20 October 2017
Jaye Bartell has released his new album In a Time of Trouble a Wild Exultation. To celebrate, he has shared the Angel Olsen-assisted video for ‘Give Erin A Compliment (So Kind)’. Watch below! “’Give Erin a Compliment (So Kind)’ was written as a birthday present for Erin Kennedy” Bartell states. “The title itself comes from a poker chip one of Erin’s friends found that said, “give Erin a compliment” on it. It’s…
20 October 2017
Melbourne’s Jess Locke, has released her new album, Universe. To celebrate Jess has shared a video for new single ‘Drive To Drink’. Watch it below! With a few years playing and then recording with her full band, Universe emerged consisting of both brand new and older previously released home-recordings, now re-written: “the album was very much about exploring the sound of things, and capturing an atmosphere, more than any particular concepts. There are definitely themes that…
18 October 2017
Remote Control Records are thrilled to announce the signing of HANDSOME to Dot Dash Recordings. The announcement comes with the release of a new single and video for ‘Late Night Ball Game feat. Joyride’, lifted from an EP, No Hat No Play, coming early 2018. Watch the clip below! Sydney-based HANDSOME crafts a mix of tomboy pop and brooding electronica. The new sounds herald a celebration of self-expression and carefree creativity,…
18 October 2017
Jess Cornelius has released new single ‘Love And Low Self Esteem’ from her forthcoming debut EP Nothing Is Lost, out Friday 27 October. Watch the video below! The song finds Cornelius taking stock of a relationship in ruins, confessing, “Sometimes I can’t tell the difference / Between love and low self esteem / ‘Cause it’s when I’m feeling tiny as an eyelash / That’s when I want to be all you…
17 October 2017
To celebrate the release of Jeremy Neale’s debut solo album, Getting The Team Back Together on Nov 3, Jeremy is heading to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne to play some special free, all ages in-store performances. Catch J Neale play Brisbane at Jet Black Cat on Friday 3 November, Melbourne at Oh! Jean Records on Sunday 5 November and Sydney at Red Eye Records on Thursday 9 November. More info below. As…
17 October 2017
Barely Dressed Records welcome Brisbane punks Good Boy to their roster with the release of their brilliant impending EP Shirk Life out Friday 10 November. Along with announcing an Australian headline tour in December, Good Boy have released a video for first single ‘Fishing With A Shotgun’. Watch below! Produced and engineered by Tim Fitz, and mixed and mastered by Mikey Young, ‘Fishing With A Shotgun’ is a burst of hyper-intelligent garage punk energy. Infused…
16 October 2017
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker share their six track EP, The Birds, out now both digitally and as a very limited edition 12”. Josienne and Ben will play their debut Australian shows this coming March as a part of Port Fairy Folk Festival. Further detials below! The Birds is a suite of six songs that explore the themes of migration and departure. These are songs of autumn and shorter days, of flying…
13 October 2017
King Krule returns with his dense, sprawling new album The OOZ. Watch the video to most recent single ‘Half Man Half Shark’ below! Drifting and seeping through the cracks of South London like the album title, King Krule (Archy Marshall) transforms his observations of all the disorientation and heartbreak of his youth into piercing narratives and poetry that are both startlingly honest and brutally beautiful. The OOZ as a title proves oddly…
13 October 2017
Collaboration has always been at the core of Milwaukee Banks. Their latest single ‘Lights Down’ sees the duo explore new sonic territory, as well as team up with Melbourne based vocalist Sophiegrophy. Watch the video below! ‘Lights Down’ is unlike anything you’ve heard from Milwaukee Banks before. A breezy and bouncy jam that is an ode to late night summer house parties. After meeting Sophie in early 2017, the pair…
13 October 2017
With Lotta Sea Lice Barnett and Vile have delivered something utterly miraculous, an instant-classic record which sounds as if the two have played together for decades. This is a conversation between friends, documented in raw, unvarnished song form, brimming with personal history, crackling with energy and shot through with humour. There’s an unforced ease to the record helped the fact that the pair have been not just friends, but hardcore…
13 October 2017
Julien Baker shares the video for the title track from her new album Turn Out The Lights, out October 27. Directed by Sophia Peer, who also helmed Baker’s video for first single ‘Appointments’, watch the new single below. Recorded at Ardent Studios in Baker’s hometown of Memphis, TN, Turn Out The Lights expands upon the sound and vision of Sprained Ankle while retaining the haunting, confessional songwriting style.The result is a deeply empathetic…
11 October 2017
Thirty Days of Yes is a subscription mixtape that releases a song a day over 30 days. Developed in response to the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey, to drive the ‘Yes’ message and show support for the LGBTQI+ community, particularly the youth community who don’t have a voice in this public debate. 100% of the profits will go to LGBTQI+ youth organisations, Minus18 and Twenty10. The project launched in support of…
11 October 2017
The Bennies have announced their forthcoming record Natural Born Chillers, released Friday 2 February. To celebrate, the band have announced a national single tour, with the first cut from they album they have also shared ‘Get High Like An Angel’, watch the video below! It’s been a wild time since the release of Wisdom Machine in 2016. The band supported The Living End, released a song with Damian Cowell, toured 3 times around Europe, completed…
11 October 2017
Belle and Sebastian announce three new EPs under the umbrella title How To Solve Our Human Problems. To celebrate, they reveal the first single ‘I’ll Be Your Pilot’, which can be found on EP2. Listen below! ‘I’ll Be Your Pilot’ encapsulates the essence of the groups gentle attention to melody, and takes as its subject Stuart Murdoch’s young son: “Having your first kid is a huge event, so I wrapped a…
10 October 2017
Jen Cloher has shared the video for ‘Strong Woman’, the third single off her instant-classic self-titled fourth record. Filmed just weeks ago in a London warehouse, the video is the result of a back-to-basics approach – a two-camera crew. Watch it below! The song itself serves as an exploration of gendered identity in Cloher’s childhood in 1980’s Adelaide and a celebration of Cloher’s unique matriarchal heritage. Cloher explained the inspiration behind the…
6 October 2017
Cults have released their new album Offering, an exciting collection of songs exploding with heart, confidence, shimmering melody and buzzing life. At the same time, it goes places Cults haven’t gone before. Offering marks the band’s first LP since the 2013 album Static. It also marks the beginning of a more collaborative phase for Cults. The duo have always traded ideas, but for the first time they sat down to jam…
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