1 June 2018
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…
1 June 2018
Batu releases his new EP, Rebuilt. Omar McCutcheon has been on the frontline of Bristol’s innovative electronic music scene since 2013. In 2015 he founded his record label Timedance, a platform for showcasing his tastes utilising a close knit group of young producers and DJs. Batu’s glistening broken techno productions are pushed through a deeply UK-sounding prism, one informed by Batu being brought up on a diet of dubstep and UK…
31 May 2018
Perfume Genius has announced Reshaped, a special remix EP of tracks taken from his album No Shape, to be released June 8. Sharing a track from the EP, ‘Run Me Through (King Princess Remix)’ is out now. Listen below! King Princess’s remix of album cut ‘Run Me Through’ is a sensuous rework from the rising Brooklyn NYC artist and producer, with an intoxicating dub and trip hop-infused beat underscoring Perfume Genius’ slinky, spellbinding…
31 May 2018
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…
29 May 2018
Gabriella Cohen shares new single ‘I Feel So Lonely’ ahead of releasing her new album Pink Is The Colour Of Unconditional Love this Friday 1st June. Listen below! Following the release of 2016’s record Full Closure and No Details, Cohen moved to a countryside Victoria farm in the summer of 2017 to record and self produce her second album with engineer and partner-in-crime, Kate ‘Babyshakes’ Dillon. There, they etched the beginning…
25 May 2018
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…
25 May 2018
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…
24 May 2018
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,…
23 May 2018
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…
23 May 2018
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…
23 May 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 will be released both digitally and on CD on Friday 13th July. Boxer (Live In Brussels) is…
18 May 2018
Batu has announced the release of his Rebuilt EP, out Friday 1st June. Listen to first single ‘Flash React’ below! Omar McCutcheon, operating under his Batu alias, has been on the frontline of Bristol’s innovative electronic music scene since 2013. In 2015 he founded his record label Timedance, a platform for showcasing his tastes utilising a close knit group of young producers and DJs. Batu’s glistening broken techno productions are pushed through a deeply…
18 May 2018
Courtney Barnett enters a remarkable new phase of her musical evolution with the release of her second album Tell Me How You Really Feel, out today! From its title to the cover image Barnett reveals a new-found confidence and perspective. Where she once examined the world through self-analysis, Tell Me How You Really Feel shifts that focus to those she interacts with – the good ones, the bad ones, the loved ones. Those…
18 May 2018
Today marks the release of Wide Awake!, the groundbreaking new album from Parquet Courts, about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitarianism. There’s also a freshness here, a breaking of new territory that’s a testament to the group’s restless spirit. Part of this could be attributed to the fact that Wide Awake! was produced by Brian Burton (Danger Mouse), but it’s also simply a triumph of songwriting. “The ethos…
18 May 2018
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks have released their new album Sparkle Hard. It’s light ’n’ breezy, head-down heavy, audacious, melancholic and reflective, good time and bodacious, and it’s both unmistakeably The Jicks and The Jicks refashioned. Malkmus started writing Sparkle Hard in 2015. He’d upgraded his home-recording equipment and bought some electronic drums and had been working on the Netflix series Flaked. Demos were done in one day in April, 2017 and then…
17 May 2018
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…
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