Oh Pep!’s incredible debut album Stadium Cake is out today through Barely Dressed Records / Remote Control – and already it’s been the subject of praise around the world. Village Voice pronounced it “fast, boisterous and baroque, a statement of intent that highlights the groups ambition to be more than just a folk act,” while Rolling Stone exclaimed that it was “faultless folk-rock”. Stadium Cake showcases the uniquely compelling collaboration...
Richmond, VA-based songwriter Lucy Dacus is the latest addition to the renowned Matador Records / Remote Control Records roster. The 21-year-old’s critically acclaimed debut album, No Burden, which was released earlier this year, is out now digitally, with a re-pressing of CD and LP out Friday 9 September. For a behind-the-scenes look at Lucy’s life on the road, which includes recent headlining shows, SXSW, and dates with Daughter and Julien...
Maine born songwriter Lina Tullgren, has announced her signing to Captured Tracks / Remote Control. To celebrate she has re-released her cassette Wishlist. The EP was recorded in October 2015 with childhood musical partner, Ty Ueda. Two years after Lina wrote its opening track, a slow burner rock ballad, ‘Watchdog,’ the pair got together and recorded five tracks over the course of a few days on Ty’s Tascam 388 at...
Dot Dash & Remote Control Records are incredibly excited to announce the newest signing to join our roster of Australian artists enigmatic songwriter Gabriella Cohen. Gabriella joins the growing Dot Dash family which currently consists of Methyl Ethel, Pearls, Teeth & Tongue, Sunbeam Sound Machine, Banoffee, Sui Zhen, Client Liaison, Milwaukee Banks, friendships and many others. Cohen released her debut album Full Closure and No Details via her own DIY...
By late May of 1989, Cleaners from Venus man Martin Newell and Peter Nice aka Nelson finished their first album, Lizardland, and handed it over to upstart indie Deltic Records. Though there is a fair amount of Cleaners from Venus DNA in the mix due to the charms of the definitely lo-fi recording methods, the music of the Brotherhood of Lizards has a sharp sound all its own. And, the...
Søren Juul has released his stunning second album This Moment via 4AD / Remote Control Records. To celebrate, Juul has shared videos for singles ‘Dear Child’ and ‘Seventeen.’ “It’s terrifying to release music under your own name,” says Juul. “When I was first asked to release an album, I was shy. I had to figure out another name I could hide behind. But I don’t feel like I need that...
A Moon Shaped Pool, the new album from Radiohead, is released today on CD & vinyl via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. Live From: A Moon Shaped Pool is happening at various indie record stores in NSW, ACT, VIC & QLD today. The event will include a selection of live tracks taken from last months Roundhouse shows in London plus a curated playlist of favourites from the band. For...
Dot Dash & Remote Control Records are incredibly excited to welcome Melbourne based audio visual two piece friendships to our ever growing roster of Australian artists. friendships join the Dot Dash family which currently consists of Milwaukee Banks, Banoffee, Sui Zhen, Client Liaison, Methyl Ethel, Sunbeam Sound Machine, Pearls, Teeth & Tongue & many others. friendships today share ‘When I Feel Like Killing, I Murder’ the evoking dark and glorious...
Cymbals Eat Guitars have announced their forthcoming record Pretty Years will be released on Friday 16 September via Sinderlyn / Remote Control. To celebrate the band have premiered the first single from the record ‘Wish’ via Pitchfork. “We wanted to make a more energetic record. I personally looked to artists like Springsteen, 70’s Bowie, The Smiths, The Cure, Neil Young as inspiration for—not really for sound as much as for that dichotomy of bands who were entertainers still making, at times, weird dark music...
The skies have opened and dropped on us a trio of kids from Geelong, Australia packing some seriously futuristic sludge: ORB. A heaping helping of proto-metal chops meets paranoid sci-fi fantastical ravings, replete with some tasty syntheisiser werk, and lovingly close mic’d to perfection by Total Control’s own Mikey Young. These epics swing with demonic swagger and crackle with the static of a menacing future, twisting and churning through loose-limbed...
KAYTRANADA has today released his debut album 99.9% via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. The highly anticipated album finds the Haitian born, Montreal raised producer delivering on the promise of his early self-released EPs and remixes. The first tastes of 99.9%, ‘Drive Me Crazy’ with Vic Mensa and ‘Leave Me Alone’ with Shay Lia, spread his name like wildfire. With their release, KAYTRANADA cemented his reputation and his sound;...
ANOHNI, the singer of Antony and the Johnsons, has today released her new album HOPELESSNESS via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. A collaboration with Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke, HOPELESSNESS is a dance record with soulful vocals and lyrics addressing subjects including surveillance, drone warfare and ecocide. The album seeks to disrupt assumptions about popular music through the collision of electronic sound and highly politicized lyrics. The record...
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The irrepressible King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have today released their fourth album in 18 months, Nonagon Infinity via Flightless / Remote Control. After the acid-flecked cosmic jazz of Quarters! and the hazy, pastoral, acoustic bliss of Paper Mache Dream Balloon, Nonagon Infinity sees the Gizzard once again dive head-long into the gonzo freak-beat frenzy that mark both their Heavenly debut I’m In Your Mind Fuzz, and their perpetually...
4AD is set to release Day Of The Dead – a celebration of the Grateful Dead’s music on May 20th, 2016. Today, five additional tracks have been made available from Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Friends; Charles Bradley and Menahan Street Band; Jim James & Friends; Perfume Genius, Sharon Van Etten & Friends and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. The five Grateful Dead reworkings can be downloaded instantly with Day Of The Dead...
We are very excited that Låpsley has announced her very first headline shows in Aus – playing Oxford Art Factory in Sydney and Howler in Melbourne. Get full ticket details here. UK-based producer Dark0 has stepped up to remix ‘Falling Short’, the latest single from Holly ‘Låpsley’ Fletcher. Simultaneously euphoric and melancholic, this is the latest in a line of Dark0 remixes for the likes of Anushka, OT Genasis and...
