MOURN have released their new EP Over the Wall, a collection of four covers and an unreleased track from their recent album, Ha, Ha, He! Listen below! The group of Catalonian teenage wunderkinds are making authentically great guitar-based music in an era when it’s considered almost unfashionable. The four covers featured on Over The Wall are by various heroes and influences that belie the band member’s ages (The Replacements, Husker Du, The Sound, and Echo & The Bunnymen)....
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The National have released their seventh studio album, Sleep Well Beast. The video to their latest single ‘Day I Die’, directed by Casey Reas, compresses the frenetic energy of performing with the grind of touring. Watch it below! The National will arrive in Australia in February 2018 as part of their world tour, playing shows in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. This will mark the first time Australian audiences will hear live performances from...
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The Black Seeds have released their sixth studio album, Fabric, it’s their first album in over five years. Watch the clip to their most recent single ‘Back To You’ below! Created with the support of NZ On Air and recorded at Lee Prebble’s Wellington studio The Surgery, Fabric is a twelve-track album of bold, groove-heavy tunes that perfectly captures The Black Seeds’ characteristic brand of reggae-funk fusion. The almighty 8-piece bring their electrifying...
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Future Islands have announced Australian tour dates. Following the release of their fifth studio album The Far Field, and having just played at Splendour In The Grass, the band will return for a run of headline shows and festival appearances this December 2017. Full details below. Samuel, William and Gerrit began writing new material in January 2016 on the coast of North Carolina, and continued throughout the year in Baltimore before road-testing...
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Daughter have released Music from Before the Storm, an original musical score with Square Enix’s new game Life Is Strange: Before The Storm. Created in London earlier this year, this is Daughter’s first experience working on an original soundtrack. Listen to first single ‘Burn It Down’ below! BEFORE THE STORM is the prequel to LIFE IS STRANGE. It was a boundary-breaking videogame, with principal characters drawn from real life facing everyday...
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French-Cuban twins Ibeyi announce their second album Ash, a record that tackles subjects as diverse as womanhood, spirituality, activism and racism. Set for release on September 29, Ibeyi share a video for album track ‘Deathless’ directed by Ed Morris. Watch below! While firmly rooted in Afro-Cuban culture and history, Ash finds itself entirely concerned with Ibeyi’s present: Who Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi are, what’s important to them, and how they live today,...
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We’re thrilled to announce the signing of Donny Benét to Dot Dash Recordings. To celebrate the occasion, Benét has unveiled new single ‘Konichiwa’ — wafting from the quiet streets of Kyoto, a song as smooth as the silken tofu famous to the region. Watch the accompanied video below! ‘Konichiwa’ was recorded in the infamous Donnyland studios using the finest Japanese, American and Italian synthesisers and features Don’s brother Dan on saxophone....
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Front man of Brisbane’s Velociraptor, Jeremy Neale has announced his debut solo album Getting The Team Back Together, released Friday 3 November. To celebrate, he’s dropped the video for first single Dancin’ & Romancin’. Check it below! As Jeremy says of the track: “Dancin’ & Romancin’ is about how hard it can be to maintain a relationship when you and your partner have very different working schedules. When the stars eventually...
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Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile have joined forces to release a collaboration as unique and unusual as their talents, in the form of a brand new album Lotta Sea Lice, out Friday 13th October. To mark such exciting news, they have shared jam opener and first single ‘Over Everything’. ‘Over Everything’ was the first song written for this project, accompanied by a video from Australian director Danny Cohen which features...
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The Black Seeds have announced that this November, the almighty 8-piece will play nationwide in celebration of new album, Fabric, out 8 September. Watch the new video they’ve also shared for latest single ‘Back To You’ below! ‘Back To You’ is a tribute to old relationships revived and staying true. Made with the support of NZ On Air, the video was created by Connor Pritchard (Director / DOP), Jasper Jay (DOP) and features animation...
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Client Liaison share the new video for single ‘A Foreign Affair’ taken from their debut album Diplomatic Immunity, out now. Watch the video, directed by Tim White, below! Tina Arena says “It’s been a lot of fun working with Client Liaison, from recording the song last summer and to crashing their set at Splendour, this clip ties it all together nicely! Grab a gin & tonic and get ready for take-off.”...
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The National have shared their latest track ‘Day I Die’ from their forthcoming album, Sleep Well Beast, out Friday 8th September. The video, directed by Casey Reas, compresses the frenetic energy of performing with the grind of touring. Watch it below! The National will arrive in Australia in February 2018 as part of their world tour, playing shows in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. This will mark the first time Australian audiences...
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Widowspeak have released their full-length album Expect The Best, which sees the band finding their greatest balance between opposing forces: darkness and light, quiet and loud, tension and calm. At the heart of the band, there is a palpable duality, a push and pull between the delicate and the deliberate: the contrast of lead singer-songwriter Molly Hamilton’s strikingly beautiful voice and poignant melodies with the terrestrial reality of being a four-piece rock...
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South London four-piece Goat Girl share the video for ‘Crow Cries’ to celebrate the release along with ‘Mighty Despair’ on a limited 7″. Watch the video, written, produced and directed by lead singer Clottie Cream, below! The band’s furious sound represents how it feels to live in this current climate “There’s teenage angst in them,” says L.E.D “But I think that was inevitable, growing up in London over the last ten...
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Wiki is back with the release No Mountains in Manhattan, out today! To coincide, Wiki shared his video for ‘Mayor’. Watch below! On the new track, produced by Tony Seltzer and Alex Epton, Wiki recounts his journey from “little rapper” to “The Mayor,” as his music takes him around the world, but always back to the city that raised him. Directed by Matt Lubansky, the video follows Wiki on an unconventional campaign...
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“The title Villains isn’t a political statement. It has nothing to do with Trump or any of that shit. It’s simply 1) a word that looks fantastic and 2) a comment on the three versions of every scenario: yours, mine and what actually happened… Everyone needs someone or something to rail against their villain same as it ever was. You can’t control that. The only thing you can really control...
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