Remote Control Records in partnership with Emergency Music release the reissue of Life Was Better by Magic Dirt. Life Was Better was originally released in November 1994 on CD and has long been out of print. This is the very first time Life Was Better has been available on vinyl and to stream on DSPs. Catch Magic Dirt as they continue their national tour supporting Cold Chisel this month. Debuting at No. 1 on the Australian alternative music chart and staying on that chart for a whopping 75...
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Thrilled to announce that Big Thief will return to Australia in May 2020 to play shows in Melbourne and Brisbane. Following on from two near sell-out tours and a Meredith Music Festival appearance in 2017, Big Thief will play The Corner in Melbourne on Tuesday 19th May (presented by Triple R) and Brisbane’s The Zoo on Thursday 21st May (presented by Jet Black Cat Music). Sydney show details to be announced soon! To celebrate the announcement of Australian tour dates for 2020, Big Thief have shared two new live videos from Bunker Studios in New York...
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On October 22nd, Courtney Barnett performed a unique live show in Melbourne called MTV Unplugged (Live in Melbourne) at the invitation of MTV Australia. A stripped back, vulnerable and emotional performance of eight tracks, including an original track from Barnett herself titled ‘Play It On Repeat‘, is available now digitally via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Joined by her usual band Dave Mudie and Bones Sloane, she also enlisted cellist Lucy Waldron, legendary songwriter Paul Kelly, angelically-voiced New...
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Milk on Milk a compilation of the Milk! Records roster is out now – Tiny Ruins, courtney barnett, Hachiku, Jen Cloher, The Finks, jade imagine, Evelyn Ida Morris, East Brunswick All Girls Choir and Loose Tooth – covering each other’s songs. Most of Milk On Milk was recorded earlier this year over a four day period by producer & Milk! friend Anna Laverty at Audrey Studios just around the corner from Milk! HQ in Coburg, Melbourne. Some of the Milk! roster share their thoughts on the recording, cover...
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Fat Freddy’s Drop Special Edition Part 1 is available digitally and on all streaming services now. Chur. This very special record, the band’s fifth studio album will be available on CD and double vinyl in December. Part 2 is out in the latter half of 2020. Fat Freddy’s Drop means different things to different people. Hundreds of thousands of fans have seen this internationally renowned live and recorded band play over the last two decades and four...
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Melbourne’s Black Cab have announced the long awaited limited edition vinyl reissue of debut album, Altamont Diary will be released Friday 6 December via Interstate40. The release will celebrate 15 years since its original Australian release in 2004 and the 50th anniversary of the disastrous Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway, California on December 6th 1969. Black Cab won critical acclaim worldwide for their weird rock-meets-electronica take on the death of the Summer of Love and the chao and violence that was Altamont. Long out...
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Thrilled to announce the details for Banoffee‘s debut album! Look At Us Now Dad is out Friday 21st February via Dot Dash (AU/NZ/Asia) and Cascine (ROW). To celebrate the album announce, Banoffee has shared her new single ‘Tennis Fan (feat. Empress Of)’ – premiered via triple j Good Nights. ‘Tennis Fan (feat. Empress Of)’ arrives with a video directed by Quinn Whitney Wilson (Lizzo) and premiered via The FADER. Banoffee shares – “Working with Lorely (Empress Of) and Quinn was such a pleasure and it turned into a day time slumber...
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A pleasure to announce the release of the brand new EP from Obscura Hail – Zero. It’s out now everywhere through Dot Dash Recordings. Catch em live at the dates below. Born on NSW’s South Coast, and now buried alive somewhere in Melbourne, Obscura Hail (Sean Conran, Tamara Issa & Steven West) are sneaking into intimate spaces and filling strangers with relative truths. Themes of ontology, existentialism, love and loss are somewhat serious…...
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Thrilled to share news of two Dot Dash artists representing at SXSW 2020 – Carla Geneve and Gena Rose Bruce. See the first lineup announcement here. 2019 has already proven to be a massive year for Carla Geneve including performances at festivals such as Laneway & Falls, touring with & supporting artists such as Cat Power, Kurt Vile, San Cisco and Holy Holy. Carla received international praise from KEXP and Matt Wilkinson...
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Proud to announce the news of Memphis LK joining the Dot Dash family! New single ‘Roses‘ was premiered this week on triple j‘s Home & Hosed, and single launch shows have been announced for Sydney and Melbourne. ‘Roses‘ is spirited bass-pop atop a bed of dystopian electro. It’s an empowering antidote to Australia’s prevalent tall poppy syndrome. Memphis offers, “We’d all just grow so much taller and brighter and stronger and...
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Memphis LK grows tall with the release of her fresh single ‘Roses’. Spirited bass-pop that blooms from a bed of dystopian electro, the new single reveals a further metamorphosis for the self-sufficient songwriter and producer since her introduction with ‘Speak Honestly’. Her newly cherished creative independence has been a journey of renewal and rebirth. Memphis looks back on the cathartic process as “clearing things that don’t serve you anymore, so you can step into...
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Dyson Stringer Cloher – the iconic project of three of Australia’s most accomplished and dynamic songwriters, Jen Cloher, Mia Dyson and Liz Stringer – have released their debut self-titled album via Milk! Records. Mia Dyson, Liz Stringer and Jen Cloher have spent most of their lives thousands of miles from one another – Mia in Los Angeles, Liz in Toronto and Jen in Melbourne. Their debut self-titled album was recorded at Wilco’s studio The Loft in Chicago, with Jeff Tweedy’s guitars, as you do, with Wilco’s Glenn Kotche on drums and Tom Schick the Grammy Award-winning engineer. As you do....
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Tiny Ruins have released Olympic Girls Solo, an acoustic recording of the widely acclaimed third album through Milk! Records, Ba Da Bing Records and Marathon Artists. Featuring Hollie Fullbrook’s arresting vocals and intricate guitar playing, the solo recordings reflect the sparse beauty of her earliest work. The album features some of Fullbrook’s most accomplished songwriting, recorded onto tape in whole live takes at Auckland’s Roundhead Studios. To celebrate the release of Olympic Girls Solo, Hollie will return to Australia to join New York-based...
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Mistletone and Remote Control Records are proud to announce that Steve Gunn will return to Australia this November for a run of headline shows in Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart and Castlemaine, as well as appearances at Mullum Festival, Melbourne Music Week and Coalchella. For over a decade, Steve Gunn has been one of American music’s most pivotal figures — conjuring immersive and psychedelic sonic landscapes both live and on record, releasing...
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Dyson Stringer Cloher have announced their debut self titled album will be released 4 October through Milk! Records. Check out their video for new single ‘Believer,’ an anthem in owning your aspiration, and inspired by the AFLW. Catch the iconic trio on tour around the country in November. Cloher says of the video, “I remember the day Tayla Harris’ kick was immortalised. Women in my circle, mostly musicians, posted the now...
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Tiny Ruins announce the release of Olympic Girls Solo, an acoustic recording of the widely acclaimed third album. Featuring Hollie Fullbrook’s arresting vocals and intricate guitar playing, the solo recordings reflect the sparse beauty of her earliest work. The album features some of Fullbrook’s most accomplished songwriting. Olympic Girls Solo will be released on Friday 27th September through Milk! Records. Soak in the first single from the album ‘One Million Flowers.’ Hollie’s songs start their lives as simply crafted lyrics carried only by...
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