Princess Nokia has released the latest video for her pop punk anthem ‘Look Up Kid’ from her recent mixtape, A Girl Cried Red. Watch the video below! The New York rapper—aka Destiny Frasqueri—co-directed ‘Look Up Kid’ with frequent collaborator Milah Libin. The visual sees Frasqueri embracing her rock roots and performing with a full band. A Girl Cried Red showcases another fully formed side of Destiny that still taps into the uncompromising feminist...
To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their acclaimed album Boxer, The National performed the record from beginning to end at a very special show in Brussels, Belgium on November 9th, 2017. A limited vinyl version of the recording was released exclusively on Record Store Day, which sold out immediately. After much demand, the live LP will be released both digitally and on CD on Friday 13th July. Boxer (Live In Brussels) is...
Batu has announced the release of his Rebuilt EP, out Friday 1st June. Listen to first single ‘Flash React’ below! Omar McCutcheon, operating under his Batu alias, has been on the frontline of Bristol’s innovative electronic music scene since 2013. In 2015 he founded his record label Timedance, a platform for showcasing his tastes utilising a close knit group of young producers and DJs. Batu’s glistening broken techno productions are pushed through a deeply...
Courtney Barnett enters a remarkable new phase of her musical evolution with the release of her second album Tell Me How You Really Feel, out today! From its title to the cover image Barnett reveals a new-found confidence and perspective. Where she once examined the world through self-analysis, Tell Me How You Really Feel shifts that focus to those she interacts with – the good ones, the bad ones, the loved ones. Those...
Today marks the release of Wide Awake!, the groundbreaking new album from Parquet Courts, about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitarianism. There’s also a freshness here, a breaking of new territory that’s a testament to the group’s restless spirit. Part of this could be attributed to the fact that Wide Awake! was produced by Brian Burton (Danger Mouse), but it’s also simply a triumph of songwriting. “The ethos...
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks have released their new album Sparkle Hard. It’s light ’n’ breezy, head-down heavy, audacious, melancholic and reflective, good time and bodacious, and it’s both unmistakeably The Jicks and The Jicks refashioned. Malkmus started writing Sparkle Hard in 2015. He’d upgraded his home-recording equipment and bought some electronic drums and had been working on the Netflix series Flaked. Demos were done in one day in April, 2017 and then...
For their new music video for ‘Honesty’, Tune-Yards collaborated with Creative Growth, an organisation dedicated to providing a professional studio environment for artists with developmental, mental and physical disabilities. Watch it below! Written and directed by Susan Janow, the animated mixed-media video stars Merrill as a ‘60s housewife finding freedom through an absurd journey from grocery store to tropical giant-food paradise. Susan Janow and other Creative Growth artists created everything from...
Baba Stiltz is pleased to announce his Showtime EP, to be released Friday 8th June. Sharing from it ‘Maze’, the kind of summer floor-filler he is such a natural at crafting. Watch the clip below! Swedish-born 24-year-old Baba Stiltz (real name) has been steadily releasing his idiosyncratic take on dance music to growing fanfare. His is a playful brand of electronic music that crosses boundaries and genres unlike many before. “This EP is a collection of songs...
Snail Mail shares a third song from debut album Lush, out Friday 8th June. The third single,‘Let’s Find An Out’ showcases a softer, more restrained facet of Lindsey Jordan’s songwriting. Listen below! ‘Let’s Find An Out’ puts the 18-year-old songwriter’s childhood classical guitar training on display. Layering a warm folk-inspired melody with quick arpeggios, Jordan’s intricate playing pairs perfectly with her pensive words of longing. Throughout Lush, Jordan’s most masterful...
Barcelona’s fledgling rockers MOURN share ‘Fun At the Geysers’, the second single from their third LP Sorpresa Familia, out Friday 15th June. The accompanying video was shot in Iceland where the story that inspired the song took place. MOURN explains the song and video, “The people from the label that came with us [to Reykjavik] were telling us that through the years we’d learn how to endure being hungry. They didn’t really...
Gang Gang Dance release ‘J-TREE’, the second single from their long-awaited album Kazuashita, out Friday 22nd June. Listen below! A stirring and euphoric paean to nature, co-founder Brian DeGraw says, “J-TREE has always been about open space to me. When I started writing the skeleton of the song I imagined it would only ever be played live in an outdoor setting. That was the goal: to create a song that...
Gruff Rhys shares ‘Limited Edition Heart’, the second song to be released from Babelsberg, the fifth album by Gruff Rhys and his first record for Rough Trade and Remote Control since 2007’s classic Candylion. Gruff said “I wrote Limited Edition Heart whilst walking along a polluted yet beautiful river. It has beautiful orchestral arrangements thanks to Stephen McNeff and the BBC NOW orchestra.” Babelsberg was initially recorded in early 2016 in...
Courtney Barnett shares ‘Sunday Roast’, the fourth taste from her forthcoming album Tell Me How You Really Feel which is released next Friday, May 18. Watch the accompanying video below! ‘Sunday Roast’ (which was given a very special limited release on 12” alongside ‘City Looks Pretty’ to celebrate Record Store Day last month) is the beautiful album closer, an ode to friendship and simple pleasures, the perfect conclusion to a rich and complex record,...
Good Morning have today released their debut album Prize // Reward. The band are excited to share dates for two intimate Melbourne launches in Collingwood on Friday 18th & Friday 25th May. Venue information will be sent upon ticket purchase. Good Morning, made up of Stefan Blair and Liam Parsons, are two high school friends who grew up in the outer suburbs of Melbourne and slowly began to spend their...
Donny Benét is excited to announce a European tour in support of his new album, The Don. Donny Benét will bring his live show loving to stages in Austria, Slovakia, Germany, Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Russia, Spain and Portugal in July. Full tour dates below. The Don is transportive. Singles ‘Konichiwa,’ a song as smooth as the silken tofu from whence the song’s spirit is inspired, and ‘Santorini,’ an ode...
With their new album, Sparkle Hard, heading our way on May 18, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks have shared a documentary short film shot on-location in Portland, OR this past January, directed by Brook Linder. Watch below! It’s an intimate and brilliant glimpse into the quotidian world of Stephen Malkmus – songwriting legend, tennis champ, horseback rider, band-leader, and all-around charming goofball. “Since watching this doc,” says Stephen, “I’ve improved...
