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4 November 2016

Sampha announces debut album ‘Process’ + Aus tour dates

Sampha announces details of his highly-anticipated debut album. Titled Process, the ten track album will be released on Friday 3rd February 2017 via Young / Remote Control Records, featuring the singles ‘Timmy’s Prayer’ and ‘Blood On Me’. Since the release of his debut Sundanza EP in 2010 and 2013’s Dual EP, Sampha has quietly but assuredly become one of the UK’s most enigmatic and respected artists. Still just twenty seven years old,…

4 November 2016

Watch – Methyl Ethel ‘No. 28’

Methyl Ethel have shared their first new music in eighteen months – the striking new single ‘No. 28’ was world premiered last night on triple j’s Good Nights. Co-produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Foals), in collaboration with the Perth trio’s frontman Jake Webb it is accompanied by a touching and evocative visual, plus details of tour dates for 2017, as seen below. Written and recorded by Webb, ‘No. 28’…

3 November 2016

Watch – ABRA ‘Pull Up’

Atlanta’s own “Darkwave Duchess,” ABRA, has released the new video for ‘Pull Up,’ taken from her PRINCESS EP out now. Watch the video below. In the self-directed, self-edited video, ABRA stars alongside her BFF on a typical night out in NYC…Drinking 40s, going to Chinatown, racking stacks of cash, and ATV racing, complete with Scream masks and late-night tattoo appointments. Filmed on-location with support from the FADER, ABRA says, “Shout out to A$AP Tyy…

3 November 2016

HÆLOS announce debut Australian tour

London based trio HÆLOS, who are late additions to both the Byron and Lorne Falls Festival lineups, will be playing their first ever headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne in January 2017, with help from an absolute stellar line-up of support acts; Yeo, Christopher Port, and BUOY (Sydney only). Check out further ticket and tour info below! After a massive year touring their debut album Full Circle all over the US and Europe, they played some of the world’s…

1 November 2016

Parquet Courts Australian Tour

Parquet Courts return to Australia fresh off the release of their critically acclaimed new record, Human Performance. Touring nationally for Falls Festival, a Sydney show at The Factory Theatre for Wednesday January 4, with supports from Low Life and LA Suffocated, and a very special Melbourne show at the Shimmerlands Outdoor Auditorium at The University of Melbourne on Thursday January 5, joint by local lineup Tyrannamen, Ausmuteants and Nicky Crane plus DJs Etta & Tilly….

1 November 2016

Methyl Ethel announce World Tour 2016-2017

After a year that has seen them tour the world extensively, including performances at Roskilde, Latitude, End Of The Road, Outside Lands, Levitation Chicago, Laneway, Splendour in the Grass, SXSW, Great Escape and a host of sold-out headline shows, Methyl Ethel are showing no sign of slowing down and today announce new live dates across Australia, United Kingdom, Europe, United States and Canada beginning February 2017. Australian tour dates are…

31 October 2016

Watch – Sleigh Bells ‘I Can Only Stare’

Sleigh Bells have shared a stunning video for ‘I Can Only Stare’, the music video directorial debut from the independent filmmaker Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip / Queen Of Earth) along with the band’s Derek Miller. The single is taken from their upcoming record Jessica Rabbit out Friday 11th November. Alex Ross Perry said the following about the video: “I had never been asked to direct anything, at all, ever, prior…

28 October 2016

Out now – Dark0 ‘Oceana’ EP

Oceana is the new EP from London producer Dark0, out now via XL Recordings / Remote Control. Prior to the EP’s release, Dark0 released the music video for ‘Forever’ via Fader. Directed by Sybil Montet De Doria, the video “feels familiar yet otherworldly at the same time,” Fader. The 25-year-old’s debut for XL describes the unstable relationship Dark0 shares with his environment, narrating the story of his city’s illusions of…

28 October 2016

Out now – Girl Tears ‘Woke Against The Tide’

Woke Against The Tide is the second album from Los Angeles / Orange County punk trio Girl Tears, out now via Sinderlyn / Remote Control. Woke Against The Tide is the follow up to Tension. With it they have mastered the art of the three-chord attack, delivering volatile blasts to the point of fury. Four tours and 100+ shows later, playing art spaces, houses, DiY venues, bars, barns, backyards, basements,…

28 October 2016

Out now – Big Smoke ‘Time Is Golden’

Big Smoke have released their highly anticipated debut album Time Is Golden. The album, which was completed after singer and songwriter Adrian Slattery passed away, is an astounding and virtuosic document of a songwriter and a band at the height of their respective powers. Time Is Golden is cinematic, breathtakingly powerful and heartbreakingly intimate – a triumph in the face of unimaginable adversity. Above everything else, the album is a testament to the band’s determination…

28 October 2016

Out now – Dorsal Fins ‘Digital Zodiac’

Dorsal Fins have released their new album Digital Zodiac, the songs on Digital Zodiac feel born of the kind of musical collaboration that can only be described as joyous: at turns frenetic, laconic, overblown and understated. Digital Zodiac is a decidedly more laid-back affair than its predecessor, 2015’s Mind Renovation. When asked how he manages to keep cohesion on a record so full of musical ideas, Liam McGorry warns, “It’s not…

27 October 2016

Watch – Oh Pep! ‘Wanting’

Melbourne’s Oh Pep! have today premiered their new video for ‘Wanting’. The single comes from the band’s incredible debut album Stadium Cake out now through Barely Dressed Records / Remote Control. ‘Wanting’ (much like the rest of the album) is an indie pop masterpiece with the DNA of a folk song. It is accompanied by a video encapsulating their current ’on the road’ lifestyle. In Pepita’s words “We’ve spent the…

26 October 2016

Watch – Merchandise ‘Crystal Cage’

Merchandise have presented a new video for ‘Crystal Cage’, the fourth in a series of visuals created by frontman Carson Cox for their latest album A Corpse Wired For Sound. Filmed last summer in Palermo, Italy, Cox explains, “In this video we find an ambiguous man-spirit wandering a strange psychic realm caught between reality and an impossible dream place or paradise. The mirror, which has made an appearance in a lot…

26 October 2016

Watch – Lost Animal ‘Too Late To Die Young’

Lost Animal has shared the video for ‘Too Late To Die Young’ via CLRVYNT. The current single is taken from the new album You Yang released last week. ‘Too Late To Die Young’ was director Ryan Kenny’s debut music video. He explains – “Portraying Jarrod as a character rather than the singer or artist was important to me. Using the sound to tell a story rather than take the attention away from it. The title speaks for itself and…

25 October 2016

Body/Head announce new album ‘No Waves’

Body/Head, the duo of Kim Gordon and guitarist Bill Nace, release No Waves on Friday 11th November. Recorded on 24th March 2014 during Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN at the Bijou Theater, this high-quality live recording captures Gordon and Nace at peak chemistry, clearing pathways of possibility using great waves of amplification and voice, during the tour supporting 2013’s critically lauded Coming Apart. Instead of presenting “tracks” or “songs” from the…

21 October 2016

Out now – Lost Animal ‘You Yang’

Lost Animal has released his highly anticipated record You Yang via Dot Dash / Captured Tracks in North America and Dot Dash / Remote Control Records for the rest of the world. Hot. Like real hot. I’m talking about sittin’ in only your undershirt and putting your head to the sky and hootin’ but nothing comes out just dry wispy profanities type hot. Victoria. Australia. They got small pots of…