Rock band Sleater-Kinney have released their 10th studio album, Path Of Wellness via Milk! Records/Remote Control and share lyric video ‘Method’. The song is a scrappy plea for tenderness, a grasp at vulnerability in times that require toughness and armor. Path of Wellness has already been lauded one of the most anticipated albums from the likes of Vulture and Vogue. Click HERE to watch to ‘Method,’ with a lyric video by Lance Bangs....
Bachelor – the collaborative project of Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and Palehound’s Ellen Kempner – have released their debut album Doomin’ Sun, out now through Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Written and recorded in Topanga, CA over the course of two weeks in January of 2020, pre-pandemic, Doomin’ Sun is a record steeped in friendship. Kempner and Duterte hybridised their individual songwriting talents, producing a collection that slips between moods with ease and showcases their lyrical prowess. While the album features collaborations with the likes...
Today, rock band Sleater-Kinney share their second offering ‘High In The Grass’ from their forthcoming 10th studio album, Path Of Wellness which is due out June 11 via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. To coincide with the track release, the band also shares the Kelly Sears directed video. ‘High In The Grass’ follows the release of the first single ‘Worry With You’ which was met with great critical praise from the likes of...
Sleater-Kinney return with a new single and video entitled ‘Worry With You’. It marks their first new music since 2019. The accompanying visual, which was shot in Portland, Oregon was directed by Alberta Poon and stars Fabi Reyna and Megan Watson. The song also heralds the arrival of the group’s tenth full-length studio record, Path Of Wellness (via Milk! Records / Remote Control) arriving on June 11th. The album is now available for pre-order at all digital service providers. Pre-order here. In the midst...
Liz Stringer releases her sixth studio album—First Time Really Feeling—on Milk! Records, a ten-song collection documenting a recent reckoning and metamorphosis for the acclaimed Australian singer-songwriter. Recorded at Toronto’s Union Sound Company and produced and engineered by Chris Stringer (no relation to Liz, and known for his work with Timber Timbre and the Rheostatics), this will no doubt be regarded as Stringer’s seminal work and her most searingly personal: a musical time-capsule of love, loss and legacy,...
Bachelor – the collaborative project of Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and Palehound’s Ellen Kempner – will release its debut album Doomin’ Sun on May 28th via Milk! Records. The duo share another single off of the record. Of the country-inflected ‘Sick of Spiraling‘ the band says “Sick of Spiraling is one of the last songs we wrote and recorded together in Topanga. Both of us initially tried to play drums on the song but the groove wasn’t right so we enlisted help from James Krivchenia. He came over...
Courtney Barnett launches a unique and wonderfully detailed online archive of her touring and performing history. The project was initially conceived as a way to give Barnett’s fans a simple way to experience her live performances at a time where touring was made impossible, but during the website’s development it became clear it could become so much more. View the site here. Courtney played her first ever show at an open mic night at The Lark Distillery in Hobart in 2007, she...
Bachelor is not a band, it is a friendship. Critically acclaimed, indie-rock powerhouses Jay Som (Melina Duterte) and Palehound (Ellen Kempner) have joined forces to form a new project called Bachelor. They release their debut single ‘Anything At All’ via Milk! Records. The two musicians came together in pre-quarantine 2020, recording in California during what was then a rare break from touring. Written, performed, and produced entirely by the pair, the new single starts with a heavy, funky bass line...
Liz Stringer announces her sixth studio album First Time Really Feeling; a ten-song collection documenting a recent reckoning and metamorphosis for the acclaimed singer-songwriter. Released Friday 30 April, it’s her first album for Milk! Records and is proceeded by the title track and video – both out now. Premiered on Mornings with Zan on Double J, Stringer says of the track, “It’s about experiencing the world with a clear and present...
Comprised of two songs, ‘4th of july,’ a simmering swell of chaos and beauty and ‘i believe in you,’ a favorite of Meg Duffy‘s from the Neil Young canon, the EP finds the songwriter exploring themes of growth and finding ways to let go of the parts of their past that no longer serve them. After cutting their teeth in the upstate New York d.i.y. music scene and several years...
Hachiku are excited to finally announce a tour of Victoria and New South Wales to celebrate the release of their acclaimed debut album I’ll Probably Be Asleep. The tour includes Melbourne album launches as part of the Brunswick Music Festival (the first of which is already sold out) as well as reaching many regional areas – tickets are available now here. To celebrate the tour announcement, Hachiku have released a...
Hand Habits, the project of Meg Duffy (they/them), has shared a cover of Neil Young‘s ‘i believe in you,’ the latest from their upcoming dirt EP. dirt finds the songwriter exploring themes of growth and finding ways to let go of the parts of their past that no longer serve them. It illuminates Duffy’s attempts to evolve beyond the confines of their past. Last month Hand Habits shared a video...
Hand Habits, the project of Meg Duffy (they/them), announces dirt EP with the release of a video for its lead single ‘4th of july.’ dirt finds the songwriter exploring themes of growth and finding ways to let go of the parts of their past that no longer serve them. It illuminates Duffy’s attempts to evolve beyond the confines of their past. Of the song and video, Duffy said “‘4th of...
Courtney Barnett today announced that she will be performing a global live stream on Thursday 17th December from the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne. The event will be available across multiple time zones for audiences around the world and is the first full-band show she will have performed since the sold-out Corner Hotel bushfire fundraising gigs in early January. From Where I’m Standing: Live from the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne will stream...
Hachiku release their highly anticipated debut LP I’ll Probably Be Asleep on Milk! Records and share a new video for ‘Dreams of Galapagos‘ directed by Chloe Holliday. When a close friend took an in-advance listen to Hachiku’s debut album, I’ll Probably Be Asleep, she had one question for bandleader Anika Ostendorf: “‘why are you so angry?’” It’s not the first reaction that most people would have to the Melbourne-based outfit, whose dream-pop...
Following last month’s announcement of Hachiku’s forthcoming debut album I’ll Probably Be Asleep, Anika Ostendorf returns with its second single ‘Bridging Visa B’. Premiered by Visions, it’s a tale of being left in bureaucratic limbo. On the surface, the track exudes breezy delight with Hachiku’s trademark production of elastic guitars, Casio drum beats and gentle vocals but beneath lies a concern that the validity of your romantic relationship—not to mention...
