Melbourne’s chaotic audio/visual two piece friendships are celebrating the release of their Debut LP Nullarbor 1988-1989 with two massive shows in Melbourne and Sydney. To celebrate the announcement of their album launch shows, friendships have shared another cut from Nullarbor 1988-1989. ‘Move (Fast)’ is a high tension heater, featuring the rapid-fire otherworldly vocals of Yaw Faso and Unsoundbwoy. Upon close listening, the track harbours a looming synth line which echoes...
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Merchandise have today released their killer record ‘A Corpse Wired For Sound’ Formed nearly a decade ago, galvanised by Tampa hardcore and inspired by its miscreant noise, A Corpse Wired For Sound signals a new chapter for Merchandise. Following 2014’s After The End — a full-band effort recorded in a closet — the band stripped back to its core of Carson Cox (vocals, electronics), Dave Vassalotti (guitar, electronics) and Pat...
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Warpaint have today released their highly anticipated third album Heads Up via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control. Heads Up was recorded after the band spent 2015 apart working on solo projects and their own endeavors. Reuniting in January of this year, the band invited producer Jacob Bercovici—with whom they had worked on their debut EP Exquisite Corpse—into their House on the Hill studio in Downtown Los Angeles to begin...
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Los Angeles/Orange County punk trio Girl Tears are excited to share a new single ‘Cold Thoughts’ taken from their forthcoming second album Woke Against The Tide out Friday 28 October via Sinderlyn / Remote Control. Pre-order Woke Against The Tide via iTunes | Google Play Purchase / Listen to ‘Cold Thoughts‘ via Spotify | Apple Music | Google Play | iTunes Woke Against The Tide is the follow up to Tension. With it they have mastered the art of the three-chord attack, delivering volatile blasts to the point of fury. Four tours and 100+ shows later,...
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Taken from her debut album, scheduled for released in early 2017, ‘Grip’ follows previous single ‘Baboo’ in further expanding the sonic palette of 21 year-old Hannah Rodgers. She says “we go through life facing backwards, moving forwards without a clue what is in front of us. I lost myself in this concept.”. The track is presented alongside a gravity-defying video created by James Slater and Natasha Lawes, the same team behind the dream-like visuals for ‘Baboo’....
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Next month, teenage South London four piece, Goat Girl release their debut 7″ with two songs, each one a caustic commentary on the England they’ve grown up in: ‘Country Sleaze’ is a brooding two-chord time capsule that sounds like it’s been beamed over from a Seattle divebar in 1989. Both tracks were recorded purposefully quickly in a no-nonsense north London studio a few weeks ago with fast-rising producer Margo Broom. Goat...
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Warpaint have shared their second single ‘Whiteout’, taken from their upcoming highly anticipated third album Heads Up, out this Friday 23rd September via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control. Heads Up was recorded after the band spent 2015 apart working on solo projects and their own endeavors. Reuniting in January of this year, the band invited producer Jacob Bercovici—with whom they had worked on their debut EP Exquisite Corpse—into their...
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Watch Sampha’s first ever solo video for his new single ‘Blood On Me’ below. As one of the UK’s most enigmatic young artists, Sampha has lent his talents to a whole range of standout releases, from homegrown UK contemporaries such as SBTRKT, FKA twigs, Lil Silva andJessie Ware to world-renowned superstars like Drake, Beyoncé, Kanye West and, most recently, on Frank Ocean’s Endless release. Now it’s time for Sampha to tell his own story. ...
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Cymbals Eat Guitars have today released their new record ‘Pretty Years’ today! “We wanted to make a more energetic record. I personally looked to artists like Springsteen, 70’s Bowie, The Smiths, The Cure, Neil Young as inspiration for—not really for sound as much as for that dichotomy of bands who were entertainers still making, at times, weird dark music and writing songs that seem totally over-the-top by today’s rock band...
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The enigmatic and beguiling Jarrow has released his stellar album 2003 Dream today via Barely Dressed Records. Dan Oke (the mastermind behind Jarrow) is a self-taught, self-produced, multi-instrumentalist wunderkind from Footscray spent the last few years delving into music by artists like Ariel Pink, Mac Demarco, The Shins, Ty Segall, Darwin Deez and The Strokes – but it’s the bands in his relatively unheralded western suburbs community who provide Dan...
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Check out Lost Animal’s new video ‘Do The Jerk’ below which premiered via Noisey. This is the first track taken from his forthcoming LP You Yang which will be released Friday 21st October 2016 via Dot Dash / Captured Tracks in North America and Dot Dash / Remote Control Records for the rest of the world. Follow him. Feel that heat from the footpath rise up through the bottom of your sneakers. See the sting...
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Kim Gordon has released an incredible new track ‘Murdered Out’. Read her words on the song below: “Black matte spray. When I moved back to LA I noticed more and more cars painted with black matte spray, tinted windows, blackened logos, and black wheels. This was something I had occasionally seen in the past, part of low-rider car culture. A reclaiming of a corporate symbol of American success, The Car, from an outsider’s...
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Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998 – 2016 is a career-spanning collection that includes new and unheard music. Arranged in chronological order, the album collects 26 acoustic songs from throughout White’s wide-ranging musical career, spanning album tracks, B-sides, remixes, alternate versions, and previously unreleased tracks. Explore the innovative interactive timeline, to find out more about each song on the new album and Jack’s songwriting career. We have a very special signed copy of Jack White Acoustic...
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Watch the genius surprise gift Jack White and Third Man Records received from their friend Michel Gondry. On his own and without anyone’s knowledge, the legendary filmmaker shot a video for ‘City Lights,’ which he sent them the other night. The video is Gondry’s fifth visual collaboration with The White Stripes. ‘City Lights’ was written for The White Stripes’ Get Behind Me Satan but then forgotten until White revisited the 2005 album for Third Man’s Record...
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ANOHNI shares new video for ‘Crisis’ starring Storm Lever, watch it below. The track is taken from Mercury Prize nominated album HOPELESSNESS out now via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. ‘Crisis’ is ANOHNI’s version of America’s un-issued Chilcot report. The lyrics of of this song inventory some of the ways in which the U.S. has exacerbated and helped to provoke the current global ‘Crisis’. “De-escalation cannot occur until we truly account for what the United States...
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Following the release of singles ‘Flower Of Sex’ and ‘End Of The Week,’ Merchandise have launched a third track “Lonesome Sound” from their forthcoming LP ‘A Corpse Wired For Sound’ The infectious melancholy of “Lonesome Sound” has been brought to life by frontman Carson Cox, whose filmmaker credits also extend to the two previous ‘A Corpse Wired For Sound’ singles. Here he has crafted a static-charged video largely inspired by...
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