Thrilled to announce the signing of Perth artist Carla Geneve to our local label Dot Dash Recordings! Listen to her new single ‘2001‘ here. Catch her on tour at the dates below. Those of you who’ve seen her live know her guitar work is mind blowing. It makes sense that the last album that inspired her was Cheap Thrills by Big Brother & The Holding Company. In 2018, she received...
Art of Fighting have returned with their first new music in twelve years. Their new single ‘Genie’ is released today, accompanied by a video directed by Sydney photographer Mclean Stephenson. Watch below! For more than a decade, Art of Fighting were an oasis of grace and elegance in the world of Australian independent music. First album Wires edged out Magic Dirt, Something For Kate & You Am I to win...
Tiny Ruins, originally conceived as the solo project of New Zealand singer-songwriter Hollie Fullbrook, have released their third album Olympic Girls, out now. Catch Tiny Ruins tour Australia this April and May. Tour details below! A rare blend of eloquent lyrical craft and explorative musicianship, the songs of Tiny Ruins are etched into the memories of crowds and critics worldwide. Traversing influences that cross genre and era, the artistry of Hollie Fullbrook...
After 24 months of touring and toiling, four piece kiwi band Soaked Oats release the first single ‘Shuggah Doom’ from their forthcoming EP! The single is accompanied by a music video that sneakily combines both literal and deeper meanings to the easy-going manoeuvres of the track. Watch below! The song was produced alongside Tom Healy at The Lab in central Auckland, and the video was shot by Jake Munro in the south Auckland Bombay Hills featuring...
Lucy Dacus and her band are thrilled to announce their debut Australian tour. Catch the songwriter and member of indie-supergroup boygenius, tour Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and By The Meadow festival this March. Tour details below! Two years after her 2016 debut, No Burden, she returned with Historian, a remarkably assured 10-track statement of intent, a record full of bracing realisations, tearful declarations and moments of hard-won peace, expressed in lyrics that...
‘Low Grade Buzz’ is the gorgeous, melodic and slow-burning title track from Huntly’s debut album, Low Grade Buzz, to be released 15 March. ‘Low Grade Buzz’ is an ethereal ballad that communicates life’s bittersweet ache, a blissful comedown the day after a euphoric night. Listen below! Singer and songwriter Elspeth explains, “It was written while I lay in Tempelhof airfield in Berlin after a night out, accompanied by a dinky Yamaha...
Tiny Ruins, originally conceived as the solo project of New Zealand singer-songwriter Hollie Fullbrook, are releasing their third album Olympic Girls on February 1st. Today, Tiny Ruins share a new song and video for ‘Holograms’, Watch below! “The song is a conversation in a way, where one person posits the idea that technology will increasingly connect us. That we will not just be emotionally or mentally connected, but that our...
‘Waiting For Dave’ the new single from The Bennies, sounds like Cheech and Chong teamed up with the Blues Brothers and started a Ska band. The clip was shot by Nick Manuell and features the epic horn players Wes ‘Money Train’ Kingsford (Sax), Nathan ‘Strathan’ Holt (Trumpet) and Michael ‘Dougy’ Rankin (Trombone), watch below! ‘Waiting For Dave’ is the fuel injected party starter of the summer, and a healthy indication that The...
Courtney Barnett (photo by Christo Herriot) made history when she became the first ever solo female artist to win the Best Rock Album category at the ARIA Awards. Barnett’s achievement was all the more significant given the fact that she released her album independently through her own label Milk! Records, she’s the second fully independent artist to win the award. The award is deserved recognition for Barnett whose second album Tell...
Jess Ribeiro has today released her new single ‘Love Is The Score Of Nothing’, it’s the first taste of new music in more than 3 years and is something of an indie rock banger from Ribeiro, signalling a new sound for an artist whose previous albums explored a kind of intricate folk-noire. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Nick McKinlay and shot around Collingwood’s famous Ginger Hair Salon, below! This time...
Tiny Ruins, originally conceived as the solo project of New Zealand singer-songwriter Hollie Fullbrook, are releasing their third album Olympic Girls on Friday 1st February. After sharing the lead single of the same name, Tiny Ruins has now shared ‘School of Design’. Listen below! It was recorded live, with the full band of Cass Basil on bass, Alex Freer on drums and Tom Healy on electric guitar in their hometown...
Magic Dirt have announced the reissue of Signs Of Satanic Youth, originally released in November 1993 on vinyl as a double 7″ single and also on CD. Both have long been out of print and the tracks featured have never been available to stream on DSPs. Signs Of Satanic Youth is now available to stream and download. Two 12” vinyl editions (coloured and classic black) and a CD edition will be...
After performing in Charli XCX’s band across the global Taylor Swift Reputation tour and curating three sold out Australian parties with Charli XCX, Melbourne-born, LA-based multidisciplinary artist Banoffee releases her new single ‘Bubble’. Watch the accompanying video below! ‘Bubble’ exemplifies Banoffee’s unique style of subversive electronica-pop. Banoffee explains the meaning behind the single: “Bubble is my combat to bullies. It’s for the underdogs when they lose sight of their power....
Methyl Ethel announce their third album Triage, released on 15th February 2019. Following on from instant classic ‘Scream Whole’, they have shared new single ‘Real Tight’ along with the official video directed by Matt Sav. Watch below! Triage was written, produced and performed by lead singer Jake Webb. The album was recorded in Jake’s home studio in West Perth and mixed at Mute Studio in London with Marta Salogni. With his 30th birthday,...
Australia’s number one party starters have announced an Australian summer tour, a short run by The Bennies standards, but still covering most of the country. This January they’ll be visiting Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Fremantle and Adelaide. Full tour details below! Not just any old tour this will be the first tour officially as a five-piece as The Bennies welcome long time collaborator and tour member DJ Snes Mega to...
Handsome Tours and FBi Radio are excited to announce the Australian and New Zealand headline debut of Snail Mail. This will be her first tour of Australia and New Zealand in March 2019. Full tour dates and details below! Snail Mail (aka. Lindsey Jordan) is on the brink of something huge – and she’s only just graduated high school. Her voice rises and falls with electricity throughout her debut album Lush, released earlier...
