Chicago is baked into the core of Versions of Modern Performance out now via Matador. Cheng (she/her), Lowenstein (she/her) and Reece (they/them) learned to play—and met—through the significant network of Chicago youth arts programs, and they have their own mini-rock underground. Across the album, recorded at Chicago’s Electrical Audio with John Agnello, there’s elements of the ‘80s and ‘90s independent music the band love so deeply and sincerely. But as...
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Known for making anthemic electronic pop songs that celebrate gender fluidity and embrace the beauty in androgyny, Sydney-based multidisciplinary artist HANDSOME releases her new EP BLAME. Alongside it’s release comes HANDSOME’s self-directed short film of the same name. Watch below! At its deepest root, BLAME dissects the impact society’s shame can have on an individual and the domino effect of deep loneliness it leaves behind. Celebrating butch/masc culture, the film looks closely at the power of camaraderie and attempts...
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Montreal-based artist, producer, engineer and remixer Patrick Holland recently announced his self-produced debut album, You’re The Boss, out this summeron Sinderlyn. Following the album’s earworm of a first single ‘Sinister Bell,’ ‘Nice Try‘ is out today. Featuring sunny guitars and velvety vocal harmonies, courtesy of Holland’s bandmate Jane Penny of TOPS, ‘Nice Try’ receives an incredible Erin O’Connor directed video. Holland has been known in the past for his electronic releases under aliases such as Project Pablo and Jump Source, and just as this album showcases another side of his...
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Hideous Bastard, the debut album from Oliver Sim is set for release on Friday 9 September. Pre-order here. Produced by bandmate Jamie xx, Hideous Bastard is the culmination of two years of writing and recording, inspired by Sim’s love of horror movies and his own life experience, unpacking themes of shame, fear, and masculinity. These themes are front and centre on new single ‘Hideous’. Enlisting the help of lifelong hero and “guardian angel”...
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JayWood – Winnipeg musician & songwriter Jeremy Haywood-Smith – presents a new single ‘Thank You’, from his forthcoming album Slingshot, out July 15th. Pre-order here. ‘Thank You’ was co-produced with Jacob Portrait of Unknown Mortal Orchestra & Blouse and features string arrangements by Johan Lenox. The charming accompanying video, directed by Chantel Simpson, shows Haywood-Smith passing out flowers across Harlem. Watch below! The song brings JayWood’s sound full circle, offering something reminiscent of Haywood-Smith’s earliest recordings while flaunting that “the...
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To mark its 20th anniversary, The Libertines’ era-defining debut ‘What A Waster’ is being re-pressed on seven-inch single (backed by original b-side I Get Along), while the new What A Waster Live From The ICA EP will be made available on streaming services. This digital only edition features live versions recorded during the band’s legendary show at the iconic venue just up the road from Buckingham Palace on the original day of release, 3rd June 2002. Part calling...
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SOAK, aka singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson, releases their new album If I Never Know You Like This Again. Alongside the release comes the lyric video and an intimate acoustic version for the final single from the record, ‘Swear Jar’. Watch below! ‘Swear Jar’ deals with depression and the breakdown of a relationship. “I felt so disconnected from myself and life that I was starting to question if I’d ever truly been present or if I’d always been...
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Interpol release ‘Fables,’ the third single from their forthcoming full-length, The Other Side of Make-Believe, out July 15th – pre-order here. “‘Fables’ features one of Daniel’s hottest licks,” comments Paul. “A breezy vocal with optimistic lyrics and a bouncy drum beat evocative of classic R&B with a nod to the golden age of hip hop. It’s a summer jam and a piece of music we are particularly proud of.” The new track follows the band’s well-received first...
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New Orleans no-wave punks Special Interest are sharing their first music on Rough Trade Records, a dynamic new track called ‘(Herman’s) House’ which comes with a video directed by Special Interest vocalist Alli Logout. Watch below! Special Interest is a four piece punk band emerging from New Orleans, Louisiana. Combining elements of No-Wave, Glam and Industrial, they create a frenetic and urgent revisioning of punk and electronic music for a modern world gone mad. Propulsive analogue drum machines, a swirling layer...
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Men Seni Suyemin (Kazakh for “I love you”) is the solo electronic project of St. Petersburg-based musician & producer Minona Volandova, whose arrangements toe the line between experimental electronic and atmospheric post-rock, centered around elegant guitar melodies that reflect her classically-trained background. June 24th, 2022 will see the release of the EP HOPE, a genre-defiant, multilingual collection of irresistible tracks. With the announcement of HOPE comes the release of lead single ‘NOZH’ (which translates to “knife”). ‘NOZH’ begins delicately, with Volandova singing...
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JOHN TSUNG’s Empire Postcards is an album of Asian American stories, as told through American strains of rock, indie, and folk. These narratives stem from interviews and conversations with immigrants across the continent that TSUNG held over the last three years. They embody a wide range of stories–concerning love, loss, patriotism, and regret–that challenge conventional wisdom about being Asian American. Throughout these songs, TSUNG mixes these myriad diasporic experiences with...
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NYC’s superstar, Jennifer Vanilla (they/them), announces their signing to Sinderlyn, home of HOMESHAKE, Cults, and more. Along with the announcement, Jennifer Vanilla, aka Becca Kauffman, shares a new single and video ‘Body Music’, collaboratively crafted with co-writer/co-producer Brian Abelson, who also worked with Jennifer Vanilla on their 2019 debut EP, J.E.N.N.I.F.E.R. (Beats in Space), and whose credits include releases on Lobster Theremin, HAUS of ALTR, and more. ‘Body Music’ is a “jennifreaky” journey into ‘90s dance music and art pop. Like much of the Jennifer Vanilla oeuvre,...
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Bartees Strange releases ‘Hold The Line’, taken from his second album Farm to Table, released digitally on 17 June and on vinyl and CD on 7 October.. The new song was written in late May of 2020 about George Floyd’s daughter, Gianna. Bartees says of ‘Hold The Line’, “I remember watching George Floyd’s daughter talk about the death of her father and thinking, wow – what a sad introduction to Black American life for this young person. It was painful to watch her grow up in...
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‘Stick of Sage (S.O.S.)’ is yet another taste from Dorsal Fins’ glorious sonic return, Star of the Show out now via Dot Dash. This year’s best feel-good song about a well-loved self-enlightenment product: ‘Stick of Sage (S.O.S)’ is a cleansing journey through spooky harpsichords & organs, a fantasy of rippling castanets, orchestral flourishes to a groovy beat. Penned by co-lead vocalist Jarrad Brown, the song speaks to our own obsessions with self-help, wellness and self-...
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Melbourne-based electronic rock band Black Cab have released their long awaited sixth album Rotsler’s Rules, out now on digital and limited edition vinyl, with launch shows in Melbourne and Sydney. The album started as a series of free flowing electronica jams at Melbourne’s Bakehouse studios with local producer Graeme Pogson (GL, Bamboos) on drums and dials, and features guest appearances by Evan Tweedie (Husky, DubFX), Lucy Buckeridge (Lowtide) and Steve Law (Zen Paradox) with mixing by long time Cab producer Woody Annison. Black Cab founder members Andrew Coates and James Lee were keen to explore simpler, synth driven...
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The Smile have today released their brand-new, stop-motion animated video for ‘Thin Thing’, taken from the band’s upcoming debut album A Light For Attracting Attention, which is out this Friday 13 May digitally and 17 June physically, via XL Recordings / Remote Control. Watch below! The video was directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña and took the pair six months to make. Speaking about the video, they say: “Hearing the song for the first time, we imagined a frenetic fluid that...
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