Kurt Vile announces new album + Australian tour + shares ‘Bassackwards’

Details of the new Kurt Vile album have finally be confirmed, Bottle It In is out on Friday 12 October and now available for pre-order here. Today’s announcement is accompanied by the release of a new single ‘Bassackwards’, an ode to the parking challenges in Vile’s native Philadelphia. Watch the video below! The epic, loping ‘Bassackwards’ is the album’s beating heart and Vile’s most compelling evocation of how he sees the world: “I was...

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Lil Berete releases debut mixtape – Icebreaker

17-year-old Toronto based artist Lil Berete has released his debut mixtape Icebreaker, out now. Written entirely by Lil Berete and including features exclusively from his STN crew from Toronto’s Regent Park, Icebreaker is a brilliant introduction to the area’s breakout star. With Lil Berete’s distinctive voice, raw talent, dynamic flow and a measured duality of confidence and vulnerability, it makes sense that Lil Berete cites Akon, T-Pain, and Young Thug...

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Watch: Banoffee – ‘Muscle Memory’

Melbourne-born, LA-based multidisciplinary artist Banoffee (aka Martha Brown) has returned with new single ‘Muscle Memory’, it’s is the first new music since 2015’s SOPHIE co-production ‘Ripe’. Watch the accompanying video below! Written during a breakup, Banoffee explains, “Muscle Memory is about living in that phantom realm, where your body still feels in a two places at once. I wrote it to capture the feeling of when u touch someone and suddenly remember...

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Watch: EZTV – ‘Daytime’

Brooklyn’s EZTV share a video for their new single ‘Daytime’. It was shot while the band were on a tour with The Clientele in 2017 and represents a nice slice of life from the band. Watch below! About the track the band say, “‘Daytime’ is about wandering around aimlessly in a weird and professional part of town. Feeling underemployed and vaguely miserable as hundreds of people shuffle by in a hurry....

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Watch: King Krule – ‘Biscuit Town’

King Krule releases a music video for ‘Biscuit Town’, the opening track from his latest album The OOZ. The video comes as the first of a three-part collaboration with WeTransfer, which sees King Krule explore the creative process with each video’s director, hosted on their WePresent platform. Watch below! Directed by friends and long-term collaborators cc. Wade (aka Michael and Paraic Morrissey), the video sees King Krule (aka Archy Marshall)...

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Out now: Interpol – Marauder

Interpol’s new album Marauder, is out today. To celebrate they have released the Kristen Stewart and Finn Wittrock starring video for storming new single and album opener, ‘If You Really Love Nothing’. Watch below! Directed by Hala Matar, the visual channels the songs’ nocturnal allure, with Sam Fogarino’s galloping, swing-infused drums, Daniel Kessler’s mesmerising guitar interplay, and Paul Banks’ soulful, spectral falsetto and lyrics evoking a doomed romance coming together...

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Watch: Courtney Barnett ‘Charity’

Today Courtney Barnett shares the video for ‘Charity’, taken from her recently released album Tell Me How You Really Feel. Watch below! The video, by respected cinematographer Ashley Connor was shot on glorious 16mm film and captures fly-on-the-wall footage of Barnett and her band spending a day in Toronto, Canada. The beautiful honest depiction of a day on the road is interspersed with a roaring live performance of one of...

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Watch: Hop Along – ‘Somewhere a Judge’

Hop Along have shared the charming, playful video for ‘Somewhere a Judge’, taken from their new album Bark Your Head Off, Dog which was released earlier this year. Watch below! The video invites viewers behind the scenes on the road, in the studio and documents the new Hop Along mural – which has just gone up on the Studebaker building in Philadelphia – done by the artist Noségo and woven together...

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Watch: HANDSOME – ‘No Cowards’

HANDSOME shares brand new single ‘No Cowards’. Today she announced her debut EP No Hat No Play will be released on Friday 21 September, available for pre-order here. Watch the accompanying video for ‘No Cowards’ below! HANDSOME welcome’s the growing visibility of queerness in music and art, saying “now more than ever the expression of sexuality in music is loud, proud and admired as a strength… its about time, isn’t it? I...

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Courtney Barnett releases 10 live videos + AUS tour starts today

Courtney Barnett today releases a series of 10 stunning live videos. Shot in the Southern American summer in conjunction with Apple Music, Barnett and her band (Bones Sloane, Katie Harkin and Dave Mudie) played through the entirety of Tell Me How You Really Feel in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park. Each song on the album gets the full cinematic treatment directed by rising US film-maker Claire-Marie Vogel and mixed by Australia’s Cal Barter....

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Watch: Kurt Vile – ‘Loading Zones’

Kurt Vile has shared a video for ‘Loading Zones’, the first new music to surface from him since 2015. Directed by Drew Saracco, the video is a paean to his City of Brotherly Love, and farcical tribute to the song’s lyrics, themselves an account of Vile’s peculiar parking strategy. Watch below! “I PARK FOR FREE!” he proclaims, as he goes about his day moving his car from one loading zone to another, narrowly avoiding parking...

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Watch: Rabbit Island – ‘11, 12, 13’

Ahead of her new album Deep in The Big due this Friday 17th August, Amber Fresh AKA Rabbit Island has shared new single ‘11, 12, 13’ along with a beautiful clip, which reflects on her friendship with Nicholas Allbrook. Watch below! Amber says of the video – “We made the video at home in Freo (Walyalup) and on the Derbal Yerrigan (Swan River) one good day. It’s a portrait of our friendship I...

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Watch: Iceage – ‘Under The Sun’

On the heels of the release of their new album, Beyondless, Iceage have shared a new video for album track ‘Under The Sun’. Filmed in Tokyo during their “Opening Nights” residencies, which was an inter-continental exhibition that saw Iceage collaborating with their favourite visual artists (also staged in NYC and LA). Watch below! Directed by XXX, the ‘Under The Sun’ video features the vibrant, eye-catching floral designs of renowned flower sculptor, Azuma...

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Listen: Wild Nothing – ‘Shallow Water’

Later this month Wild Nothing, the project of Los Angeles-based Jack Tatum, will release his new album, Indigo. ‘Shallow Water’ is the latest single from Indigo shared today following lead single ‘Letting Go’ and the ’80s-heavy ‘Partners in Motion’ featuring saxophonist Taylor Plenn. Listen below! “‘Shallow Water’ is a song for and about my wife,” says Tatum. “It can be hard to write songs about being in love that don’t come across as...

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Tiny Ruins sign to Milk! Records + share ‘How Much’

Milk! Records are proud to announce the signing of New Zealand’s Tiny Ruins for Australia. To celebrate, she has unveiled new single ‘How Much’ along with an accompanying video directed by Charlotte Evans. Watch below! “How much would you be willing to give?” Hollie Fullbrook asks point-blank in ‘How Much’, ahead of woozily discordant strings and a stomping neo-psychedelic rhythm. The lyric brims with imagery of supermarket breakdowns, lilos, snarks...

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Out now: Loose Tooth – Keep Up

Loose Tooth today release their debut album Keep Up, alongside sharing their new video for ‘All The Colours Gone’. Etta from the band explains the clip “Gianna Mazzeo brings our vision alive to impart mind control over the people of the world to love our band and buy our merch.” Watch below! With Keep Up, Etta Curry (drums, vocals), Luc Dawson (bass, vocals, guitar, keys), and Nellie Jackson (guitar, vocals) have inked...

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