Jarrow announces new album Expensive Hugs, shares ‘Emoji’ + residency

Jarrow is back with a brand new song, video, album and residency – all of it! Dan Oke’s bonkers new track ‘Emoji’ is the first off his brand-new album Expensive Hugs due Friday 16 March. Watch the clip below! Earnest acoustic rock ballads are not meant to feature vocoder drenched vocals. And they’re not meant to wobble increasingly out of shape as the song reaches its climax. Like Blind Melon attempting…

King Krule upgrades Sydney venue + adds second Melbourne show

Due to overwhelming demand, King Krule will play an upgraded venue in Sydney, and adds a second and final Melbourne show, after completely selling out the first show on the first day of sale. The new tickets will go on sale tomorrow at 10am AEDT. Details below! Moving from the Metro to Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Monday 5th March, and back-to-back dates at The Croxton Bandroom in Melbourne on Thursday 8th…

Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker announce new album + share ‘Chicago’

Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker announce their new album, Seedlings All, released on Friday 23 March and have shared the stunning new track ‘Chicago’ with its accompanying video by award winning filmmaker Bob Gallagher. Watch below! 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. Seedlings All is Josienne Clarke &…

Watch – Lucy Dacus ‘Addictions’

With the release of her second album Historian heading our way on the 2nd March, Lucy Dacus gives us another taste of what’s to come with a video, directed by Dacus herself, for the anthemic and horn-accented upbeat new single ‘Addictions’. Watch below! The video is a love letter of sorts to her native Richmond, VA, presented in its full fall glory. Our nameless protagonist walks, explores, and hitchhikes through…

The Bennies share ‘Dreamkillers’ + announce single tour

With new album Natural Born Chillers only a few weeks away, The Bennies share new track ‘Dreamkillers’ and announce an epic run of shows and instores in February. See full tour dates and info below! “This song is our big fuck you to all the people that try and tell you not to chase your dreams” comments The Bennies’ lead singer Anty Horgan. Kicking off with a melodic yet hard rocking guitar riff and a…

Watch – Tune-Yards ‘Heart Attack’

Tune-Yards release a new song, ‘Heart Attack’ ahead of their forthcoming album I can feel you creep into my private life, out Friday 19th January. Watch the accompanying clip below! On the heart-rending bridge, bandleader Merrill Garbus pleads, “I’m only human,” as her voice dissolves into the digital, endlessly danceable abyss. The video is directed by Mimi Cave, choreographed by Megan Lawson and features improvisation by the cast of dancers. I can feel you…

Watch – U.S. Girls ‘Pearly Gates’

U.S. Girls presents a new song, ‘Pearly Gates’, from her forthcoming album, In a Poem Unlimited out Friday 16 February. The single’s celestial companion video was directed by Chrissy Jones, who stars alongside Fizzy. Watch below! On ‘Pearly Gates’, Meg Remy describes a woman who wishes to seduce St. Peter to secure entry to the heavenly realm, with mixed results. Featuring vocalist James Baley and with music written by long-time…

Introducing – Katz

Remote Control are excited to announce the newest signing to Dot Dash, Melbourne producer and musician, Katz. Katz reveals details of his debut EP Waterfall, out Friday 6th April, and shares first single ‘Hollow ft. Charlie Lim’. Watch the accompanying video below! Learning piano from the age of 4, Katz cut his teeth leading jazz ensembles around Melbourne. It wasn’t until he found himself sitting in on friends’ electronica projects that he…

Car Seat Headrest announces new album Twin Fantasy + shares ‘Nervous Young Inhumans’

Will Toledo’s 2011’s Bandcamp masterpiece, Twin Fantasy, has been re-recorded and re-imagined and will come out on Friday 16 Feburary. The album will be available on digital, vinyl and as a double CD including both Twin Fantasy (2017 version) and Twin Fantasy – Mirror To Mirror (re-mastered 2011 version). The announcement comes with the release of ‘Nervous Young Inhumans’ and its accompanying video. It is a frenetic, anthemic, split-screen choreographed…

The Breeders announce new album All Nerve + share title track

The Breeders announce details of their long-awaited fifth album, All Nerve, and featuring recent single ‘Wait in the Car’, the group’s first record in a decade will be released on Friday 2nd March. Listen to All Nerve’s title track 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…

Listen – Belle and Sebastian ‘The Same Star’

Belle and Sebastian kick off 2018 with shimmering new single ‘The Same Star’. Taken from Part 2 of the band’s new trilogy of EPs, How To Solve Our Human Problems. Listen below! The Sarah Martin penned, Leo Abrahams produced song brings together breezy guitars, feel-good rhythm and Martin’s bittersweet vocals for another showcase of the infectious, inquisitive and timeless pop on the band’s latest offering. Recently adding an Australian leg to…

Primitive Motion announce ‘House In The Wave’ LP + share ‘Feed the Signals’

Brisbane duo Primitive Motion announce their third full-length, House in The Wave, released Friday 23 February. In addition, they share first single ‘Feed the Signals’. Watch the video below! Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig recorded the album across Sunday afternoons spent in Selig’s home studio in Brisbane. The result 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…

Out now: Rumu – The Soundtrack

Created by Matt Mclean of feeding | ear, the soundtrack for Rumu is out now, and the game now playable via Steam. A creation of Sydney-based game development company Robot House, Rumu joins a list of hit franchises brought to life by the team, including Warhammer 40K: Regicide and Hulabear. Rumu is an intimate, narrative-driven adventure game about a robot vacuum cleaner becoming self-aware. You are RUMU – a robot…

The xx announce Melbourne encore show with proceeds donated to charities

The xx return to Australian shores in January. With the first show at Sidney Myer Music Bowl officially sold out, The xx have announced an encore Melbourne show at The Forum on Sunday 14 January – tickets on sale Thursday 21 December. Details below! Following the support of The xx’s collaboration with PLUS1 for their first round of Australian shows, the proceeds from their Forum show will be split between…

Our Favourite Releases of 2017!

Without further ado, here are each of our Top Ten Releases of 2017,  (and in no particular order). Happy Holidays. Steve Lost Souls of Saturn vs Mashrou – Bint El Khandaq Brooklyn Raga Massive – Purple Rain Harmony Byrne – Demise Aldous Harding – Horizon Nina Simone – Save Me Alice Coltrane – Om Shanti The Orbweavers – Cyclamen Christopher Coleman Collective – Spotify Suggests You Starry Starry Night Alain…

Watch – Belle And Sebastian ‘I’ll Be Your Pilot’

Belle and Sebastian have released the first installment of their new triumvirate of EPs, How To Solve Our Human Problems. In addition, they’ve shared a new video for ‘I’ll Be Your Pilot’, the latest single taken from the EP series. Directed by Michael Sherrington, the gently poetic video corresponds with the signature B&S artwork which accompanies the EPs, with a simple yet moving collage of individuals that echoes the spectrum…

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