21 August 2025
After five years of navigating loss, grief, and anger, Chicago-born, NYC-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer keiyaA emerges in the light of reinvention and healing, shaped by years of solitude spent in the unending tide of mess and renewal, returning to share her findings with unapologetic clarity. Her new single ‘stupid prizes,’ accompanied by a self-co-directed music video with Caity Arthur, is a soulful, arresting prelude that marks a powerful next chapter….
21 August 2025
Following the release of his acclaimed new album Glory, Perfume Genius announces a headline Australian tour for December 2025, including appearances in Ballarat, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, as well as a performance at Meredith Music Festival. Glory is a bold and unflinching new chapter in the Perfume Genius story, out now via Matador Records / Remote Control. Across the record, Mike Hadreas explores themes of the body, domesticity, damage, and healing concepts…
21 August 2025
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 film starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon about a group of rogue musicians on the adventure path. It is funny, sexy, rambunctious and evergreen – a showcase of a triple-threat cast at full-throttle. Some Like It Hot is also the new album by London three-piece bar italia – out 17th October on Matador – and certain parallels are perhaps not accidental. It pulses…
20 August 2025
Internationally acclaimed drummer, producer, and sonic collagist Makaya McCraven returns to announce four distinct yet interconnected EPs – Techno Logic, The People’s Mixtape, Hidden Out!, and PopUp Shop – to be released on all music platforms 31st October. The four EPs are also compiled on a 2xLP and 2xCD physical release titled Off the Record, available for preorder now and in stores 10th October via XL Recordings. In line with the project announcement, Makaya McCraven releases the first single from each EP, ‘Imafan’ (PopUp…
20 August 2025
Dutch experimental producer Torus and London-based musician, composer and producer Danny L Harle release Starlight Divergence, a nine-track project made by Torus using stems of Harle’s acclaimed recent single ‘Starlight’ – a collaboration between Danny L Harle and alt-pop icon PinkPantheress as the source material for each track. Torus (Joeri Woudstra) is a multidisciplinary artist who operates at the intersection of visual art and experimental music. Taking the hyper out of hyper…
15 August 2025
Earlier this year, Hackney-born rapper and poet John Glacier released her debut album Like A Ribbon, cementing her place as one of the UK’s most compelling new voices. The record quickly earned widespread acclaim, appearing on “Best Albums of 2025 So Far” lists from Pitchfork, The Guardian, Stereogum, Time Out, and more. Today, Glacier returns with a surprise deluxe edition of Like A Ribbon—featuring five brand new tracks with production…
15 August 2025
Continuing a prolific recent run as artist and producer, Richard Russell returns with brand new music from his collaborative artist project, Everything Is Recorded. New single ‘Wear and Tear’ sees Russell reuniting with key collaborators from his recent Temporary and Solstice Equinox albums – Sampha, Florence + The Machine and Jah Wobble – alongside New York vocalist and songwriter Danielle Ponder and the celebrated London drummer Morgan Simpson, who both…
15 August 2025
Melbourne multi-instrumentalist Sunbeam Sound Machine today releases his fourth full-length album, Double Magic, out now via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control. The record marks the most expansive and energetic chapter yet for Nick Sowersby’s dreamlike project, retaining his signature sparkling guitars and introspective lyricism, but now built on a four-to-the-floor rhythm from drummer Lochy Funston and percussionist Rhys Grunden. The record is punctuated by the constant burbling of nature sounds…
14 August 2025
On 26 April 2005, John Darnielle’s third 4AD full-length album as , The Sunset Tree, presented a deeply confessional and emotionally vivid narrative drawn from the depths of the prolific songwriter’s turbulent personal history. Twenty years on, Darnielle revisits the career highlight record with a reissue dubbed The Sunset Tree (20th Anniversary Edition). It’s a mark of Darnielle’s extraordinary fertility that, of the 800-plus songs he has recorded, only a…
14 August 2025
David Byrne releases ‘The Avant Garde’, the latest offering from his forthcoming album Who Is The Sky?, out 5th September through Matador Records. ‘The Avant Garde’ wrestles with the merits of art for art’s sake, “it’s ahead of the curve / it’s deceptively weighty, profound, absurd / it’s whatever fits” Byrne says, “Some people will hear this and say, “David is calling bullshit on his friends” but it’s more nuanced than that. Anyone…
14 August 2025
Radiohead have announced Hail to the Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009 – a new live album that allowed the band to re-evaluate their relationship with their 6th studio album, Hail To The Thief. The band have also shared a live video performance of ‘There, There’ from Buenos Aires, taken from the album. Speaking about the new live album, Thom Yorke says: “In the process of thinking of how to build arrangements for…
13 August 2025
The Mechatok movement is upon us. The Munich-born producer, songwriter, and kaleidoscopic artist releases his hotly anticipated debut album, Wide Awake, via Young Recordings. A precise and emotionally intuitive body of work, Wide Awake explores identity, authenticity, and expression in an era shaped by algorithms and digital overstimulation. Featuring a carefully curated global cast of contributors including Bladee, Ecco2k, Isabella Lovestory, f5ve, and Tohji, Wide Awake is a future-facing record that positions…
6 August 2025
Beloved Naarm-based Australian artist, Stella Donnelly makes a powerful return today, unveiling her first new music since the release of her critically acclaimed 2022 album Flood. Marking an exciting new chapter in her career, Donnelly announces her signing to Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records, and returns with new single and video, ‘Baths’, alongside double A-side sibling, ‘Standing Ovation’, which was given it’s global First Play on triple j Drive last night with Abby…
6 August 2025
Big Thief release two new singles, ‘Grandmother’ and ‘Los Angeles’, from their sixth studio album, Double Infinity, out 5 September 2025. The singles follow last month’s “euphoric ode to the all-encompassing haze of desire,” (Paste) ‘All Night All Day’and lead single ‘Incomprehensible’. ‘Grandmother’ is the first song all three members of Big Thief wrote together and grapples with generational love and pain. To her grandmother, Adrianne Lenker sings: “It’s alright, everything that happened, happened / So what’s the use of holding?…
1 August 2025
Sydney-based queer rap sensation Jamaica Moana releases her long-awaited debut EP, BUD & DENI, alongside the explosive new single ‘FINALE (feat. Kevin Jz Prodigy)’, out now via Pointer Recordings. A bold voice in music and fashion, Jamaica Moana fuses her vibrant Māori and Samoan heritage with an unapologetic queer identity, creating a sound and presence that defy convention. With this debut project, she marks a transformative new chapter, BUD & DENI is…
30 July 2025
Baltimore singer-songwriter and producer Nourished By Time shares ‘BABY BABY,’ the third single from his upcoming album The Passionate Ones, out August 22nd via XL Recordings. Crafted between Baltimore, London, and NYC, The Passionate Ones is a sermon, a twelve-track catharsis, a blueprint for building your own altar in the ruins of the American Dream. A deadpan dispatch from the frontlines of desire and dysfunction, ‘BABY BABY’ unpacks hyperreality and arrives with an accompanying music video directed by Marcus Brown,…
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