Courtney Barnett has completed her headline run of Australian shows and returned to US and European shores to continue her world-dominating tour. Meanwhile, fans are treated to a surprise new song, ‘Small Talk’, an unheard and unreleased track from the sessions which gave birth to Tell Me How You Really Feel. Listen below! The song itself shows Courtney’s stylistic versatility as she winsomely sings over a walking bass-line before launching into...
Today Courtney Barnett shares the video for ‘Charity’, taken from her recently released album Tell Me How You Really Feel. Watch below! The video, by respected cinematographer Ashley Connor was shot on glorious 16mm film and captures fly-on-the-wall footage of Barnett and her band spending a day in Toronto, Canada. The beautiful honest depiction of a day on the road is interspersed with a roaring live performance of one of...
Courtney Barnett today releases a series of 10 stunning live videos. Shot in the Southern American summer in conjunction with Apple Music, Barnett and her band (Bones Sloane, Katie Harkin and Dave Mudie) played through the entirety of Tell Me How You Really Feel in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park. Each song on the album gets the full cinematic treatment directed by rising US film-maker Claire-Marie Vogel and mixed by Australia’s Cal Barter....
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,...
Record Store Day is just around the corner, tomorrow in fact! With a host of special events, acts, prizes, and so forth coming from records stores across the Country, and globe, so to speak. Find our special releases for Record Store Day 2018 below, along with some special in-store performances: Courtney Barnett Sunday Roast/City Looks – Pretty 12″ Featuring a brand new track ‘City Looks Pretty’ – about life on the road –...
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...
Courtney Barnett releases ‘Need A Little Time’, the sublime second single from her album Tell Me How You Really Feel, out May 18. Accompanied by a wondrous video by Barnett’s frequent visual collaborator Danny Cohen. Watch below! The infectious punk-rock of first single ‘Nameless, Faceless’ simmered with indignation and rage in what was Barnett’s most explicitly political song to date, but it only delivered a hint at what might be...
After a mysterious album teaser online and indie record stores worldwide unexpectedly receiving vinyl copies of a previously unheard song, Courtney Barnett announces her second studio album Tell Me How You Really Feel, and shares its scathing lead single ‘Nameless, Faceless’. Watch the video below! In Tell Me How You Really Feel Barnett has revealed a thrilling and unexpected shift. From its title (A question? An order?) to the cover image, Barnett...
The final day of the Mixtape for Marriage Equality kicked off this morning, Thirty Days of Yes will release a special surprise 10 extra songs, including a stunning new track from Jess Ribeiro and a demo from Sui Zhen. The project will continue with more tracks, along with a new song from Jarrow premiered today at 1.30pm on FBI Radio. See all of the released tracks here. Over the thirty days there was a...
With Lotta Sea Lice Barnett and Vile have delivered something utterly miraculous, an instant-classic record which sounds as if the two have played together for decades. This is a conversation between friends, documented in raw, unvarnished song form, brimming with personal history, crackling with energy and shot through with humour. There’s an unforced ease to the record helped the fact that the pair have been not just friends, but hardcore...
Thirty Days of Yes is a subscription mixtape that releases a song a day over 30 days. Developed in response to the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey, to drive the ‘Yes’ message and show support for the LGBTQI+ community, particularly the youth community who don’t have a voice in this public debate. 100% of the profits will go to LGBTQI+ youth organisations, Minus18 and Twenty10. The project launched in support of...
Following the opening single ‘Over Everything’, Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile share new single ‘Continental Breakfast’, from their collaborative album Lotta Sea Lice, out Friday 13th October. Watch it below! The video gently pushes the door open just a little bit further. Using intimate home footage shot over four days of Kurt and Courtney in their respective environments, ‘Continental Breakfast’ goes beyond being a mere music video and becomes a mini...
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...
Yes! We are super excited that a heap of our friends are playing Splendour In The Grass including Sigur Ros (only Aus show), Courtney Barnett, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Lapsley, Methyl Ethel, Sui Zhen & Banoffee! The full line up and ticket details can be found here.
Congrats to our friends Jamie xx, Purity Ring, Alabama Shakes, Ratatat, Grimes, Courtney Barnett and Methyl Ethel who have taken 11 Hottest 100 spots – over 10% of the countdown! #26 Jamie xx – I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times) (Ft Young Thug/Popcaan) #31 Jamie xx – Loud Places (Ft Romy) #43 Courtney Barnett – Pedestrian At Best #52 Ratatat – Cream On Chrome #65 Alabama Shakes – Don’t...
