Watch: Becca Mancari – Don’t Even Worry

Becca Mancari (they/them) recently announced their third album, Left Hand, due out this August 25th. Mancari has already shared the record’s lead single and queer joy anthem ‘Over and Over’ featuring Julien Baker to critical acclaim, and now Mancari shares another taste of the album, releasing ‘Don’t Even Worry,’ a guitar-driven ode to our closest friends. Featuring Mancari’s friend and fellow Bermuda Triangle bandmate, ‘Don’t Even Worry’ was written with Brittany Howard, who also provided additional production and performs backing vocals, guitar, keys, sub bass, percussion and even snaps on the track....

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Announced: Ethan P. Flynn – Abandon All Hope

Yorkshire-born, London-based singer, songwriter, and. producer Ethan P. Flynn announces details of his debut album, Abandon All Hope. Out October 6 via Young / Remote Control Records, Abandon All Hope pours twenty-four years’ worth of experience into 8 eclectic tracks. Featuring backup vocals from rising singer, Ava Gore, Abandon All Hope is a bold statement to mark Ethan P. Flynn’s arrival as a true artist in his own right.  The album’s title single ‘Abandon All Hope’ is the first released today alongside a self-directed music video...

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Announced: Liz Phair – Exile In Guysville 30th Anniversary Reissue

This spring, Matador / Remote Control will reissue Liz Phair’s iconic debut album Exile in Guyville , a record whose impact and resonance has only grown more profound over the last three decades on limited-edition purple vinyl. The 2xLP is available for pre-order now and will be out October 20th. To celebrate, a long-lost studio outtake is available to stream. ‘Miss Lucy’ was recorded with Brad Wood during sessions for Exile in Guyville but left off the album. An 18-track double...

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Out Now: Kedr Livanskiy – K-Notes EP

Kedr Livanskiy has released her new EP, K-Notes. It’s an expert fusion of drum and bass, trance, and alt-pop anchored by Kedrina’s signature crystalline vocals. K-Notes feels at once nostalgic and remarkably current: Livanskiy filters today’s UK revivalism through her own unique lens, shaped by her upbringing in the underground music scene and her personal love of early electronic and alternative music.  The EP comes alongside her self-directed, Twin Peaks inspired video for its title track, ‘K-Notes’. Livanskiy explains, “This...

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Announced: Jeremy Dutcher – Motewolonuwok + single ‘Ancestors Too Young’

Jeremy Dutcher – the classically trained Two-Spirit song carrier, composer, activist and member of Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation) in Eastern Canada – announces his sophomore record, Motewolonuwok, to be released October 6th, with new single ‘Ancestors Too Young.’  The Motewolonuwok album inspiration began with a poem by Cherokee writer Qwo-li Driskill. A singular story of a two-spirit kin who was taken too soon. Jeremy sings in Wolastoqey — his native tongue, considered an endangered language — anchoring his work while he continues to reimagine the song traditions...

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Announced: HANDSOME – HANDSOME GANG: Every Second We Try + single ‘Pulse’

After a slew of collabs, HANDSOME announces there’s more on the horizon with the forthcoming release of HANDSOME GANG: Every Second We Try. The project featuring HANDSOME’s friends and family will be released on 23 June via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records. Another teaser dropped alongside the announcement in the form of ‘Pulse’ featuring Boorloo producer St. South, an uplifting, ambient tune punctuated by a solid pulsating beat – really elucidating its name. The track gathers steam before bursting into a dance-floor heater challenging any...

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Announced: La Force – XO SKELETON

XO SKELETON is the supple, steady, uncanny new album by La Force: a mixture of haunted pop and hot-blooded R&B that glistens at the meeting-point between life, death, and love. The album, co-produced by La Force and Warren Spicer (Plants and Animals), will be available everywhere in digital and LP format on September 29 via Remote Control Records.  Available as of today is the first single and opening track ‘condition of us’, the portrait of adoration, a love-affair...

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Announced: The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper

Following the recent upload of Ed Kuepper’s debut record to streaming services, it’s time to introduce The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper, the first live band experience of Ed Kuepper’s solo material since 2009. Today, Kuepper announces a national tour for this September in celebration of his lauded classic Honey Steel’s Gold being made available on streaming services from Friday, 9th June.  Featuring Ed’s legendary sparring partner Mark Dawson on drums, Sunnyboys bassist Peter Oxley, plus celebrated pianist Alister Spence and brass maestro Eamon Dilworth, The Exploding Universe will tackle the best of Kuepper’s recent vinyl reissues Electrical...

