The skies have opened and dropped on us a trio of kids from Geelong, Australia packing some seriously futuristic sludge: ORB. A heaping helping of proto-metal chops meets paranoid sci-fi fantastical ravings, replete with some tasty syntheisiser werk, and lovingly close mic’d to perfection by Total Control’s own Mikey Young. These epics swing with demonic swagger and crackle with the static of a menacing future, twisting and churning through loose-limbed...
KAYTRANADA has today released his debut album 99.9% via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. The highly anticipated album finds the Haitian born, Montreal raised producer delivering on the promise of his early self-released EPs and remixes. The first tastes of 99.9%, ‘Drive Me Crazy’ with Vic Mensa and ‘Leave Me Alone’ with Shay Lia, spread his name like wildfire. With their release, KAYTRANADA cemented his reputation and his sound;...
ANOHNI, the singer of Antony and the Johnsons, has today released her new album HOPELESSNESS via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. A collaboration with Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke, HOPELESSNESS is a dance record with soulful vocals and lyrics addressing subjects including surveillance, drone warfare and ecocide. The album seeks to disrupt assumptions about popular music through the collision of electronic sound and highly politicized lyrics. The record...
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The irrepressible King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have shared People-Vultures, the latest track to be taken from their forthcoming album, Nonagon Infinity. Amazingly their fourth album in 18 months, Nonagon Infinity is released on Flightless / Remote Control on Friday April 29th 2016 and the band previously announced its release with a free-wheeling video to album track, Gamma Knife.
On Monday 2 May, Adele Live In New York City will air on Channel 9 at 9pm AEST directly after The Voice Australia. Adele Live In New York City features Adele’s show at Radio City Music Hall on November 17 2015. The show was directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller with Jimmy Fallon as host. The broadcast averaged 11.3 million viewers in the US and a 3.0 rating among adults 18–49, which...
The irrepressible King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have today released their fourth album in 18 months, Nonagon Infinity via Flightless / Remote Control. After the acid-flecked cosmic jazz of Quarters! and the hazy, pastoral, acoustic bliss of Paper Mache Dream Balloon, Nonagon Infinity sees the Gizzard once again dive head-long into the gonzo freak-beat frenzy that mark both their Heavenly debut I’m In Your Mind Fuzz, and their perpetually...
4AD is set to release Day Of The Dead – a celebration of the Grateful Dead’s music on May 20th, 2016. Today, five additional tracks have been made available from Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Friends; Charles Bradley and Menahan Street Band; Jim James & Friends; Perfume Genius, Sharon Van Etten & Friends and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. The five Grateful Dead reworkings can be downloaded instantly with Day Of The Dead...
We are very excited that Låpsley has announced her very first headline shows in Aus – playing Oxford Art Factory in Sydney and Howler in Melbourne. Get full ticket details here. UK-based producer Dark0 has stepped up to remix ‘Falling Short’, the latest single from Holly ‘Låpsley’ Fletcher. Simultaneously euphoric and melancholic, this is the latest in a line of Dark0 remixes for the likes of Anushka, OT Genasis and...
Remote Control Records, in partnership with Dot Dash, are pleased to share the new single from Melbourne’s Client Liaison. ‘World Of Our Love’ is the first taste from the duo’s forthcoming debut album and was World Premiered on triple j’s 2016 with Richard Kingsmill on Sunday night. With shareholder confidence at an all time high and strong yield from the 2015/2016 festival season, Client Liaison are also about to embark...
May 20th sees the release of Day of the Dead – a Grateful Dead tribute album benefitting the Red Hot Organisation. The album was curated by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National and they have share a new song, ‘Terrapin Station (Suite)’, off the compilation. The track is the most musically elaborate recording on the album, featuring nearly 50 musicians. The Grateful Dead’s ‘Terrapin Station’, found on the album...
Car Seat Headrest is excited to share the latest single ‘Fill In The Blank’ from his forthcoming record Teens of Denial out Friday 20 May via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. The track was named Best New Track by Pitchfork – read the review here. Teens of Denial is the thirteenth album in Car Seat Headrest’s (aka 23-year-old Will Toledo) oeuvre, second on Matador, and first to be recorded...
We are stoked that our pals Savages and Tim Hecker will be playing Dark Mofo 2016. Tickets are on sale now for both shows via Dark Mofo’s website. On top of that our friends Savages have announced Melbourne & Sydney sideshows! Details are below.
Yes! We are super excited that a heap of our friends are playing Splendour In The Grass including Sigur Ros (only Aus show), Courtney Barnett, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Lapsley, Methyl Ethel, Sui Zhen & Banoffee! The full line up and ticket details can be found here.
After recently announcing his highly anticipated debut album 99.9%, due May 6th via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records, KAYTRANADA is back today to share new track ‘Glowed Up’ featuring Anderson .Paak. The Bo Mirosseni directed video perfectly captures the technical world KAYTRANADA creates in his music and comes on the heels of KAYTRANADA’s recent FADER profile. Speaking about the video, Mirosseni described the process of shooting the clip as being “as surreal and dreamy as the video concept itself actually is.” Read the in-depth and fascinating feature...
Mourn are excited to announce Ha, Ha, He., the follow up to their critically acclaimed debut album which will be released on Friday 3rd June 2016 via Captured Tracks / Remote Control. With the announcement of Ha, Ha, He., Mourn have shared single ‘Storyteller,’ which goes on a trip through downtempo drudgery, into a melodic bridge, and concludes with anthemic sing-screaming. Listen to ‘Storyteller‘ below: Mourn’s self-titled 2014 debut LP gave the world an interesting idea: Catalonian teenage wunderkinds making authentically great...
