Melbourne-born, LA-based multidisciplinary artist Banoffee (aka Martha Brown) has returned with new single ‘Muscle Memory’, it’s is the first new music since 2015’s SOPHIE co-production ‘Ripe’. Watch the accompanying video below! Written during a breakup, Banoffee explains, “Muscle Memory is about living in that phantom realm, where your body still feels in a two places at once. I wrote it to capture the feeling of when u touch someone and suddenly remember...
Following the announcement of prime festival slots at Victoria’s Meredith Music Festival & New South Wales’ Fairground Festival, The Breeders have announced they will also be visiting Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne & Canberra on a six-date Australian tour – kicking off Wednesday 28th November 2018. Earlier this year The Breeders released All Nerve, the group’s first record in a decade and their first in 25 years reuniting the iconic Last Splash...
Today Courtney Barnett shares the video for ‘Charity’, taken from her recently released album Tell Me How You Really Feel. Watch below! The video, by respected cinematographer Ashley Connor was shot on glorious 16mm film and captures fly-on-the-wall footage of Barnett and her band spending a day in Toronto, Canada. The beautiful honest depiction of a day on the road is interspersed with a roaring live performance of one of...
HANDSOME shares brand new single ‘No Cowards’. Today she announced her debut EP No Hat No Play will be released on Friday 21 September, available for pre-order here. Watch the accompanying video for ‘No Cowards’ below! HANDSOME welcome’s the growing visibility of queerness in music and art, saying “now more than ever the expression of sexuality in music is loud, proud and admired as a strength… its about time, isn’t it? I...
New Zealand’s Fat Freddy’s Drop have announced their first national Australian tour since 2016, which will see the eight-piece band perform across Australia in March 2019, and supported by Ladi6 at all dates. Full tour details below. The group will commence their upcoming tour with two shows at The Forum in Melbourne, then head to play the Odeon Theatre in Hobart, Hordern Pavilion in Sydney and Eatons Hill Hotel in Brisbane before finishing...
Rabbit Island has released her new album Deep in The Big. To celebrate, Rabbit Island has announced a national tour, where she will play shows this September/ October in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Fremantle, Thirroul and Yass. Further tour details below. A culmination of the music Amber Fresh is known and adored for in her hometown, Perth/Fremantle and beyond, Deep in The Big is a pure experience that will take listeners somewhere beautiful...
Courtney Barnett today releases a series of 10 stunning live videos. Shot in the Southern American summer in conjunction with Apple Music, Barnett and her band (Bones Sloane, Katie Harkin and Dave Mudie) played through the entirety of Tell Me How You Really Feel in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park. Each song on the album gets the full cinematic treatment directed by rising US film-maker Claire-Marie Vogel and mixed by Australia’s Cal Barter....
Kurt Vile has shared a video for ‘Loading Zones’, the first new music to surface from him since 2015. Directed by Drew Saracco, the video is a paean to his City of Brotherly Love, and farcical tribute to the song’s lyrics, themselves an account of Vile’s peculiar parking strategy. Watch below! “I PARK FOR FREE!” he proclaims, as he goes about his day moving his car from one loading zone to another, narrowly avoiding parking...
Before kicking off their Australian and New Zealand tour with Courtney Barnett this weekend, East Brunswick All Girls Choir have announced their Teddywaddy album tour this November. Catch the band perform shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Castlemaine. In addition, they will be showcasing at BIGSOUND this September. Full ticket details and links below. Teddywaddy is the most profound and riotous statement of the band’s career, anchored at every...
Jack Ladder will perform a series of solo shows starting in September, which will delve into all five albums that he’s released to date. Performed within intimate settings, Ladder will for the first time reveal the “true” stories behind some of his most admired songs. In the thirteen years since his debut album, Ladder’s fascinating musical journey has been notable for perpetual reinvention between albums, but it has always been...
Milk! Records are proud to announce the signing of New Zealand’s Tiny Ruins for Australia. To celebrate, she has unveiled new single ‘How Much’ along with an accompanying video directed by Charlotte Evans. Watch below! “How much would you be willing to give?” Hollie Fullbrook asks point-blank in ‘How Much’, ahead of woozily discordant strings and a stomping neo-psychedelic rhythm. The lyric brims with imagery of supermarket breakdowns, lilos, snarks...
Loose Tooth today release their debut album Keep Up, alongside sharing their new video for ‘All The Colours Gone’. Etta from the band explains the clip “Gianna Mazzeo brings our vision alive to impart mind control over the people of the world to love our band and buy our merch.” Watch below! With Keep Up, Etta Curry (drums, vocals), Luc Dawson (bass, vocals, guitar, keys), and Nellie Jackson (guitar, vocals) have inked...
Almost a year after the release of her self-titled fourth album, Jen Cloher delivers multiple surprises in the form of a gorgeous acoustic EP, the announcement of her first ever solo European shows and a set of brilliantly shot intimate live band performance videos. The solo EP Live at The Loft and Loew’s features performances captured at Wilco’s famous Loft studios in Chicago and from within the decaying glory of...
Methyl Ethel’s ‘Ubu’ is now ARIA Accredited Gold. The single was released on the band’s second record Everything Is Forgotten and placed at #4 in triple j’s Hottest 100 in 2017. Earlier today ‘Ubu’ was featured on triple j Mornings segment Inspired where Jake Webb, the brainchild of Methyl Ethel, broke down the influences, meanings and writing process behind the song. Listen back to the segment here. Methyl Ethel, made up of...
Melbourne three-piece Loose Tooth release new single ‘You Say’ from their debut album Keep Up to be released on August 3rd. The trio has also created a DIY lyric video to accompany the latest single. Watch below! Guitarist, Nellie comments, “this was the first song that was written for Keep Up. An off-shoot from some of the heart break themes in Saturn Returns. Etta couldn’t help but pack one last punch...
East Brunswick All Girls Choir release their long-awaited second album Teddywaddy. To celebrate, the four-piece have released a video for their ferocious new single ‘Dog FM’, watch below! Speaking of ‘Dog FM’, frontman Marcus Hobbs explains: “You know when people say they don’t have any regrets, they’re lying. Hindsight is a beautiful thing. We reworked this song from an old slow solo piece I had been playing, introduced Rie’s filthy bass line...
