27 May 2026
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…
27 May 2026
On April 17th, Kim Gordon performed at Le Trianon theatre in Paris, playing her acclaimed new album PLAY ME in full as well as tracks from her previous solo albums The Collective and No Home Record. The full concert was filmed by ARTE and is now available to watch HERE, an arresting document of Gordon’s current musical era. Gordon is backed by her band Emily Retsas (bass), Madi Voigt (drums),…
27 May 2026
Inventor of the “infinite guitar” and Grammy-nominated film composer (with credits including Heat, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Into the Wild), Canadian musician Michael Brook announces the first vinyl reissue of his 1992 record Cobalt Blue and the vinyl debut of Live at the Aquarium, both out July 10th — a long-overdue celebration of underrated gems in the 4AD catalogue, newly remastered by Rashad Becker and presented on Crystal Clear 2×LP and…
22 May 2026
Over the past twenty years, Future Islands have travelled a rare arc — from promising newcomers to something closer to a best-kept secret, from cult favourites to a band that has quietly endured. Rather than marking the moment with a traditional “best of,” they now present From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth – an immediate and accessible collection, with many of these songs appearing on streaming services…
22 May 2026
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…
22 May 2026
Out digitally today, Teen of Denial: Joe’s Story is a freshly reimagined take on Car Seat Headrest’s beloved breakout Teens of Denial, now celebrating its 10th anniversary. A physical edition will follow on October 16th. On the original album, Toledo often used the name “Joe” as a pseudonym – a sly homage to Daniel Johnston. Revisiting Teens in the run-up to its 10th birthday, he felt called to give Joe a unique backstory and began tweaking the album…
15 May 2026
Overmono announce their hotly-anticipated second album Pure Devotion, arriving Friday, 7 August. Sharing a name with the beloved series of live events they launched in 2024, Pure Devotion is Overmono’s most ambitious project to date. It’s the sound of beautiful imperfections, machine malfunctions and happy accidents, harnessed by the unflinching confidence that Overmono – aka brothers Tom and Ed Russell – have gained through years at the vanguard of underground electronic music, and subsequent breakthrough as one…
15 May 2026
This Is Lorelei, the project of the prolific New York artist Nate Amos, has signed to Matador Records. Alongside the signing, Amos announces a UK autumn tour culminating in a London show at Electric Brixton on November 26, as well as North American dates with Bleachers, @ and Colin Miller, plus appearances at Kilby Block Party, Newport Folk and Just Like Heaven Festivals. This Is Lorelei recently released the Super Deluxe version of Box For Buddy, Box…
15 May 2026
London’s caroline share a new remix of their song ‘Beautiful ending’ by Giant Claw. The song is originally from their critically-acclaimed sophomore album caroline 2. caroline’s founding members Casper Hughes, Jasper Llewellyn and Mike O’Malley began playing together in 2017. As the band’s sound kept expanding, so too did their line-up, eventually becoming an eight-piece completed by Freddy Wordsworth, Magdalena McLean, Oliver Hamilton, Hugh Aynsley and Alex McKenzie. By the time the cast settled towards the end of 2019, the songs too were expansive…
15 May 2026
Continuing the band’s 40th anniversary celebrations, Complete B-Sides: 1988-97 by Pixies is being reissued 25 years after its initial release, out June 26, 2026. Having been remastered, the compilation of the band’s timeless “other” tracks will be available on double black vinyl, double clear vinyl, and double CD; also marking the first time the release has been officially pressed on vinyl. Originally released on CD in 2001, while the band were…
15 May 2026
Swedish artist Murex releases her debut single ‘Massacre’ via Young. Self-produced in Murex’s Stockholm studio, ‘Massacre’ is a piece of ethereal, amorphous, avant-pop that thrashes and glimmers in equal measures. Simultaneously brutal and beautiful, the song depicts hunger and the act of dragging oneself into destruction. Watch the accompanying video here. Artists making pop music today are expected to calcify as one easily consumable version of themselves, or capitulate wildly…
15 May 2026
Scritti Politti’s modern masterpiece Cupid & Psyche 85 is to be celebrated with a new edition that brings a much-prized version of the record together & a host of handpicked cuts from the group’s archive. Released on 10 July, the Deluxe Edition will feature a remastered version the original album, plus a series of extra tracks and remixes, and will be available on double vinyl, CD and digitally. For the first time ever, the…
8 May 2026
Aldous Harding releases her new album Train On The Island, out today. Ahead of the album Harding shared a third and final single this week with album closer ‘Coats’, following early singles ‘Venus In The Zinnia’ and ‘One Stop’. In addition, to celebrate Train On The Island, Harding adds southern hemisphere dates to her growing headline tour where she announced her live return to Australia this November, with four exclusive…
8 May 2026
Five-piece 1000 Rabbits (FKA Rabbitfoot) release their debut EP Are we friends yet?, a six-track release that captures the band’s first two years in motion. Featuring recent singles ‘Virgin Soil’ and ‘Rubik’s Cube’, the EP arrives digitally and on 12” vinyl as a snapshot of a band defining themselves in real time. The project arrives alongside a brand new video directed by South London artist, Ché Deedigan, capturing it’s energy: a band in…
8 May 2026
Māori & Samoan force Jamaica Moana brings her fierce edge to the social phenomenon that is Songs With Strings, collaborating with the quartet on her dance floor heater ‘TUGGAWAR’ taken from her recent debut EP, BUD & DENI. The now viral anthem – co-signed by SZA, Doja Cat and Sudan Archives – takes on a more dynamic edge, juxtaposing the hard hitting lyrics with the intricacies of the strings is now available digitally. The session was filmed in LA during her recent trip for SXSW, where…
