Sydney-based artist HANDSOME is excited to share her debut EP No Hat No Play, out today. Catch HANDSOME celebrate the release at Sydney’s Red Rattler & Melbourne’s Old Bar this October – supported by the freshly announced Sam Bluer, Geryon, Flower Boy, Kid Heron & Stereogamous. More info below! HANDSOME on No Hat No Play: “The title is a rule that we all grew up with in Australia, that was a...
In August of 2012, fledgling Brisbane label Bedroom Suck Records released into the world an incredible debut LP from a group of Melbourne musicians collectively calling themselves Boomgates. A supergroup of sorts, the band included members of flagship Melbourne acts like Twerps, Dick Diver and Eddy Current Suppression Ring. The album was a hit, going on to become the sound of that summer and countless summers to follow. Now, almost...
Bedroom Suck and Sanpo Disco are thrilled to announce the release of Midday Moon: Ambient and Experimental Music from Australia and New Zealand 1980-1995, set for release Friday 2 November. To celebrate, two singles have been released including Helen Ripley-Marshall’s ‘Under the Sun’ and Garry Havrillay’s ‘Temple’. Listen below! Midday Moon is a collection of recordings curated by Sanpo Disco. It’s a survey of ambient and experimental music that emerged from Australia...
Due to overwhelming demand, the The Breeders Melbourne show on Sunday 9th December has been upgraded from the Corner Hotel to The Forum. Tickets to this upgraded show are now on sale, full details and ticket links below. The Breeders will also welcome Melbourne’s Hachiku to support them on their Perth, Canberra, Brisbane & Melbourne headline tour dates. Hachiku is the brainchild of 23 year old German songwriter and producer...
Ryan Downey has released the striking new track ‘No More Miracles’, alongside the haunting B-Side ‘Those Eyes That Answer (Reprise)’ – a fitting follow-up to his debut album released earlier this year. Listen below! ‘No More Miracles’ is the Melbourne-based indie-crooner‘s most stunning song to date. Ambitious in its scope but simple in its execution, a gritty introduction gives way to a majestic choral interlude. It needs to be heard...
Molly Burch reveals the incredibly charming animated video for her latest single ‘To The Boys’, from her forthcoming LP, First Flower, set for release on October 5. The clip was directed by Emily Ann Hoffman who notes, “I loved how playful and strong the song’s message was and wanted the video to have the same feeling. I liked the idea of a paper doll seeming delicate and feminine, yet standing...
Capital Punishment today release the reissue of 1982 sole LP Roadkill, now remastered and expanded. While news of this reissue leaked in 2015, today is in fact the first time Roadkill is released since the 80s. Capital Punishment formed in 1979 in NYC when the 4 band members were teenagers. The band consisted of a future Supreme Court Justice for Arizona, a Professor of Slavic Studies, a Musician/Documentarian whose family built...
Sleaford Mods are pleased to share their self-titled EP Sleaford Mods, out now on 12”, CD & DL. This is the band’s first new music since last year’s album English Tapas. Jason Williamson says, “The lead tracks are mostly full of violent tendencies that only transpire through imagination. People are powerless under the political monster and the intense anger and frustration morphs into illusions of attacking each other through the...
Following a string of celebrated singles including ‘Happy Man’, ‘Heavy, California’ and most recently ‘Beat 54 (All Good Now)’ Jungle’s second album For Ever is out now. To celebrate the release, Jungle have announced they will be returning to Australia in April 2019! Bringing their intoxicating live show to their ever growing fanbases in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & Fremantle, as presented by triple j & Secret Sounds. Jungle are excited...
Having left a trail of ecstatically exhausted fans in its wake from Niagara Falls to Australia, Queens Of The Stone Age’s world tour in support of their seventh album Villains has careened to a triumphant finish in Perth with its 129th show. As the tour came to a close, fans in Tasmania were treated to an intimate one-off acoustic set at MONA in Hobart – a benefit that generated $10,000 matched...
‘Weight’ is the first single from the eagerly anticipated self-titled debut album from Naarm (Melbourne) band Cyanide Thornton. Featuring members of Two Steps On The Water, the band was founded in early 2016 and has been steadily gaining traction in Melbourne’s alternative rock circuits. Watch the video below! While incorporating elements of folk and rock, Cyanide Thornton transcends its composite parts, moving into a space of raw emotion and fierce...
Tim Cohen (The Fresh & Onlys) unveils the second single ‘I’m A Girl’ from his upcoming album, The Modern World out September 28th. Listen below! The Modern World was recorded at home over the course of a restless and fruitful year. The birth of his second child, coupled with the constant juggle of a fledgling painting career and a day job, allowed strains of anxiety into the artist’s vision, and he...
A year after the release of her extraordinary self-titled fourth album, Jen Cloher shares a set of brilliantly shot live band performance videos of three fan-favourite tracks from the record – ‘Regional Echo’, ‘Shoegazers’ and ‘Analysis Paralysis’. Watch below! Filmed late last year at Milk! Records’ Melbourne warehouse – the performances capture a rare camaraderie and bond between band members who had just finished a year of extensive global touring...
Melbourne’s Total Giovanni are thrilled to finally announce their forthcoming debut album Euphoria set for release on Friday 19th October. To celebrate the announcement the band have shared their newest offering ‘Awake’. Listen below! ‘Awake’ is a short burst of Balearic hedonism, classic punk funk and psychedelic washes. It feels like a sweaty dancefloor and tastes like the first burst of summer. It draws on the diverse inspirations that have...
Details of the new Kurt Vile album have finally be confirmed, Bottle It In is out on Friday 12 October and now available for pre-order here. Today’s announcement is accompanied by the release of a new single ‘Bassackwards’, an ode to the parking challenges in Vile’s native Philadelphia. Watch the video below! The epic, loping ‘Bassackwards’ is the album’s beating heart and Vile’s most compelling evocation of how he sees the world: “I was...
17-year-old Toronto based artist Lil Berete has released his debut mixtape Icebreaker, out now. Written entirely by Lil Berete and including features exclusively from his STN crew from Toronto’s Regent Park, Icebreaker is a brilliant introduction to the area’s breakout star. With Lil Berete’s distinctive voice, raw talent, dynamic flow and a measured duality of confidence and vulnerability, it makes sense that Lil Berete cites Akon, T-Pain, and Young Thug...
