Harvey Aldous Harding – Designer The Apartments – Live at L’Ubu Big Thief – Two Hands Drugdealer- Raw Honey FKA twigs – MAGDALENE Gena Rose Bruce – Can’t Make You Love Me J. McFarlane’s Reality Guest – Ta Da Lee Scratch Perry – Rainford Leif Vollebekk – New Ways Methyl Ethel – Triage Peter Perrett – Humanworld Robert Forster – Inferno Sui Zhen – Losing Linda Sunbeam Sound Machine –...
Dot Dash is delighted to announce a new distribution deal with the UK’s largest independent distributor, the Proper Music Group. Proper will distribute Dot Dash’s physical releases in the UK, Europe and the Republic of Ireland. The first UK/Europe release through the new partnership will be Gena Rose Bruce’s acclaimed debut album Can’t Make You Love Me, set for release in early 2020 ahead of her upcoming performances at SXSW....
LA based rockers Starcrawler have announced their live Australian debut next month supporting friends from the LA underground, The Growlers! Kicking off January 4th 2020, Starcrawler will be joining The Growlers on a twelve-date Summer East Coast tour stopping in most big centres and surf breaks across QLD, NSW and VIC, including a night at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney. Full run of dates below. On heading Down Under, Starcrawler‘s Arrow de Wilde says “I’ve always wanted to come to Australia, and we’ve been dying to play there for so long! I...
On October 22nd, Courtney Barnett performed a unique live show in Melbourne called MTV Unplugged (Live in Melbourne) at the invitation of MTV Australia. A stripped back, vulnerable and emotional performance of eight tracks, including an original track from Barnett herself titled ‘Play It On Repeat‘, is available now digitally via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Joined by her usual band Dave Mudie and Bones Sloane, she also enlisted cellist Lucy Waldron, legendary songwriter Paul Kelly, angelically-voiced New...
A reimagining of Gill Scott-Heron’s last studio album will be released by Makaya McCraven under the title We’re New Again. The release marks the tenth anniversary of Scott-Heron’s album I’m New Here, to be available on LP, CD and via digital services on February 7th 2020. Equally renowned and revered as a musician, drummer, sampler, beat-maker and producer, McCraven is widely regarded as one of the most exciting and original voices in...
Collaborative project Dance et al. releases their debut album The Higher Infinite out now via Broken Stone Records. The project is inspired by the collaborative work of James Turrell and Tadano Ando, 20th century mathematics, blackness in sound, single colours. Initial inspiration came from prepared tracks, performed at Equation festival in Hanoi 2017. Recordings were since made at Golden Retriever Studios in Syd with Johnny Dance (The Killing Words), Josh...
Algiers release their new single ‘Void’, premiered by Adult Swim as part of their Single Club series. It will appear on the Atlanta group’s third album, There Is No Year, to be released on January 17th 2020 via Matador Records / Remote Control Records and will be available to purchase as a special flexi disc as part of the vinyl package.
Listen to ‘My Name is Dark‘ here: https://grimes.ffm.to/mynameisdark Pre-order Miss Anthropocene, out February 21 here: https://grimes.ffm.to/missanthropocene
To celebrate the release of his highly-anticipated third album, After You, Jack Peñate releases a stunning live video of ‘Loaded Gun’. Directed by Daniel Castro Garciaand filmed at north London’s legendary The Church studios, the intimate black and white live recording sees Jack stripping back the song to just piano and vocal to beautiful effect. Watch below! Featuring the singles ‘Prayer’ and ‘Murder’ (and their accompanying Eddie Peake-directed videos), After...
The Finks release their new album Affectations on tape & digital today via Milk! Records / Remote Control. Catch The Finks launch the record at the Milk! Records Pop Up Shop in Melbourne on Saturday 30 November at 3pm. Check out the details here. The Finks play the songs of Oliver Mestitz. They are sincere but flippant, intimate but aloof, subtle but unpolished. The Finks have released a steady stream...
Three years since the release of their shambling classic, Mid Thirties Single Scene, Scott & Charlene’s Wedding release six-track EP When in Rome, Carpe Diem ahead of their performance at Meredith Music Festival this year. They’ve also shared a video for ‘Back In The Corner.’ Watch the clip below Formed around Craig Dermody, a songwriter who provides you with speed-dial access to his head and his heart, and rooted in...
Congratulations to those amongst the Remote Control extended family who have received nominations at the 2019 GRAMMYs! Read the full list of nominees here. Best Music Video CELLOPHANE FKA twigs Andrew Thomas Huang, video director; Alex Chamberlain, video producer Best Alternative Music Album U.F.O.F. Big Thief ANIMA Thom Yorke
Grimes has released her newest single ‘So Heavy I Fell Through The Earth‘. The song comes on the heels of ‘Violence’, which was released in September. The new single was written, produced, and performed by Grimes. On February 21st 2020 via 4AD , Grimes will release her highly-anticipated fifth studio album, Miss Anthropocene. Pre-Order Miss Anthropocene here. About Grimes: CEO, Chief Ethereal Officer
King Krule has released a short film called ‘Hey World!’, directed by Charlotte Patmore. With signature King Krule wit and in his own unique style, the short film shows Archy Marshall performing solo four as-yet-unreleased tracks, titled ‘Perfecto Miserable’, ‘Alone,Omen3’, ‘(Don’t Let The Dragon) Draag On’ & ‘Energy Fleets.’
Another in a series of previously unreleased demos is out now from Spoon: ‘The Underdog.’ Meet Basia Bulat, signed to Secret City Records, and get to know her forthcoming album Are You In Love? Horses abound in her video for ‘Your Girl.’ Introducing Braids. Dive in to some beautiful indie art-rock from the Montreal act. ‘Eclipse (Ashley)‘ is a taste off a forthcoming album in 2020. It’s been 30...
Milk on Milk a compilation of the Milk! Records roster is out now – Tiny Ruins, courtney barnett, Hachiku, Jen Cloher, The Finks, jade imagine, Evelyn Ida Morris, East Brunswick All Girls Choir and Loose Tooth – covering each other’s songs. Most of Milk On Milk was recorded earlier this year over a four day period by producer & Milk! friend Anna Laverty at Audrey Studios just around the corner from Milk! HQ in Coburg, Melbourne. Some of the Milk! roster share their thoughts on the recording, cover...
