Queens of the Stone Age return with a stunning new single ‘Easy Street’, and announce massive Australia and New Zealand tour. Debuted live last year during their lauded Catacombs tour and eagerly awaited by fans, it’s the band’s first new song since 2023’s In Times New Roman. The music is serene and perfectly imperfect — acoustic guitar, psychedelic synths, and a rhythm track that breathes on its own. Beneath the surface: raw edges and withering wit. Featuring singer Nikki Lane,...
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YHWH Nailgun share their new album Magazine via 4AD, out now digitally with physical formats arriving on August 22. Based in New York, YHWH Nailgun have built a reputation on music that is visceral, immediate, and impossible to neatly categorise. What began in 2020 as the raw collision between vocalist Zack Borzone and drummer Sam Pickard has since evolved into a full four-piece alongside guitarist/producer Saguiv Rosenstock and synth player...
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YHWH Nailgun [yah-way] announce their forthcoming album, Magazine, out 11 June, their first release on 4AD. Based in New York, YHWH Nailgun have built a reputation on music that is visceral, immediate, and impossible to neatly categorise. What began in 2020 as the raw collision between vocalist Zack Borzone and drummer Sam Pickard has since evolved into a full four-piece alongside guitarist/producer Saguiv Rosenstock and synth player Jack Tobias. Their new album Magazine further sharpens the band’s uncompromising vision. Across 10...
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Belle & Sebastian dial up World Cup fever with ‘It Only Takes One Lion’, their bid for Scotland’s tournament anthem. Written following Scotland’s 4-2 qualifying win against Denmark and premiered at London’s Royal Albert Hall as part of the band’s triumphant anniversary world tour for their classic first two albums Tigermilk and If You’re Feeling Sinister, ‘It Only Takes One Lion’ moves from hopeful hymn to uptempo, string-laden disco pop, capturing the giddy expectancy of the...
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Julia Jacklin has made a name for herself as one of Australia’s most internationally celebrated songwriters, with nominations at both the ARIA and Libera Awards, sold-out shows globally, massive tours with the likes of Mitski and Lana Del Rey, performances on major festival stages from Glastonbury to Pitchfork to Newport Folk to Primavera, and countless accolades for her critically acclaimed, Billboard-charting albums. Today Jacklin announces the start of her next...
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Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Rowena Wise announces her sophomore album, Bad Things Feel Good*, set for release on Friday 7th August, 2026, and shares her new single ‘Diamond In The Rough‘, out now. The announcement follows her recent return with ‘Blood Ties’, a song that confronted inherited silence and the emotional architecture of family, signalling the arrival of a body of work that deepens everything that has made Wise one of Australia’s most compelling voices...
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Sydney duo Party Dozen return with new single and music video, ‘Special Unit’. Written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered, shot by and starring the band themselves, the track packs a lot into its 2 mins and 39 seconds. Less is more. More volume. More energy. In a three week period that will see Party Dozen play Sydney Opera House (for Vivid Festival) this Monday 25th May, and Red Rocks (as...
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Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Rowena Wise (she/her) returns with her first solo single in two years, ‘Blood Ties’, alongside its accompanying video, watch here. Wise also announces an intimate run of solo shows across Meanjin, Eora, and Naarm in May and June to celebrate the release. Following the success of her debut record Senseless Acts of Beauty (2024), Wise has been hailed as a “lyrical assassin” by triple j, writing songs that feel like...
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Geordie Greep, the celebrated frontman of black midi, is bringing his debut solo album, The New Sound, to Australian stages this July and August. The New Sound is a record that throws open the doors on what happens when there’s no one else in the room to answer to. As he puts it “Music can be so much more than learning to play the same as everybody else. It can be...
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2026 marks the 50th year as a recording artist for legendary Australian musician Ed Kuepper. To celebrate he is taking to the road with The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper a full band performance featuring the added talents of drummer Mark Dawson, bassist Peter Oxley, keyboard player Alister Spence and brass arranger Eamon Dilworth as they tackle material from right across Ed’s illustrious 50 years career. “The band is blistering; Peter Oxley and Mark Dawson are locked in as tight as...
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Earlier this year, Dry Cleaning released their new album Secret Love. The beloved band of vocalist Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton and bassist Lewis Maynard’s third album received glowing Album of the Week/Month accolades from the likes of The Sunday Times, The Observer, Record Collector, The Guardian, MOJO, and more, with the latter’s 5* critique calling the album, “a surrealist masterpiece.” Ahead of the band’s extensive tour...
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Generational pop icon Robyn today releases her acclaimed new album Sexistential. Her first album in eight years and the most ecstatic record that she’s ever made: the sound of one of contemporary music’s most influential artists coming home. After the club music meditations of 2018’s Honey, the album features nine, deeply playful pop songs that tie back to her era-defining Body Talk trilogy, designed to feel “like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at...
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The ‘Megaton’ seven-inch edition featuring the track ‘Give ‘Em What They Want’ as its B-side is out now. Available on red vinyl from the band and Rough Trade Records’ web store, on blue from indie record shops and on general sale on black wax. Continuing the duo’s on-going collaboration with the charity War Child, all proceeds from the release will be donated to support War Child’s life-changing work with children...
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Sleaford Mods will release their new album, The Demise Of Planet X, on 16 January 2026. The record is available to pre-order and pre-save now, with a limited-edition version on neon green marbled vinyl with glow in the dark sleeve (exclusive to independent record shops). The album will also be available on black vinyl, CD and cassette, the latter coming in a fetching shade of toxic green. Sleaford Mods will...
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bar italia release new single and video ‘rooster’, the latest preview from their upcoming album Some Like It Hot, released October 17th. Flowing between sinuous groove and sinister guitar onslaughts, ‘rooster’ is another showcase of the new album’s union of the anthemic and unbridled. Some Like It Hot is a 1959 film starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon about a group of rogue musicians on the adventure path....
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David Byrne releases his highly anticipated new album Who Is The Sky?, out now alongside new single ‘What Is The Reason For It? (feat. Hayley Williams)’. Marked by the inviting vocal interplay between Byrne and Paramore’s Williams, ‘What Is the Reason for It?’ aims to understand love in a way logic can rarely accomplish (“does it do something useful? / nobody understands it”). Born from a creative collaboration between David...
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