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Listen: Jeremy Dutcher – Skicinuwihkuk

Jeremy Dutcher is a Two-Spirit song carrier, composer, activist, and ethnomusicologist from Tobique First Nation in Eastern Canada. Dutcher’s 2018 debut — Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa — vaulted him into the upper echelons of Canadian performance, from the Polaris and Juno Award stages to the judges’ panel on Canada’s Drag Race. Dutcher — a classically trained opera tenor and pianist that has been singing the songs of his ancestors since he was a child — returns with his first new solo work since...

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Announced: Ed Kuepper – Electrical Storm + Honey Steels Gold Reissues

Iconic co-founder of arguably the most significant Australian band, The Saints (‘I’m Stranded’), and of the post-punk era-defining Laughing Clowns, Ed Kuepper launches an extensive catalogue campaign with the reissue of his long-out-of-print, seminal debut solo album Electrical Storm (1985) and Honey Steel’s Gold (1990) through Remote Control Records. Both will be available on vinyl on Friday, 9th June for the first time in 30 years. Digitally remastered and available on streaming services for the very first time today, Electrical Storm is a brooding statement of...

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Out Now: Braids – Euphoric Recall

A freer and wholly anew effort, Euphoric Recall finds Braids abandoning strategy, burning it down, and realizing their love. Love, all of it; the unbound bliss, the budding impulses, and the messy imperfections, a supernova swirled up in a suite of bold, melodic, symphonic pop songs surrendered to the present. Standell-Preston’s lyrics draw generously from her heart space, often writing on the spot, in just a few takes. Lines are vivid, exhilarating, and evocative, a...

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Announced: Interpol – Interpolations

Interpol announced Interpolations, which sees songs from the band’s latest album, The Other Side Of Make-Believe, reworked by a group of artists encompassing Daniel Avery, Makaya McCraven, Jeff Parker, Jesu and Water From Your Eyes. The first instalment of the series is released, with Makaya McCraven’s interpolation of ‘Big Shot City’. From the Latin drum and bass rhythms applied to ‘Big Shot City’ by Makaya McCraven to the esoteric and propulsive soundscape created by Water From Your Eyes for ‘Something Changed’, Interpolations is an exotic journey that reframes our songs and joins them to the vision of...

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Announced: Blawan – Dismantled Into Juice + single ‘Toast’

Blawan announces a brand new EP Dismantled into Juice out 17 May. To mark the announcement, he releases the opening track ‘Toast’, a playful preview into the spell-binding, otherworldly productions to come. Across the five tracks Blawan effortlessly flickers between instrumentals and vocal-led songs that flex a deep technical ability and see him transcend the “techno” box he has so often been put in. Bringing in distorted drum rhythms, piercing synths, unbelievable drums, and original vocal cuts, Dismantled Into Juice is Blawan’s most riveting...

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Out Now: Magic Dirt – Young And Full Of The Devil

Today, on the 25th anniversary, Magic Dirt announce the reissue of their acclaimed second album Young And Full Of The Devil, out Friday 7th April via Emergency Music / Remote Control Records. It also marks the release of the album on streaming services for the first time. Leaving behind the brooding, introspective mood of Friends In Danger, Magic Dirt discharge fiercely with the iconic Young And Full Of The Devil, an album of raw power, beauty and assured chaos. Released in April 1998 and drenched in trademark Magic Dirt guitar sounds,...

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Watch: Xylouris White – Long Doll

The Forest In Me, the forthcoming LP from Xylouris White, is actually the work of a musical triumvirate: Giorgos Xylouris and Jim White, of course, as well as their long-time producer, Guy Picciotto. Recorded in isolation in 2020, the trio conjured cinematic sounds while physically remote from each other, yet these songs were constructed with a unique psychic connection unbound by location.  ‘Long Doll,’ the latest single from The Forest In Me, is music for a day...

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Announced: Telenova – Regional Tour + single ‘Lost In The Rush’

Fresh from a festival-filled summer including Spilt Milk, Lost Paradise and Falls Fest, Telenova will take their sophomore EP Stained Glass Love to new audiences on a 15-date regional tour this April. In addition, the band have announced a limited custom marbled black and white vinyl repress of Stained Glass Love featuring their self-remixed EP by alter-ego Telenoir mirrored on the B-side which will be released on 14th April. To coincide with the regional tour announce, Telenova are also releasing fan favourite single ‘Lost In The Rush’, which was previewed on triple j’s Good...

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