Goat Girl have shared a new video to ‘Scum’, taken from their debut double a-side single ‘Country Sleaze’ / ‘Scum’, out now via Rough Trade / Remote Control. The video was directed by Holly Whittaker and features many friends and members of bands who are from the same south London scene that Goat Girl emerged. Watch them being force fed below. Goat Girl are: Clottie Cream, Rosy Bones, Naima Jelly and...
The Colorist Orchestra & Emiliana Torrini have shared a new video for ‘When We Dance’. The single is one of two brand new songs that feature on a collaborative self-titled live album to be released on Friday 9th December. Watch the video below. Emiliana describes the unique circumstances behind the song’s origin, “We had two days to write a song before the booked studio time. We were in the Belgian countryside staying...
The Colorist Orchestra & Emilíana Torrini have announced a collaborative self-titled album to be released on Friday 9th December 2016 via Rough Trade / Remote Control. This is a live album containing nine Emiliana Torrini songs from her catalog along with two brand new songs. Seeing Emilíana and The Colorist Orchestra in concert is a truly special experience. They have a musical chemistry that is undeniable, and documenting the experience on an album...
Warpaint have added a show in Perth when they return to Australia this February 2017 in support of their new record Heads Up. Catch the band at Perth International Arts Festival on February 19, Brisbane at The Triffid on February 22, Melbourne at Zoo Twilights on February 24 and Sydney Opera House on February 25. More tour details below. This will be the band’s third tour of Australia after very successful headline shows nationally...
Leading into the end of the year, ANOHNI shares a video for her newest album’s title track. ‘HOPELESSNESS’ is a song that demonstrates how a cry of despair can transform into a call for re-engagement doubled and tripled in a mix whose rhythms recall South African freedom songs, it deconstructs the process of uplift arising from the ashes of grief. Watch the new visual below. “I am a human, a warm-blooded creature. I love...
Warpaint return to Australia this February 2017 in support of their new record Heads Up. Catch the band in Brisbane at The Triffid on February 22, Melbourne at Zoo Twilights on February 24 and Sydney Opera House on February 25. More tour details below. This will be the band’s third tour of Australia after very successful headline shows nationally and festival appearances at Laneway and Splendour In The Grass. Their live performances continue to...
Parquet Courts have announced their Melbourne headline show. It will be the first event for Shadow Electric’s 2017 summer project Shimmerlands, at The University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus. Top-notch local lineup Tyrannamen, Ausmuteants and Nicky Crane plus DJs Etta & Tilly will be joining the Shimmerlands Parquet Courts show on Thursday 5th January, further tour details below! The Brooklyn band has steadily achieved universal props as one of the best rock bands of their generation whilst staying firmly rooted in the DIY punk aesthetic and philosophy....
Warpaint have today released their highly anticipated third album Heads Up via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control. Heads Up was recorded after the band spent 2015 apart working on solo projects and their own endeavors. Reuniting in January of this year, the band invited producer Jacob Bercovici—with whom they had worked on their debut EP Exquisite Corpse—into their House on the Hill studio in Downtown Los Angeles to begin...
Next month, teenage South London four piece, Goat Girl release their debut 7″ with two songs, each one a caustic commentary on the England they’ve grown up in: ‘Country Sleaze’ is a brooding two-chord time capsule that sounds like it’s been beamed over from a Seattle divebar in 1989. Both tracks were recorded purposefully quickly in a no-nonsense north London studio a few weeks ago with fast-rising producer Margo Broom. Goat...
ANOHNI shares new video for ‘Crisis’ starring Storm Lever, watch it below. The track is taken from Mercury Prize nominated album HOPELESSNESS out now via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. ‘Crisis’ is ANOHNI’s version of America’s un-issued Chilcot report. The lyrics of of this song inventory some of the ways in which the U.S. has exacerbated and helped to provoke the current global ‘Crisis’. “De-escalation cannot occur until we truly account for what the United States...
To celebrate the announcement of Overnight, the forthcoming debut album by Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker, they share first single ‘The Waning Crescent’. The album follows their Rough Trade debut EP, Through The Clouds, which was released earlier this year. Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker won Best Duo at the 2015 BBC Folk Awards. Their rendition of the traditional ballad The Banks of The Sweet Primroses at the televised awards ceremony prompted 6...
Pantha Du Prince has shared a new video for ‘In An Open Space’ ahead of the release of his anticipated album The Triad out tomorrow via Rough Trade / Remote Control. It is the first Pantha Du Prince solo album since 2010’s breakout Black Noise. When Pantha Du Prince’s Hendrik Weber set about to make his new album The Triad he deliberately aimed to “open the structure to more human...
ANOHNI, the singer of Antony and the Johnsons, has today released her new album HOPELESSNESS via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. A collaboration with Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke, HOPELESSNESS is a dance record with soulful vocals and lyrics addressing subjects including surveillance, drone warfare and ecocide. The album seeks to disrupt assumptions about popular music through the collision of electronic sound and highly politicized lyrics. The record...
ANOHNI, the singer of Antony and the Johnsons, announces the release of her new album, ‘HOPELESSNESS’, out May 6th on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. A collaboration with Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke, HOPELESSNESS is a dance record with soulful vocals and lyrics addressing subjects including surveillance, drone warfare and ecocide. The album seeks to disrupt assumptions about popular music through the collision of electronic sound and highly...
Alabama Shakes have won 4 GRAMMY Awards for Best Alternative Album, Best Rock Song, Best Rock Performance and Best Engineered Album for their critically acclaimed record Sound & Color out now via Rough Trade / Remote Control. Watch the band’s acceptance speeches here. Watch ‘Best Rock Song’ – Don’t Wanna Fight below
British duo Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker have risen to star status lately on the English acoustic scene, earning last year’s Best Duo award from the BBC in their Folk Awards. On Friday 4 March, Clarke & Walker will release a new EP, Through The Clouds, via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records, featuring a handful of the best tracks from their small catalogue, rearranged anew. Watch their Rough Trade session for ‘Silverline’ below.