8 May 2026
My New Band Believe (the new band from former black midi bassist and sometime frontman Cameron Picton) today share a new video for ‘In the Blink of an Eye’. The video, something of a Japanese seafaring odyssey, was directed by Botsu_NGS (of Japanese experimental hip hop outfit Dos Monos) and features Hiroki Kaniya. As the bassist and sometime frontman of black midi, Picton and his bandmates practiced an explosive form of musical world-building, weaving complex story-telling…
7 May 2026
In April, Zoh Amba announced their Matador debut album Eyes Full, out June 5th, an album of tough and soulful songs that feel like a pure transmission from the heart. Today, Amba shares the album’s pensive and darkly hypnotic title track, a song about what makes someone’s heart full and questioning why. It’s accompanied by a video directed by Grace Bader Conrad, featuring Amba and album musicians Jim White (drums) and Kevin Hyland (electric guitar),…
7 May 2026
Singer, producer and songwriter Tommy Barlow is a distinctive new voice in UK music. While he playfully describes his sound as “farm grunge”, his work feels unmistakably contemporary – a kind of digital, half-lit world-building coalescing with the traditional folk music he grew up with in a musical family just outside Cambridge. Now signed to Young – home to the likes of Sampha, The xx, Isaiah Hull, Robyn, John Maus, Mechatok and John Glacier –…
7 May 2026
GB, Gustav Berntsen, is an artist from Copenhagen who crafts texture-heavy, adventurous guitar music cut with a pop sensibility. Today, GB announces his second album, Herzsprung, out 21 August, and also shares the album’s first single ‘Adrenaline’, sending light from a world of zigzagging guitar, bubbly fretless bass, and rolling percussion. Herzsprung follows GB’s debut record, the collage-based cult hit Gusse Music, which was released on storied CPH label Posh Isolation in 2024 –…
7 May 2026
Montreal trio Bye Parula share their atmospheric, velvety new single ‘Quand vient le soir’, the third from their forthcoming album Something Out Of Nothing, out June 5. Performed entirely in French, the native language of singer and bassist Loïc Calatayud-Sola, the track is enhanced by the vocal contribution of Adèle Trottier-Rivard of Bibi Club. Produced by Calatayud-Sola himself, the music video features Robbie Kuster, who also produced the album. ‘Quand…
1 May 2026
Hot on the heels of their acclaimed 2026 album FREE SPIRITS, Argentinian boundary-pushers CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso step up to rework Robyn’s ‘Blow My Mind.’ The release sees two global musical icons coming together for a hugely-anticipated collaboration, CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso bringing their unpredictable energy and razor-sharp musicianship to one of the standout singles from Robyn’s acclaimed Sexistential album. Following genre-hopping Sexistential remixes from the likes of Jamie xx, Marlon…
1 May 2026
Five-piece 1000 Rabbits (FKA Rabbitfoot) announce their debut EP Are we friends yet? a six-track release that captures the band’s first two years in motion. Featuring recent singles ‘Virgin Soil’ and ‘Rubik’s Cube’, the EP arrives as a snapshot of a band defining themselves in real time. Are we friends yet? is released digitally May 7th, and on 12″ July 24th. Written across living rooms, rehearsal spaces, and stages over…
29 April 2026
Following a globally-heralded tour that was hailed as the live musical event of the year, and a momentous Coachella performance, David Byrne has released ‘¿Cuál Es La Razón?’ —a vibrant new take on his track ‘What Is The Reason For It?’ from his latest album, Who Is The Sky?. This version features the voice of legendary GRAMMY award winning Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade, taking the place of the original’s Hayley Williams (Paramore). Produced by Mexican…
29 April 2026
Bandcamp Friday is back this Friday, May 1st (at 5pm AEST for 24hrs – check your local timezone). Bandcamp Fridays will continue in 2026 on August 7th, September 4th, October 2nd, November 6th, and December 4th. As always is it Bandcamp Friday? has the details. On the first Friday of the month since March 2020, Bandcamp waived their revenue share to help support artists. Thanks for your continued support of…
24 April 2026
james K’s critically-acclaimed third album, Friend, has been reworked by electronic pioneers Objekt, Drew McDowall (Coil), Hesaitix (M.E.S.H), Roza Terenzi, and Arushi Jain, as well as collaborators and contemporaries Special Guest DJ, Priori (who both co-produced elements of Friend), JASSS, Yushh and Loidis. Friend Remixes is out now! Special Guest on his remix: “I made this remix while in Naarm for an extended stay last winter (march/april 2025) I was…
23 April 2026
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…
22 April 2026
Over the past twenty years, Future Islands have travelled a rare arc — from promising newcomers to something closer to a best-kept secret, from cult favorites to a band that has quietly endured. Rather than marking the moment with a traditional “best of,” they now present From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth – an immediate and accessible collection, with many of these songs appearing on streaming services for the…
22 April 2026
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…
22 April 2026
David Byrne and The xx served up incredible performances across the past two weekends at Coachella 2026. Here’s a taste of David Byrne’s spectacular set with ‘Everybody Laughs’ available to watch HERE, plus ‘Slippery People’ HERE, and the phenomenal ‘Life During Wartime’, now live HERE. Additionally, The xx make a comeback, returning to stage! Watch the beloved ‘I Dare you’ HERE, and the legendary performance of ‘Intro’ to close off…
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