Out today digitally, It’s Beautiful is a new EP featuring fully reimagined takes of three songs from Water From Your Eyes’ It’s a Beautiful Place. Here guitarist and producer Nate Amos tweaks, twists, and warps the arrangements for ‘Born 2,’ ‘Nights in Armor,’ and ‘Playing Classics,’ dramatically shifting the scenery around and emotional resonance of singer Rachel Brown’s vocal leads. “The new versions of ‘Born 2’ and ‘Nights in Armor’ are actually just closer to how the...
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David Byrne releases a new single ‘T Shirt’. Co-written by Byrne’s longtime friend and collaborator Brian Eno, the song is a classic piece of electro-pop wrapped in lightly humorous, but always earnest, political commentary. The track has become a notable moment and quick fan favorite on Byrne’s latest tour. David Byrne is currently touring North America, celebrating the release of his critically acclaimed new album Who Is The Sky?, Byrne’s...
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Early next year, Lifeguard will release a new 7” maxi single, ‘Ultra Violence’ / ‘Appetite’. Recorded at the band’s rehearsal space / studio, the music continues the unstable ethos of this year’s much-loved debut album Ripped and Torn – alternating high-velocity punk-energies with surreal dub-inflected interludes. The new single ‘Ultra Violence’ is out now. The physical 7” is available to pre-order via Matador Direct through Tuesday, January 13th. A digital...
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bar italia unveil their new album Some Like It Hot, out today! Ahead of the release they shared new single ‘omni shambles’, a taut rocker veering between syncopated, angular riffs and cathartic singalong within an action-packed 2 minutes. Marking the album’s release, bar italia host a series of special events: an exhibition of the band’s drawings at London’s General Assembly gallery on October 16 — their third following shows at...
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DARKSIDE release new single ‘One Last Nothing’ – an unreleased composition created amid sessions for the trio’s third LP, Nothing – the track finds the group at its most bass-forward, riding a tough groove into an elegantly spaced-out blend of krautrock, dub, and Fillmore-era psychedelia. This fall, the trio will perform at Miami’s III Points festival and will also headline a three-night residency at the Lodge Room in Los Angeles. Early shows...
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Mdou Moctar have shared a new session video: ‘Live at Smokey’s Wedding, Agadez’. The 14-minute clip documents the band’s short electric set at a traditional Tuareg wedding celebration. “Smokey’s was the last thing we filmed during the 2023 Niger sessions,” explains bassist/producer Mikey Coltun. “It was a wedding we were aware of since we arrived in Agadez. Smokey, our friend, invited us to play. Armed with a zoom recorder and...
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In March, Matador set Circuit des Yeux’s haunting and midnight-hued masterpiece, Halo on the Inside, loose on an unsuspecting world. Critical adoration and a transcendent world tour followed. And now, we are doing it all over again. Out digitally today, Halo on the Inside: Director’s Cut is the album as it was originally delivered to the label – reinstating the original tracklist and adding three previously unreleased compositions, along with...
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Earlier this year, Horsegirl released one of the year’s most lauded releases, Phonetics On and On. Produced by Cate Le Bon, the album has already landed on mid-year best of 2025 lists from major publications, including Esquire, Stereogum, The Ringer, UPROXX, FLOOD, Paste, Rolling Stone, and more. The band has been touring extensively since the release, recently returning from an entirely sold out, first-ever Japanese tour. Today, Horsegirl shine a...
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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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Today, we bring news of two ‘new’ Pavement releases. For the rookies: The brand-new best-of compilation Hecklers Choice: Big Gums and Heavy Lifters. And for the heads: the physical edition of the PAVEMENTS (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Hard to believe we made it, but here we are. A sold-out reunion. Gold records. A critically-lauded feature film. Stockton, CA’s finest are once again seated atop the throne and Pavement is the...
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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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Following the release of his acclaimed new album Glory, Perfume Genius announces a headline Australian tour for December 2025, including appearances in Ballarat, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, as well as a performance at Meredith Music Festival. Glory is a bold and unflinching new chapter in the Perfume Genius story, out now via Matador Records / Remote Control. Across the record, Mike Hadreas explores themes of the body, domesticity, damage, and healing concepts...
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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. It is funny, sexy, rambunctious and evergreen – a showcase of a triple-threat cast at full-throttle. Some Like It Hot is also the new album by London three-piece bar italia – out 17th October on Matador – and certain parallels are perhaps not accidental. It pulses...
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David Byrne releases ‘The Avant Garde’, the latest offering from his forthcoming album Who Is The Sky?, out 5th September through Matador Records. ‘The Avant Garde’ wrestles with the merits of art for art’s sake, “it’s ahead of the curve / it’s deceptively weighty, profound, absurd / it’s whatever fits” Byrne says, “Some people will hear this and say, “David is calling bullshit on his friends” but it’s more nuanced than that. Anyone...
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‘Playing Classics’ is the second single from Water From Your Eyes’ forthcoming album, It’s a Beautiful Place, landing 22nd August via Matador Records. The track finds duo Nate Amos and Rachel Brown delivering an expansive and coolly composed banger – a 6-minute dance-floor-friendly epic that threads elegantly heat-warped piano lines across pulsing four-on-the-floor rhythms. Watch the James Dayton directed video below. ”Playing Classics’ started as an attempt to transform an existing...
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bar italia return with essential summer banger ‘Cowbella’. The first new music from the band since 2024’s The Tw*ts EP sees a transcendent vocal blunt rotation between members Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton unfolding over a wiry, shapeshifting rocker that culminates in an explosive and chilling skywards coda. It’s a multi-pronged anthem that only bar italia could conjure. The last two years have seen the London trio release two critically acclaimed albums on Matador only several months apart...
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