On the anniversary of her ARIA nominated album 3 – and on the eve of her national tour – Sydney-based, Papau New Guinean future-soul artist Ngaiire reveals ‘F.U.’, taken from the album’s b-sides. The captivating artist also announces the supports for her lengthy tour this August/September. Stripped back to the bones of a single piano and spotlighting Ngaiire’s inimitable vocal alongside rousing choral harmonies, the single leaves a lasting impression as a delicate reminder of the importance of relying solely on yourself. On...
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Fresh from taking out Best Breakthrough Artist at this year’s AIR Awards, Telenova release their sophomore EP Stained Glass Love. In celebration, the band will take to the road travelling around Australia and New Zealand this August, September and October. Full tour info below! Widescreen pop music, cinematic in scope and ambitious in design. The tracks on Stained Glass Love delve into self-destruction, heartbreak, addiction, desire, anxiety, isolation, and – eventually – rebirth. There’s...
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Aotearoa / New Zealand sludge-pop connoisseurs Soaked Oats have announced their return to the fine shores of Australia. With an arsenal of newly minted songs and ideas to share, the band are thrilled to present their endearing live show and road test new material this August. Finally returning to Australia after earlier tours were scuppered by the raging pandemic, you can catch Soaked Oats on their Australian jaunt in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in August. Further tour details...
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The Black Seeds have released their seventh studio album Love & Fire. This carefully crafted album is a “big slice of The Black Seeds’ love and musical heat.” Featuring previously released singles, ‘It’s So Real’, ‘Bring The Sun’, ‘Let The Sunshine Through’, ‘Raised With Love’ and the most recent, ‘Game Over’ – Love & Fire also has four new tracks that are set to hit just as hard! “Ideally, each member sent in one or two takes of what they were...
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Following the release of last year’s album 3, Ngaiire returns with a new single ‘Fuchsia’. A continuation of the art project/experiment that Ngaiire has described as ‘a very expensive therapy session’. ‘Fuchsia’, with it’s subversive beats & Ngaiire’s signature vocals, is an exploration of all that is queer & taboo in post-colonial Papua New Guinea. Listen below! Ngaiire shares, “Fuchsia is about wanting autonomy on your choices, who you love, your body...
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Telenova are thrilled to share their self-assured new single ‘Why Do I Keep You?’ with accompanied visuals, conceived and directed by Angeline Armstrong, featuring choreography from Zoe Marsh. Watch below! ‘Why Do I Keep You?’ is a sophisticated slice of modern nostalgia that evokes ‘90s melancholic guitar pop without losing its contemporary lean. Intensely personal in nature, the song is about letting go of someone you loved, someone bent on their own destruction. Teased earlier this month, mysterious...
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Today, Sydney-based composer Donny Benét – hailed and panned by critics as “Prince on a serious budget cut” – unveils his new EP, Le Piano, via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records, alongside single ‘Cappuccino‘. Composed and recorded entirely by himself at the renowned Donnyland Studios in 2021, Le Piano sees Benét masterfully utilise vintage synthesisers and drum machines to present his views on life, love and relationships through the power of song. Speaking to ‘Cappuccino‘, Benét notes: “’Cappuccino’ was a half-finished B side left over...
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Courtney Barnett today announces Here And There – a boutique touring festival with a rotating line-up featuring many of the most exciting songwriters in music today. This August and September, Barnett will take the one-day, one-stage festival to 15 locations around North America, each city with an extraordinary and unique line-up. Joining Barnett at various points on the line-up will be Alvvays, Arooj Aftab, Bartees Strange, Bedouine, Caroline Rose, Chicano Batman, Ethel Cain, Faye Webster, Fred Armisen, Hana Vu, Indigo...
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Naarm/Melbourne-based songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer June Jones releases a new single ‘Motorcycle’, today on Emotion Punk Records via Remote Control Records and announces her first national headline tour. “Motorcycle is a cyber pop-punk song inspired both by my experience of gender transition as well the turn-of-the-millennium techno-optimism that I grew up around. Co-produced by my musical genius bestie Geryon, it is an ode to shedding one’s mortal coil and becoming a fucking cool motorbike instead.” After a global...
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Afterlife Remixed is a fresh take on Ex-Olympian’s 2020 debut Afterlife, calling on some friends, favourite musicians & DJs to rework some of their favourite songs on the record – giving them an Afterlife of their own. Afterlife Remixed is out now via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. The original record itself was influenced by themes of starting again, trial & error, renewal and dialogue. Liam McGorry aka Ex-Olympian says: “In this way, I thought it would be interesting to extend that dialogue and ask...
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Following singles ‘Fool‘, ‘Destroy Everything‘, ‘Dead and Gone‘ and ‘Halo‘, Melbourne singer-songwriter Jess Locke releases her third album Don’t Ask Yourself Why, out on Dot Dash Recordings. The album traverses themes of human behaviour, our egos and self-reflection and was recorded with bandmates James Morris and Chris Rawsthorne, and produced by Rob Muiños (Saskwatch, Julia Jacklin) in a tiny studio in the back of a guitar shop in Collingwood, before...
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Following his acclaimed 2018 debut album Running, Melbourne’s Ryan Downey returns with a new single & video ‘Heart Is An Onion‘, a vibrant full-throated indie-rock march and the first track to be taken from his forthcoming luminous art-rock album A TON OF COLOURS out Friday 14 May via Dot Dash Recordings. To celebrate the announcement, Downey has announced a string of single launches in Sydney, Melbourne & Castlemaine, kicking off mid-April – tickets on sale now here. Downey’s sound is a vibrant affair –musically, stylistically, and vocally. His astonishing voice often raises comparisons...
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A prolific artist and singular voice in the world of Australian music, June Jones releases her sophomore album Leafcutter on Emotion Punk Records in collaboration with Remote Control Records. Despite this being Jones’ first self-produced record, Leafcutter feels in many ways like a logical sequel to her previous releases, which include two albums with Two Steps on the Water, the self-proclaimed “emotion punk” band she fronted from 2014 to 2018. Like...
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Hachiku are excited to finally announce a tour of Victoria and New South Wales to celebrate the release of their acclaimed debut album I’ll Probably Be Asleep. The tour includes Melbourne album launches as part of the Brunswick Music Festival (the first of which is already sold out) as well as reaching many regional areas – tickets are available now here. To celebrate the tour announcement, Hachiku have released a...
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Dot Dash Recordings & Remote Control Records are excited to welcome Sydney-based, Papau New Guinea-born future soul artist Ngaiire to their stellar roster, joining the likes of Methyl Ethel, Carla Geneve & Donny Benét. Of the signing Ngaiire shares “It’s really exciting to finally have a small but incredibly dedicated army of people to help carry this project. What means even more is that Dot Dash came to the table really wanting this partnership and have already shown how fearless they are about taking...
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Muzz have announced details of a new EP, Covers. The four-track set, which sees the trio of Paul Banks, Josh Kaufman and Matt Barrick reimagine songs by Arthur Russell, Bob Dylan, Mazzy Star and Tracy Chapman, will be released digitally on December 9th via Matador. Covers is as much an illustration of the bands collective inspirations as it is a sonic testament to their expansive imagination and fluidity as a...
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