ANOHNI, lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons, released HOPELESSNESS earlier this year via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. Supported by astounding performances in select cities across the globe, the album and its lead singles, ‘Drone Bomb Me‘ and ‘4 Degrees‘, garnered heaps of fervent praise across the board. Additionally, the album was nominated for a Mercury Prize nomination. Today, ANOHNI reveals another side of HOPELESSNESS with the video for ‘I Don’t Love You Anymore‘, a song that powerfully exemplifies how “At times,...
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Big Smoke share their new single ‘Wrong’, which is accompanied by a video that is both raw and beautiful, premiered via Stereogum. Watch it below. “In this video, the aim was to get participants to the same place of raw vulnerability you hear in Adrian’s voice on the track by stripping away the familiar—both physically and mentally—and then saving them from it,” says Director Sean Lynch. “We allowed the partners to re-discover each...
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Watch friendships’ new video to ‘Spit::Flesh::Splinter’ ft. HABITS below! The track is taken from their amazing new debut album Nullarbor 1988-1989 out now, and was premiered over at EARMILK. friendships collaborated with fellow Melbourne act HABITS who are featured in both audio and visual components to ‘Spit::Flesh::Splinter’. “This is an anthem for honesty, a theme song for strength. A chaotic reminder to strip down to your realest self. Create you space, own it, let your identity be known and demand for it...
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EZTV released their sophomore album titled High In Place on Captured Tracks last month. The band has now premiered the video from one of the LP’s standout tracks “Racing Country” Shot by EZTV and edited by Christian Peslak, the video has footage from when the group toured with Jenny Lewis and her band. In a statement, EZTV’s Michael Stasiak said of the video: “Touring can feel like whiplash-hours of constant...
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Remote Control Records in partnership with Dot Dash are thrilled to announce the debut album from Melbourne associates Client Liaison. Diplomatic Immunity will be released in Australia & New Zealand on Friday 4th November via Dot Dash / Remote Control. To celebrate the announce of Diplomatic Immunity, Client Liaison have shared the music video for current single ‘Wild Life’. Directed by Tim White, the video is the band’s first foray...
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Parquet Courts have announced their Melbourne headline show. It will be the first event for Shadow Electric’s 2017 summer project Shimmerlands, at The University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus. Top-notch local lineup Tyrannamen, Ausmuteants and Nicky Crane plus DJs Etta & Tilly will be joining the Shimmerlands Parquet Courts show on Thursday 5th January, further tour details below! The Brooklyn band has steadily achieved universal props as one of the best rock bands of their generation whilst staying firmly rooted in the DIY punk aesthetic and philosophy....
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Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker reveal the video for ‘Something Familiar’, taken from their new album Overnight to be released on October 14 via Rough Trade / Remote Control. The video was directed and produced by Bob Gallagher who has been nominated for the UKMVA Best Rock/ Indie Video – Newcomer for Girl Band’s ‘In Plastic’ Video as well as being selected for the Raindance Film Festival with Girl Band’s video for ‘Paul’. As Josienne Clarke explains, ‘Something Familiar’ is about the evocative but...
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Lost Animal has today released his new single for ‘Too Late To Die Young’ via BrooklynVegan. The track is from his forthcoming album You Yang set for release Friday 21 October 2016 via Dot Dash / Captured Tracks in North America and Dot Dash / Remote Control Records for the rest of the world. Pre-order You Yang here.
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London producer Dark0 has announced the release of his new EP Oceana, out 28th October, and shared first single ‘Forever.’ Dark0 has always created his music as a snapshot, a kind of journal, its sole agenda being to illustrate the thoughts, passions and frustrations of a given time and place. Previously releasing with tastemaker labels Lost Codes and Rinse, the 25-year-old’s debut for XL is the Oceana EP. Oceana describes the unstable relationship Dark0 shares with his environment, narrating the story of his city’s illusions of grandeur, mired by...
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Sleigh Bells have shared their latest song ‘I Can Only Stare’ from their upcoming album, Jessica Rabbit, out November 11th through Sinderlyn / Remote Control. Sleigh Bells spoke with Zane Lowe at Beats 1 about the new song, which was Beats 1’s World Record. Check it out below! ‘I Can Only Stare’ is a brilliant, head-spinning standout from Jessica Rabbit, an album that does not sound like anything Sleigh Bells has ever done — or anyone...
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The latest and most excellent new album from EZTV is out now via Captured Tracks / Remote Control. Stereogum tell us in a glowing review of the album that EZTV are “stunningly consistent purveyors of high-level pop-rock with strains of retro folk and psych,” and “the sheer number of striking guitar sounds and riffs on this album is astounding, and that six-string action is always deployed in service of the...
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Melbourne’s chaotic Audio/Visual two piece friendships have today released their debut LP Nullarbor 1988-1989 via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records and US label Mansion Records. The highly anticipated debut comes packaged as an impressive double disk 12″ vinyl in custom ‘friendships Gutter Death Red’. The first physical from the duo includes original hand painted cover art by friendships and collaborations with Melbourne artists such as HABITS, thelovelyme, Yaw Faso,...
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After the 2016 Polaris Music Prize and releasing his anticipated new mixtape .001% ??? last week, KAYTRANADA shares the video for ‘YOU’RE THE ONE’, the Syd-featuring highlight from his debut album 99.9%. Watch the video below! The Shomi Patwary-directed clip is inspired by KAYTRANADA’s favourite episode of Fox sitcom Martin. Patwary shares, “KAYTRANADA basically relayed this idea to me about his favourite episode of Martin when a prince from Africa comes to town and brings them all...
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Check out the new video ‘Jonny [feat. Jonny]’ from Powell below! It is one of his favourite tracks from his upcoming debut LP Sport, out Friday 14th October. The track includes vocals from Jonnine Standish of HTRK. The video was inspired by Powell’s long-running NTS radio show Melon Magic. It contains footage sent by fans to his powell@xlrecordings.com email address (which was pasted on billboards in both London and New York), as well as footage from...
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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 was just announced at The Factory Theatre for Wednesday January 4, presented by Mistletone, FBi Radio and Fasterlouder. The Brooklyn band has steadily achieved universal props as one of the best rock bands of their generation whilst staying firmly rooted in the DIY punk aesthetic and philosophy. Check...
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Big Smoke was formed in 2009 by lead singer and songwriter, Adrian Slattery. The band became a beloved staple of the Melbourne music scene, building a reputation as a group of phenomenal players with an exceptional command of classic rock ‘n’ roll song-writing. In early 2015, Adrian was diagnosed with terminal oesophageal cancer. Despite significant health obstacles and the knowledge his cancer was incurable, Adrian was determined and the band...
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