25 July 2018
Jarrow has shared a new video for ‘Season’. The single comes from his second album Expensive Hugs, out now. The video is Jarrow aka Dan Oke’s take on gun culture in America. Watch below! Dan describes “Season reflects my outside perspective of the desensitization of gun culture within the USA. It’s a topic I feel pretty strongly about – which I feel a lot of Australians share. The track attempts is to…
23 July 2018
Everything Is Recorded – the collaborative artist project helmed by Richard Russell – has announced his forthcoming 8AM EP out later this year. To celebrate, Everything Is Recorded has released a new single ‘Carry Me’. Listen below! ‘Carry Me’ features Obongjayar, the Nigerian-born, UK-based newcomer who previously collaborated on Everything Is Recorded By Richard Russell track ‘She Said’. It also features the Bahrain-raised, UK-based trumpeter and composer Yazz Ahmed. In…
20 July 2018
Powell’s previously vinyl-only EPs New Beta Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 are today released digitally and on streaming services, a 13-track body of work that points to an exciting new future for the London artist. Previously issued on his Diagonal label last year, the New Beta 12”s were originally intended as a way to explore fresh musical ideas after the release of his 2016 debut album on XL Recordings, Sport. “I called…
20 July 2018
Remote Control is excited to announce new label b4, a future-facing label that serves as an incubator for tomorrow’s most relevant artists. The music on b4 is a reflection of the genre-smashing landscape, where prior categories no longer apply. Overnight b4 announced their first release – NYC rapper HAWA with her debut track ‘Might Be’. HAWA’s forceful bars glide over Tony Seltzer’s beats on the track that sets her strong, direct…
20 July 2018
Getting high on hope, New Zealand juggernaut Fat Freddy’s Drop release their new single ‘Trickle Down’, out now digitally, with a 12” release to follow later this spring. Listen below! The electronic-driven single is a reaction to the politics of the day – the false economic principle of wealth trickling down from the 1% to the 99%. As they sing of running out of patience while waiting for the rain…
20 July 2018
Leeds trio Drahla today release their 7” clear vinyl, 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. The release is accompanied by ‘Twelve Divisions Of The Day’ (Black Ribbon Alternate Mix) – an industrial remix of the original track by Leeds producer Tim Metcalfe. The vinyl edition…
20 July 2018
Almost a year after the release of her self-titled fourth album, Jen Cloher delivers multiple surprises in the form of a gorgeous acoustic EP, the announcement of her first ever solo European shows and a set of brilliantly shot intimate live band performance videos. The solo EP Live at The Loft and Loew’s features performances captured at Wilco’s famous Loft studios in Chicago and from within the decaying glory of…
19 July 2018
After presenting the chiming guitar and sweeping synths of lead single, ‘Letting Go’, Wild Nothing now shares the ’80s-heavy ‘Partners In Motion’ featuring saxophonist Taylor Plenn, from his fourth album, Indigo, released on August 31st. Listen below! Recorded at LA’s Sunset Sound and produced by Jack Tatum and Jorge Elbrecht, Indigo is its own cyborg world, utilising the artful mechanisms of human touch with the precision of technology to create the…
18 July 2018
Following last week’s announcement of The Lemon Twigs’ musical album Go To School, released out August 24, the pair share new single ‘Small Victories’. This is the second song released from the 15-track opus written, recorded, produced and mixed by the pair in their home in Long Island. Listen below! Ruminating on this new song, brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario say, “When life’s obstacles start to wear you down, it’s the little things…
17 July 2018
Methyl Ethel’s ‘Ubu’ is now ARIA Accredited Gold. The single was released on the band’s second record Everything Is Forgotten and placed at #4 in triple j’s Hottest 100 in 2017. Earlier today ‘Ubu’ was featured on triple j Mornings segment Inspired where Jake Webb, the brainchild of Methyl Ethel, broke down the influences, meanings and writing process behind the song. Listen back to the segment here. Methyl Ethel, made up of…
13 July 2018
Chastity (aka Brandon Williams) today releases his debut album, Death Lust. This week, Chastity also shared a video to the single ‘Heaven Hell Anywhere Else’, watch below! 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 struggles of those existing in the unseen, often silenced periphery. It is an artifact of youth culture constantly…
13 July 2018
Who knew Ben Stiller had a post punk band in high school? Capital Punishment announce the upcoming reissue of 1982 sole LP Roadkill. Now remastered and expanded, the LP will be released on September 14. The band has shared first single, ‘Muzak Anonymous’, a Beefheart-ian, gong-afied freak-funk that needs to be heard to be believed. Listen below! Capital Punishment formed in 1979 in NYC when the 4 band members were teenagers. The…
13 July 2018
To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their acclaimed album Boxer, The National performed the record from beginning to end at a very special show in Brussels, Belgium on November 9th, 2017. A limited vinyl version of the recording was released exclusively on Record Store Day, which sold out immediately. After much demand, the live LP is today released both digitally and on CD. Boxer (Live In Brussels) is out now. Stream / purchase Boxer (Live…
13 July 2018
Body/Head, the duo of Kim Gordon and guitarist Bill Nace, have released their second studio album, The Switch , a slow-moving narrative that requires as much attention and care from the listener as it did from everyone involved in its creation, it is a record that sticks around after it’s done playing. Creative alchemy doesn’t just happen in the studio or in the practice space; so much of it is the…
13 July 2018
Ibeyi are back with their beautiful music video for ‘Transmission/Michaelion’ which was directed by Jamie-James Medina and Fons Schiedon, premiered via Lenny Letter here. Watch below! The song is the masterful centerpiece of the twins sophomore album Ash and features Meshell Ndegeocello on bass, a sample from the audiobook ‘Citizen: An American Lyric’ by Claudia Rankine plus an excerpt from The Diary of Frida Kahlo read by the twins mother Maya Dagnino. Lisa-Kaindé…
12 July 2018
Honey Hahs are excited to announce their debut album Dear Someone, Happy Something, to be released on Friday 7th September. They have shared the first single ‘Stop Him’, to be lifted from the album, an anti-Donald Trump song along with an accompanying video, watch below! Honey Hahs are three sisters from Honor Oak Park in South London, aged 16, 13 and 11. Rowan plays guitar and piano, Robin plays bass and…
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