Chastity (aka Brandon Williams) shares new single ‘Heaven Hell Anywhere Else’, taken from his forthcoming debut album, Death Lust, out Friday 13 July. He says “this song is about trying to get into heaven with my friends, or doing all that we can together to survive.” Reflecting the working class background of Whitby, Ontario, Chastity’s songs are charged with the ethos of archetypal youth on the fringe. Chastity stands to confront the...
Kamasi Washington releases new album Heaven and Earth, the long-awaited follow up to his debut The Epic. To celebrate, Washington shared new video, directed by A.G. Rojas for ‘Street Fighter Mas’, watch below! The video includes cameos by famed Street Fighter legends Gootecks and Combofiend and one of Washington’s Los Angles heroes — Kevin Gilliam a.k.a. BattleCat, a longtime collaborator of Dr. Dre, Snoop and Tupac Shakur. The video was inspired by Washington’s...
Milwaukee Banks share their latest single ‘No Time To Waste’ featuring Rromarin along with an accompanying live video. The track comes from their upcoming album No Time, due Friday 29th June. Catch the duo playing live at Changes Conference, Collective Artists showcase on July 4th. Details below! Vocalist Dyl Thomas says of the collaboration with Rromarin: “Rromarin is a long time friend and collaborator, so it was great to work with her again on...
Ibeyi joined Brazilian rapper Emicida to record a beautiful collaborative track titled ‘Hacia El Amor’. Accompanying the track is a captivating music video, for which the two artists gathered in Paris to record. Watch below! Directed by Christian Beuchet, the video illustrates the plural lyrics that promote the breaking of barriers, bringing the artists into a shed covered with graffiti and filled with people, dancing and celebrating the ancestral feeling...
Melbourne three-piece Loose Tooth announce their debut album Keep Up to be released on August 3rd. In addition, Loose Tooth share the album opener ‘Keep On’, watch the accompanying clip below! With Keep Up, Etta Curry (drums, vocals), Luc Dawson (bass, vocals, guitar, keys), and Nellie Jackson (guitar, vocals) have inked their impeccable ear for a hook on a fresh sonic palate. Long time friends with a democratic approach to...
Everything Is Recorded releases a brand new video for ‘She Said (featuring Obongjayar and Kamasi Washington)’, from the debut album Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell, released earlier this year. Watch below! Directed by Dear Mr Quistgaard, the video sees appearances from the enigmatic Nigerian-born, London-based artist Obongjayar and Richard Russell himself, alongside the British Olympic judo team. Speaking about the video, Richard Russell says: “I first heard Steven (Obongjayar) via...
Leeds trio Drahla have shared brand new single ‘Twelve Divisions Of The Day’. One of Drahla’s most visceral and instant tracks to date, blends the band’s wiry art-rock with krautrock inspired experimentalism, underpinned by singer/guitarist Luciel Brown’s captivating spoken drawl. Listen below! This is the first new music from the band since signing to Brooklyn’s Captured Tracks and the release is accompanied by ‘Twelve Divisions Of The Day’ (Black Ribbon Alternate...
Seventeen year-old Los Angeles-based artist Hana Vu recently announced her self-produced debut EP How Many Times Have You Driven By, out June 29th. Today she shares the EP’s next single ‘Shallow’. See previous singles ‘Crying on the Subway’ + ‘Cool ft. Satchy’ below! ‘Shallow’ is a rocking departure from the gorgeous haze of her previous releases which retains Vu’s knack for effortless and heady melody. Hana Vu may still be in high...
Kamasi Washington debuts new song ‘Street Fighter Mas’, from his forthcoming album Heaven and Earth, out June 22. Listen below and watch the trailer for the track’s forthcoming video, directed by A.G. Rojas, here. Of the song, Kamasi says: “When I was younger, I was in between the end of the arcade generation and the beginning of the console generation. We used to go to this place called Rexall to play Street...
Melbourne’s Lehmann B. Smith returns with his new record Poplar Music. To celebrate the record, he will be playing a Tote residency every Sunday this June. Tour dates and details below! Finding his greatest success as a sideman for bands like Totally Mild and Kes Band, Smith has often been described as a musician’s musician, an undiscovered talent. He is a prodigious songwriter, laboriously notating album after album of unreleased material and...
The Finks release their new album Rolly Nice. The Finks play the songs of Oliver Mestitz. They are sincere but flippant, intimate but aloof, thoughtful but careless. Oliver records everything in his Melbourne home, mostly alone, layering instrument upon instrument and mixing each song straight to tape. Each recording by The Finks hums with the quiet reverie and melancholy of weekday afternoons, when the suburbs lie in wait and the house...
Daughter have released the exquisite live reworking of single ‘All I Wanted’. Watch the single’s stunning companion video, directed by Simon Lane below! Led by the band’s vocalist and lyricist Elena Tonra alongside a string quartet and all-female vocal quartet, the audio was captured in one seamless take in Peckham’s Asylum Chapel, with arrangements composed by Josephine Stephenson. Music from Before The Storm has been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award,...
Ahead of her upcoming album out next week, Gabriella Cohen shares the cheeky new video of her latest single ‘Music Machine’. The new album Pink Is The Colour Of Unconditional Love is out on Friday 1st June. Watch below! Cohen shares – “This video was very much a family affair. I couldn’t have done it without the tremendous help of my two sisters, Sara Yael and Lisa Raquel. The leading actress is...
Princess Nokia has released the latest video for her pop punk anthem ‘Look Up Kid’ from her recent mixtape, A Girl Cried Red. Watch the video below! The New York rapper—aka Destiny Frasqueri—co-directed ‘Look Up Kid’ with frequent collaborator Milah Libin. The visual sees Frasqueri embracing her rock roots and performing with a full band. A Girl Cried Red showcases another fully formed side of Destiny that still taps into the uncompromising feminist...
For their new music video for ‘Honesty’, Tune-Yards collaborated with Creative Growth, an organisation dedicated to providing a professional studio environment for artists with developmental, mental and physical disabilities. Watch it below! Written and directed by Susan Janow, the animated mixed-media video stars Merrill as a ‘60s housewife finding freedom through an absurd journey from grocery store to tropical giant-food paradise. Susan Janow and other Creative Growth artists created everything from...
Baba Stiltz is pleased to announce his Showtime EP, to be released Friday 8th June. Sharing from it ‘Maze’, the kind of summer floor-filler he is such a natural at crafting. Watch the clip below! Swedish-born 24-year-old Baba Stiltz (real name) has been steadily releasing his idiosyncratic take on dance music to growing fanfare. His is a playful brand of electronic music that crosses boundaries and genres unlike many before. “This EP is a collection of songs...
