Kim Gordon’s vision of art and noise has come sharper into focus just as readily as it has changed—a paradigm of possibility that, four decades on, still feels like a dare. The adventure continues on the artist’s third solo album, PLAY ME, which will be released March 13. The lead track ‘NOT TODAY’ is available now, accompanied by a short film directed by Rodarte fashion label founders and filmmakers Kate and Laura Mulleavy with director...
David Byrne releases a new single ‘T Shirt’. Co-written by Byrne’s longtime friend and collaborator Brian Eno, the song is a classic piece of electro-pop wrapped in lightly humorous, but always earnest, political commentary. The track has become a notable moment and quick fan favorite on Byrne’s latest tour. David Byrne is currently touring North America, celebrating the release of his critically acclaimed new album Who Is The Sky?, Byrne’s...
Early next year, Lifeguard will release a new 7” maxi single, ‘Ultra Violence’ / ‘Appetite’. Recorded at the band’s rehearsal space / studio, the music continues the unstable ethos of this year’s much-loved debut album Ripped and Torn – alternating high-velocity punk-energies with surreal dub-inflected interludes. The new single ‘Ultra Violence’ is out now. The physical 7” is available to pre-order via Matador Direct through Tuesday, January 13th. A digital...
DARKSIDE release new single ‘One Last Nothing’ – an unreleased composition created amid sessions for the trio’s third LP, Nothing – the track finds the group at its most bass-forward, riding a tough groove into an elegantly spaced-out blend of krautrock, dub, and Fillmore-era psychedelia. This fall, the trio will perform at Miami’s III Points festival and will also headline a three-night residency at the Lodge Room in Los Angeles. Early shows...
In March, Matador set Circuit des Yeux’s haunting and midnight-hued masterpiece, Halo on the Inside, loose on an unsuspecting world. Critical adoration and a transcendent world tour followed. And now, we are doing it all over again. Out digitally today, Halo on the Inside: Director’s Cut is the album as it was originally delivered to the label – reinstating the original tracklist and adding three previously unreleased compositions, along with...
Earlier this year, Horsegirl released one of the year’s most lauded releases, Phonetics On and On. Produced by Cate Le Bon, the album has already landed on mid-year best of 2025 lists from major publications, including Esquire, Stereogum, The Ringer, UPROXX, FLOOD, Paste, Rolling Stone, and more. The band has been touring extensively since the release, recently returning from an entirely sold out, first-ever Japanese tour. Today, Horsegirl shine a...
Following the release of his acclaimed new album Glory, Perfume Genius announces a headline Australian tour for December 2025, including appearances in Ballarat, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, as well as a performance at Meredith Music Festival. Glory is a bold and unflinching new chapter in the Perfume Genius story, out now via Matador Records / Remote Control. Across the record, Mike Hadreas explores themes of the body, domesticity, damage, and healing concepts...
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 film starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon about a group of rogue musicians on the adventure path. It is funny, sexy, rambunctious and evergreen – a showcase of a triple-threat cast at full-throttle. Some Like It Hot is also the new album by London three-piece bar italia – out 17th October on Matador – and certain parallels are perhaps not accidental. It pulses...
David Byrne releases ‘The Avant Garde’, the latest offering from his forthcoming album Who Is The Sky?, out 5th September through Matador Records. ‘The Avant Garde’ wrestles with the merits of art for art’s sake, “it’s ahead of the curve / it’s deceptively weighty, profound, absurd / it’s whatever fits” Byrne says, “Some people will hear this and say, “David is calling bullshit on his friends” but it’s more nuanced than that. Anyone...
‘Playing Classics’ is the second single from Water From Your Eyes’ forthcoming album, It’s a Beautiful Place, landing 22nd August via Matador Records. The track finds duo Nate Amos and Rachel Brown delivering an expansive and coolly composed banger – a 6-minute dance-floor-friendly epic that threads elegantly heat-warped piano lines across pulsing four-on-the-floor rhythms. Watch the James Dayton directed video below. ”Playing Classics’ started as an attempt to transform an existing...
bar italia return with essential summer banger ‘Cowbella’. The first new music from the band since 2024’s The Tw*ts EP sees a transcendent vocal blunt rotation between members Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton unfolding over a wiry, shapeshifting rocker that culminates in an explosive and chilling skywards coda. It’s a multi-pronged anthem that only bar italia could conjure. The last two years have seen the London trio release two critically acclaimed albums on Matador only several months apart...
By popular demand, Queens of the Stone Age release the audio of their spellbinding Alive in the Catacombs performance. Appropriately, the music arrives Friday the 13th across all digital platforms. The band has also announced a limited vinyl edition of the AITC audio. Only 5,000 copies will be pressed of this special one-sided vinyl edition. Housed in a gatefold jacket with foil print inside and out, the AITC vinyl edition...
David Byrne is proud to announce Who Is the Sky?, his first new album since 2018’s acclaimed and award-winning American Utopia, which will be released September 5th. The album was produced by the Grammy-winning Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus), while its 12 songs were arranged by the members of New York-based chamber ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra. Musical friends old and new, including St. Vincent, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, The Smile...
Queens of the Stone Age have released Alive in the Catacombs and an accompanying behind the scenes documentary, Alive in Paris and Before. Both films are available now to purchase or rent via qotsa.com. For the next 48 hours, fans who purchase Alive In the Catacombs for download or stream will also receive Alive in Paris and Before: an exclusive behind the scenes chronicle of the tumultuous days leading up to the Catacombs performance. An unflinching document of...
Out now, Ripped and Torn is the eagerly awaited debut album by Chicago trio Lifeguard. Also released is the band’s churning third single ‘Like You’ll Lose’. The dub-inflected track takes inspiration from Lee Perry’s tight drum sound and expansive lo-fi atmospherics, with Asher Case’s bassline providing a center of gravity for skittering rhythms and tumbling echoes. The band has also been profiled by Rolling Stone, who write “Ripped and Torn...
Queens of the Stone Age have confirmed a limited run of international theatrical screenings for the forthcoming concert film Alive in the Catacombs, including screenings in Melbourne and Hobart on 5th June. The theatrical events will give fans the first chance to experience the audiovisual document of the band’s long-rumoured performance in the Catacombs of Paris. The Melbourne screening will take place at Cinema Nova. Tickets are $5 with all...
