Listen – Car Seat Headrest ‘My Boy (Twin Fantasy)’

Car Seat Headrest unveil another preview from forthcoming new album Twin Fantasy, out Friday 16 February. Listen to album opener ‘My Boy (Twin Fantasy)’ below! The song commences with the sparse declaration of “my boy, we don’t see each other much,” and blossoms into a towering climax, with the life-affirming mantra of “It’ll take some time, but somewhere down the line / We won’t be alone” standing as the statement-of-intent for the record’s…

Goat Girl announce debut album + share ‘The Man’

Goat Girl announce their self-titled debut album to be released on Friday 6th April. The album was produced by Dan Carey in his South London studio in the Autumn of 2017. Watch the video to their new single ‘The Man’ below! Goat Girl 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…

Out now: The Bennies – Natural Born Chillers

The Bennies today release their new album Natural Born Chillers, on top of that they have shared one hell of an epic video to new single ‘Dreamkillers’ featuring the band on campaign trail. Watch it below! In a world gone mad, a nationwide scandal has emerged where people are now trying to ‘Ban the Beers’. With less than no experience, The Bennies garner the support of the people and are forced…

Watch – Jaye Bartell ‘If I’m Only For Myself’

Jaye Bartell shares his video for new single ‘If I’m Only For Myself’ taken from his poetic album In a Time of Trouble a Wild Exultation which was released last October. Watch it below! The video is based off of artist Hollis Frampton’s short film ‘Nostalgia’ where you watch a black and white still of Bartell taken by photographer Erin Taylor Kennedy slowly burn away, go up in flames and…

Introducing – Hop Along

Philadelphia’s Hop Along have announced their brand new album Bark Your Head Off, Dog to be released on April 6th in Australia and New Zealand. They have also shared first single ‘How Simple’. Listen below! The track displays a miraculous ability to marry folk, punk, rock and power-pop into a cohesive whole. Dynamic, intricate and textured, it spans the gamut from 90’s angst to 70’s girl-group vocal arrangements. Frances Quinlan (songwriter, lead vocalist, and…

Robert Earl Thomas announces solo debut, Another Age + shares ‘What Am I Gonna Do’

Robert Earl Thomas, guitarist of the acclaimed Brooklyn band Widowspeak, will release his solo debut Another Age on February 16. To celebrate, he shares single ‘What Am I Gonna Do’, watch the evocative video for the album track below! The delicate visual piece sees Thomas wandering around rainy New York City, a setting as beautifully dismal as the song’s strikingly personal subject. Thomas explains, “’What Am I Gonna Do’ is more about…

Jeremy Neale announces album tour!

Jeremy Neale is excited to announce the Getting The Team Back Together national album tour. Catch Jeremy perform in Sydney (this weekend!) plus headline shows in Melbourne and Brisbane this March. Full tour details and ticket links below! This is likely to be Jeremy’s only tour in 2018 as he will travel to New York City for 3 months to focus on songwriting as the recipient of the prestigious Grant…

Listen – Car Seat Headrest ‘Cute Thing’

Car Seat Headrest releases ‘Cute Thing’, the latest track to be previewed from forthcoming new album Twin Fantasy – a re-recorded, re-imagined new version of the 2011 self-released Bandcamp masterpiece of the same name – which will be out February 16. Listen below! ‘Cute Thing’ is an ecstatic multi-part epic of unbridled yearning, flirtation, and abandon – pairing masterfully layered production with a combustible house-party reverie. With a seven-piece band…

Jess Locke announces single tour + shares ‘Dangerous’ video

Melbourne’s Jess Locke has announced she will play shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & Perth this March in support of her new single ‘Dangerous’. Check out further tour info below! To coincide with the single tour Jess has shared an accompanying video to ‘Dangerous’, being the final single from her latest LP Universe. Watch the video below! This is Jess’ first headline tour for the year after a busy 2017 culminating in a sold…

The National announce tour support

For the first time since 2014, The National will return next month to play shows in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Special guests Little May have been announced as support act for all Australian shows. Full tour dates and details below! After releasing and internationally touring their album, For The Company, recorded in upstate New York with The National’s Aaron Brooking Dessner, 2017 was a year of change for Little May. Liz Drummond…

Out now: Belle and Sebastian

Belle and Sebastian have today released Part Two of the band’s new trilogy of EPs, How To Solve Our Human Problems. Recently adding an Australian leg to their busy live schedule in 2018, the band will embark on a national tour throughout May playing Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Further details below. How To Solve Our Human Problems has the classic blend of joy and melancholy and idiosyncratic spirit that has always characterised…

Out now: Starcrawler’s self-titled debut

Starcrawler have today released their debut self-titled album, which was recorded by their #1 fan Ryan Adams, who said “This starcrawler record is gonna peel the paint off your brain”….“Starcrawler are so fucking insanely good. Soon they will rule this galaxy.” Starcrawler are a 4-piece band. The members are lead vocalist Arrow de Wilde, guitarist Henri Cash, drummer Austin Smith and bassist Tim Franco. The youngest member is 16 and the oldest is 22. The foursome…

Out now: Tune-Yards – I can feel you creep into my private life

Tune-Yards’ new album I can feel you creep into my private life is out now. The 12 songs explore bandleader Merrill Garbus’ place in the world, and ruminate on race, politics, intersectional feminism and environmental prophecies. Next week, the band will perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live and Conan. On top of its release, the duo have shared an insightful mini-documentary following Merrill and Nate around their hometown of Oakland, US,…

Yo La Tengo announce new album ‘There’s A Riot Going On’ + share four new songs

Yo La Tengo’s new album There’s a Riot Going On will be released on Friday 16 March. This is a warm, ambitious record, a striking self-produced creation from one of the most celebrated and adventurous bands in rock history, whose dynamic range touches on pure noise and serene beauty and everything in between. To showcase the full depth of this fearless fifteen-track album, Yo La Tengo have released four new…

Everything Is Recorded announce debut album

Richard Russell has announced details of the debut album from his collaborative artist project Everything Is Recorded. The musician, record producer and XL Recordings co-founder will release Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell on Friday 16th February. Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell features an international and inter-generational cast of collaborators and musicians who include Sampha, Obongjayar, Kamasi Washington, Damon Albarn, Giggs, Ibeyi, Wiki, Syd, Rachel Zeffira, Infinite, Green Gartside, Peter…

Listen – Hachiku ‘Murray’s Lullaby’

Hachiku have today shared a new song ‘Murray’s Lullaby’, and announced a show in celebration of its launch on the 2nd of March at the John Curtin Hotel, Melbourne. See below! Hachiku is the brainchild of 23 year old German songwriter and producer Anika Ostendorf, who records her home-made dream pop from whichever bedroom she is currently inhabiting. Since the release of Hachiku’s self-titled debut EP in 2017, Ostendorf found a home…

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