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...
Art-folk virtuoso Ryan Downey will be joining the incredible Marlon Williams on his tour throughout the UK & Europe this November. The combination of two of the antipode’s most breathtaking voices is sure to be something special for European audiences – dates and details below. Ryan’s new song ‘No More Miracles’ was released a few weeks ago alongside the haunting B-Side ‘Those Eyes That Answer (Reprise)’ – a fitting follow-up to...
Melbourne’s Total Giovanni are thrilled to release their debut album Euphoria, out today. A blend of Balearic hedonism, classic punk funk and psychedelic washes, Euphoria feels like a sweaty dancefloor and tastes like the first burst of summer. Glistening singles ‘Your Light’, ‘Comes In Waves’, ‘Awake’ & ‘I See’ each draw on the diverse inspirations that have influenced the making of Euphoria, where the Paradise Garage meets Madchester on the...
Interpol have shared a new remix by electronic duo DJDS of ‘The Rover’, taken from their new album Marauder, out now. The infectious rework sees Balearic synth stabs and undulating rhythm serve as the backdrop to Paul Banks’ haunting vocals and lyrics of an elusive cult leader. Listen below! Having just played a triumphant show at LA’s legendary Hollywood Bowl as part of the North American leg of their worldwide...
Richard Ayoade, the BAFTA-nominated film director, actor, TV presenter and comedian, has been a long-time fan of The Breeders. As a young teen in 1990, Ayoade recalls travelling from his Ipswich home to London to buy the band’s first album Pod. Today, nearly 30 years after making that journey, he has teamed up with his favourite band to create an eerie short story for their latest single, ‘Spacewoman’. Watch below!...
Following on from the announce of their debut record Euphoria, set for release on October 19, Melbourne’s Total Giovanni are delighted to share the video for their new single ‘Awake’. Watch below! Total Giovanni’s Vachel Spirason describes – “The song ‘Awake’ is about desire and insomnia so the original idea was of a late night 1900 number ad that comes on the tele as it playfully riffs on both those...
Ryan Downey has released the striking new track ‘No More Miracles’, alongside the haunting B-Side ‘Those Eyes That Answer (Reprise)’ – a fitting follow-up to his debut album released earlier this year. Listen below! ‘No More Miracles’ is the Melbourne-based indie-crooner‘s most stunning song to date. Ambitious in its scope but simple in its execution, a gritty introduction gives way to a majestic choral interlude. It needs to be heard...
Melbourne’s Total Giovanni are thrilled to finally announce their forthcoming debut album Euphoria set for release on Friday 19th October. To celebrate the announcement the band have shared their newest offering ‘Awake’. Listen below! ‘Awake’ is a short burst of Balearic hedonism, classic punk funk and psychedelic washes. It feels like a sweaty dancefloor and tastes like the first burst of summer. It draws on the diverse inspirations that have...
Details of the new Kurt Vile album have finally be confirmed, Bottle It In is out on Friday 12 October and now available for pre-order here. Today’s announcement is accompanied by the release of a new single ‘Bassackwards’, an ode to the parking challenges in Vile’s native Philadelphia. Watch the video below! The epic, loping ‘Bassackwards’ is the album’s beating heart and Vile’s most compelling evocation of how he sees the world: “I was...
Melbourne-born, LA-based multidisciplinary artist Banoffee (aka Martha Brown) has returned with new single ‘Muscle Memory’, it’s is the first new music since 2015’s SOPHIE co-production ‘Ripe’. Watch the accompanying video below! Written during a breakup, Banoffee explains, “Muscle Memory is about living in that phantom realm, where your body still feels in a two places at once. I wrote it to capture the feeling of when u touch someone and suddenly remember...
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...
Blue Poles, the fifth album by Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders is out now. From one of the most singular characters in Australian music, Blue Poles is mournful, sardonic and surreal – showcasing an essential voice and master of musical narrative. To complement the album release is a mesmerising new video for the song ‘Susan’. Inspired by 1980s psychic hotline infomercials, director Leilani Croucher interpreted the song as someone looking for...
Evelyn Ida Morris has shared a new video directed by Julia Suddenly for ‘Darwin Heat’, from their newly released self-titled album. Watch below! Evelyn shares – “When Julia pitched the idea of a naked body filmed in the murky waters of a river it resonated with me so clearly that I insisted on being that body. I am a big fan of using artworks as experiences, and the challenge of letting...
‘Feel Brand New’ is the third song taken from Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders’ forthcoming album, Blue Poles, out 4th May. Listen below! The track takes a different direction, both musically and thematically from previous single ‘White Flag’. Instead he captures and celebrates the sweet disposition that love can make life’s problems seem insignificant. It’s Jack Ladder at his most playful and joyous. “The bones of the song appeared on...
Hachiku shares a steamy new video for latest single ‘Murray’s Lullaby’. Having just returned from a sold out tour of the Europe and U.K. opening for Jen Cloher, you can catch them heating up a stage in celebration of the single’s launch in March. Full details below! The video for ‘Murray’s Lullaby’ is slick in every other meaning apart from ‘cool’. Set within the dripping wet walls of a sauna...
Car Seat Headrest releases new album Twin Fantasy – the re-recorded, re-imagined new version of the 2011 self-released Bandcamp masterpiece of the same name. The band will tour Australia next week. Further tour details below. Will Toledo always knew he would return to Twin Fantasy. Will’s first love, rendered in the vivid teenage viscera of stolen gin, bruised shins, and weird sex, was an event too momentous for the medium assigned to record...
