Melbourne’s jade imagine release their debut LP Basic Love. Featuring singles ‘The News,’ ‘Remote Control’ and ‘Big Old House,’ the album is out now on Milk! Records. A powerful exploration of the simple vs. the abstract, Basic Love is an existential ride that shimmers through its playful pop-tones and stripped back nature. Emotionally dictated by the wit and noir of Jade McInally (vocals, guitar, synths) and propelled by a band...
Sleater-Kinney have shared the fourth single off The Center Won’t Hold, their new album out 16 August. Watch the lyric video below. ‘Can I Go On’ pulls the listener in with its upbeat, hooky guitar riffs and catchy chorus, but delivers a contrastingly pained message of existential despair; “Sell our rage, buy and trade, but we still cry for free every day…… maybe I’m not sure I wanna go on at all.”...
Announcing the return of iconic songwriting supergroup Dyson Stringer Cloher – Mia Dyson, Liz Stringer, and Jen Cloher. ‘Falling Clouds‘ is out now. A return as monumental as this requires a video to match. Read Cloher’s comments on it below. “Drag has always been a fun way to explore gender through performance. ‘Falling Clouds’ examines how the rules and privileges of gender have shaped the careers of women and non...
It’s a total pleasure to announce the signing of Chastity Belt to Milk! Records for Australia and New Zealand! Their self titled third record is out 20 September. Chastity Belt’s energy is like a circuit, circling around the silly and the sincere. Tongue-in-cheek shit-shooting and existential rumination feed into each other infinitely. Theirs is a long-term relationship, and that loop sustains them. That’s a creative thesis in and of itself, but...
After two years, jade imagine are back! Premiering via Double J and Pilerats, check out the video and listen to ‘Big Old House‘ here. Front-person and key songwriter Jade McInally says of the track “I wrote ‘Big Old House’ in Sunshine Beach, after a dream in which a loose melody and lyrics came to me and stuck around just in time for me to get them down on paper. It was the...
LA based artist, Hand Habits (aka Meg Duffy) has released their new album placeholder via Milk! Records. Meg Duffy grew up in a small town in Upstate New York, and cut their teeth as a session guitarist and touring member of Kevin Morby’s band. The name placeholder stems from Meg’s fascination with the undefinable. Their songs serve as openings, carved-out spaces waiting to be endowed with meaning. As a lyricist, Meg is drawn to the in-between, and...
Los Angeles-based artist Hand Habits has shared ‘can’t calm down‘, the latest single from their upcoming album, placeholder, out Friday 1st March. The song features vocal contributions from Elizabeth Powell of Land of Talk. Watch the accompanying video below! Duffy says “this song took the longest lyrically for me to finish. i started it about 3 years ago and kept it in progress throughout different cycles of feeling. ‘ancestral damage’ and learned behaviours and conditioning to react/hold and place certain emotions are...
Courtney Barnett (photo by Christo Herriot) made history when she became the first ever solo female artist to win the Best Rock Album category at the ARIA Awards. Barnett’s achievement was all the more significant given the fact that she released her album independently through her own label Milk! Records, she’s the second fully independent artist to win the award. The award is deserved recognition for Barnett whose second album Tell...
Tiny Ruins, originally conceived as the solo project of New Zealand singer-songwriter Hollie Fullbrook, are releasing their third album Olympic Girls on Friday 1st February. After sharing the lead single of the same name, Tiny Ruins has now shared ‘School of Design’. Listen below! It was recorded live, with the full band of Cass Basil on bass, Alex Freer on drums and Tom Healy on electric guitar in their hometown...
Tiny Ruins announce the upcoming release of their new album Olympic Girls, out Friday 1st February 2019. To celebrate, they have released their new single and title track ‘Olympic Girls’ with its official music video. Watch below! Directed by Charlotte Evans, the video follows the first acoustic guitar flourish of ‘Olympic Girls’ ushering the potent words of Tiny Ruins’ Hollie Fullbrook. The track is buoyant with a rolling energy. Cascading...
Courtney Barnett and her album Tell Me How You Really Feel have been nominated for 8 ARIA Awards including Album Of The Year, Best Female Artist, Best Rock Album, Best Independent Release, Best Video and Best Live Act. Courtney was also nominated for Best Adult Contemporary Album for Lotta Sea Lice – her collaborative album with Kurt Vile. Earlier this morning at the Art Gallery Of New South Wales it...
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....
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...
Milk! Records are proud to announce the signing of New Zealand’s Tiny Ruins for Australia. To celebrate, she has unveiled new single ‘How Much’ along with an accompanying video directed by Charlotte Evans. Watch below! “How much would you be willing to give?” Hollie Fullbrook asks point-blank in ‘How Much’, ahead of woozily discordant strings and a stomping neo-psychedelic rhythm. The lyric brims with imagery of supermarket breakdowns, lilos, snarks...
