10 January 2020
In December 2019, XL Recordings announced that the acclaimed, Chicago-based jazz musician Makaya McCraven is to release a unique reimagining of I’m New Here, the final album by the late, legendary musician, poet and author Gil Scott-Heron. Titled We’re New Again, the album will be released on 7 February and marks the tenth anniversary of I’m New Here. It’s the second full-length interpretation of the album, following Jamie xx’s 2011 We’re…
10 January 2020
Algiers have shared new track and video ‘We Can’t Be Found’, taken from the London/NYC four-piece’s third album There Is No Year, out next Friday 17 January. The mesmerising visual for the sinuous, dub-inflected song, which builds to a soaring, cascading chorus, propelled by the powerhouse vocals of frontman Franklin James Fisher, was directed by Ian Cone. “I always feel the most successful music videos are the ones that are reflective and convey the mood of the…
13 December 2019
Harvey Aldous Harding – Designer The Apartments – Live at L’Ubu Big Thief – Two Hands Drugdealer- Raw Honey FKA twigs – MAGDALENE Gena Rose Bruce – Can’t Make You Love Me J. McFarlane’s Reality Guest – Ta Da Lee Scratch Perry – Rainford Leif Vollebekk – New Ways Methyl Ethel – Triage Peter Perrett – Humanworld Robert Forster – Inferno Sui Zhen – Losing Linda Sunbeam Sound Machine –…
13 December 2019
Dot Dash is delighted to announce a new distribution deal with the UK’s largest independent distributor, the Proper Music Group. Proper will distribute Dot Dash’s physical releases in the UK, Europe and the Republic of Ireland. The first UK/Europe release through the new partnership will be Gena Rose Bruce’s acclaimed debut album Can’t Make You Love Me, set for release in early 2020 ahead of her upcoming performances at SXSW….
13 December 2019
LA based rockers Starcrawler have announced their live Australian debut next month supporting friends from the LA underground, The Growlers! Kicking off January 4th 2020, Starcrawler will be joining The Growlers on a twelve-date Summer East Coast tour stopping in most big centres and surf breaks across QLD, NSW and VIC, including a night at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney. Full run of dates below. On heading Down Under, Starcrawler‘s Arrow de Wilde says “I’ve always wanted to come to Australia, and we’ve been dying to play there for so long! I…
6 December 2019
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…
6 December 2019
Låpsley has returned with her new EP These Elements, out now through XL Recordings. It’s the first new music since the release of her acclaimed debut album Long Way Home over three years ago – a record that distilled the yearning and heartache of teenage love and cemented Låpsley’s position as one of the most exciting new artists in the UK. The album was hugely influential (not least on Billie Eillish, who name-checked it as a…
6 December 2019
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…
6 December 2019
A reimagining of Gill Scott-Heron’s last studio album will be released by Makaya McCraven under the title We’re New Again. The release marks the tenth anniversary of Scott-Heron’s album I’m New Here, to be available on LP, CD and via digital services on February 7th 2020. Equally renowned and revered as a musician, drummer, sampler, beat-maker and producer, McCraven is widely regarded as one of the most exciting and original voices in…
6 December 2019
Collaborative project Dance et al. releases their debut album The Higher Infinite out now via Broken Stone Records. The project is inspired by the collaborative work of James Turrell and Tadano Ando, 20th century mathematics, blackness in sound, single colours. Initial inspiration came from prepared tracks, performed at Equation festival in Hanoi 2017. Recordings were since made at Golden Retriever Studios in Syd with Johnny Dance (The Killing Words), Josh…
6 December 2019
Algiers release their new single ‘Void’, premiered by Adult Swim as part of their Single Club series. It will appear on the Atlanta group’s third album, There Is No Year, to be released on January 17th 2020 via Matador Records / Remote Control Records and will be available to purchase as a special flexi disc as part of the vinyl package.
29 November 2019
Listen to ‘My Name is Dark‘ here: https://grimes.ffm.to/mynameisdark Pre-order Miss Anthropocene, out February 21 here: https://grimes.ffm.to/missanthropocene
29 November 2019
To celebrate the release of his highly-anticipated third album, After You, Jack Peñate releases a stunning live video of ‘Loaded Gun’. Directed by Daniel Castro Garciaand filmed at north London’s legendary The Church studios, the intimate black and white live recording sees Jack stripping back the song to just piano and vocal to beautiful effect. Watch below! Featuring the singles ‘Prayer’ and ‘Murder’ (and their accompanying Eddie Peake-directed videos), After…
29 November 2019
The Finks release their new album Affectations on tape & digital today via Milk! Records / Remote Control. Catch The Finks launch the record at the Milk! Records Pop Up Shop in Melbourne on Saturday 30 November at 3pm. Check out the details here. The Finks play the songs of Oliver Mestitz. They are sincere but flippant, intimate but aloof, subtle but unpolished. The Finks have released a steady stream…
28 November 2019
Three years since the release of their shambling classic, Mid Thirties Single Scene, Scott & Charlene’s Wedding release six-track EP When in Rome, Carpe Diem ahead of their performance at Meredith Music Festival this year. They’ve also shared a video for ‘Back In The Corner.’ Watch the clip below Formed around Craig Dermody, a songwriter who provides you with speed-dial access to his head and his heart, and rooted in…
22 November 2019
Congratulations to those amongst the Remote Control extended family who have received nominations at the 2019 GRAMMYs! Read the full list of nominees here. Best Music Video CELLOPHANE FKA twigs Andrew Thomas Huang, video director; Alex Chamberlain, video producer Best Alternative Music Album U.F.O.F. Big Thief ANIMA Thom Yorke
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