11 April 2025
On June 6th, Chicago’s Lifeguard will release their debut album Ripped and Torn. The youthful trio of Asher Case (bass, baritone guitar, vocals), Isaac Lowenstein (drums, synth), and Kai Slater (guitar, vocals) have been making music together since they were in high school, nearly a quarter of their lives. Noisy and immediate, cryptic but heartfelt, they draw inspiration from punk, dub, power-pop and experimental sounds, and bring them all together in explosive cacophony. Watch the blistering…
11 April 2025
Riding high off the universal love for his latest single ‘father’, Jim Legxacy keeps things moving with new track ‘stick’. Dropping alongside another slick video from Rohan Dil shot partly on a Blackberry, ‘stick’ sees Jim at the peak of his powers offering another snapshot of his journey and cements his advancing cultural significance as a young writer and producer. Jim’s prolific output forever tells an important story. Always ahead…
11 April 2025
In celebration of Record Store Day 2025, 4AD presents a trifecta of special 30th Anniversary Editions of classic releases, available in limited quantities exclusively on vinyl at selected independent record stores on April 12 (and later available on digital platforms on May 23). This includes the following: Pale Saints – Slow Buildings (30th Anniversary Re:Masters) – Remastered and Expanded 2xLP pressed on limited petrol blue vinyl, housed in a gatefold…
4 April 2025
Jenny Hval releases ‘The artist is absent’, the second single from her new album Iris Silver Mist, out May 2nd. The new single comes in two versions — an extended mix ’89 seconds rewrite’ and the original album version. Following the “highly specific and alluringly strange” lead single, ‘To be a rose’, ‘The artist is absent’ encapsulates this feeling. Hval sings: “A stage without a show / A hazy silhouette around an empty space…
4 April 2025
Car Seat Headrest share new single ‘CCF (I’m Gonna Stay With You)’, off The Scholars, a bold new rock opera and the band’s first studio album in five years, released May 2nd. The record’s soaring, uplifting opener is accompanied by a video, featuring illustrations of the characters who appear across The Scholars designed by cartoonist Cate Wurtz. Set at the fictional college campus Parnassus University, the album’s songs are populated…
4 April 2025
🔔🔔 RING-A-DING 🔔🔔 Pointer Recordings is thrilled to release the newest R&B, rap single from Jamaica Moana called ‘TUGGAWAR’. The Sydney-based artist, rapper, creative director and songwriter of Māori (Ngāpuhi/Tainui) and Samoan descent is entering a new era and ‘TUGGAWAR’ is the unapologetic, blistering rap track that shifts it into gear. Produced by Melbourne-based producer, MC, and composer POOKIE, this single is a war cry for self-belief. “I took a…
4 April 2025
Leif Vollebekk and Angie McMahon, unveil a captivating new cover of The Eagles’ iconic hit ‘Take It To The Limit.’ With emotive vocals and haunting lap steel arrangements from Cindy Cashdollar, Vollebekk and McMahon reimagine ‘Take It To The Limit’, offering a fresh yet reverent interpretation to this timeless anthem. Vollebekk honors a major musical influence, “My good friend Angie McMahon and I spontaneously recorded ‘Take It To The Limit’, my favourite Eagles song, when I…
4 April 2025
Rough Trade Records is celebrating its formative years with the release of a limited boxset on June 20, featuring several of its key, early seven-inch singles. Boasting eight classic 45s that followed the label’s formation out the original Rough Trade shop in West London in 1978, Rough Trade 45s: Volume 1 features the likes of Augustus Pablo, The Raincoats and Young Marble Giants. The eight singles, which have been recreated…
28 March 2025
Today, Liz Stringer releases her seventh studio album The Second High, and celebrates with two in-store performances, on launch day Fri 28th at Rocksteady Records, 6pm, and Sat 29th at Readings St Kilda, 2pm. In April, Stringer kicks off an East Coast Australian tour and will go on to play a headline London show in June. Further tour details below. “The Second High was a record I wanted to make…
28 March 2025
Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) releases his new album Glory. The album contains themes that he’s wrestled with artistically throughout his career – themes of the body and its decay, of domesticity and love, and of inescapable history and damage. The full album bio by Daniel Felsenthal can be found here. He revealed the final single earlier in the week, ‘Clean Heart’, a hopeful, swelling track that reflects on the concept…
28 March 2025
Mess Esque, the heavenly duo of Helen Franzmann and Mick Turner, release their much awaited third record Jay Marie, Comfort Me out now. Their East coast tour dates are in full swing, further info below. Jay Marie, Comfort Me is a bold third missive from Helen and Mick, building out the Australian duo’s handmade, openhearted soul into new dimensions with the help of live band members Keeley Young and Kishore…
28 March 2025
DJ Python releases his debut XL Recordings EP – i was put on this earth – today, marking his first solo music in over three years. Released earlier this week, his latest single ‘Dai Buki’, featuring elusive London MC Jawnino and unclassifiable songwriter Organ Tapes, is the first time all three artists have created music together despite Jawnino and Organ Tapes having previously released music on DJ Python’s Worldwide Unlimited…
27 March 2025
Julien Baker & TORRES have released a new single ‘Dirt’, offering another glimpse into their forthcoming collaborative album, Send a Prayer My Way, out April 18. Julien Baker & TORRES have already released three critically acclaimed singles from Send a Prayer My Way. Songs ‘Sylvia’ and ‘Tuesday’ showcased their shared love of country music while highlighting their distinct songwriting styles and interpretations of the genre. Previous to that they debuted ‘Sugar in the Tank’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Earlier this month…
27 March 2025
Irish musician Maria Somerville will share her forthcoming second album and debut project on 4AD, Luster, on April 25. Today, she shares the upcoming record’s third single ‘Stonefly,’ a slinky ambient waltz fleshed out with dreamy washes of vibrating feedback, grounding drum beats, transportive harp passages, and soothing vocal delivery. The track’s release is also accompanied by an atmospheric music video directed by Daniel Swan. The visual perfectly suits the…
26 March 2025
Last night, on John Mulaney’s new Netflix talk show Everybody’s Live, Kim Gordon and Kim Deal joined forces for a first ever performance of the Sonic Youth classic ‘Little Trouble Girl’, as well as individual performances of songs from their recently released solo albums, Deal’s ‘Nobody Loves You More’, and Gordon’s GRAMMY-nominated ‘BYE BYE’. Watch below! The performance marks Kim Deal’s solo television debut. Her acclaimed new album Nobody Loves…
26 March 2025
Jesse Mac Cormack steps into an exciting new chapter with the release of ‘All I Want To Be’. This marks the first in a series of singles set to roll out throughout 2025, each one pushing deeper into his dance-driven, electronic sound. With his ever-evolving sonic identity, Jesse continues to solidify himself as a visionary force in the electronic music landscape. Adding to his momentum, Jesse Mac Cormack is nominated…
Announced: Fontaines D.C. – Dopamine Chamber Tracklist
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Out now: Jenny Hval – Iris Silver Mist (Remixes)
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Out now: David Byrne – Who Is The Sky? (Deluxe Edition)
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Introducing: OR
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Announced: Radie Peat – No Human Tongue Can Tell + ‘The Moon and Stars’
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Announced: Julia Jacklin – The Gem Weekender
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Watch: @ – ‘Bird’
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Announced: Ex:Re – Save As + ‘Radio Station’
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Announced: Dirty Three – Ulterior Motives + ‘Better Go Home Now’
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Out now: Standing On The Corner – SOTC II
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Announced: Radiohead – Australian Tour 2027
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Out now: This Is Lorelei – The Singer In My Band
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