On this day, Valentines Day, a day of love celebrated, remembered, and lost, “D” grade Sydney celebrity, recording artist and relationship guru Donny Benét serves up his latest offering ‘Santorini’. Watch the accompanying video below! Influenced by Giorgio Moroder’s Scarface and the only Ryan Paris hit La Dolce Vita, Benét is sure to offer you a tale of hope, begging and extinguished love. The music video was conceptualised and directed...
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Lucy Dacus shares her new single ‘Next Of Kin’, from her second album Historian, out 2 March. It’s an album stand-out that highlights Lucy’s silky alto, crisp production, and intimate storytelling. Listen below! “’Next Of Kin’ is the thesis statement of the album,” says Lucy. “It’s a breaking point after a build up of difficult subject matter. It’s a song about accepting fate, forgetting fear, and allowing yourself to be incomplete always.”...
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Iceage share new single, ‘Catch It’, their first new material since 2014’s Plowing Into The Field of Love. The song’s accompanying video was directed by Adam Hashemi and shot on 8mm film in Los Angeles. Watch below! Produced by the band – Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (vocals, lyrics), Jakob Tvilling Pless (bass), Dan Kjær Nielse (drums), and Johan Wieth (guitar) – and Nis Bysted, ‘Catch It’ was recorded all-analog by Mattias Glavå at...
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Space Invadas share a new single and video for ‘Now That I Know’, from their newly announced album, Wild World, to be released on Friday 13th April. Along with previously released single ‘Wild World ft. Remi’ this marks the duo’s first new material since their debut record Soul-Fi in 2010. Watch it below! The accompanying film clip is a modern take on a traditional soul vibe, projecting Steve into a futuristic world...
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When the Breeders reunited to release their first new music in a decade, the 2017 single ‘Wait in the Car’, they formed a series of limited 7” releases. On one, Kim Deal’s dreamy reimagining of Mike Nesmith’s ‘Joanne’ fills the B-side. And now, for the first time, the Breeders share an intimate video of Deal’s recording of that exact take in Steve Albini’s Chicago, IL studio with an appearance from Albini....
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Portland, OR’s Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks release new single ‘Middle America’, the first new music to surface from the group since 2014. Listen below! On ‘Middle America’, Malkmus’s wry wordplay and sunny twang create an ode to underdogs everywhere, with bittersweet words of encouragement for the ramshackle character on their receiving end. Only SM & the Jicks can craft this kind of brightly low-key anthem, a perfect three-minute-thirty-second country-speckled...
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Multi-disciplinary Toronto artist Meg Remy has released a fourth new U.S. Girls single, ‘Rosebud’, taken from her forthcoming album, In a Poem Unlimited, out Friday 16 February. Watch the clip below! A breathless synth anthem written by the legendary Rich Morel with Remy, ‘Rosebud’’s stunning accompanying video was directed by Alex Kingsmill, edited by Remy and stars Max Turnbull. In a Poem Unlimited, the sixth full-length album by U.S. Girls is...
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Jackson MacIntosh releases his second single ‘Can It Be Love’ from his forthcoming debut solo album My Dark Side, out March 2. Listen below! Jackson explains he was listening to Timelord by Momus a lot at the time when ‘Can It Be Love?’ was written. “It influenced the sonic palette and lackadaisical vocal delivery. I was also feeling like a bit of a timelord myself. I’d just moved back to Montreal...
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Car Seat Headrest unveil another preview from forthcoming new album Twin Fantasy, out Friday 16 February. Listen to album opener ‘My Boy (Twin Fantasy)’ below! The song commences with the sparse declaration of “my boy, we don’t see each other much,” and blossoms into a towering climax, with the life-affirming mantra of “It’ll take some time, but somewhere down the line / We won’t be alone” standing as the statement-of-intent for the record’s...
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Goat Girl announce their self-titled debut album to be released on Friday 6th April. The album was produced by Dan Carey in his South London studio in the Autumn of 2017. Watch the video to their new single ‘The Man’ below! Goat Girl creates a half fantasy world out of a very dirty ugly city reality. In the groups words: “Simply put, it’s an album that comes from growing up in...
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The Bennies today release their new album Natural Born Chillers, on top of that they have shared one hell of an epic video to new single ‘Dreamkillers’ featuring the band on campaign trail. Watch it below! In a world gone mad, a nationwide scandal has emerged where people are now trying to ‘Ban the Beers’. With less than no experience, The Bennies garner the support of the people and are forced...
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Jaye Bartell shares his video for new single ‘If I’m Only For Myself’ taken from his poetic album In a Time of Trouble a Wild Exultation which was released last October. Watch it below! The video is based off of artist Hollis Frampton’s short film ‘Nostalgia’ where you watch a black and white still of Bartell taken by photographer Erin Taylor Kennedy slowly burn away, go up in flames and...
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Philadelphia’s Hop Along have announced their brand new album Bark Your Head Off, Dog to be released on April 6th in Australia and New Zealand. They have also shared first single ‘How Simple’. Listen below! The track displays a miraculous ability to marry folk, punk, rock and power-pop into a cohesive whole. Dynamic, intricate and textured, it spans the gamut from 90’s angst to 70’s girl-group vocal arrangements. Frances Quinlan (songwriter, lead vocalist, and...
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Robert Earl Thomas, guitarist of the acclaimed Brooklyn band Widowspeak, will release his solo debut Another Age on February 16. To celebrate, he shares single ‘What Am I Gonna Do’, watch the evocative video for the album track below! The delicate visual piece sees Thomas wandering around rainy New York City, a setting as beautifully dismal as the song’s strikingly personal subject. Thomas explains, “’What Am I Gonna Do’ is more about...
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Jeremy Neale is excited to announce the Getting The Team Back Together national album tour. Catch Jeremy perform in Sydney (this weekend!) plus headline shows in Melbourne and Brisbane this March. Full tour details and ticket links below! This is likely to be Jeremy’s only tour in 2018 as he will travel to New York City for 3 months to focus on songwriting as the recipient of the prestigious Grant...
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Car Seat Headrest releases ‘Cute Thing’, the latest track to be previewed from forthcoming new album Twin Fantasy – a re-recorded, re-imagined new version of the 2011 self-released Bandcamp masterpiece of the same name – which will be out February 16. Listen below! ‘Cute Thing’ is an ecstatic multi-part epic of unbridled yearning, flirtation, and abandon – pairing masterfully layered production with a combustible house-party reverie. With a seven-piece band...
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