Two Thom Yorke pop-up shops are to run in Sydney and Melbourne on Saturday 26 October in anticipation of his sold out everything tour. The pop-up shops will carry a limited edition, never before pressed to vinyl, 12″ of Thom Yorke – Live from Electric Lady Studios. The live session was recorded at the NYC studio and includes the following tracks: ‘Open Again’, ‘Bloom’, ‘Suspirium’, and ‘Unmade’. There will be...
Memphis LK grabs harder and grittier sounds for her new EP Say, out now! A five-tracker featuring collabs with trailblazers DJ BORING and Willaris. K, it’s packed with high-energy tracks for the headiest haunts. In support of the EP, Memphis heads homeward for True Love Rave II to ignite dance floors in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Perth, along with supports (including comp winners) just dropped! Details below. Relocating from Melbourne...
The Hard Quartet release their eponymous debut album and announce a run of Australian tour dates in early January 2025. Says the band, “Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney and Jim White formed The Hard Quartet in May 2023. They recorded a 15 song album in NYC and Malibu California without telling anyone except their families and friends – ideal times spent in idyllic locales. The Hard Quartet starts touring...
Jamie xx will return to Australia for his first headline tour since 2015. He will arrive on Australian shores in support of his hotly anticipated record In Waves, out on 20th September. Jamie xx will perform at Melbourne’s PICA, Hotel Brunswick in Brunswick Heads, Meredith Music Festival (VIC), and Sydney’s Carriageworks from 5 to 9 December. Full tour details below! Pre-order / pre-save In Waves here. Jamie xx – In...
A. Savage will return to Australia’s East Coast for a run of tour dates in November. The Parquet Courts frontman will tour in support of his record Several Songs About Fire. Produced by John Parish in Bristol, Several Songs About Fire is bolstered by the support of Jack Cooper and Cate Le Bon, as well as members of Kamikaze Palm Tree & caroline. The end result is tantamount to psychic odyssey, containing a singular irreverence which is stitched together by Savage’s outsize...
For their first album in over a decade – yep, it’s been ten years since 2012’s Toward the Low Sun – Dirty Three flew in, got together and started playing. End of story. Music’s their true love; they never stop listening to that. And like the title says, Love Changes Everything. Arriving physically on Friday, 14th June and digitally on Friday, 28th June, Love Changes Everything expands on their rumbling, wide-open instrumentals that pull you in like oil-painted landscapes. There’s...
The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper returns with the vinyl reissue of two bona fide classic albums on Friday 29th March, and an April tour to celebrate. Black Ticket Day and Law Of Nature are available for pre-order now! The two albums follow the recent reissues of Frontierland, Honey Steels Gold and Electrical Storm and the previously unreleased Mr. MiraKle. For the April tour Kuepper’s band will again feature drummer Mark Dawson, bassist Peter Oxley, pianist Alister Spence and brass arranger Eamon Dilworth. Further tour details below!...
Lisa O’Neill, one of the most striking folk singers performing on the live circuit, announces an extensive tour of Australia taking in Woodford Folk Festival and WOMADelaide as well as dates in New South Wales and Victoria in 2024. Tour details below. O’Neill’s pure song writing and organic music alight in songs that reach the soul. She’s built a reputation as a modern artist tapped into the ancient, whose voice...
Car Seat Headrest share their new live album Faces From The Masquerade alongside a video of the band performing the song ‘Sober To Death’. On March 28th-30th 2022, Car Seat Headrest played three consecutive sold out nights at Brooklyn Steel in New York. An air of celebration, community and showmanship was present, made all the more palpable as the shows were far from a certainty – they took place amidst a year which saw the band having to postpone or cancel...
Would you and a friend like to get exclusive access to see The National soundcheck on their Australian tour in 2024? All you have to do is buy the ticket/album bundle at lvntn.com/TheNational2024 and we will be in touch to let you know how you can go into the draw to win exclusive access to soundcheck at the gig you are attending. All fans who have already purchased the bundle will...
Melbourne-born duo Xylouris White tackle Australia with a debut appearance at the Queenscliff Music Festival and a run of east coast dates. The dynamic duo; lute player George Xylouris and drummer Jim White, will also include Meeniyan, Hepburn Springs, Hobart, Wollongong and Canberra alongside big city plays in Sydney and Melbourne. The tour comes off the back of 2023’s release The Forest in Me, an instrumental album drawn from multiple sessions spawned across two continents; Jim in New York City and George in Crete and pulled together by...
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...
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...
London-based duo Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) have today shared the video for ‘Greatest Hits’, taken from their critically acclaimed debut full-length record I Love You Jennifer B – out now via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. The video, directed by FKA Twigs’ Caprisongs visual collaborator Aiden Zamiri, charts a fictitious show trial between two eccentric pop icons and features a cast of cameos close to the Jockstrap project. Jockstrap have also announced their first shows in Australia for February and March...
Ahead of their debut Australian tour in December, Dry Cleaning release their sophomore album Stumpwork. Having already started writing their second record before their first New Long Leg was released, they spent twice as much time with producer John Parish on the follow-up, Stumpwork. Vocals which coil tightly around deft and complex riffs, great meshes of instrumental texture and the willingness to launch into full-on abstraction. “We felt more confident,” says guitarist Tom...
jade imagine take a journey through dizzying, upbeat jams and melancholic retrospectives with the release of their sophomore album Cold Memory. The album arrives alongside a film clip for ‘I’ll Guess We’ll Just Wait’ and a string of live shows. See below! Written and recorded between Melbourne, Warrnambool and Fremantle, Western Australia, Cold Memory offers ten songs that explore notions of connection – to self, to nature, and to others – across a stunningly diverse collection of...
