Liz Stringer releases ‘To Survive’, the heart-rending newest single from The Second High, due for release 28th March. In April, Stringer returns home from the UK to embark on an East Coast Australian tour. ‘To Survive’ is a rich piano ballad featuring swelling strings and lush vocals that holds the listener in a vice, but the story holds just as much hope as sadness. ‘To Survive’ is based on a...
The Black Seeds have released their seventh studio album Love & Fire. This carefully crafted album is a “big slice of The Black Seeds’ love and musical heat.” Featuring previously released singles, ‘It’s So Real’, ‘Bring The Sun’, ‘Let The Sunshine Through’, ‘Raised With Love’ and the most recent, ‘Game Over’ – Love & Fire also has four new tracks that are set to hit just as hard! “Ideally, each member sent in one or two takes of what they were...
Before kicking off their Australian and New Zealand tour with Courtney Barnett this weekend, East Brunswick All Girls Choir have announced their Teddywaddy album tour this November. Catch the band perform shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Castlemaine. In addition, they will be showcasing at BIGSOUND this September. Full ticket details and links below. Teddywaddy is the most profound and riotous statement of the band’s career, anchored at every...
The Don returns for another round of tour dates. After a sold out tour earlier in the year, Donny Benét will bring his seductive and sweaty live show back this October. Fresh from enamouring his European fans and backed by his band of professionals, The Donny Benét Showband, it’s a guarantee that hearts will be melted once again like gorgonzola on gnocchi. Experience the pure physicality of The Don ‘Back Again’...
The Bennies have shared a new video to ‘Trip Report’, taken from their latest album Natural Born Chillers, released earlier this year. Watch below! After wrapping up their epic European tour, The Bennies added a handful of WA shows to their Natural Born Chillers tour, due to popular complaints. With the addition of shows in Fremantle, Perth and Dunsborough. Full tour details below! After a quick recovery from their 32 date...
Ahead of her upcoming album out next week, Gabriella Cohen shares the cheeky new video of her latest single ‘Music Machine’. The new album Pink Is The Colour Of Unconditional Love is out on Friday 1st June. Watch below! Cohen shares – “This video was very much a family affair. I couldn’t have done it without the tremendous help of my two sisters, Sara Yael and Lisa Raquel. The leading actress is...
Courtney Barnett enters a remarkable new phase of her musical evolution with the release of her second album Tell Me How You Really Feel, out today! From its title to the cover image Barnett reveals a new-found confidence and perspective. Where she once examined the world through self-analysis, Tell Me How You Really Feel shifts that focus to those she interacts with – the good ones, the bad ones, the loved ones. Those...
Courtney Barnett shares ‘Sunday Roast’, the fourth taste from her forthcoming album Tell Me How You Really Feel which is released next Friday, May 18. Watch the accompanying video below! ‘Sunday Roast’ (which was given a very special limited release on 12” alongside ‘City Looks Pretty’ to celebrate Record Store Day last month) is the beautiful album closer, an ode to friendship and simple pleasures, the perfect conclusion to a rich and complex record,...
Courtney Barnett shares ‘City Looks Pretty’, the third single from her upcoming album Tell Me How You Really Feel, out Friday 18 May. Watch below! ‘City Looks Pretty’ has Barnett experimenting with new song structures while delivering one of her most exhilarating guitar performances to date. It’s metronomic drive and squealing lead guitar provide the sonic foundation from which Barnett sings a melodic exploration of friendship, place and home. A Record...
Jarrow’s second album Expensive Hugs is released into the world today! All riffs, melody and noise – it’s a masterclass in exultant garage rock from Footscray’s favourite self-taught, self-produced, multi-instrumentalist. Drawing inspiration equally from 21st century meme culture and classic 90’s indie-rock, Expensive Hugs is an immensely enjoyable dash through Oke’s world of pop-hooks, weird soundscapes and riff-jams – all fighting to break free of his perfect pop structures. Having just smashed...
With just over a week until Jarrow’s second album Expensive Hugs is out in the world, the band share their rousing new single ‘Bleach’ and announce a run of headline shows. Watch the video to ‘Bleach’ below! Self-guided therapy through garage rock, that’s ‘Bleach’, the third single from Expensive Hugs. All riffs, melody and noise, the song moves at breakneck speed as Jarrow sings of strange childhood memories before finding catharsis and solace from...
Jeremy Neale has shared a new clip for ‘Video’. The track comes from his debut album Getting The Team Back Together. Catch Jeremy launch the album on his national tour this March with a new Adelaide date just added! Full tour info below. Jeremy described the clip “Outside of astral projection – the most accessible way to get a break from the day-to-day grind is to go for a drive or...
Melbourne’s Jess Locke, has released her new album, Universe. To celebrate Jess has shared a video for new single ‘Drive To Drink’. Watch it below! With a few years playing and then recording with her full band, Universe emerged consisting of both brand new and older previously released home-recordings, now re-written: “the album was very much about exploring the sound of things, and capturing an atmosphere, more than any particular concepts. There are definitely themes that...
Jess Locke has announced a national tour for November this year. The tour will follow the release of her new album Universe, out Friday 20th October. See tour dates and info below. Singles from the album ‘Universe’ and ‘Better/Bitter’ encapsulate Jess’ ability to match dreamy guitar pop with stark commentary. It’s a sound that has developed through the long time Jess has performed in unconventional spaces: water parks, cemeteries, roundabouts, bookshops and...
