Princess Nokia just re-released a remastered and expanded version of her 2014 debut full length Metallic Butterfly, featuring three bonus tracks from the era. Before the rapper/actor/model/intersectional feminist became the icon she is today, Destiny Frasqueri was a young trip-hop and Bjork-obsessed NYC raver kid. The album showcases all sides of what we’ve now come to know as the definitive multi-faceted artist Princess Nokia: music lover, philosopher, activist and anime...
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After an incredible year, releasing their debut LP and touring the world, Starcrawler return home with a brand-new single entitled ‘Hollywood Ending’ which was mixed by Nick Launay and produced by Ryan Adams. Out digitally and on a 7” including the b-side ‘Tank Top’, produced by Nick Launay. Listen below! Vocalist Arrow de Wilde says “Hollywood Ending is my version of a prayer. In the song I pray for ‘The End’....
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Goat Girl are pleased to announce the release of an exclusive limited edition EP, Udder Sounds, produced by Dan Carey. The band recorded five re-imagined tracks including ‘The Man’ from their self-titled debut album and one interlude. This will be limited to 600 copies exclusively at Rough Trade. Listen to ‘The Man (Udder Sounds Edit)’ below! The band have had a great 2018, they have just won Q Magazine’s joint Breakthrough Artist...
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NYC’s Parquet Courts will perform two Laneway Festival sideshows this summer. Catch Parquet Courts perform in Melbourne on Thursday 31 January at The Croxton and in Sydney on Wednesday 6 Feburary at The Factory Theatre. Supporting the band in Melbourne and Sydney will be Brisbane outfit The Goon Sax who recently released their new album We’re Not Talking. Melbourne’s Primo! will also join both bands at The Croxton. Full tour...
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SOAK is back today with beautiful new single ‘Everybody Loves You’, this is the first sight of new SOAK material since 2015’s critically-acclaimed debut album, Before We Forgot How To Dream. Watch the accompanying visual below! With extensive global touring along the way – and extreme experiences which have taken her far beyond (but often back to) her close-knit hometown of Derry – Bridie has been hard at work on...
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Parquet Courts have released their Wide Awake! Remixes EP, which features an edit by NYC’s Danny Krivit and two remixes by Mikey Young – ‘Wide Awake (Club Mix)’ and ‘Normalization (Collective Witnessing Mix)’. Catch the band tour Australia as part of Laneway Festival 2019. Tour dates and details below! “I like the spirit of the rock song remixed for the dance floor,” says A. Savage. “Some of my favourite versions of rock songs,...
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Gruff Rhys follows a series of sold out gigs played with full orchestras in Cardiff, London and Manchester with a new video for ‘Selfies In The Sunset’, the closing track from his fifth album Babelsberg, out now. Watch below! Directed and animated by Ewan Jones Morris, the video features Gruff and guest singer Lily Cole creating Animojis ahead of the apocalypse. Of the track, Gruff writes: A couple of years ago...
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Sleaford Mods are pleased to share their self-titled EP Sleaford Mods, out now on 12”, CD & DL. This is the band’s first new music since last year’s album English Tapas. Jason Williamson says, “The lead tracks are mostly full of violent tendencies that only transpire through imagination. People are powerless under the political monster and the intense anger and frustration morphs into illusions of attacking each other through the...
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Following the release of their anti-Trump single ‘Stop Him’, Honey Hahs today release ‘River’, the second single from their forthcoming debut album Dear Someone, Happy Something, out Friday 7th September. Watch video below! Robin of Honey Hahs explains the inspiration behind the song: “River is about a sad film we watched that really touched us called ‘Bridge to Terabithia’. Rowan found it hard to accept that the girl character in the film...
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Sleaford Mods announce their self-titled new EP Sleaford Mods, which will be released on Friday 14th September. The EP was recorded in Nottingham earlier this year, and features five new tracks including lead track shared today, ‘Stick in A Five and Go’. Watch the lyric video below! Jason Williamson says, “The lead tracks are mostly full of violent tendencies that only transpire through imagination. People are powerless under the political monster...
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Honey Hahs are excited to announce their debut album Dear Someone, Happy Something, to be released on Friday 7th September. They have shared the first single ‘Stop Him’, to be lifted from the album, an anti-Donald Trump song along with an accompanying video, watch below! Honey Hahs are three sisters from Honor Oak Park in South London, aged 16, 13 and 11. Rowan plays guitar and piano, Robin plays bass and...
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Gruff Rhys releases his fifth album, Babelsberg, it’s his first record for Rough Trade since 2007’s classic Candylion. Babelsberg was initially recorded in early 2016 in a whirlwind three day session that took place before producer Ali Chant’s studio was demolished. The band he gathered for the record were his regular drummer Kliph Scurlock and multi-instrumentalists Stephen Black and Osian Gwynedd. The tracks then hibernated for eighteen months, awaiting orchestral scores by Swansea...
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Princess Nokia has released the latest video for her pop punk anthem ‘Look Up Kid’ from her recent mixtape, A Girl Cried Red. Watch the video below! The New York rapper—aka Destiny Frasqueri—co-directed ‘Look Up Kid’ with frequent collaborator Milah Libin. The visual sees Frasqueri embracing her rock roots and performing with a full band. A Girl Cried Red showcases another fully formed side of Destiny that still taps into the uncompromising feminist...
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Gruff Rhys shares ‘Limited Edition Heart’, the second song to be released from Babelsberg, the fifth album by Gruff Rhys and his first record for Rough Trade and Remote Control since 2007’s classic Candylion. Gruff said “I wrote Limited Edition Heart whilst walking along a polluted yet beautiful river. It has beautiful orchestral arrangements thanks to Stephen McNeff and the BBC NOW orchestra.” Babelsberg was initially recorded in early 2016 in...
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Starcrawler have launched a new video for their song ‘Love’s Gone Again’. The single comes from their debut self-titled album, which was recorded by their #1 fan Ryan Adams. Filmed mainly at two shows in Tokyo during their recent sold-out tour of Japan, the video for ‘Love’s Gone Again’ is a fun view into their stunning and impressive live shows, and the amazing reaction from audiences in Japan. Starcrawler are...
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Last week was a whirlwind for Parquet Courts. They flew to Los Angeles for a brief visit to serenade Ellen and her TV studio audience with a jubilant performance of ‘Wide Awake’, the title track off their forthcoming album, out May 18. After that, they headed for a quick jaunt through Texas performing at Levitation Fest in Austin. Now, the band share their new single ‘Mardi Gras Beads’. The song is...
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