18 December 2025
As an end of year treat Mouseatouille are slipping out a limited edition, hand stamped, cassette-only recording of their album launch show, recorded live at Lithuanian Club in North Melbourne on the 11 October 2025. The cassette will be available on the band’s merch desk and at Rocksteady Records’ Xmas Party (also featuring Private Mountain solo), on Sunday 21st December from 5PM, Mitchell House, Level 1, 358 Lonsdale St, Melbourne….
12 December 2025
Dry Cleaning share a quieter moment from their upcoming third album Secret Love, out 9 January 2026. The third single ‘Let Me Grow and You’ll See The Fruit’ follows ‘Cruise Ship Designer’ and ‘Hit My Head All Day’ and offers a gentler side to Dry Cleaning. ‘Let Me Grow and You’ll See The Fruit’ was one of the first songs written for Secret Love and is inspired by 60s folk act Pentangle, 2001: A Space Odyssey, ancient Roman poet…
12 December 2025
Brooklyn-based composer and producer Rachika Nayar and London-based musician, composer and producer Danny L Harle today release Azimuth Divergence. The eight track project reimagines Harle’s recent acclaimed ‘Azimuth’ single, featuring vocals from Caroline Polachek, as the source material for each track. Nayar, who’s released two albums (2021’s Our Hands Against The Dusk and 2022’s Heaven Come Crashing), and this year’s collaborative Disiniblud album with Nina Keith, is a distinctive voice in contemporary experimental music: blending ambient, electronic, neoclassical and post-rock.. She uses guitar as…
12 December 2025
XL Recordings is proud to mark the 10th anniversary of Archy Marshall’s (aka King Krule) A New Place 2 Drown with the release of a newly remastered instrumental edition, available digitally now. A 12” vinyl version will follow on 16 January, with pre-orders from today Also released today is ‘When And Why’, an unearthed single created at the same time as A New Place 2 Drown. Considered something of a…
12 December 2025
Ruthven returns with Precognition, a tight, exploratory three-track EP that marks the beginning of a bold new chapter following last year’s acclaimed debut album Rough & Ready. Having premiered on Apple Music’s New Music Daily Radio with Zane Lowe, the EP as Ruthven concludes a run of UK and European shows, including headline shows and standout festival appearances at Pitchfork Festival Paris and Fifty Lab Brussels. Where Rough & Ready introduced an artist with…
12 December 2025
Fresh off a North American tour supporting I’m With Her, Ye Vagabonds share the second single ‘The Flood’ from their upcoming album, All Tied Together, out Jan 30th, 2026. ‘The Flood’ comes with a video directed by Ellius Grace (watch here) and follows the album’s first single ‘On Sitric Road’ which was accompanied by a live video recorded in Dublin. ‘The Flood’ is an upbeat, fiddle-propelled window into a lively but…
8 December 2025
The latest single ahead of Tiga’s upcoming album HOTLIFE, ‘SILK SCARF’, finds the Hardcore Storyteller reaching effortlessly into his bottomless bag of music, only to find new friends waiting for him inside. When Tiga formed a friendship with the renowned New York City band Fcukers – after both artists played Madison Square Garden on a cold winter night, shared some giggles in the greenroom, and created lasting memories at a now-legendary afterparty in Brooklyn – the spark for…
5 December 2025
Robyn and Jamie xx reignite their rich creative partnership. Having previously collaborated on ‘Life’, one of the biggest singles from Jamie xx’s highly-acclaimed and hotly-anticipated 2024 album In Waves, the pair come together for a remix of ‘Dopamine’ – Robyn’s first single in over seven years and one of the year’s most electrifying pop moments. It’s an ultra-rare remix from Jamie – his first in three years – and sees the…
5 December 2025
Dance music maverick Skin On Skin has had a whirlwind few years. Bursting onto the global scene in 2022 with his undeniable club anthem ‘Burn Dem Bridges’ (“it sounds like the future” – Resident Advisor), the South Sudanese-Australian innovator has made his mark in all corners of the world through his full-throttle DJ sets – taking in impromptu b2bs in London with Skrillex and in Ibiza with Kettama, a Madrid takeover with Fred again.., a rapturously received…
5 December 2025
Charlotte Day Wilson releases her latest single ‘High Road’, out now. Known for her singular fusion of contemporary R&B, jazz, and evocative vocal craft, ‘High Road’ begins with a delicate piano line before blooming into an experimental soundscape—layered with soaring, soulful harmonies, pulse-like rhythms, and lyrics that cut with haunting honesty. Following last month’s ‘Selfish’, co-written and co-produced by Saya Gray, Ace G, and Braden Sauder, ‘High Road’ further showcases Wilson’s mastery in reshaping contemporary R&B…
5 December 2025
Out today digitally, It’s Beautiful is a new EP featuring fully reimagined takes of three songs from Water From Your Eyes’ It’s a Beautiful Place. Here guitarist and producer Nate Amos tweaks, twists, and warps the arrangements for ‘Born 2,’ ‘Nights in Armor,’ and ‘Playing Classics,’ dramatically shifting the scenery around and emotional resonance of singer Rachel Brown’s vocal leads. “The new versions of ‘Born 2’ and ‘Nights in Armor’ are actually just closer to how the…
28 November 2025
‘The Man Comes Around’ is a cover of a song by another JC: Johnny Cash, no less! It was featured in The Hack, a TV dramatisation of the phone hacking scandal that led to the closure of The News of the World newspaper back in July 2011. Announced for release on 12″ vinyl, (Limited to 1500 copies) on February 27th 2026, this release is a Rough Trade Exclusive and limited to one per…
27 November 2025
15 15 return with ‘Fāfaru’, the first single from their debut album Mārara, out 6 March 2026. Fresh from a landmark year expanding their universe between London and Paris, supporting Kamasi Washington on his Spring 2025 European tour, performing at COLORS – Tones of Paris in October, joining the Simple Things Festival lineup alongside Keiyaa, Smerz and Florence Sinclair in July, and closing the Fusion Festival main stage after John Maus in August, 15 15 have been non-stop….
26 November 2025
After selling out her first Melbourne date, Naarm-based artist Stella Donnelly has announced a second show at the Corner Hotel on Sunday 1 March 2026. The newly added date comes ahead of Donnelly’s Love and Fortune Tour, which launches in Australia this February before travelling through the UK, Europe and Japan. Please find full tour details and ticket links below. Donnelly also shares the music video for opening single ‘Standing Ovation’, which…
25 November 2025
Following the release of their long-awaited sophomore album DJ Set in September, Mouseatouille share three reimagined versions of tracks taken from the record, from artists Katie Dey (AU), Tex Patrello (USA) and Weatherday (SE). Mouseatouille also share the official music video for lead single ‘Harry and the Jets’, directed by Liam Barton and filmed in Chicago with friends of the band, out now! Speaking on the creation of the music video, Harry shares, “We…
21 November 2025
The xx have announced xx (Deluxe), expanding their seminal debut album xx with bonus tracks and covers from the era. Out now on all digital platforms. A special vinyl edition will release on December 5th. Extremely limited copies are now available to pre-order here. Bonus tracks: Teardrops (Womack & Womack cover) Do You Mind? (Kyla cover) Hot Like Fire (Aaliyah cover) Insects Blood Red Moon Pre-order limited xx (Deluxe) 2LP…
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