Today, Ed Kuepper adds three albums to his available catalogue of remarkable work, including a brand new double live album, out now. Tickets are now on sale for The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper Australian Tour, taking in nine dates across Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia and the ACT, with support from Michael Beach. Details and dates below. Ed Kuepper – THE EXPLODING UNIVERSE – LIVE Recorded at the National...
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UK-born Australian singer-songwriter Odette returns with her first release since 2024 with ‘AAAH!’. Following a first play on triple j’s Home & Hosed with Anika Luna last night, ‘AAAH!’ is a sharp soulful piano-led cry to the universe that also marks her debut on Melbourne/London independent Beloved Records. Odette writes songs that feel like close-quarters confessions: soulful, sharp, and unafraid of honest reflection. Growing up with her parents’ eclectic tastes – from her...
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Following a whirlwind season of touring in support of her latest album Basia’s Palace, Basia Bulat returns with her new EP Bouquet, a delicate collection of reimagined acoustic recordings that offers a fresh perspective on some of the album’s most beloved songs via Secret City Records. Recorded in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood with engineer Andrew Woods, Bouquet emerged during a quieter autumn period following months on the road. Stripped back...
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Renowned for her powerhouse vocals, raw vulnerability, and evocative storytelling, multi-award-winning artist Carla Geneve returns with a new double single, ‘Finally Broke Me’ / ‘I Still Think About You’, out now via Dot Dash / Remote Control. Alongside the release, Carla announces the Finally Broke Me tour, hitting Walyalup/Fremantle, Meanjin/Brisbane, Warrane/Sydney and Naarm/Melbourne later this month. Written in the exhausted comedown of a long tour, ‘Finally Broke Me’ captures the...
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Today, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Rowena Wise shares her new single ‘Home In This World’, out now via Beloved Records / Remote Control Records, the third offering from her forthcoming sophomore album, Bad Things Feel Good*, set for release on Friday 7th August, 2026. Alongside the single, Wise announces a run of headline shows across Australia this Oct/Nov with her band. Following the emotional reckoning of ‘Blood Ties’ and the quiet unravelling of ‘Diamond In The Rough’, ‘Home In This World’ enters...
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Ed Kuepper adds three albums to his available catalogue of remarkable work, including a brand new double live album. The three albums will be available on Friday 24th July, with new live single ‘Also Sprach The King Of Euro-Disco’ out now digitally. Ed and his band tour nationally through July and August in support of these releases. The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper – Live Recorded at the National Theatre, Melbourne...
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Bye Parula’s new album Something Out Of Nothing has arrived. In celebration of the release, the Montreal trio has shared the video for the infectious title track, watch here. “This one is like an introvert’s anthem, as if you see someone so free out in the world that you envy them and want to talk to them but you just can’t. Everything is going so fast in your head, but...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2026 marks the 50th year as a recording artist for legendary Australian musician Ed Kuepper. To celebrate he is taking to the road with The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper a full band performance featuring the added talents of drummer Mark Dawson, bassist Peter Oxley, keyboard player Alister Spence and brass arranger Eamon Dilworth as they tackle material from right across Ed’s illustrious 50 years career. “The band is blistering; Peter Oxley and Mark Dawson are locked in as tight as...
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Volume III is Flore Laurentienne’s luminous and immersive instrumental album that concludes a trilogy begun in 2019, where organs, analog synthesizers, and string ensembles come together in an approach that is both cinematic and deeply rooted in the Quebec landscape. The album reflects an organic process that enriches the project’s sonic signature. Volume III has won over a wide audience, bolstered by organic collaborations, notably with Moog Synthesisers, as well as visibility in...
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Montreal trio Bye Parula share their sparkling, dancefloor-ready new single ‘I don’t know,’ the second from their new album Something Out Of Nothing, out June 5. The song is thematically linked to lead single ‘KISSBURN,’ another undeniable earworm. About the pair, singer/bassist Loïc Calatayud-Sola shares: “These were written in the same period, at the beginning of the process, and they go together. ‘KISSBURN’ is told from the point of view of someone...
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Time for some non-fiction. The human condition: that’s pure ‘FRICTION’. It costs a million dollars just to stay alive. Play it cool, feel the vibe. In his latest offering out today, Friday 13th March, Tiga departs from his signature quick fire hooks, opting for a more relaxed approach as he frames the collective feeling of the tricky times in which we’re all living. “Too much friction, too much tension… I need some of your attention,” proclaims...
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“From chaos comes harmony”, says Mathieu David Gagnon, composer behind the Flore Laurentienne project, about ‘(À travers les) Chablis’, the new single released today. The piece opens with a free jazz improvisation duet on drums, joined by two harps. From this tumult emerges light, embodied by a string melody, like a refusal to give in to disenchantment. The last piece on the album Volume III, ‘(À travers les) Chablis’, hints...
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