth trio’s frontman Jake Webb it is accompanied by a touching and evocative visual, plus details of tour dates for 2017, as seen below. Written and recorded by Webb, ‘No. 28’...
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Atlanta’s own “Darkwave Duchess,” ABRA, has released the new video for ‘Pull Up,’ taken from her PRINCESS EP out now. Watch the video below. In the self-directed, self-edited video, ABRA stars alongside her BFF on a typical night out in NYC…Drinking 40s, going to Chinatown, racking stacks of cash, and ATV racing, complete with Scream masks and late-night tattoo appointments. Filmed on-location with support from the FADER, ABRA says, “Shout out to A$AP Tyy...
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London based trio HÆLOS, who are late additions to both the Byron and Lorne Falls Festival lineups, will be playing their first ever headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne in January 2017, with help from an absolute stellar line-up of support acts; Yeo, Christopher Port, and BUOY (Sydney only). Check out further ticket and tour info below! After a massive year touring their debut album Full Circle all over the US and Europe, they played some of the world’s...
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Parquet Courts return to Australia fresh off the release of their critically acclaimed new record, Human Performance. Touring nationally for Falls Festival, a Sydney show at The Factory Theatre for Wednesday January 4, with supports from Low Life and LA Suffocated, and a very special Melbourne show at the Shimmerlands Outdoor Auditorium at The University of Melbourne on Thursday January 5, joint by local lineup Tyrannamen, Ausmuteants and Nicky Crane plus DJs Etta & Tilly....
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After a year that has seen them tour the world extensively, including performances at Roskilde, Latitude, End Of The Road, Outside Lands, Levitation Chicago, Laneway, Splendour in the Grass, SXSW, Great Escape and a host of sold-out headline shows, Methyl Ethel are showing no sign of slowing down and today announce new live dates across Australia, United Kingdom, Europe, United States and Canada beginning February 2017. Australian tour dates are...
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Sleigh Bells have shared a stunning video for ‘I Can Only Stare’, the music video directorial debut from the independent filmmaker Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip / Queen Of Earth) along with the band’s Derek Miller. The single is taken from their upcoming record Jessica Rabbit out Friday 11th November. Alex Ross Perry said the following about the video: “I had never been asked to direct anything, at all, ever, prior...
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Oceana is the new EP from London producer Dark0, out now via XL Recordings / Remote Control. Prior to the EP’s release, Dark0 released the music video for ‘Forever’ via Fader. Directed by Sybil Montet De Doria, the video “feels familiar yet otherworldly at the same time,” Fader. The 25-year-old’s debut for XL describes the unstable relationship Dark0 shares with his environment, narrating the story of his city’s illusions of...
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