Cyanide Thornton have shared their stunning new single ‘Hot Air’, from their self-titled debut album out November 9. Catch the band launch their debut album at The Curtin on Melbourne on Friday 16 November. Watch the accompanying video to ‘Hot Air’ below! The band describe the single – “‘Hot Air’ in a fast moving car on flat ground. Smash into yourself, burst out of yourself. This is a song about difference and...
Denise le Menice (AKA Perth’s Ali Flintoff) has made a name for herself as the razor-tongued lead singer of punk rock outfit BOAT SHOW. Ali is now channelling her pop sensibilities and trademark wit into her solo project Denise le Menice. Today, Denise le Menice releases her first single ‘Heart’ after the exciting announcement of signing to Barely Dressed Records. ‘Heart’ is as satisfying as guitar pop gets – vocal...
HAWA’s strong, direct voice set her apart from her peers and established her as a contender for the NYC’s next rap superstar. Now, she releases ‘I’m Safe’ which hears HAWA reunited with producer Tony Seltzer and combines her forceful bars with flexing vocals. The track is accompanied by her first-ever music video, directed by Keenan MacWilliam, watch below! At 17 years old and still in high school in NYC, HAWA...
Kurt Vile shares a third single ‘One Trick Ponies’, taken from his forthcoming album Bottle It In, which is released Friday 12th October and available for pre-order here. Watch the accompanying lyric video for ‘One Trick Ponies’ below! It’s a joyful and infectious country-rock number, with Vile playing harmonica, guitar, and piano, and harmonising with Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa and Farmer Dave Scher on the big-hearted singalong chorus. Vile performed ‘One Trick Ponies’ alongside a...
Richard Ayoade, the BAFTA-nominated film director, actor, TV presenter and comedian, has been a long-time fan of The Breeders. As a young teen in 1990, Ayoade recalls travelling from his Ipswich home to London to buy the band’s first album Pod. Today, nearly 30 years after making that journey, he has teamed up with his favourite band to create an eerie short story for their latest single, ‘Spacewoman’. Watch below!...
Following on from the announce of their debut record Euphoria, set for release on October 19, Melbourne’s Total Giovanni are delighted to share the video for their new single ‘Awake’. Watch below! Total Giovanni’s Vachel Spirason describes – “The song ‘Awake’ is about desire and insomnia so the original idea was of a late night 1900 number ad that comes on the tele as it playfully riffs on both those...
Methyl Ethel share brand new single ‘Scream Whole’, it’s the first new music from the Perth band since their second record Everything Is Forgotten was released in March 2017. Listen below! ‘Scream Whole’ is a nimble art-rock cut, which Jake Webb describes as, “That cold sweat. That swollen throat. That sick feeling bubbling up from your guts. When midday movies dredge suppressed memories that scream for closure. What to do?”...
Melbourne trio Huntly bring emotional vulnerability to the dance-floor, making radical electronic pop songs where the personal and political coexist, where moving and feeling are symbiotic. Today they release brand new single ‘Drop Gear’ and announce they have signed to Barely Dressed Records. On ‘Drop Gear’, Huntly double down on their “doof you can cry to” manifesto, marrying intimate songwriting with forward-thinking dance music. ‘Drop Gear’ is a song about...
Gruff Rhys follows a series of sold out gigs played with full orchestras in Cardiff, London and Manchester with a new video for ‘Selfies In The Sunset’, the closing track from his fifth album Babelsberg, out now. Watch below! Directed and animated by Ewan Jones Morris, the video features Gruff and guest singer Lily Cole creating Animojis ahead of the apocalypse. Of the track, Gruff writes: A couple of years ago...
Ryan Downey has released the striking new track ‘No More Miracles’, alongside the haunting B-Side ‘Those Eyes That Answer (Reprise)’ – a fitting follow-up to his debut album released earlier this year. Listen below! ‘No More Miracles’ is the Melbourne-based indie-crooner‘s most stunning song to date. Ambitious in its scope but simple in its execution, a gritty introduction gives way to a majestic choral interlude. It needs to be heard...
Molly Burch reveals the incredibly charming animated video for her latest single ‘To The Boys’, from her forthcoming LP, First Flower, set for release on October 5. The clip was directed by Emily Ann Hoffman who notes, “I loved how playful and strong the song’s message was and wanted the video to have the same feeling. I liked the idea of a paper doll seeming delicate and feminine, yet standing...
Sleaford Mods are pleased to share their self-titled EP Sleaford Mods, out now on 12”, CD & DL. This is the band’s first new music since last year’s album English Tapas. Jason Williamson says, “The lead tracks are mostly full of violent tendencies that only transpire through imagination. People are powerless under the political monster and the intense anger and frustration morphs into illusions of attacking each other through the...
Following a string of celebrated singles including ‘Happy Man’, ‘Heavy, California’ and most recently ‘Beat 54 (All Good Now)’ Jungle’s second album For Ever is out now. To celebrate the release, Jungle have announced they will be returning to Australia in April 2019! Bringing their intoxicating live show to their ever growing fanbases in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & Fremantle, as presented by triple j & Secret Sounds. Jungle are excited...
Having left a trail of ecstatically exhausted fans in its wake from Niagara Falls to Australia, Queens Of The Stone Age’s world tour in support of their seventh album Villains has careened to a triumphant finish in Perth with its 129th show. As the tour came to a close, fans in Tasmania were treated to an intimate one-off acoustic set at MONA in Hobart – a benefit that generated $10,000 matched...
‘Weight’ is the first single from the eagerly anticipated self-titled debut album from Naarm (Melbourne) band Cyanide Thornton. Featuring members of Two Steps On The Water, the band was founded in early 2016 and has been steadily gaining traction in Melbourne’s alternative rock circuits. Watch the video below! While incorporating elements of folk and rock, Cyanide Thornton transcends its composite parts, moving into a space of raw emotion and fierce...
A year after the release of her extraordinary self-titled fourth album, Jen Cloher shares a set of brilliantly shot live band performance videos of three fan-favourite tracks from the record – ‘Regional Echo’, ‘Shoegazers’ and ‘Analysis Paralysis’. Watch below! Filmed late last year at Milk! Records’ Melbourne warehouse – the performances capture a rare camaraderie and bond between band members who had just finished a year of extensive global touring...
