Philadelphia’s Hop Along will be releasing their third studio album Bark Your Head Off, Dog on April 6. Having just announced a handful of shows at SXSW, Hop Along have also shared the brilliant next track from the album, ‘Not Abel’. Listen below! ‘Not Abel’ begins as a delicate waltz, violins and cellos make way for a series of explosive choruses before the song collapses into an exuberant guitar jam....
Jarrow has released the exultant garage-rocker ‘Kelp’, it’s the second single to come from his second album Expensive Hugs, out Friday 16 March. Watch the clip below! As the opening track off Expensive Hugs, ‘Kelp’ perfectly sets the tone for Jarrow’s weird and wonderful second album. Hooks, yelps and a dynamic lead-guitar adorn his compelling turn of phrase as it battles to break free of the songs perfect garage pop...
Spellbinding indie-folk artist Ryan Downey releases the striking video for his new song ‘Running’, the title track to his debut album due April 13. Like a time-lapse flower, ‘Running’ reveals itself over the course of three gorgeous minutes. Watch below! Ryan and director Alex Badham took the video’s character into a half internal void, half real world space, drawing from the sensual aesthetics of Italian cinema to compliment the songs mix of...
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...
Jarrow is back with a brand new song, video, album and residency – all of it! Dan Oke’s bonkers new track ‘Emoji’ is the first off his brand-new album Expensive Hugs due Friday 16 March. Watch the clip below! Earnest acoustic rock ballads are not meant to feature vocoder drenched vocals. And they’re not meant to wobble increasingly out of shape as the song reaches its climax. Like Blind Melon attempting...
Lætitia Tamko is professionally known as Vagabon. She is a solo artist, a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, a peer of Porches, Mitski and Makkonen. The New Yorker, originally from Cameroon, released Infinite Worlds earlier this year. The album is now being re-released in AUS/NZ via Barely Dressed. She has also shares the video for ‘Cold Apartment’ made by assurgent Los Angeles animator Faye Orlove. The new video tells the crushing narrative of...
Good Boy have shared their self-produced video for ‘1972 VW Superbug’. The track is the third single from their brilliant EP Shirk Life, out now. Watch it below! The song is a nostalgic sprawler, exploring regional life via bored late-nights in their hometown of Bundaberg, Queensland. Rarely does a punk band write with such romanticism. “We made this video from footage collected every time we returned to our home town of...
Good Boy have released their scorching EP Shirk Life, a whip-smart, catchy-as-hell collection of songs that show a young band finding and questioning their place in the world. Until recently, Good Boy never thought of themselves as a political band but sometimes the times just force your hand. The EP’s first track ‘A Waste Of 122 Million Dollars (Taxpayer Funded)’ spits a self-explanatory message about the absurd and insulting marriage equality...
Oh Pep! shared their new track ‘Half Life’, released originally as an exclusive for the Thirty Days of Yes project in support of marriage equality, ‘Half Life’ is now available on all digital services. Since the release of their 2016 debut album Stadium Cake, Oh Pep! have proven to be highly sort-after collaborators, racking up co-writing credits with dozens of artists from all over the world. ‘Half Life’ is the...
Good Boy have shared their second single, ‘A Waste Of Approximately 122 Million Dollars (Taxpayer Funded)’, from their EP Shirk Life, due November 10. Watch the accompanied (claymation!) video directed by Fin Marx below! The song spits a frustrated and self-explanatory message about the absurd, insulting and embarrassing marriage equality plebiscite in Australia. As singer Rian King explains, “122 million dollars of public funding for an opinion is disgusting. In...
Barely Dressed Records welcome Brisbane punks Good Boy to their roster with the release of their brilliant impending EP Shirk Life out Friday 10 November. Along with announcing an Australian headline tour in December, Good Boy have released a video for first single ‘Fishing With A Shotgun’. Watch below! Produced and engineered by Tim Fitz, and mixed and mastered by Mikey Young, ‘Fishing With A Shotgun’ is a burst of hyper-intelligent garage punk energy. Infused...
Gold Class have released Drum, their follow-up album to 2015 debut It’s You. Drum showcases a new side to the band. Recorded at Melbourne’s Head Gap and Tropical Fuck Storm Studios and produced by Gareth Liddiard, Drum sees Gold Class expand their sonic pallet. Drum stands to be both personal and political, as Adam Curley, singer and lyricist for Gold Class explained, “I wanted the album to be defiant and full of...
Gold Class have released yet another stirring and urgent single, ‘Get Yours’, from the new album Drum, out on August 18. The accompanied video, directed by Defero Productions, was filmed at the band’s sold out Corner Hotel show last month. Watch it below! ‘Get Yours’ has been described by the band as the centerpiece of Drum. “It was the first of the songs we wrote for the album” said singer Adam...
Jim Lawrie has shared shared a new video for ‘Lost on Earth’, taken from his new album Slacker of the Year. Teamed up with filmmaker James Ruse to create the clip, ‘Lost on Earth’ captures the magic of unearthing something new and exciting in someone else. Watch it below! As Jim explains; “The majority of this planet is accounted for by Google maps. This song is about the fact that, even when every...
Gold Class release their second single, ‘Rose Blind’, from their new album Drum, out on Friday 18 August. ‘Rose Blind’ is accompanied by a dark and ambiguous video directed by Defero Productions, watch it below! ‘Rose Blind’ explores themes of personal and societal politics. Vocalist Adam Curley explains “We wanted to write something with a big, raging chorus. It’s a love song, really, but a love song to a friend. It’s about feeling that...
Gold Class have announced their new album, Drum, to be released on Friday 18 August. The band have also shared a video for their first single off the record ‘Twist In The Dark’. Watch it below! Drum is the follow-up to 2015 debut It’s You. Recorded at Melbourne’s Head Gap studios and Tropical Fuck Storm Studios and produced by Gareth Liddiard, Drum sees Gold Class explore new sonic territory. On the album...
