2 May 2018
This winter, Melbourne trio Jaala hit the road in support of their newly released sophomore album Joonya Spirit. Tour dates and details below. After touring last year with Nai Palm, the band are back to launch their new LP with their signature jazz-prog-soul sound. Led by the incredible voice of guitarist & vocalist Cosima Pay, the songs range from gentle, subdued lullabies into a deluge of psychedelic rock madness, all with an…
2 May 2018
All-round legends The Bennies will be taking their pumping new album Natural Born Chillers around the country next month. The 11 date run will see the four-piece take to regional and metro hotspots across VIC, NSW, QLD, SA and TAS. Further tour info below! The Bennies kicked off their year in fine form with the release of their new album in February, following slots at St. Kilda Festival, the inaugural Pool…
1 May 2018
Last week was a whirlwind for Parquet Courts. They flew to Los Angeles for a brief visit to serenade Ellen and her TV studio audience with a jubilant performance of ‘Wide Awake’, the title track off their forthcoming album, out May 18. After that, they headed for a quick jaunt through Texas performing at Levitation Fest in Austin. Now, the band share their new single ‘Mardi Gras Beads’. The song is…
1 May 2018
Good Morning return to the stage this month to launch their upcoming album Prize // Reward, out 11th May. The band are excited to play two intimate Melbourne launches in Collingwood on Friday 18th & Friday 25th May. Venue information will be sent upon ticket purchase. Made up of Stefan Blair and Liam Parsons, two high school friends who grew up in the outer suburbs of Melbourne who slowly began to…
27 April 2018
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks have shared another taste of what’s to come with their new single ‘Refute’, off their forthcoming new album, Sparkle Hard, heading our way on May 18. Listen below! The song is a country-tinged reflection on marriage and infidelity, featuring guest vocals by Kim Gordon. Per Malkmus, the idea was to “queer the duet,” by messing with “Nashville tropes in light of current trends in evolutionary psychology” and…
27 April 2018
Melbourne’s Lehmann B. Smith shares his uniquely romantic new single ‘Tropical’, featuring Sarah Farquharson, of The Finks. It’s the second single from his upcoming new record Poplar Music, out Friday 25th May. Watch the accompanying video below! Speaking of ‘Tropical’ Smith divulges “I wrote the music with Caetano Veloso’s ‘Tu Me Acostumbraste’ in mind, and then the lyrics in bed while it rained and I sat up in bed listening to it in the house…
27 April 2018
Snail Mail shares new single ‘Heat Wave’, taken from her upcoming debut album Lush, out June 8th. “I’m not into sometimes”, sings 18-year-old songwriter and guitar virtuoso Lindsey Jordan in this infectious and affecting guitar pop. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Brandon Herman, below! The video showcases Jordan’s formidable ice hockey rink chops, picked up during her days on the high-school team, while delving hauntingly into the psyche of growing up –…
26 April 2018
Gabriella Cohen shares ‘Music Machine’, the second single from her new album Pink Is The Colour Of Unconditional Love, out June 1st. To coincide with the single release Gabriella Cohen has shared dates for an East Coast Australian album tour. Full details below! Gabriella shares – “Music Machine was born about the time I came back from my first U.S tour and found myself down and out crashing on a friends…
23 April 2018
Nines has released his second LP, Crop Circle. As deft with film as he is with his lyrics, a long-time cinema buff, Nines presents a beautifully shot, moral tale of life on London’s estates to introduce the release. Crop Circle was written, directed and co-produced by Nines. Watch below! The album follows on from last year’s debut One Foot Out. Its depiction of life on the Church Road Estate presented with…
23 April 2018
Evelyn Ida Morris has shared a new video directed by Julia Suddenly for ‘Darwin Heat’, from their newly released self-titled album. Watch below! Evelyn shares – “When Julia pitched the idea of a naked body filmed in the murky waters of a river it resonated with me so clearly that I insisted on being that body. I am a big fan of using artworks as experiences, and the challenge of letting…
20 April 2018
Record Store Day is just around the corner, tomorrow in fact! With a host of special events, acts, prizes, and so forth coming from records stores across the Country, and globe, so to speak. Find our special releases for Record Store Day 2018 below, along with some special in-store performances: Courtney Barnett Sunday Roast/City Looks – Pretty 12″ Featuring a brand new track ‘City Looks Pretty’ – about life on the road –…
20 April 2018
Jaala has today released her new record Joonya Spirit. Catch her celebrate the album release tomorrow as she plays a whopping four in-stores for Record Store Day in Melbourne. Full details below. Through your ears, deep in your mind, down in your heart, in a way you never knew you wanted, Jaala will caress you and Jaala will entice you. Like the roots of a tree Jaala is ever growing,…
20 April 2018
The self-titled album by Evelyn Ida Morris is out today. They have shared details for upcoming shows in Melbourne & Hobart. Details below. Evelyn Ida Morris represents a significant departure from the looping pop of Pikelet, for which Evelyn is best known. It builds on the structural complexity of that project, but focuses wholly on piano. Indeed, a number of these songs don’t have words, because Evelyn Ida Morris didn’t know…
20 April 2018
Courtney Barnett shares ‘City Looks Pretty’, the third single from her upcoming album Tell Me How You Really Feel, out Friday 18 May. Watch below! ‘City Looks Pretty’ has Barnett experimenting with new song structures while delivering one of her most exhilarating guitar performances to date. It’s metronomic drive and squealing lead guitar provide the sonic foundation from which Barnett sings a melodic exploration of friendship, place and home. A Record…
19 April 2018
The Finks announce their new album Rolly Nice to be released Friday 25 May. Today they have shared the first cut from the record ‘Body Language’. Watch the accompanying video below! The Finks play the songs of Oliver Mestitz, who records everything in his Melbourne home, layering instrument upon instrument and mixing each song straight to tape. As Oliver describes “‘Body Language’ started as a melody that I misheard Sarah humming to…
19 April 2018
Iceage present a final single, ‘The Day The Music Dies’ ahead of their new album, Beyondless, released on Friday 4 May. Watch the accompanying video below! Shot throughout Detroit at the historic bathhouse, The Schvitz, at the city’s legendary Masonic Temple, and the MUG warehouse space, ‘The Day The Music Dies’ video was directed by the band and Graeme Flegenheimer, and, as Flegenheimer describes it, is “a love letter between friends…
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