Zoh Amba releases Eyes Full, their essential debut as a singer-songwriter and also their first collaboration with Matador Records. Accompanying it, comes a video for the record’s raucous and feedback-singed third single ‘Dead End Street’, directed by Amba and Liz Layton – watch here. Amba and their band will tour throughout the summer and autumn, including headline dates in the UK, Europe, and North America, as well as a run supporting...
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...
Standing On The Corner returns to panic the city with a new single, ‘Gimme my gun’ along with accompanying B-Side ‘Show me the $’ featuring The Warlockettes. In December 2025, Standing On The Corner released ‘Gimme my gun’ solely on a limited CD-Maxi single with three different versions exclusive to the disc. Standing On The Corner returns to release the music video for ‘Gimme my gun’ (watch here), along with...
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...
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...
Gilla Band release their new single ‘Giraffe’, accompanied by a music video – watch here. ‘Giraffe’ is the first new music from Gilla Band in nearly four years and to mark this the band are releasing a very limited 7” picture disc. For over ten years now, the Dublin quartet — vocalist Dara Kiely, guitarist Alan Duggan Borges, bassist Daniel Fox, and drummer Adam Faulkner — have been redefining what you could loosely call “rock music” in...
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),...
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...
Matador Revisionist History celebrates the 25th anniversary of Solex’s Low Kick and Hard Bop. The album returns to us newly expanded with long-lost cut ‘Mr. Crockpot’. First released in 2001, this was the third album by Amsterdam-based songwriter and one-time record shop owner, Elisabeth Esselink. Here, her sampler-driven found-sound retro-futurist style came into full stride with hooks sourced from dusty vinyl, TV, radio, and street noise. A generation later, Low Kick remains an ebullient...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
