26 September 2019
MTV Australia today confirmed Courtney Barnett will return home as the next act to perform in the critically acclaimed MTV Unplugged Melbourne concert series in 2019. The Melbourne-based singer/songwriter will become the next Australian artist to be featured on MTV Unplugged Melbourne, joining Gang of Youths, Amy Shark, DMA’S and The Rubens, who have all taken to the stage with stellar stripped-back performances. Barnett said, “I’m looking forward to coming…
20 September 2019
DIIV reveal new song ‘Blankenship‘ off their forthcoming third full-length album Deceiver out Friday 4 October via Captured Tracks. The song’s ominous bass line and crawling beat devolve into frenetic string bends and vitriolic lyrics that welcome inspection of the song’s namesake. The acerbic song is paired with the band’s first music video in six years, shot in California in Trona Pinnacles, Sequoia National Park, and in Los Angeles; and directed by Sean Stout (Deafheavan, Death Grips, Trash Talk). Preorder…
20 September 2019
‘Lust’ is the brand-new single from Melbourne-via-Sydney-via-Perth artist Denise Le Menice (AKA Ali Flintoff). It premiered on triple j Home & Hosed and sees DLM aim her sublime guitar-based dream-pop straight at the dance-floor. On ‘Lust’ Denise Le Menice’s desire is set to four-on-the-floor rave-up, takes its lascivious subject-matter and presents it with a kind of purity and sweetness. “Butterflies, I’ve got a belly-full… I hope I run into you… I’m in lust with you” Catchy, post-psych-indie-pop, dance –…
20 September 2019
Perfume Genius has released ‘Eye in the Wall’, a new track taken from The Sun Still Burns Here, a dance and music performance collaboration with Seattle-based choreographer Kate Wallich. The evening-long piece, set to debut in October, is co-directed by Perfume Genius and Wallich and stars Perfume Genius’s Mike Hadreas alongside dance company The YC. The track is 9 minutes of celestial hypnosis and sounds unlike anything Hadreas has done before. “I think of ‘Eye in the Wall’ as a cosmic peep show,” says Hadreas. “Watching,…
20 September 2019
Meet Bebi Monsuta, and their sultry, irresistibly danceable debut single ‘Brazilian Sound (ft. ABRONCA)’. Out now via b4. The pair of NYC sisters – Manami Mao and Akira Ayane – have roots in Trinidad, Japan, and Brazil and have been performing music together since childhood. Their fusion of cultures and influences from Japanese R&B to Caribbean music to the NYC Hip-Hop scene shines brightly on the new song. The duo’s name translates from Japanese to ‘Baby Monsters’….
20 September 2019
Jack Ladder has released new track ‘Shades’ – a desolate and beautiful cover of the underrated romantic highlight from Iggy Pop’s 1986 album Blah-Blah-Blah. ‘Shades’ is released alongside the slinky and lovelorn B-Side ‘Head Full of Nails’ – a fitting follow-up to Ladder’s 5th album Blue Poles released last year via Barely Dressed Records. ‘Shades’ may seem tongue-in-cheek, but Ladders performance comes from a place of deep affinity and admiration. As Ladder explains; “I remember first seeing the video for Shades when the Yeah Yeah…
13 September 2019
Leif Vollebekk has unveiled the second single from his forthcoming album New Ways (out 1st November via Secret City Records) with a music video for ‘Transatlantic Flight.’ ‘Transatlantic Flight’ takes its time, and wraps itself around you. Leif found inspiration in a host of places – from sticky Rihanna choruses, the dark sizzle of Leonard Cohen, the visual mastery of Richard Linklater (he drops a couple references in the opening verse of the song). The song builds to a soaring euphoria, a wall of rich sounds and…
13 September 2019
Kim Gordon has released ‘Air BnB’, the new single from her forthcoming debut solo album, No Home Record out October 11th on Matador Records. Stream it here. It’s a towering rocker that launches from brittle, noise-bitten verses evoking “blue towels and water bottles” and “47 inch flat TV” into an explosive, defiantly-catchy mantra – ‘AirBnB’ is an exhilarating tour de force. There’s a video too. It’s everything it could have been without the budget it needed. Reviews welcome.
13 September 2019
Home Made Satan, the second instalment of a building trilogy, by Chastity is out now via Captured Tracks. The album brings a pop sensibility to the band’s catalogue following their acclaimed 2018 debut Death Lust. Recorded over the course of a couple weeks with his full live band in a small studio in London, Ontario, between a European tour with Fucked Up and a seven-week North American tour, Williams crafted…
13 September 2019
In honour of The Boss’s birthday, Lucy Dacus has released a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dancing In The Dark’. This is the fourth instalment of her 2019 holiday song series, following her Valentine’s Day cover of ‘La Vie En Rose,’ and original songs ‘My Mother & I’ and ‘Forever Half Mast,’ celebrating Mother’s Day and Independence Day, respectively. Lucy’s ongoing 2019 singles series will also include tracks tied to Halloween, Christmas, and New Year’s, with a physical EP coming this Spring. Is there…
13 September 2019
Efterklang have released a third single, ‘Uden ansigt’, from their forthcoming fifth studio album Altid Sammen, their first release in their native Danish. It’s out 20 September through 4AD. Vocalist Casper Clausen explains the inspiration behind ‘Uden ansigt’ (‘Without face’): “The lyrics are like pictures to me, based on a moment I once had when biking in Copenhagen. It was raining heavily, everybody packed away under umbrellas, hoodies, hats etc. Faceless, genderless, ageless, colourless. My vision was blurred out…
13 September 2019
Days of the Bagnold Summer began life as a 2012 award-winning graphic novel by Joff Winterhart, was turned into a feature film and the directorial debut of Simon Bird (The Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner), and is now a wonderful, rich, bittersweet, and warmly welcoming original soundtrack album by Belle and Sebastian, out now via Matador Records. Days Of The Bagnold Summer features eleven brand new Belle and Sebastian songs, as well as re-recorded versions of classics ‘Get Me Away From Here I’m Dying’, originally appearing…
11 September 2019
Austin’s most esteemed rock ambassadors, Spoon, shine a light on a total rarity – ‘Shake It Off’. It’s available digitally for the first time ever, originally a b-side from the era of the band’s acclaimed album A Series Of Sneaks, the track was recently made the b-side of the 7” version of latest single ‘No Bullets Spent’. ‘Shake It Off’ follows the critically-acclaimed release of Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon.
10 September 2019
“I never thought heartbreak could be so all-encompassing. I never thought that my body could stop working to the point that I couldn’t express myself physically in the ways that I have always loved and found so much solace. I have always practiced my way into being the best I could be, but I couldn’t do that this time, I was left with no option but to tear every process…
6 September 2019
Grimes has shared a new single and video ‘Violence‘ featuring i_o. Stream it now. Watch the visual below.
6 September 2019
Melbourne experimental electronic / pop and performance artist Sui Zhen has revealed her latest single, ‘Being A Woman‘ off her forthcoming new album Losing, Linda – out Friday 27 September via Dot Dash / Remote Control. Sui Zhen explains, “I don’t know quite where this song came from but it is probably older than the story of this album. The threat of losing my mother, the person who birthed and raised me triggered these sentiments. It was just before all the #metoo stuff…
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