Portland, OR’s Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks release new single ‘Middle America’, the first new music to surface from the group since 2014. Listen below! On ‘Middle America’, Malkmus’s wry wordplay and sunny twang create an ode to underdogs everywhere, with bittersweet words of encouragement for the ramshackle character on their receiving end. Only SM & the Jicks can craft this kind of brightly low-key anthem, a perfect three-minute-thirty-second country-speckled...
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Car Seat Headrest unveil another preview from forthcoming new album Twin Fantasy, out Friday 16 February. Listen to album opener ‘My Boy (Twin Fantasy)’ below! The song commences with the sparse declaration of “my boy, we don’t see each other much,” and blossoms into a towering climax, with the life-affirming mantra of “It’ll take some time, but somewhere down the line / We won’t be alone” standing as the statement-of-intent for the record’s...
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Car Seat Headrest releases ‘Cute Thing’, the latest track to be previewed from forthcoming new album Twin Fantasy – a re-recorded, re-imagined new version of the 2011 self-released Bandcamp masterpiece of the same name – which will be out February 16. Listen below! ‘Cute Thing’ is an ecstatic multi-part epic of unbridled yearning, flirtation, and abandon – pairing masterfully layered production with a combustible house-party reverie. With a seven-piece band...
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Belle and Sebastian have today released Part Two of the band’s new trilogy of EPs, 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 has always characterised...
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Yo La Tengo’s new album There’s a Riot Going On will be released on Friday 16 March. This is a warm, ambitious record, a striking self-produced creation from one of the most celebrated and adventurous bands in rock history, whose dynamic range touches on pure noise and serene beauty and everything in between. To showcase the full depth of this fearless fifteen-track album, Yo La Tengo have released four new...
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With the release of her second album Historian heading our way on the 2nd March, Lucy Dacus gives us another taste of what’s to come with a video, directed by Dacus herself, for the anthemic and horn-accented upbeat new single ‘Addictions’. Watch below! The video is a love letter of sorts to her native Richmond, VA, presented in its full fall glory. Our nameless protagonist walks, explores, and hitchhikes through...
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Will Toledo’s 2011’s Bandcamp masterpiece, Twin Fantasy, has been re-recorded and re-imagined and will come out on Friday 16 Feburary. The album will be available on digital, vinyl and as a double CD including both Twin Fantasy (2017 version) and Twin Fantasy – Mirror To Mirror (re-mastered 2011 version). The announcement comes with the release of ‘Nervous Young Inhumans’ and its accompanying video. It is a frenetic, anthemic, split-screen choreographed...
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Belle and Sebastian kick off 2018 with shimmering new single ‘The Same Star’. Taken from Part 2 of the band’s new trilogy of EPs, How To Solve Our Human Problems. Listen below! The Sarah Martin penned, Leo Abrahams produced song brings together breezy guitars, feel-good rhythm and Martin’s bittersweet vocals for another showcase of the infectious, inquisitive and timeless pop on the band’s latest offering. Recently adding an Australian leg to...
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Belle and Sebastian have released the first installment of their new triumvirate of EPs, How To Solve Our Human Problems. In addition, they’ve shared a new video for ‘I’ll Be Your Pilot’, the latest single taken from the EP series. Directed by Michael Sherrington, the gently poetic video corresponds with the signature B&S artwork which accompanies the EPs, with a simple yet moving collage of individuals that echoes the spectrum...
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Lucy Dacus has announced her new album, Historian, released on 2 March 2018. She also shares new song ‘Night Shift’ which boasts a devastatingly powerful vocal performance and scathing lyrics telling off a former lover, the only breakup song Dacus has ever written. Listen below! Historian is a 10-track record full of bracing realisations, tearful declarations and moments of hard-won peace, expressed in lyrics that feel destined for countless yearbook quotes and...
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Belle & Sebastian return to Australia in May next year for the first time since their tour in 2015. With performances confirmed for The Sydney Opera House, Melbourne’s Palais Theatre, Perth’s Astor Theatre and The Tivoli in Brisbane. Further tour details below! To commemorate 20 years since the bands previous multi-EP release – 1997’s Dog On Wheels, Lazy Line Painter Jane and 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds Of Light – they have three...
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The video for ‘The Way You Used To Do’, taken from Queens Of The Stone Age’s album Villains, is now available to view on Youtube for the first time. The devilish promo has been realised as a fever dream Satanic dance ritual extravaganza—featuring QOTSA founder and frontman Joshua Homme. Conceived by Joshua Homme, directed by Jonas Akerlund and produced by Serial Pictures, ‘The Way You Used To Do’ somehow fit its...
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Perfume Genius has announced Australian tour dates, alongside recently announced festival shows, following the release of fourth album, No Shape, recorded in Los Angeles, produced by Blake Mills, mixed by Shawn Everett. Full tour dates and details below! Known early as a poster-wraith for notorious, joyous, tortured and free boys, girls and their fellow travellers, the first two albums by Perfume Genius consisted largely of exquisite and cruelly abbreviated songs...
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The now 21-year-old Julien Baker returns with her new album Turn Out The Lights, exploring themes such as broken relationships, the search for a cure that may not exist and the impossibility of never truly understanding each other. The album was recorded at Ardent Studios in her hometown of Memphis, TN, and mixed by Craig Silvey. Strings and woodwinds now shade the corners of her compositions, and Baker takes to piano...
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With Lotta Sea Lice Barnett and Vile have delivered something utterly miraculous, an instant-classic record which sounds as if the two have played together for decades. This is a conversation between friends, documented in raw, unvarnished song form, brimming with personal history, crackling with energy and shot through with humour. There’s an unforced ease to the record helped the fact that the pair have been not just friends, but hardcore...
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Julien Baker shares the video for the title track from her new album Turn Out The Lights, out October 27. Directed by Sophia Peer, who also helmed Baker’s video for first single ‘Appointments’, watch the new single below. Recorded at Ardent Studios in Baker’s hometown of Memphis, TN, Turn Out The Lights expands upon the sound and vision of Sprained Ankle while retaining the haunting, confessional songwriting style.The result is a deeply empathetic...
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