Boss Battle are pleased to release the soundtrack for This Is The Police 2. Featuring songs written by Perth’s Ben Matthews, London’s Kevin Penkin and Melbourne’s Jia Lih, the soundtrack is out now and the game is available for play via Steam. This Is The Police 2 explores a blend of jazz, Scandinavian folk, blues and was recorded by Sigve Bull at PhatCat Studios in Norway. The record features a range...
New Zealand’s Fat Freddy’s Drop have announced their first national Australian tour since 2016, which will see the eight-piece band perform across Australia in March 2019, and supported by Ladi6 at all dates. Full tour details below. The group will commence their upcoming tour with two shows at The Forum in Melbourne, then head to play the Odeon Theatre in Hobart, Hordern Pavilion in Sydney and Eatons Hill Hotel in Brisbane before finishing...
Rabbit Island has released her new album Deep in The Big. To celebrate, Rabbit Island has announced a national tour, where she will play shows this September/ October in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Fremantle, Thirroul and Yass. Further tour details below. A culmination of the music Amber Fresh is known and adored for in her hometown, Perth/Fremantle and beyond, Deep in The Big is a pure experience that will take listeners somewhere beautiful...
Kurt Vile has shared a video for ‘Loading Zones’, the first new music to surface from him since 2015. Directed by Drew Saracco, the video is a paean to his City of Brotherly Love, and farcical tribute to the song’s lyrics, themselves an account of Vile’s peculiar parking strategy. Watch below! “I PARK FOR FREE!” he proclaims, as he goes about his day moving his car from one loading zone to another, narrowly avoiding parking...
Before kicking off their Australian and New Zealand tour with Courtney Barnett this weekend, East Brunswick All Girls Choir have announced their Teddywaddy album tour this November. Catch the band perform shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Castlemaine. In addition, they will be showcasing at BIGSOUND this September. Full ticket details and links below. Teddywaddy is the most profound and riotous statement of the band’s career, anchored at every...
The Lemon Twigs share third single ‘The Fire’ ahead of their musical full-length release, Go To School, out this Friday 17th August, which was written, recorded, produced and mixed by brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario in their home in Long Island. Listen below! Michael says of the song, “With any musical, you’ve gotta first believe that people breaking into song every five minutes is normal—there are no rules. You’ve gotta believe it in...
Ahead of her new album Deep in The Big due this Friday 17th August, Amber Fresh AKA Rabbit Island has shared new single ‘11, 12, 13’ along with a beautiful clip, which reflects on her friendship with Nicholas Allbrook. Watch below! Amber says of the video – “We made the video at home in Freo (Walyalup) and on the Derbal Yerrigan (Swan River) one good day. It’s a portrait of our friendship I...
On the heels of the release of their new album, Beyondless, Iceage have shared a new video for album track ‘Under The Sun’. Filmed in Tokyo during their “Opening Nights” residencies, which was an inter-continental exhibition that saw Iceage collaborating with their favourite visual artists (also staged in NYC and LA). Watch below! Directed by XXX, the ‘Under The Sun’ video features the vibrant, eye-catching floral designs of renowned flower sculptor, Azuma...
Mike Simonetti announces the upcoming release of Solipsism (Collected Works 2006 – 2013) on September 18. The LP represents an archival release of music from his tenure as owner of Italians Do It Better, spanning from 2006 – 2013. Today he shares the first track from the collection, ‘Illusions’. Listen below! Simonetti notes, “‘Illusions’ is an outtake from when I was writing the song ‘The Magician’ for the After Dark 2 compilation for...
Later this month Wild Nothing, the project of Los Angeles-based Jack Tatum, will release his new album, Indigo. ‘Shallow Water’ is the latest single from Indigo shared today following lead single ‘Letting Go’ and the ’80s-heavy ‘Partners in Motion’ featuring saxophonist Taylor Plenn. Listen below! “‘Shallow Water’ is a song for and about my wife,” says Tatum. “It can be hard to write songs about being in love that don’t come across as...
Jack Ladder will perform a series of solo shows starting in September, which will delve into all five albums that he’s released to date. Performed within intimate settings, Ladder will for the first time reveal the “true” stories behind some of his most admired songs. In the thirteen years since his debut album, Ladder’s fascinating musical journey has been notable for perpetual reinvention between albums, but it has always been...
Milk! Records are proud to announce the signing of New Zealand’s Tiny Ruins for Australia. To celebrate, she has unveiled new single ‘How Much’ along with an accompanying video directed by Charlotte Evans. Watch below! “How much would you be willing to give?” Hollie Fullbrook asks point-blank in ‘How Much’, ahead of woozily discordant strings and a stomping neo-psychedelic rhythm. The lyric brims with imagery of supermarket breakdowns, lilos, snarks...
EVA, the second artist to be represented by the new future-facing label, b4, has released ‘Touch Me’, the infectious ode to self-love that swaps out EVA’s ‘80s-infused sound for trance euphoria was brought to life with help from PC Music producer Danny L Harle. Listen below! EVA makes sophisticated, chic pop–on the surface glossy but upon closer inspection smart and humorous with themes of unapologetic sexuality that border on subversion. EVA is paving...
Loose Tooth today release their debut album Keep Up, alongside sharing their new video for ‘All The Colours Gone’. Etta from the band explains the clip “Gianna Mazzeo brings our vision alive to impart mind control over the people of the world to love our band and buy our merch.” Watch below! With Keep Up, Etta Curry (drums, vocals), Luc Dawson (bass, vocals, guitar, keys), and Nellie Jackson (guitar, vocals) have inked...
Following the release of their anti-Trump single ‘Stop Him’, Honey Hahs today release ‘River’, the second single from their forthcoming debut album Dear Someone, Happy Something, out Friday 7th September. Watch video below! Robin of Honey Hahs explains the inspiration behind the song: “River is about a sad film we watched that really touched us called ‘Bridge to Terabithia’. Rowan found it hard to accept that the girl character in the film...
Following the release of her 2017 debut album Won, Lina Tullgren returns to share brand new track ‘Always Fine’ – a collaboration with producer and friend, NTHNL. Watch the accompanying animated video created by Shane Beam below! The collaboration with NTHNL, their process and its impending products occurred by chance and without much discussion. They had met at a show, and through the mysterious graces of the internet started work on‘Always...
