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20 March 2018

Watch – Queens Of The Stone Age ‘Head Like A Haunted House’

Queens of the Stone Age have unveiled the latest creation for their video to ‘Head Like A Haunted House’, taken from their album Villains, which is available now to purchase or stream here. Watch the new clip below! Created, directed and art direction by frequent collaborator Liam Lynch, the video is a ghastly animated carnival ride through your worst fever-induced nightmares. Accompanied by disembodied hands, UFOs, smoldering hellscapes and grooving skeletons, Joshua…

16 March 2018

SOHN releases two new songs ‘Nil’ / ‘Hue’

In just over a year since his last celebrated release, Rennen and three since his debut album Tremors, SOHN has released two new singles. The lilting piano-led lament of ‘Hue’ and companion track ‘Nil’ can be heard digitally below! Stream / purchase ‘Nil’ / ‘Hue’: https://sohn.lnk.to/huenil

16 March 2018

Watch – Courtney Barnett ‘Need A Little Time’

Courtney Barnett releases ‘Need A Little Time’, the sublime second single from her album Tell Me How You Really Feel, out May 18. Accompanied by a wondrous video by Barnett’s frequent visual collaborator Danny Cohen. Watch below! The infectious punk-rock of first single ‘Nameless, Faceless’ simmered with indignation and rage in what was Barnett’s most explicitly political song to date, but it only delivered a hint at what might be…

16 March 2018

Out now: Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Going On

Yo La Tengo have released their warm, ambitious record, There’s a Riot Going On. A striking self-produced creation from a band whose dynamic range touches on pure noise and serene beauty and everything in between. For Yo La Tengo this is a slow-motion action painting, and Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan and James McNew did it all themselves, in their rehearsal studio, with no outside engineer (John McEntire later did the mix)….

16 March 2018

Out now: Jarrow – Expensive Hugs

Jarrow’s second album Expensive Hugs is released into the world today! All riffs, melody and noise – it’s a masterclass in exultant garage rock from Footscray’s favourite self-taught, self-produced, multi-instrumentalist. Drawing inspiration equally from 21st century meme culture and classic 90’s indie-rock, Expensive Hugs is an immensely enjoyable dash through Oke’s world of pop-hooks, weird soundscapes and riff-jams – all fighting to break free of his perfect pop structures. Having just smashed…

15 March 2018

Ryan Downey announces headline tour + shares ‘Those Eyes That Answer’

Ryan Downey shares the striking second single ‘Those Eyes That Answer’, from his jaw-dropping debut album Running out April 13, and has now announced a headline east coast tour in support of the album! See further ticket details and watch the video below. ‘Those Eyes That Answer’ encompasses everything that is great about Downey’s music. His undeniable voice resonates with richness and gravity while a minutely detailed and singularly original musical world unfurls around…

14 March 2018

Lehmann B. Smith announces new album + shares ‘Thus Must Rust’

Lehmann B. Smith announces his new record Poplar Music, due for release on Friday 25th May. To celebrate, he shares the first single and video ‘Thus Must Rust’. Watch below! Finding his 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…

9 March 2018

Watch – King Krule ‘Live On The Moon’

King Krule has shared a transfixing, dreamlike live performance ‘Live On The Moon’, recorded “on the moon” by Molten Jets. Watch below! Falling asleep at home in South London and waking up orbiting the earth, the lunar setting draws on Archy Marshall’s continued fascination with all things cosmic, a theme that started with his debut LP Six Feet Beneath the Moon and seeps throughout the lyrics and visuals of his latest record The OOZ….

9 March 2018

Watch – Parquet Courts ‘Wide Awake!’

Parquet Courts share the title track off their forthcoming album, Wide Awake! The accompanying video was directed by Brother Willis and filmed in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, watch below! The video features the band, clad in purple tuxedos, acting, well, wide awake. “I was very intrigued by the band’s idea to spend a few days filming all around New Orleans during Mardi Gras,” says Willis. “Probably should’ve thought twice about it,…

8 March 2018

Evelyn Ida Morris announces new album + shares ‘The Body Appears’

Evelyn Ida Morris announces their new self-titled album, to be released on Friday 20th April. To celebrate, Evelyn shares new single ‘The Body Appears’ alongside a stunning video shot by Geoffrey O’Connor and performed by Deanne Butterworth. Watch below! The album 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,…

7 March 2018

Jarrow announces album tour + shares new single ‘Bleach’

With just over a week until Jarrow’s second album Expensive Hugs is out in the world, the band share their rousing new single ‘Bleach’ and announce a run of headline shows. Watch the video to ‘Bleach’ below! Self-guided therapy through garage rock, that’s ‘Bleach’, the third single from Expensive Hugs. All riffs, melody and noise, the song moves at breakneck speed as Jarrow sings of strange childhood memories before finding catharsis and solace from…

7 March 2018

Out now: Smerz – Have fun

Smerz have released their much-awaited EP, Have fun. Launched with a video for new track ‘Worth it’, produced and directed by the Norwegian duo. Watch below! Produced, programmed and sung entirely by the Copenhagen-based duo. Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldts’ EP compiles the duo’s recent output with some new unreleased music. The visual for ‘Worth it’ follows a similar narrative output that we’ve come to expect from Smerz. A dark, twisted…

2 March 2018

Iceage announce new album, Beyondless + share ‘Pain Killer’

Copenhagen’s Iceage — Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (vocals, lyrics), Jakob Tvilling Pless (bass), Dan Kjær Nielsen (drums), and Johan Wieth (guitar) — will release their fourth album, Beyondless, on Friday 4 May. After returning last month with ‘Catch It’, their first new material since 2013’s Plowing Into The Field of Love, Iceage now share the next taste of what’s to come from the new record, ‘Pain Killer’ featuring Sky Ferreira (the…

2 March 2018

Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders announce new album + share ‘White Flag’

Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders have announced their return with the darkly beautiful ‘White Flag’, the first taste from their forthcoming album Blue Poles, to be released Friday 4 May. Watch the video to ‘White Flag below! The spectacular video was shot in Indonesia by visual mastermind Wilk and directed by Jim Pillion. “It’s written from two perspectives”, says Ladder. “I didn’t want to duet so I sang both parts….

2 March 2018

Out now: Lucy Dacus – Historian

Lucy Dacus releases her new 10-track record, Historian, full of bracing realisations, tearful declarations and moments of hard-won peace, expressed in lyrics that feel destined for countless yearbook quotes and first tattoos. “This is the album I needed to make,” says Dacus, who views Historian as her definitive statement as a songwriter and musician. “Everything after this is a bonus.” Recorded in Nashville, re-teaming with No Burden producer Collin Pastore, and mixed by John Congleton, the sound they…

2 March 2018

Out now: The Breeders – All Nerve

Good Morning! The Breeders today release their long-awaited fifth album, All Nerve, the group’s first record in a decade, now available on CD, standard edition black vinyl LP, limited alternate sleeve/orange vinyl (independent stores only) and digitally. All Nerve reunites band members Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson. Returning to the stage in 2013 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Last Splash, the Breeders decided to carry on and…