Jack Ladder shares ‘Feel Brand New’ + announces The Killers support

‘Feel Brand New’ is the third song taken from Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders’ forthcoming album, Blue Poles, out 4th May. Listen below! The track takes a different direction, both musically and thematically from previous single ‘White Flag’. Instead he captures and celebrates the sweet disposition that love can make life’s problems seem insignificant. It’s Jack Ladder at his most playful and joyous. “The bones of the song appeared on…

Watch: Ryan Downey – ‘1+1 (feat. Zoë Randell)’

Ryan Downey shares the incredible track ‘1+1’, a duet with Zoë Randell. It’s the third taste from Downey’s jaw-dropping debut album Running, out next Friday 13th April. The breathtaking visual was again collaborated with filmmaker Alex Badham (this time co-directing), watch below! The video narrows its hypnotic focus to the legs of two dancers as they support, interact and carry each other. Much like the song, which Downey explains “follows a frank and honest conversation…

Listen: Goat Girl – ‘Throw Me A Bone’

Goat Girl share their new song ‘Throw Me A Bone’, off their self-titled debut album, out 6th April and produced by Dan Carey in his South London studio. Listen below! Goat Girl’s debut creates a half fantasy world out of a very dirty, ugly city reality. In the groups words: “Simply put, it’s an album that comes from growing up in London and the first-hand experience of our city’s devolution. We wanted…

Listen: The Lemon Twigs – ‘Foolin’ Around’ & ‘Tailor Made’

Following 2016’s startling debut album Do Hollywood and follow-up EP Brothers of Destruction, The Lemon Twigs have today shared two new standalone singles, ‘Foolin’ Around’ and ‘Tailor Made’, listen below! Written by Brian and Michael D’Addario, the prolific brothers from Hicksville, Long Island recorded the songs in their home studio early this year. Currently in the studio working on their second album. “Here are two rockers that we worked up…

Listen: Hop Along – ‘Prior Things’

Hop Along have released the epic album closer ‘Prior Things’, ahead of release of their new album Bark Your Head Off, Dog, out April 6. The single explores the bitter triumph of a relationship that never comes to be. Listen below! Crafted by Frances Quinlan (songwriter, lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist), Tyler Long (bass), Joe Reinhart (guitar), and Mark Quinlan (drums), the album considers what it’s like to cast off…

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks announce new album + share ‘Shiggy’

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks’ have announced their new album Sparkle Hard, to be released on May 18. Following first single ‘Middle America’, the band share another taste of the new album with the song ‘Shiggy’, an insanely gleeful, old-school four-chord stomper. Listen below! Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks have thrived, rather than simply endured over 17 years and delivered six albums of buzzy, sub-cultural significance. With Sparkle Hard Malkmus, Mike Clark (keyboards),…

Good Morning announce new album Prize // Reward + share 2 new singles

Good Morning have announced their new album Prize // Reward to be released on Friday 11th May. The duo have also shared two new singles ‘Mirror Freak’ and ‘Escalator’, listen below! The duo, Stefan Blair and Liam Parsons, high school friends who grew up in the outer suburbs of Melbourne and slowly began to spend their weekends tinkering away in a home studio, experimenting with songwriting and recording techniques, slowly perfecting their craft…

Introducing – TWINS

Atlanta-based producer, synth wunderkind and CGI Records and DKA label head TWINS (AKA Matt Weiner) announces his debut album under the moniker, That Which Is Not Said, released May 4th. TWINS shares the first single from from the record ‘Glass Breaks Glass’, listen below! Weiner says “Lyrically, ‘Glass Breaks Glass’ is, quite literally, about two people trying to forge a romance when neither of them are ready or recovered from their past,…

Watch – Belle and Sebastian ‘Poor Boy’

Belle and Sebastian have shared the video for ‘Poor Boy’, the latest single taken from their new triptych of EPs, How To Solve Our Human Problems, out now. Watch the video below! Continuing the EP series’ nuanced exploration of the tapestry of human lives and interactions, the video, made in partnership with Tidal and directed by Oscar Sansom & Ciaran Lyons of The Forest of Black, follows the various goings-on of…

Listen – Iceage ‘Take It All’

Having previously shared ‘Catch It’ and ‘Pain Killer’ featuring Sky Ferreira, Iceage now present the decadence of new single ‘Take It All’, from their fourth album, Beyondless, out May 4th. Listen below! Augmented by the transcendent violin of Nils Gröndhal, ‘Take It All’ may be the song off Beyondless that best shows the very special cohesion of these four childhood friends and musicians, and the striking progression in their performances and production….

Out now: Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker – Seedlings All

After stunning fans at Port Fairy Folk Festival and Blue Mountains Music Festival last week, Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker have released their new album, Seedlings All. Watch their stunning video to ‘Chicago’ by award winning filmmaker Bob Gallagher below! In addition to their festival appearances, they played a co-headline show at Thornbury Theatre and performed on ABC Radio National’s The Music Show. Listen to the interview and performance here. Clarke and…

Snail Mail announces debut album + shares ‘Pristine’

Snail Mail announces her full-length debut album, Lush, released on June 8th, along with the release of a new song titled ‘Pristine’, and it’s accompanying visual. It’s a sprawling anthem that finds Lindsey Jordan grappling with suburban ennui and unrequited love. Watch below! Jordan’s voice rises and falls with electricity throughout the album, spinning with bold excitement and new beginnings at every turn. Lush is a refreshing marvel of songwriting and technical composition, that’s both cohesive…

Listen – Katz ‘Waterfall’

Melbourne’s Katz shares the title track from his debut EP Waterfall, out Friday 6 April. ‘Waterfall’ focuses on a relationship disconnect, listen below! “Waterfall is about holding onto a relationship hoping that it’d get better in time, but instead it has gotten the better of you. All the motion, until it feels there’s no more life left in the relationship.” As Katz describes “The piano was recorded on a phone to…

Jen Cloher announces second Sydney show

Jen Cloher is in the midst of what some might call a victory lap. Just 9 months ago she’d never played a show outside of Australia, but now with two sold out tours of both Europe and the USA she’s taking her self-titled album around her home country for one last spin. After playing the largest shows she’s ever played in Brisbane and Perth, Cloher announces that she’s sold out…

HANDSOME announces debut headline shows + shares video ‘Save Some Love’

HANDSOME has announced her debut headline shows in Sydney on April 26 at Lansdowne Hotel and Melbourne on April 27 at The Gasometer (upstairs). In addition, HANDSOME shares the video for her second single ‘Save Some Love’. Watch below! Following on from some of the themes of ‘Late Night Ball Game feat. Joyride’, this video revolves around a tight knit group of friends, supporting each other through ups and downs of…

Gabriella Cohen announces new album + shares ‘Baby’

Gabriella Cohen returns with news of her new album, Pink Is The Colour Of Unconditional Love, to be released on Friday 1st June. She has also shared the new single ‘Baby’, watch the accompanying video 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…

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