Bandcamp Friday is back! May 2nd (at 7pm AEDT for 24hrs – check your local timezone), and will continue on August 1st, September 5th, October 3rd, and December 5th. 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. Since then, fans have paid artists and labels more than $200 million AUD....
Today, Liz Stringer releases her seventh studio album The Second High, and celebrates with two in-store performances, on launch day Fri 28th at Rocksteady Records, 6pm, and Sat 29th at Readings St Kilda, 2pm. In April, Stringer kicks off an East Coast Australian tour and will go on to play a headline London show in June. Further tour details below. “The Second High was a record I wanted to make...
Liz Stringer releases ‘To Survive’, the heart-rending newest single from The Second High, due for release 28th March. In April, Stringer returns home from the UK to embark on an East Coast Australian tour. ‘To Survive’ is a rich piano ballad featuring swelling strings and lush vocals that holds the listener in a vice, but the story holds just as much hope as sadness. ‘To Survive’ is based on a...
Sunbeam Sound Machine announces his very first headline tour in the US and Canada, he will be playing very special solo shows this April. Further tour details and ticket info below. Sunbeam Sound Machine, the project of multi-instrumentalist Nick Sowersby, has been shaping the modern psychedelic pop scene since 2013. Blending hypnagogic pop, indie garage rock, and neo psychedelia, Sowersby crafts immersive, dreamlike soundscapes that resonate with listeners on a...
Liz Stringer announces her new album The Second High, due for release 28th March. She releases title track ‘The Second High’, the captivating second single from the album alongside a beautiful video directed by Alicia and Archie production. Watch below! During mid 2023, Stringer began perhaps her most ambitious journey yet, a three month stint at Iguana Studios in Brixton UK to work with Grammy nominated, Ivor Novello Award winning...
Liz Stringer returns with triumphant new single ‘Coming Home’, following a premiere on Double J Mornings. The single is a driving, indie-pop satirisation of the so-called perfect relationship. “I wrote ‘Coming Home’ about the ludicrous idea that we’re fed since we’re small children; that a romantic relationship will be the salve for all that ails in a lifetime. And that, without a romantic partner, we will forever be adrift, unfulfilled...
Memphis LK grabs harder and grittier sounds for her new EP Say, out now! A five-tracker featuring collabs with trailblazers DJ BORING and Willaris. K, it’s packed with high-energy tracks for the headiest haunts. In support of the EP, Memphis heads homeward for True Love Rave II to ignite dance floors in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Perth, along with supports (including comp winners) just dropped! Details below. Relocating from Melbourne...
Memphis LK announces her new EP Say released 4th October, along with the release of infectious new single ‘Just The Way You Are’, with Australian tour dates due to land any moment! With the new single, she throws in a taste of her early 2000s influences as she takes on the 2003 original by Italian electronic group Milky – one of her all time faves. Starting as a remix for...
Nick Meredith, on behalf of Salmon Brothers, announces the release of their third single, ‘More To Love’. This track is the precursor to their highly anticipated album of the same name, scheduled for release on 16th August. ‘More To Love’ captures the vibrant energy of Salmon Brothers, reflecting both their musical synergy and their deep friendship. Inspired by a couple who appeared on the Jerry Springer show, the single is...
Memphis LK is eager to galvanise clubbers with dance tracks that pack summer anthem potential, and she’s bringing in Willaris. K on new collaborative single ‘Say’. Known for cutting through electronic music with a distinctive pop twist, this is a thrilling teaser of her more heavily club-orientated ammo. Moving from Melbourne to London over a year ago, she’s on a mission to endear herself to more audiences across the UK and Europe. Gigs at The...
Salmon Brothers unveil new single ‘Coming Up For Air’, from the forthcoming album More To Love album, out August 16th. The second offering from the project begins with a dreamy, swirling flute composition of another world. As if awoken from a dream, the record quickly changes direction with funky guitar licks, synth trills, and captivating vocals that exude charm and charisma from the outset. Lyrically, the single alludes to past...
The Salmon Brothers’ journey began as a lighthearted jest, quickly evolving into a passionate musical endeavour fueled by the creative synergy between musicians Nick Weaver and Nick Meredith. One evening the long time friends coincidentally wore almost identical salmon-coloured blazers, and before the end of the night, the band Salmon Brothers was born. Not wanting a good name to go to waste, the duo were struck with a wave of...
With her take on a protest song, Jess Locke shares ‘Rocket To Ride’ from her forthcoming omnibus Real Life out Friday, 3rd May. She’ll continue her in-store run at Clarity Records in Adelaide on Sunday, 7th April before hitting Fremantle and Melbourne. Full of fuzzed out guitars and an ironic tone, ‘Rocket To Ride’ asks questions of wealth inequality, environmental devastation, slimy politicians and the absurdity of luxury space travel all wrapped up in a tight sub-three minutes. Stream...
Following a run of dates supporting Sampha across Australia, the four-time ARIA award-nominated future-soul powerhouse that is Ngaiire shares another cut from her live album with The Sydney Symphony Orchestra in the cover of Tame Impala’s ‘The Less I Know The Better’. Live At The Sydney Opera House – a recording taken from their sold out 2022 Forecourt performance for the 50th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House – will be released on Friday, 26th April. The album also consists of orchestral arrangements of tracks from across her career, including...
Ahead of her SXSW showcases, alternative pop enigma Sui Zhen returns with her latest single ‘Sleepless’. At a sprawling 13 minutes, ‘Sleepless’ defies the traditional confines of a pop song, inviting listeners on a haunting journey through grief’s depths. Drawing inspiration from influences ranging from post-punk to krautrock, the track blends spoken-word incantations and melodic hooks with pulsing synths, distorted guitars, and a mix of electronic and live percussion. Emerging as a testament...
Emotive storyteller Jess Locke follows up the announcement of her forthcoming album with another new single in ‘The Place’. Locke’s fourth omnibus Real Life will be released on Friday, 3rd May through Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. Unhurried in pace, ‘The Place’ is buoyed by acoustic guitars and a metronomic bass line, while Locke’s yearning vocals drive home the themes of adulthood and nostalgia. It follows her “punchy” (Rolling Stone) lead single ‘Uncomfortably Happy’ which was added to heavy rotation at KEXP, and received love from Double...
