Sleaford Mods announce additional headline shows in Hobart and Perth, part of their upcoming Australian and New Zealand 2026 tour. Tickets for these shows will be on sale from 1pm local time, tomorrow Friday 16th January here. This week Sleaford Mods teamed up with Aldous Harding for their new single, ‘Elitest G.O.A.T’, which was released on Tuesday, and taken from the band’s forthcoming new album, The Demise Of Planet X, out tomorrow, Friday 16th January....
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Kim Gordon’s vision of art and noise has come sharper into focus just as readily as it has changed—a paradigm of possibility that, four decades on, still feels like a dare. The adventure continues on the artist’s third solo album, PLAY ME, which will be released March 13. The lead track ‘NOT TODAY’ is available now, accompanied by a short film directed by Rodarte fashion label founders and filmmakers Kate and Laura Mulleavy with director...
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North Carolina based singer-songwriter Anjimile announces plans to release the full-length album You’re Free to Go, due out March 13. The announcement comes with the luminous lead single ‘Like You Really Mean It’ which overflows with tenderness and vulnerability, accompanied by a beautiful roller skating video directed by Caity Arthur, watch here. Anjimile shares: “I wrote this to make my girlfriend want to give me a kiss. We live about an hour apart,...
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Los Angeles six-piece The Sophs have ridden a wave of notoriety ever since signing to Rough Trade Records on the strength of their demos – which they cold-emailed to labelheads Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee before they ever even played a show. Following last year’s releases and worldwide touring, the band are ready to unleash their debut album GOLDSTAR, out March 13. The album’s title track is out today, a ferocious, explosive song...
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Dry Cleaning release their new album Secret Love, out today, along with its final single/video ‘Joy’ earlier in the week, watch it here! With lyrics initially pieced together from advertisements in Virginia Tech University’s History of Food and Drink archive, ‘Joy’ serves as a compassionate coach to those in desperate need of positivity and kindness. Like Stumpwork swansong ‘Icebergs,’ it’s an optimistic sign-off for Secret Love with the parting words, “Don’t give up on being sweet.” Lyricist Florence Shaw comments, “Recently I...
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Buck Meek announces his new album, The Mirror, out 27 February, and shares its lead single, ‘Gasoline’. There’s a tender power, countered by immutable vulnerability. With an uncanny curiosity, he reveals the uniqueness in the mundane. The Mirror searches for new meaning and the familiar is reframed through Meek’s singular voice. On The Mirror, love, as an idea, is always close – but in its reflection comes an afterimage of the way things could...
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Tyler Ballgame, Rough Trade Records’ astonishingly gifted, infectious crooner shares new single ‘Matter of Taste’ and its accompanying video. This is the latest track to be released from his stunning debut album For the First Time, Again, out January 30th, 2026 and follows earlier album singles ‘I Believe in Love’ and ‘Got a New Car’. A hook-laden rocker, ‘Matter of Taste’ shows Ballgame and his band cutting loose, with what the singer-songwriter calls the...
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Here’s just some of our much loved releases that made our year this year (and in no particular order)! Have a lovely and restful time over the new year break ~ looking forward to more in the new year ✨ Steve Anna Von Hausswolff – ICONOCLASTS Baxter Dury – Allbarone Charli xcx & John Cale – ‘House’ John Glacier – Like A Ribbon Milkweed – Remscéla Juana Molina – DOGA...
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Berlin rave renegade Marlon Hoffstadt today steps up with a high voltage reimagining of ‘Dopamine,’ Robyn’s first single in over seven years and one of 2025’s most celebrated pop returns. Fresh off the wave of acclaim surrounding the generational Swedish pop icon’s original, Hoffstadt injects the track with his signature “DJ Daddy Trance” energy, flipping Robyn’s pop euphoria into a riotous, rave-ready anthem. Known for tearing up club conventions and...
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The acclaimed concert film Queens of the Stone Age: Alive in the Catacombs is now available to stream on Youtube. Queens of the Stone Age fans around the globe are invited to witness the band’s intimate, powerful performance, set deep within the ancient, atmospheric underground tombs of Paris. Filmed and recorded in July 2024, the band is captured as you’ve never seen or heard them before with a carefully selected setlist spanning...
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As an end of year treat Mouseatouille are slipping out a limited edition, hand stamped, cassette-only recording of their album launch show, recorded live at Lithuanian Club in North Melbourne on the 11 October 2025. The cassette will be available on the band’s merch desk and at Rocksteady Records’ Xmas Party (also featuring Private Mountain solo), on Sunday 21st December from 5PM, Mitchell House, Level 1, 358 Lonsdale St, Melbourne....
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Dry Cleaning share a quieter moment from their upcoming third album Secret Love, out 9 January 2026. The third single ‘Let Me Grow and You’ll See The Fruit’ follows ‘Cruise Ship Designer’ and ‘Hit My Head All Day’ and offers a gentler side to Dry Cleaning. ‘Let Me Grow and You’ll See The Fruit’ was one of the first songs written for Secret Love and is inspired by 60s folk act Pentangle, 2001: A Space Odyssey, ancient Roman poet...
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Brooklyn-based composer and producer Rachika Nayar and London-based musician, composer and producer Danny L Harle today release Azimuth Divergence. The eight track project reimagines Harle’s recent acclaimed ‘Azimuth’ single, featuring vocals from Caroline Polachek, as the source material for each track. Nayar, who’s released two albums (2021’s Our Hands Against The Dusk and 2022’s Heaven Come Crashing), and this year’s collaborative Disiniblud album with Nina Keith, is a distinctive voice in contemporary experimental music: blending ambient, electronic, neoclassical and post-rock.. She uses guitar as...
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XL Recordings is proud to mark the 10th anniversary of Archy Marshall’s (aka King Krule) A New Place 2 Drown with the release of a newly remastered instrumental edition, available digitally now. A 12” vinyl version will follow on 16 January, with pre-orders from today Also released today is ‘When And Why’, an unearthed single created at the same time as A New Place 2 Drown. Considered something of a...
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Ruthven returns with Precognition, a tight, exploratory three-track EP that marks the beginning of a bold new chapter following last year’s acclaimed debut album Rough & Ready. Having premiered on Apple Music’s New Music Daily Radio with Zane Lowe, the EP as Ruthven concludes a run of UK and European shows, including headline shows and standout festival appearances at Pitchfork Festival Paris and Fifty Lab Brussels. Where Rough & Ready introduced an artist with...
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Fresh off a North American tour supporting I’m With Her, Ye Vagabonds share the second single ‘The Flood’ from their upcoming album, All Tied Together, out Jan 30th, 2026. ‘The Flood’ comes with a video directed by Ellius Grace (watch here) and follows the album’s first single ‘On Sitric Road’ which was accompanied by a live video recorded in Dublin. ‘The Flood’ is an upbeat, fiddle-propelled window into a lively but...
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