1 March 2018
Montreal staple, Jackson MacIntosh, releases his debut solo album My Dark Side. Recorded over three years and two break-ups, My Dark Side is as confessional as it is casual: a collection of songs that oozed out of necessity. MacIntosh spent 2016 and 2017 deploying funky, percolating bass lines on the road for indie pop outfit TOPS. He recorded and engineered the last two albums for Homeshake at his now-defunct home Montreal…
1 March 2018
Gift Wrap’s debut album Losing Count is out now! For some time now, Brendon Avalos has been forging a path for himself among the clamor of emerging indie artists as the bassist and vocalist of Brooklyn punk trio B Boys. Now, he releases his first solo effort under the alias Gift Wrap. With each track draped in whimsically looping layers and interspersed with the pervasion of old radio samples, buzzing, and hums…
1 March 2018
Jaala reveals details of their new album Joonya Spirit due for release on Friday 20th April, and shares a brand new single from it, ‘Horn’. Listen below! Since the release of Hard Hold they have transformed into a completely new animal, stylistically and literally. The addition of Carolyn Schofield (synth) of Fia Fiell fame has moved the band towards a more haunting, dreamy experimental pop movement as opposed to the…
1 March 2018
Sydney-based HANDSOME shares brand new track, ‘Save Some Love’, the second single since her emotive debut, ‘Late Night Ball Game feat. Joyride’. Listen below! HANDSOME details, “‘Save Some Love’ is a reminder to love yourself. We allow ourselves too often to give all of our energy, positivity and love out to other people, we often for get to leave a little for ourselves. This song has many different stories to it,…
28 February 2018
With the release of their new album, There’s a Riot Going On, heading our way on March 16th, Yo La Tengo have shared another taste of what’s to come with new single ‘For You Too’. Listen below! It’s an album stand-out track with a hypnotic guitar line, complemented by a low dose of drone and a deceptively upbeat drum patter, as Ira Kaplan sings quiet words of assurance: “For you / whenever there’s…
26 February 2018
Manchester Orchestra and Julien Baker have released a cover of Pedro The Lion’s ‘Bad Things To Such Good People’. Net proceeds from sales and streaming will be donated to 1 Million 4 Anna. Listen below! When releasing this cover, Andy Hull of Manchester Orchestra thought it was a good opportunity to raise money and gain attention for 1 Million 4 Anna, with having a deep connection and history, he explains “I had the privilege of…
23 February 2018
Brisbane duo Primitive Motion have released their new album House in the Wave. Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig recorded the album across Sunday afternoons spent in Selig’s home studio in Brisbane. House in the Wave is a meditative suite of dreamy piano-based songs, captured live at the point of conception and teeming with the incidental sounds of both the studio and surrounding garden. The days spent in studio document the process of composition:…
23 February 2018
The Breeders share new single ‘Nervous Mary’, the driving opener off their forthcoming album All Nerve, out March 2. Primarily recorded by Mike Montgomery at Candyland in Dayton, Kentucky with additional recordings by Greg Norman at Electrical Audio in Chicago, listen below! All Nerve reunites band members Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson. The quartet returned to the stage in 2013 to celebrate the album’s 20th anniversary and have been quietly working on…
23 February 2018
Parquet Courts announce their fifth album, Wide Awake! which will be released on May 18th. ‘Almost Had To Start A Fight / In And Out Of Patience’ is the first taste of what’s to come from the record. Watch the clip below! Wide Awake! is a groundbreaking work, an album about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitarianism. Love is at its center. There’s also a freshness here, a breaking of new…
23 February 2018
Hachiku shares a steamy new video for latest single ‘Murray’s Lullaby’. Having just returned from a sold out tour of the Europe and U.K. opening for Jen Cloher, you can catch them heating up a stage in celebration of the single’s launch in March. Full details below! The video for ‘Murray’s Lullaby’ is slick in every other meaning apart from ‘cool’. Set within the dripping wet walls of a sauna…
22 February 2018
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker shared a new single ‘Bathed In Light’ from their forthcoming album Seedlings All which will be released physically Friday 9 March and digitally Friday 23 March in Australia. Catch the duo perform their debut Australian shows this March at Port Fairy Folk Festival, Blue Mountains Music Festival and The Thornbury Theatre in Melbourne. Full tour details below. Josienne explains the background to the song, “As…
22 February 2018
New York City’s Wiki is back to share two bonus tracks from his debut album No Mountains in Manhattan. ‘Ballin on the Low’ ft. Antwon and ‘Hands Out’ ft. Suspect are available across all digital streaming platforms now. Listen below! As the album’s original track-list featured artists from New York, it’s fitting that the bonus tracks include appearances from Wiki’s friends from Los Angeles and London, respectively. The two tracks…
21 February 2018
Philadelphia’s Hop Along will be releasing their third studio album Bark Your Head Off, Dog on April 6. Having just announced a handful of shows at SXSW, Hop Along have also shared the brilliant next track from the album, ‘Not Abel’. Listen below! ‘Not Abel’ begins as a delicate waltz, violins and cellos make way for a series of explosive choruses before the song collapses into an exuberant guitar jam….
21 February 2018
Robert Earl Thomas, guitarist of Brooklyn band Widowspeak, has just debuted his solo full-length, Another Age. To celebrate, he shares the new video for album track ‘Cryin’,’ in which delicate melancholy follows him from a winding, wooded road to a warmly lonesome hotel room. Watch below! Another Age‘s sweet nostalgia and glowing guitar shines through each shot. Of the single he notes, “‘Cryin’ isn’t really about crying; or me. It’s about being there for…
21 February 2018
Jarrow has released the exultant garage-rocker ‘Kelp’, it’s the second single to come from his second album Expensive Hugs, out Friday 16 March. Watch the clip below! As the opening track off Expensive Hugs, ‘Kelp’ perfectly sets the tone for Jarrow’s weird and wonderful second album. Hooks, yelps and a dynamic lead-guitar adorn his compelling turn of phrase as it battles to break free of the songs perfect garage pop…
20 February 2018
Gift Wrap – Brendon Avalos of B Boys – has shared the new video for his single ‘Either Way’, taken from his forthcoming debut album Losing Count, out Friday 2nd March. Watch ‘Either Way’ below! For some time now, Brendon Avalos has been forging a path for himself among the clamor of emerging indie artists as the bassist and vocalist of Brooklyn punk trio B Boys. Now, he is releasing his first solo effort…
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