Milwaukee Banks return with news of their new album, No Time, set for release on Friday 29th June. Lead single ‘Coming For You’ is described as a song about the state of the world and how fragile society feels. Production was a collaborative effort by both members, and highlights their push into the forefront of top electronic and hip-hop music production. The song highlights their mission to continue pushing sonic...
Jungle burst onto the scene towards the end of 2013. They would transform over the next few years from an anonymous production duo to a kaleidoscopic, personality-filled seven piece live band built around the core duo of Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland. Jungle return with a set of new songs, each showcasing a very different side of their sound. ‘Happy Man’ and ‘House In LA’ are the first tracks to be...
Copenhagen’s Iceage — Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (vocals, lyrics), Jakob Tvilling Pless (bass), Dan Kjær Nielsen (drums), and Johan Wieth (guitar) — release their fourth album, Beyondless. It’s an album that radiates joy. It shows the four-piece finally catching up with their ambition, all the while retaining the rich character of the band’s brash beginnings. On Beyondless, the band are treading with a disarming assurance, but no loss of charm. Produced by...
Blue Poles, the fifth album by Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders is out now. From one of the most singular characters in Australian music, Blue Poles is mournful, sardonic and surreal – showcasing an essential voice and master of musical narrative. To complement the album release is a mesmerising new video for the song ‘Susan’. Inspired by 1980s psychic hotline infomercials, director Leilani Croucher interpreted the song as someone looking for...
East Brunswick All Girls Choir announce their new album Teddywaddy to be released Friday 29th June. The band share first single ‘Essendon 1986’, an old song revisited and accelerated, with an accompanying video shot in Castlemaine and directed by Thomas Hyland, watch below! Frontman Marcus Hobbs shares – “The song is about the drudgery lumped upon the working class in order to maintain. It’s about the little things people do in order to feel...
Blending wiry, dark post-punk with unpredictable art-rock, Drahla have established themselves as a formidable and distinctive band across their two sold out 7” singles and the 2017 Third Article EP. Formed in late 2015, Drahla quickly found their identity in Yorkshire’s fertile music scene with their minimal yet robust bass-heavy sound. Their reputation as a fervent live act is ever-growing, with the band being asked to share stages with the...
Starcrawler have launched a new video for their song ‘Love’s Gone Again’. The single comes from their debut self-titled album, which was recorded by their #1 fan Ryan Adams. Filmed mainly at two shows in Tokyo during their recent sold-out tour of Japan, the video for ‘Love’s Gone Again’ is a fun view into their stunning and impressive live shows, and the amazing reaction from audiences in Japan. Starcrawler are...
This winter, Melbourne trio Jaala hit the road in support of their newly released sophomore album Joonya Spirit. Tour dates and details below. After touring last year with Nai Palm, the band are back to launch their new LP with their signature jazz-prog-soul sound. Led by the incredible voice of guitarist & vocalist Cosima Pay, the songs range from gentle, subdued lullabies into a deluge of psychedelic rock madness, all with an...
All-round legends The Bennies will be taking their pumping new album Natural Born Chillers around the country next month. The 11 date run will see the four-piece take to regional and metro hotspots across VIC, NSW, QLD, SA and TAS. Further tour info below! The Bennies kicked off their year in fine form with the release of their new album in February, following slots at St. Kilda Festival, the inaugural Pool...
Last week was a whirlwind for Parquet Courts. They flew to Los Angeles for a brief visit to serenade Ellen and her TV studio audience with a jubilant performance of ‘Wide Awake’, the title track off their forthcoming album, out May 18. After that, they headed for a quick jaunt through Texas performing at Levitation Fest in Austin. Now, the band share their new single ‘Mardi Gras Beads’. The song is...
Good Morning return to the stage this month to launch their upcoming album Prize // Reward, out 11th May. The band are excited to play two intimate Melbourne launches in Collingwood on Friday 18th & Friday 25th May. Venue information will be sent upon ticket purchase. Made up of Stefan Blair and Liam Parsons, two high school friends who grew up in the outer suburbs of Melbourne who slowly began to...
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks have shared another taste of what’s to come with their new single ‘Refute’, off their forthcoming new album, Sparkle Hard, heading our way on May 18. Listen below! The song is a country-tinged reflection on marriage and infidelity, featuring guest vocals by Kim Gordon. Per Malkmus, the idea was to “queer the duet,” by messing with “Nashville tropes in light of current trends in evolutionary psychology” and...
Melbourne’s Lehmann B. Smith shares his uniquely romantic new single ‘Tropical’, featuring Sarah Farquharson, of The Finks. It’s the second single from his upcoming new record Poplar Music, out Friday 25th May. Watch the accompanying video below! Speaking of ‘Tropical’ Smith divulges “I wrote the music with Caetano Veloso’s ‘Tu Me Acostumbraste’ in mind, and then the lyrics in bed while it rained and I sat up in bed listening to it in the house...
Snail Mail shares new single ‘Heat Wave’, taken from her upcoming debut album Lush, out June 8th. “I’m not into sometimes”, sings 18-year-old songwriter and guitar virtuoso Lindsey Jordan in this infectious and affecting guitar pop. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Brandon Herman, below! The video showcases Jordan’s formidable ice hockey rink chops, picked up during her days on the high-school team, while delving hauntingly into the psyche of growing up –...
Gabriella Cohen shares ‘Music Machine’, the second single from her new album Pink Is The Colour Of Unconditional Love, out June 1st. To coincide with the single release Gabriella Cohen has shared dates for an East Coast Australian album tour. Full details below! Gabriella shares – “Music Machine was born about the time I came back from my first U.S tour and found myself down and out crashing on a friends...
Nines has released his second LP, Crop Circle. As deft with film as he is with his lyrics, a long-time cinema buff, Nines presents a beautifully shot, moral tale of life on London’s estates to introduce the release. Crop Circle was written, directed and co-produced by Nines. Watch below! The album follows on from last year’s debut One Foot Out. Its depiction of life on the Church Road Estate presented with...
