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3 November 2017

Out now: Jeremy Neale – Getting The Team Back Together

Jeremy Neale’s album Getting The Team Back Together is out today! Catch him play free in-store performances tonight in Brisbane at Jet Black Cat, Sunday 5 November in Melbourne at Oh! Jean Records on and Thursday 9 November in Sydney at Red Eye Records. Full details below. Recorded at Brisbane’s storied studio The Plutonium, with producer Miro Mackie and a who’s who of Brisbane’s leading musicians including Charles Sale and…

3 November 2017

Methyl Ethel win Best Album, Best Pop Act + Best Male Vocalist WAM awards!

Methyl Ethel share the exciting news of earning multiple prizes for the WAM Awards. After scoring 7 nominations, Methyl Ethel take home Best Album, Best Pop Act and Best Male Vocalist! WAMFest continues through the weekend. Head to the WAM website for more information, and see the full list of WAM Award winners here: http://wam.org.au/ Methyl Ethel’s latest album Everything Is Forgotten has also been nominated for Australian Album Of The Year, alongside their video for ‘Ubu’ as…

3 November 2017

Thirty Days of Yes wraps up

The final day of the Mixtape for Marriage Equality kicked off this morning, Thirty Days of Yes will release a special surprise 10 extra songs, including a stunning new track from Jess Ribeiro and a demo from Sui Zhen. The project will continue with more tracks, along with a new song from Jarrow premiered today at 1.30pm on FBI Radio. See all of the released tracks here. Over the thirty days there was a…

31 October 2017

Watch – Goat Girl ‘Cracker Drool’

South London’s Goat Girl share new single ‘Cracker Drool’, which was produced by Dan Carey and recorded in his South London studio. The video was directed by CC Wade and filmed in Sussex by the London based brothers who have previously worked with King Krule. Watch it below! ‘Cracker Drool’ is now available on all streaming services and will be released on the 8th December on limited edition 7” backed by…

31 October 2017

Kurupt FM announce The Lost Tape + share ‘Suttin’ Like That’

Kurupt FM have decided to make history bringing back UK Garage once again with The Lost Tape, out 17 November. ‘Suttin’ Like That’ kicks off the hype of The Lost Tape and goes some way towards proving it’s legendary status. Watch the new video below! Taken from The Lost Tape set, which was broadcast live on Kurupt FM 108.9 and recorded onto cassette tape by an anonymous listener, ‘Suttin’ Like That’…

27 October 2017

Out now: Lankum – Between the Earth and Sky

Dublin four-piece, Lankum release their new album Between the Earth and Sky. To celebrate, they have shared a new video for ‘The Granite Gaze’, made by cult Irish filmmaker Stephen McCollum. Watch below! Stephen has described the video as: “A metaphysical allegory exploring mankind’s capacity for ignorance and destruction of innocence in the face of celestial mystery, expressed in plasticine.” The band comprises of brothers Ian and Daragh Lynch along with…

27 October 2017

Out now: Jess Cornelius – Nothing Is Lost

Upon finishing her US/Canada tour with Paul Kelly, Jess Cornelius is ready to return to Australia to launch her debut EP, Nothing Is Lost, out now. Tour dates and details below! The EP is available on vinyl as a very limited release – Only 150 copies available on vinyl and includes a bonus track ‘What Do I Look Like, Stupid?’ – not available for streaming/download or in any other format….

27 October 2017

Out now: Julien Baker – Turn Out The Lights

The now 21-year-old Julien Baker returns with her new album Turn Out The Lights, exploring themes such as broken relationships, the search for a cure that may not exist and the impossibility of never truly understanding each other. The album was recorded at Ardent Studios in her hometown of Memphis, TN, and mixed by Craig Silvey. Strings and woodwinds now shade the corners of her compositions, and Baker takes to piano…

26 October 2017

Space Invadas return with new single ‘Wild World ft. Remi’

Made up of Katalyst and Steve Spacek, Space Invadas return after a seven year break with brand new single ‘Wild World’, featuring Melbourne MC Remi. Watch the clip below! On ‘Wild World ft. Remi’ Spacek sings about the search for our own meaning and identity in the world and the natural beauty of our planet that most of us take for granted. Remi returns the call and makes social comment…

26 October 2017

Watch – Good Boy ‘A Waste Of Approximately 122 Million Dollars (Taxpayer Funded)’

Good Boy have shared their second single, ‘A Waste Of Approximately 122 Million Dollars (Taxpayer Funded)’, from their EP Shirk Life, due November 10. Watch the accompanied (claymation!) video directed by Fin Marx below! The song spits a frustrated and self-explanatory message about the absurd, insulting and embarrassing marriage equality plebiscite in Australia. As singer Rian King explains, “122 million dollars of public funding for an opinion is disgusting. In…

25 October 2017

Aldous Harding announces Melbourne + Sydney shows

Following on from her inclusion on the Meredith, Fairgrounds and Laneway Festival lineups, Aldous Harding is pleased to announce headline shows in Sydney & Melbourne in 2018. Aldous Harding will bring her extraordinarily captivating live show to the Sydney Festival Spiegeltent on Thursday 25 January and The Croxton Bandroom in Melbourne on Wednesday 7 February. Further details below. Having spent the majority of 2017 touring in Europe and North America, this…

25 October 2017

Watch – Jeremy Neale ‘Small Talk’

Before the release of his debut album, Getting The Team Back Together, next Friday 3 November, Jeremy Neale has shared a second cut from the record ‘Small Talk’, featuring Jaimee Fryer who helped the track reach its full potential. Watch the video below! Written during a very introspective point last year when Jeremy was trying to create a life of balance, ‘Small Talk’ is about relying on alcohol to get by socially, and…

25 October 2017

Tune-Yards announce new album + share ‘Look At Your Hands’

Tune-Yards reveal the first single ‘Look at Your Hands’ from their forthcoming album I can feel you creep into my private life, out 19th January 2018. Watch the video to ‘Look at Your Hands’ below! Bandleader Merrill Garbus explains “Yes, the world is a mess, but I’ve been attempting to look more and more inward: how do all of these “isms” that we live in manifest in me, in my daily activities, interactions? Some of the…

24 October 2017

Watch – The National ‘I’ll Still Destroy You’

The National have released the video for ‘I’ll Still Destroy You’, from their most recent album Sleep Well Beast, The video was directed by Allan Sigurðsson and Icelandic performance and installation artist Ragnar Kjartansson. Watch it below! Ragnar, who also appears in the video, collaborated with The National for A Lot Of Sorrow which saw the band play their song ‘Sorrow’ for six hours in front of a live audience at MOMA’s…

23 October 2017

Out now: Bing & Ruth – Dorsal EP

Bing & Ruth – the ever-evolving collective steered by composer and pianist David Moore – have a new EP, Dorsal. A short collection of songs written and recorded alongside the group’s recent album, No Home of the Mind, released earlier this year. Moore says, “as the full length came into view it became clear that these sounds were a small family deserving of their own house separate. So here they are….

20 October 2017

Everything Is Recorded share new single ‘Show Love’ feat. Syd & Sampha

Everything Is Recorded have released ‘Show Love feat. Syd & Sampha’. The new single comes with an accompanied lyric video, watch below! Back in August Richard Russell stopped by Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show in which he discussed his respect for Syd and working with her for Everything Is Recorded. Bridging the gap between London and Los Angeles, ‘Show Love’ begins with Russell’s percussive instrumentation, interlaced with an introductory verse from Sampha,…