Multi-award-winning songwriter Carla Geneve releases her new single ‘Here, Look’, the second track lifted from her forthcoming third studio album Don’t Be Afraid, out Friday 17 October via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control. Following on from previous single, ‘Better Believe It’, the new single shows Geneve at her most reflective, with piano-led instrumentation framing her direct, intimate lyrics. Speaking on ‘Here, Look’, Carla shares, “This is a song about reflection and admitting that there are so many layers...
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Electronic visionary Mechatok, aka Emir Timur Tokdemir, is heading to Australia for his first headline tour in March, to celebrate the release of his kaleidoscopic debut solo album Wide Awake – out now via Young/Remote Control Records. Inspired by artists like Daft Punk and Gorillaz, Mechatok made his name touring around the world, while releasing a series of records and collaborations with some of the most forward-thinking artists of the...
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Following its premiere on 3RRR’s Breakfasters program this morning, Naarm/Melbourne nine-piece Mouseatouille release their new single ‘Dogshow’, lifted from their upcoming third album DJ Set, out 19 September via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control. The track follows previous single, ‘Harry and the Jets’, which was launched at a sold-out show at Thornbury Bowls Club. Mouseatouille also share the music video for ‘Dogshow’, created on Discord with friends Will and Charlie of Post...
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Winnipeg band Living Hour releases ‘Waiter’, the second single from their fourth album Internal Drone Infinity, out October 17 via Beloved Records. Lyricist Sam Sarty writes, “This is a song about people who wait. Wait-ers. I find myself waiting without knowing what I’m waiting for. I wait in all these liminal spaces: hotels, parking lots, and even relationships. This song reflects on two relationships where I spent a lot of time waiting; waiting to feel something or...
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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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Melbourne multi-instrumentalist Sunbeam Sound Machine today releases his fourth full-length album, Double Magic, out now via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control. The record marks the most expansive and energetic chapter yet for Nick Sowersby’s dreamlike project, retaining his signature sparkling guitars and introspective lyricism, but now built on a four-to-the-floor rhythm from drummer Lochy Funston and percussionist Rhys Grunden. The record is punctuated by the constant burbling of nature sounds...
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Beloved Records are proud to announce the signing of Winnipeg band Living Hour, dropping their new single ‘Wheel’, the first single from their fourth album Internal Drone Infinity, out Friday 17 October. Lyricist Sam Sarty writes, ‘The story of Wheel begins with buying a car off Facebook Marketplace in BC. Turns out the car was junk, but I had no choice but to drive it home to Winnipeg. It took 3 days....
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Canadian hip hop veteran Shad is set to start a bold new chapter with the announcement of his seventh studio album, Start Anew, and the release of its first single ‘Bars & BBQs’ out now. The album will be available across all platforms and in vinyl format on October 31. The lead single ‘Bars & BBQs’ showcases Shad’s signature wit and lyrical dexterity serving up food for thought with clever pop...
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Singer-songwriter, film composer and pianist Patrick Watson has released ‘The Wandering’, a new collaboration with Portuguese artist MARO. A ghostly duet of wordless harmonies, eerie orchestration, and a subtle bossa nova groove, the new track is featured on Watson’s forthcoming album Uh Oh, out September 26. An official music video will premiere on Watson’s YouTube Channel this Friday at NOON ET, with an afterparty available for premium users, a conversation between him and director Jacob Jonas....
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The Barr Brothers have announced that their new album Let it Hiss will be released October 17. Their long simmering and long-awaited fourth studio album isn’t just a collection of 10 vital new songs, it’s a document of transformation. The result of a pivotal shift: a pause for reflection, a reckoning with vulnerability, and a reconnection between two brothers – Brad and Andrew Barr – who’ve spent their entire lives making music...
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Patrick Watson announces his new album Uh Oh, to be released on September 26, alongside sharing new single ‘Peter and the Wolf’, a menacing, dream-like song inspired by the ghosts of New Orleans and the pitch black-ness of being in the forest in the dark. The pulse-pounding new video, directed by Patrick Watson and SAM WOY was shot in the Quebec countryside. The new album finds Watson meditating on the...
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caroline release their new album caroline 2. The group spent 18 months working across various writing sessions in the UK, with recording primarily taking place at Big Jelly Studios in Ramsgate. The album was produced by the band’s own Jasper Llewellyn, Casper Hughes and Mike O’Malley, engineered by Syd Kemp, mixed by Jason Agel and mastered by Heba Kadry. In one way, caroline’s second album picks up where its predecessor left off...
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Unessential Oils releases The Purest of Oils, an instrumental edition of Warren Spicer’s acclaimed 2024 album, Unessential Oils – available digitally everywhere from May 30. Stripped of the vocals, this instrumental version of Unessential Oils brings the project’s influences to the forefront, blending jazz, folk, Tropicalía, and ambient textures to create a medative soundscape. Conceived entirely whilst bathing, the music flows with easy intimacy – fluid, spacious and deeply personal....
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“The Sophs arrived out of the great blue yonder,” says Rough Trade co-founders Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee of the label’s newest signing, LA six-piece The Sophs. The band’s brutal honesty, flamingly intrusive thoughts, and broad genre-spreading caught their attention immediately. Rough Trade heard the sort of creativity and variety — and “don’t expect me to act pretty” sentiment — that could get The Sophs — including frontman Ethan Ramon, Sam Yuh (keyboards), Austin Parker Jones (electric guitar), Seth Smades (acoustic guitar), Devin Russ (drums), and Cole Bobbitt (bass) — a slot...
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Toronto-based producer, film composer, and author Meg Remy anticipates her intuitive and adventurous U.S. Girls album, Scratch It (out 20 June) with a new single ‘Like James Said’, an ELO-styled nugget of AM gold and nod to James Brown about the healing power of dancing alone. Remy’s own lyrical response to Brown’s ‘Get Up Offa That Thing’, the track showcases her great — and characteristically tragicomic — phrasing, notably on...
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Standing On The Corner returns to give birth to a new single ‘Baby’, along with accompanying B-Side ‘Friends 2day Enemies 2morrow’ and one piece of poetry entitled ‘R U Scared?’. A limited edition 7” vinyl is available via standingonthecorner.com and the XL Recordings webstore. Hand-drawn white label 7” with risograph artwork print in clear plastic sleeve. Standing On The Corner is an Earth-based Art Ensemble founded in 2016 by Shamel Cee Mystery,...
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