Jarrow has shared a new video for ‘Season’. The single comes from his second album Expensive Hugs, out now. The video is Jarrow aka Dan Oke’s take on gun culture in America. Watch below! Dan describes “Season reflects my outside perspective of the desensitization of gun culture within the USA. It’s a topic I feel pretty strongly about – which I feel a lot of Australians share. The track attempts is to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Brisbane trio Good Boy and Melbourne quartet Jarrow are about to become the bestest of friends. They’re hitting the road together this April for a co-headline tour in support of their respective new singles. Good Boy’s ‘Braap’ and Jarrow’s ‘Cody’ were premiered last night by Richard Kingsmill on triple j and are now available on all digital platforms. The tracks will also be released as a Split 7” exclusively through Barely...
Jarrow has just released a new video for his track ‘Mutual Feelings’, ahead of a run of shows that includes supports for Car Seat Headrest and a headline show at Melbourne’s Yarra Hotel. Watch the clip below! Film-maker Max Wood drew from unlikely inspiration when making the visually compelling clip. It features a non-plussed Jarrow performing to the camera while the surprisingly beautiful urban landscape of Footscray swirls manically in the...
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61 albums have been announced for the 12th Australian Music Prize after the most ever submitted albums in AMP history (364!), we’re excited to see Dorsal Fins, friendships, Gabriella Cohen, Jarrow, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Teeth & Tongue amongst the longlist! See the full list of artists here. The Shortlist, made up of nine albums, will be announced on January 18 with the winner to be announced in March 2017...
Jarrow has just released a new video for his track ‘James Impala’ taken from his debut album 2003 Dream. Spoiler alert – it’s awesome! The film-clip was created in spare time between university assignments by Dan Oke (aka Jarrow). It is as a hybrid between a lyric video, a personal mission statement and homage to the classic Windows screen-savers of yesteryear. The video starts with footage of a chimpanzee (named Enos) being launched...
The enigmatic and beguiling Jarrow has released his stellar album 2003 Dream today via Barely Dressed Records. Dan Oke (the mastermind behind Jarrow) is a self-taught, self-produced, multi-instrumentalist wunderkind from Footscray spent the last few years delving into music by artists like Ariel Pink, Mac Demarco, The Shins, Ty Segall, Darwin Deez and The Strokes – but it’s the bands in his relatively unheralded western suburbs community who provide Dan...
Remote Control will be heading to BIGSOUND 2016! Catch all our bands at the times below. On Tuesday night, we’re taking over The Elephant for a Pre-BIGSOUND party! Join the Facebook event here. SET TIMES 8:00 – 8:25pm – Jarrow DJ set – Sosefina Fuamoli 8:40 – 9:05pm – Leah Senior DJ set – DJ Darren Lesaguis 9:20 – 9:45pm – Gabriella Cohen DJ set – Lorrae & Georgia Remote Control DJs 10:00 – 10:25pm...
After the great success of our Dot Dash Pre-BIGSOUND Party last year, we are stoked to bring you the 2016 edition: REMOTE CONTROL RECORDS PRE-BIGSOUND PARTY Tuesday 6th September @ The Elephant Hotel, Brisbane From 8PM 18+ We are very excited about this incredible line up of Australian artists from our local labels Dot Dash, Barely Dressed & Flightless. A brilliant array of talent crossing multiple genres will join us for the parrrttaaayyy, including: friendships Lost Animal...
Melbourne’s Jarrow has released a hilarious video for ‘$$ Spoilers $$’ $$ Spoilers $$ reveals an as-yet unseen side of the prolific and enigmatic Jarrow. The single is an astonishingly creative mix of self-produced garage-pop, tongue-in-cheek humor and flourishes of psychadelia – all performed and mixed by Dan Oke aka Jarrow. The hilarious/absurd video for $$ Spoilers $$ (premiered via Noisey ) was written and conceived in a month, filmed...
Barely Dressed Records and Remote Control are incredibly excited to announce the signing of indie-pop wunderkind Jarrow. Jarrow is the solo project of 20 year-old Footscray-based musician Dan Oke. After spending much of the last year studying and performing in Nashville, Jarrow returns to Australia to join the Barely Dressed Records roster. Cube is the first taste of Jarrow’s upcoming debut album and a masterful example of his ability as a producer and songwriter. The economy of Jarrow’s songwriting is laid bare. The charming...
