15 December 2017
Merry Christmas from the Don. A little taste of what is to come in 2018.
15 December 2017
It has been quite a year for Jeremy Neale. In 2017, he released his acclaimed debut album Getting The Team Back Together, toured across east coast record stores and was announced as the recipient of the prestigious Grant McLennan Fellowship. The fellowship will see him travel to New York City for 3 months in 2018 to focus on songwriting. To cap off the year, J Neale has shared his annual Xmas single titled ‘Christmas…
13 December 2017
Lætitia Tamko is professionally known as Vagabon. She is a solo artist, a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, a peer of Porches, Mitski and Makkonen. The New Yorker, originally from Cameroon, released Infinite Worlds earlier this year. The album is now being re-released in AUS/NZ via Barely Dressed. She has also shares the video for ‘Cold Apartment’ made by assurgent Los Angeles animator Faye Orlove. The new video tells the crushing narrative of…
13 December 2017
Jen Cloher announced that she will be commencing an Australian tour in March 2018. Check out full dates and details below! The tour will celebrate the end of a landmark 12-months for Cloher, releasing her self-titled album to unprecedented acclaim and unleashing her live show to rapturous audiences all over the world. These shows will likely be Cloher’s only run of Australian headline shows with a band in 2018 as…
13 December 2017
Lucy Dacus has announced her new album, Historian, released on 2 March 2018. She also shares new song ‘Night Shift’ which boasts a devastatingly powerful vocal performance and scathing lyrics telling off a former lover, the only breakup song Dacus has ever written. Listen below! Historian is a 10-track record full of bracing realisations, tearful declarations and moments of hard-won peace, expressed in lyrics that feel destined for countless yearbook quotes and…
13 December 2017
Good Boy have shared their self-produced video for ‘1972 VW Superbug’. The track is the third single from their brilliant EP Shirk Life, out now. Watch it below! The song is a nostalgic sprawler, exploring regional life via bored late-nights in their hometown of Bundaberg, Queensland. Rarely does a punk band write with such romanticism. “We made this video from footage collected every time we returned to our home town of…
12 December 2017
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker will have their debut Australian performances in March 2018. Performing at MODERN FOLK! FROM BRITAIN at the Thornbury Theatre Melbourne with fellow British singer-songwriter Blair Dunlop. They will also perform at Port Fairy Folk Festival and the Blue Mountains Music Festival. What truly sets the duo apart is the combination of Josienne’s divinely nuanced, emotionally affecting voice and Ben’s intricately expressive, adroit guitar technique. Ben…
12 December 2017
Goat Girl share new track ‘Scream’, released on the 15th December on Limited edition 7”, as an exclusive B Side with recent single ‘Cracker Drool’ as A Side. The track is available on all streaming services now. Listen below! Goat Girl head up an emerging set of groups from South London who have been inspired by the burgeoning local scene there. A classic sketch by the late great comedian Bill…
11 December 2017
New York City rap prodigy Wiki returns to Australia for the first time in three years, for two special headline shows, at Sydney’s The Lansdowne and Melbourne’s The Toff, this summer. Further tour details below! Last on our shores in 2015 with his former rap outfit Ratking. Formed in Harlem in 2011 when Wiki was just 18 years old, Ratking went on to perform with Skepta and tour alongside Death…
7 December 2017
Tune-Yards have released a new single ‘ABC 123’, from their forthcoming album I can feel you creep into my private life, out January 19. Watch the companion video, directed by Dear Mr Quistgaard, below! Bandleader Merrill Garbus’ politically-infused lyrics set a foreboding scene, as she laments, “California’s burning down / Sitting in the middle of the sixth extinction.” I can feel you creep into my private life is the fourth studio album and…
7 December 2017
Honey Hahs release their new single ‘Forever’. The accompanying video was filmed on their first visit to Paris to perform at LesInRocks Festival last month. Watch the clip below! Honey Hahs describe the meaning behind the song; “Forever was written about our Dad who was worried about the world coming to an end. He started buying loads of food in case you couldn’t buy it in the shops anymore. He…
7 December 2017
Montreal staple, Jackson MacIntosh, announces his debut solo album My Dark Side, coming early 2018. He has also unveiled his first single ‘Lulu’, listen below! MacIntosh explains that “‘Lulu’ was the first song I’d written after a dry spell that lasted about a year, which is pretty unusual for me, because I usually can’t stop myself from writing. It was sort of an unusual song for me, and was a song that led…
5 December 2017
Following on from his single ‘Anyting’,London’s Renz is back with ‘Want Me ft. Trinna Carter’, another laid-back summertime jam. Watch the new clip below! Filled with Renz’ blissed out approach to vocals and production, it’s an unassuming earworm. Bringing summer-vibes to the basement club of Birthdays in Shoreditch. Having executive produced the first New Gen record as well as creating one of the most popular songs on it (Flexin’), Renz steps…
1 December 2017
The third & final EP in Overmono’s acclaimed Arla series, Arla III, is out now! Overmono have also shared a new video for ‘Phase Magenta’, watch it below! Arla III finds Ed & Tom Russell’s Overmono project again reinvigorating & reshaping rave culture, through a deep personal affection for UK electronic music’s past acting as fuel for the inexorable forward momentum of their music. Over the series’ 14 tracks, they have…
1 December 2017
The National have released the video for ‘Dark Side Of The Gym’, directed, choreographed and starring NYC Ballet Resident Choreographer and soloist Justin Peck and executive produced by former Miami City Ballet dancer and current dance filmmaker Ezra Hurwitz. Also starring former Miami City Ballet mentor and Principal dancer, Patricia Delgado, the video finds the duo gracefully move around a balloon filled auditorium. Watch it below! The National will return to…
1 December 2017
The xx release ‘We See You – Berlin’, a short film supported by and exclusively available on YouTube that celebrates the incredibly close bond between The xx and their fans, affectionately turning the spotlight onto the band’s audience. It’s the first in a series of ‘We See You’ films. Watch it below! Directed by Berlin-based filmmaker Sylvie Weber, the film features live and documentary footage from The xx’s headline set at…
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