Snail Mail shares new single ‘Heat Wave’, taken from her upcoming debut album Lush, out June 8th. “I’m not into sometimes”, sings 18-year-old songwriter and guitar virtuoso Lindsey Jordan in this infectious and affecting guitar pop. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Brandon Herman, below! The video showcases Jordan’s formidable ice hockey rink chops, picked up during her days on the high-school team, while delving hauntingly into the psyche of growing up –...
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Iceage present a final single, ‘The Day The Music Dies’ ahead of their new album, Beyondless, released on Friday 4 May. Watch the accompanying video below! Shot throughout Detroit at the historic bathhouse, The Schvitz, at the city’s legendary Masonic Temple, and the MUG warehouse space, ‘The Day The Music Dies’ video was directed by the band and Graeme Flegenheimer, and, as Flegenheimer describes it, is “a love letter between friends...
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Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks’ have announced their new album Sparkle Hard, to be released on May 18. Following first single ‘Middle America’, the band share another taste of the new album with the song ‘Shiggy’, an insanely gleeful, old-school four-chord stomper. Listen below! Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks have thrived, rather than simply endured over 17 years and delivered six albums of buzzy, sub-cultural significance. With Sparkle Hard Malkmus, Mike Clark (keyboards),...
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Belle and Sebastian have shared the video for ‘Poor Boy’, the latest single taken from their new triptych of EPs, How To Solve Our Human Problems, out now. Watch the video below! Continuing the EP series’ nuanced exploration of the tapestry of human lives and interactions, the video, made in partnership with Tidal and directed by Oscar Sansom & Ciaran Lyons of The Forest of Black, follows the various goings-on of...
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Having previously shared ‘Catch It’ and ‘Pain Killer’ featuring Sky Ferreira, Iceage now present the decadence of new single ‘Take It All’, from their fourth album, Beyondless, out May 4th. Listen below! Augmented by the transcendent violin of Nils Gröndhal, ‘Take It All’ may be the song off Beyondless that best shows the very special cohesion of these four childhood friends and musicians, and the striking progression in their performances and production....
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After stunning fans at Port Fairy Folk Festival and Blue Mountains Music Festival last week, Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker have released their new album, Seedlings All. Watch their stunning video to ‘Chicago’ by award winning filmmaker Bob Gallagher below! In addition to their festival appearances, they played a co-headline show at Thornbury Theatre and performed on ABC Radio National’s The Music Show. Listen to the interview and performance here. Clarke and...
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Snail Mail announces her full-length debut album, Lush, released on June 8th, along with the release of a new song titled ‘Pristine’, and it’s accompanying visual. It’s a sprawling anthem that finds Lindsey Jordan grappling with suburban ennui and unrequited love. Watch below! Jordan’s voice rises and falls with electricity throughout the album, spinning with bold excitement and new beginnings at every turn. Lush is a refreshing marvel of songwriting and technical composition, that’s both cohesive...
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Queens of the Stone Age have unveiled the latest creation for their video to ‘Head Like A Haunted House’, taken from their album Villains, which is available now to purchase or stream here. Watch the new clip below! Created, directed and art direction by frequent collaborator Liam Lynch, the video is a ghastly animated carnival ride through your worst fever-induced nightmares. Accompanied by disembodied hands, UFOs, smoldering hellscapes and grooving skeletons, Joshua...
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Yo La Tengo have released their warm, ambitious record, There’s a Riot Going On. A striking self-produced creation from a band whose dynamic range touches on pure noise and serene beauty and everything in between. For Yo La Tengo this is a slow-motion action painting, and Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan and James McNew did it all themselves, in their rehearsal studio, with no outside engineer (John McEntire later did the mix)....
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Copenhagen’s Iceage — Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (vocals, lyrics), Jakob Tvilling Pless (bass), Dan Kjær Nielsen (drums), and Johan Wieth (guitar) — will release their fourth album, Beyondless, on Friday 4 May. After returning last month with ‘Catch It’, their first new material since 2013’s Plowing Into The Field of Love, Iceage now share the next taste of what’s to come from the new record, ‘Pain Killer’ featuring Sky Ferreira (the...
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Lucy Dacus releases her new 10-track record, Historian, full of bracing realisations, tearful declarations and moments of hard-won peace, expressed in lyrics that feel destined for countless yearbook quotes and first tattoos. “This is the album I needed to make,” says Dacus, who views Historian as her definitive statement as a songwriter and musician. “Everything after this is a bonus.” Recorded in Nashville, re-teaming with No Burden producer Collin Pastore, and mixed by John Congleton, the sound they...
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With the release of their new album, There’s a Riot Going On, heading our way on March 16th, Yo La Tengo have shared another taste of what’s to come with new single ‘For You Too’. Listen below! It’s an album stand-out track with a hypnotic guitar line, complemented by a low dose of drone and a deceptively upbeat drum patter, as Ira Kaplan sings quiet words of assurance: “For you / whenever there’s...
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Belle and Sebastian have released the third and final part of their EP trilogy under the umbrella title How To Solve Our Human Problems. Recently adding an Australian leg to their busy live schedule in 2018, the band will embark on a national tour throughout May playing Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Further details below. How To Solve Our Human Problems has the classic blend of joy and melancholy and idiosyncratic spirit that...
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Car Seat Headrest releases new album Twin Fantasy – the re-recorded, re-imagined new version of the 2011 self-released Bandcamp masterpiece of the same name. The band will tour Australia next week. Further tour details below. Will Toledo always knew he would return to Twin Fantasy. Will’s first love, rendered in the vivid teenage viscera of stolen gin, bruised shins, and weird sex, was an event too momentous for the medium assigned to record...
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Lucy Dacus shares her new single ‘Next Of Kin’, from her second album Historian, out 2 March. It’s an album stand-out that highlights Lucy’s silky alto, crisp production, and intimate storytelling. Listen below! “’Next Of Kin’ is the thesis statement of the album,” says Lucy. “It’s a breaking point after a build up of difficult subject matter. It’s a song about accepting fate, forgetting fear, and allowing yourself to be incomplete always.”...
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Iceage share new single, ‘Catch It’, their first new material since 2014’s Plowing Into The Field of Love. The song’s accompanying video was directed by Adam Hashemi and shot on 8mm film in Los Angeles. Watch below! Produced by the band – Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (vocals, lyrics), Jakob Tvilling Pless (bass), Dan Kjær Nielse (drums), and Johan Wieth (guitar) – and Nis Bysted, ‘Catch It’ was recorded all-analog by Mattias Glavå at...
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