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...
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Future Islands announce a second Melbourne show date, after selling out their first show, following the announcement of their Australian tour dates last week. The Baltimore trio will now also play Tuesday 12 December at The Croxton Bandroom in Melbourne, on top of headline shows in Sydney and Brisbane as well as festival appearances. More details below. Samuel, William and Gerrit began writing new material in January 2016 on the coast of...
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The National have released their seventh studio album, Sleep Well Beast. The video to their latest single ‘Day I Die’, directed by Casey Reas, compresses the frenetic energy of performing with the grind of touring. Watch it below! The National will arrive in Australia in February 2018 as part of their world tour, playing shows in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. This will mark the first time Australian audiences will hear live performances from...
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The Black Seeds have released their sixth studio album, Fabric, it’s their first album in over five years. Watch the clip to their most recent single ‘Back To You’ below! Created with the support of NZ On Air and recorded at Lee Prebble’s Wellington studio The Surgery, Fabric is a twelve-track album of bold, groove-heavy tunes that perfectly captures The Black Seeds’ characteristic brand of reggae-funk fusion. The almighty 8-piece bring their electrifying...
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Future Islands have announced Australian tour dates. Following the release of their fifth studio album The Far Field, and having just played at Splendour In The Grass, the band will return for a run of headline shows and festival appearances this December 2017. Full details below. Samuel, William and Gerrit began writing new material in January 2016 on the coast of North Carolina, and continued throughout the year in Baltimore before road-testing...
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The Black Seeds have announced that this November, the almighty 8-piece will play nationwide in celebration of new album, Fabric, out 8 September. Watch the new video they’ve also shared for latest single ‘Back To You’ below! ‘Back To You’ is a tribute to old relationships revived and staying true. Made with the support of NZ On Air, the video was created by Connor Pritchard (Director / DOP), Jasper Jay (DOP) and features animation...
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The National return to Australia for the first time since 2014! The band will return in February 2018 to play shows in Sydney at The Sydney Opera House, Brisbane at Riverstage and Melbourne at Sidney Myer Music Bowl. Further tour details below. The National’s Australian tour will follow the release of their seventh LP, Sleep Well Beast, out 8th September. This will mark the first time Australian audiences will hear live performances...
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Methyl Ethel have announced an Australian tour kicking off this November in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. Full tour details and ticket links below! Recently, Methyl Ethel were invited by Huw Stephens to record a BBC Radio 1 session at the Maida Vale studios. Listen back to the live renditions of ‘Drink Wine’, ‘Ubu’, ‘No. 28’, ‘Groundswell’ and ‘L’Heure des Sorcières’ via the BBC iPlayer. In addtion, BBC 6Music saw...
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Fresh from playing Splendour In The Grass, The xx will return to Australia in 2018 for an East Coast headline tour. Special guests Kelela and Earl Sweatshirt will be supporting The xx at all shows. Further tour details below! The xx have partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket purchased will go towards local LGBT+ programs in each city of the tour. Visit plus1.org for more information on the...
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Sigur Rós return to Australia this month, performing at Splendour in The Grass, Sydney’s Hordern Pavillion and Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena. Further tour details below. Having being made aware of recent comments by former tennis player Margaret Court, the band decided to commission a special t-shirt celebrating positivity and inclusion, with proceeds going towards Australian Marriage Equality. The band approached London-based illustrator Andrew Rae to create a special crest, who...
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Queens Of The Stone Age return to Australia and New Zealand at last, performing four headline shows in July! Kicking off their tour at Auckland’s Logan Campbell on Thursday 13th July, Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion on Wednesday 19th July, and Melbourne’s Festival Hall on Thursday 20th July. Then for the very first time – ever, performing in the Top End at Darwin’s Convention Centre on Sunday 16th July! General public tickets to...
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Brooklyn based singer-songwriter & guitarist Steve Gunn is coming to Australia for the first time on a soul expanding solo tour. He plays at The Basement in Sydney on Thursday July 6, NGV Friday Nights in Melbourne on Friday July 7, The Northcote Social Club in Melbourne on Saturday July 8, and The Junk Bar in Brisbane on Sunday July 9. Tickets and more info below! Gunn’s music has always embraced expanse and movement, springing from...
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Process is a film about London musician Sampha by Kahlil Joseph (Pulse Films). Now available exclusively on Apple Music. The 37 minute film is a rich, widescreen visual contextualisation of Sampha’s acclaimed 2017 debut album of the same name. Process was filmed in January 2017 between Freetown, Sierra Leone and Morden, south London. Both places have deep personal significance for Sampha, Freetown being the hometown of Sampha’s parent’s (and the city where...
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Spoon’s new album Hot Thoughts is out today! Produced by Spoon and Dave Fridmann, they’ve created the bravest, most sonically inventive work of their career. Last week, Spoon announced two in-store appearances ahead of their Sydney and Melbourne shows at The Metro Theatre and The Croxton Bandroom next week. More details below. “I love going down to Australia, but it seems we’re never able to stay for long, so I rented a...
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Spoon share their second track ‘Can I Sit Next To You’ from their career defining album Hot Thoughts, out Friday 17th March on Matador / Remote Control. To accompany the single, the band have unveiled a new video, directed by Marcel Dzama, the acclaimed contemporary artist whose previous musical collaborators have included the likes of Beck and Bob Dylan, not mention last year’s costume and stage design for the New York City...
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Process, the highly anticipated debut album from Sampha, is released today via Young / Remote Control Records. Earlier this week, Sampha revealed the video for his new single ‘(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano’ – directed by Jamie-James Medina and starring Sampha alongside model and activist Adwoa Aboah – comes in two different formats. As well as a traditional music video, viewers can also immerse themselves in a virtual reality version, a product of...
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