After some mysterious teasers earlier in the week, The National announce their 7th studio album, Sleep Well Beast, set to be released on September 8th. The National debuts the track ‘The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness’, in this Casey Reas directed video you can watch below! Sleep Well Beast was produced by member Aaron Dessner with co-production by Bryce Dessner and Matt Berninger. The album was mixed by Peter Katis and...
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Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) has released the second video from his new album No Shape, out now. ‘Die 4 You’ is directed by Floria Sigismondi and features artwork by Rosa Verloop. Watch it below! Hadreas explains: “This is a love song with a lot of breath-control fetish language, to communicate a willingness to really give yourself to someone completely.” Listen / Purchase No Shape: https://perfumegenius.lnk.to/NoShape
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Rough Trade are excited to announce Starcrawler and the release of their debut single ‘Ants’. The single is backed by B-side ‘Used to Know’ and available on limited edition blood splattered white vinyl 7” – 500 only world wide. Watch the clip below! Starcrawler hail from Los Angles and were formed one year ago when lead vocalist Arrow de Wilde first met guitarist Henri Cash at their Echo Park high school. Shortly...
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True Panther Sounds is excited to share the music of Funk Proibidão, which translates to “strongly prohibited”, with torchbearer MC Bin Laden’s É Grau EP, coming out 12th May (digital) / 23rd June (limited 500-copy vinyl pressing). MC Bin Laden, aka 23 year old Jefferson Christian dos Santos Lima, is the reigning ruler of São Paulo’s Baile Funk scene. Born in the Vila Progresso neighbourhood of easternmost São Paulo, Jefferson began...
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John Moreland has released his new album Big Bad Luv. A record about love, faith and the human condition. Moving from Kentucky to Tulsa when he was ten, John fronted hardcore and punk bands throughout high school years before feeling the pull in folk and country music. He has released largely self-produced albums every other year since 2011. Big Bad Luv was recorded down in Little Rock, mostly with a crew...
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Mac DeMarco’s third full-length album, This Old Dog, is out today! It was a little space—in time, location and method—that inspired DeMarco while making This Old Dog. Arriving in California with a grip of demos he’d written in New York, he realised after a few months of setting up his new shop that the gap was giving him perspective. DeMarco says, “I demoed a full album, and as I was moving...
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Perfume Genius has released his fourth album, No Shape. The album was recorded in Los Angeles, produced by Blake Mills, mixed by Shawn Everett. Perfume Genius’s 2014 breakout album Too Bright marked a musical and performative leap that sounds unlike anything before or since. With his new songs, Mike Hadreas goes even further, merging church music, makeout music, R&B, art pop, krautrock, and queer soul into his take on stadium anthems, completing the journey from critically acclaimed underground hero...
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B Boys hit us with their new single ‘Walking’, a song the band explains is “about trying to be tender and acknowledging that masculinity is a prison written after a whirlwind of emotions of being on tour.” ‘Walking’ follows the band’s first single ‘Energy‘ from their upcoming full-length debut Dada, out Friday 16 June. Listen / purchase ‘Walking: https://remotecontrol.lnk.to/walking
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Through the band’s new label home Barely Dressed Records, Gold Class return with new single ‘Twist In The Dark’, and announce a huge national tour. Check out the new single, tour dates and ticket info below! Rarely has punk music been so danceable. Lead singer Adam Curley states that with the song, produced by Gareth Liddiard, he wanted to “push everything further”. Gold Class have been working on new music, due later this...
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Coinciding (roughly) with the original 1997 release date(s) of Radiohead’s landmark third album OK COMPUTER, OKNOTOK will be issued on June 23rd. OKNOTOK features the original OK COMPUTER twelve track album, eight B-sides, and original studio recordings of three previously unreleased tracks: ‘I Promise’, ‘Lift’, and ‘Man Of War’. All material on OKNOTOK is newly remastered from the original analogue tapes. OKNOTOK BOXED EDITION will ship in July, featuring a black box...
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Algiers will release their second album The Underside Of Power on Friday 23rd June. Check out the Henry Busby-directed video for the first single and title track ‘The Underside of Power’ below! Recorded largely in Bristol and produced by Adrian Utley and Ali Chant, mixed by Randall Dunn, with post-production by Ben Greenberg, The Underside Of Power follows Algiers’ 2015 debut and touches on oppression, police brutality, dystopia, and hegemonic power structures. Led by vocalist...
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What better way to get a final peek of Mac DeMarco’s third full-length album This Old Dog before hearing the whole darn thing, released next Friday, than through one of the album’s most soulful numbers. Listen to ‘One More Love Song’ below! As Mac told Sirius XMU, “Sometimes [love songs] come from a specific place, but in a lot of instances they could just be plucked out of the air. Have...
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After touring for Bluesfest and completing a sold out Australian tour, the Mountain Goats have shared album opener ‘Rain in Soho’ from their new record Goths, out Friday 19 May. The lyrics of ‘Rain in Soho’ constitute a jeremiad of vanished things: friends, places, safe harbors. Goths was recorded at Blackbird Studios, Nashville; produced by Brandon Eggleston; and mixed by Scott Solter. Woodwinds were arranged and played by Matt Douglas. The Mountain Goats are John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Jon Wurster, and...
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Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and James McAlister have launched a new song to celebrate the release of their forthcoming, collaborative album Planetarium. ‘Mercury’ is the second track to be released from Planetarium, out Friday 9 June. Watch the video below! Planetarium unites Stevens’ vocals, McAlister’s beats, Dessner’s guitar performance, and Muhly’s instrumental compositions: from lush piano ballads to rock anthems, classical cadenzas to electronic beats with Stevens’ distinctive vocals providing a centre of...
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That exciting time has come around again, and it’s the 10th Annual Record Store Day tomorrow, Saturday 22nd April! There’s a bunch of great special events, acts, prizes, and all round celebrations going about town – almost every capital city, along with many in regional towns. In fact, it’s the highest ever number of indie record stores in Australia announcing their participation yet! You can find all the record stores near you that...
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Mike Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius has dropped the second song from his forthcoming album No Shape, out Friday 5th May. Listen to ‘Go Ahead’ below! No Shape was recorded in Los Angeles, produced by Blake Mills, mixed by Shawn Everett. Of the album, Hadreas says: “I pay my rent. I’m approaching health. The things that are bothering me personally now are less clear, more confusing. I don’t think I really figured them out with...
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