Following on from the announce of their debut record Euphoria, set for release on October 19, Melbourne’s Total Giovanni are delighted to share the video for their new single ‘Awake’. Watch below! Total Giovanni’s Vachel Spirason describes – “The song ‘Awake’ is about desire and insomnia so the original idea was of a late night 1900 number ad that comes on the tele as it playfully riffs on both those...
Parquet Courts have released their Wide Awake! Remixes EP, which features an edit by NYC’s Danny Krivit and two remixes by Mikey Young – ‘Wide Awake (Club Mix)’ and ‘Normalization (Collective Witnessing Mix)’. Catch the band tour Australia as part of Laneway Festival 2019. Tour dates and details below! “I like the spirit of the rock song remixed for the dance floor,” says A. Savage. “Some of my favourite versions of rock songs,...
Texas-based Molly Burch shares her latest single ‘Candy’, from her forthcoming album, First Flower, released on October 5. Listen below! Of the single Molly says, “I wrote ‘Candy’ after a long conversation with my dad on the phone, where I had been just walking around getting out a lot of my self doubt and creative anxieties. It may sound like I’m talking to a past love, but it’s really meant for that...
Methyl Ethel share brand new single ‘Scream Whole’, it’s the first new music from the Perth band since their second record Everything Is Forgotten was released in March 2017. Listen below! ‘Scream Whole’ is a nimble art-rock cut, which Jake Webb describes as, “That cold sweat. That swollen throat. That sick feeling bubbling up from your guts. When midday movies dredge suppressed memories that scream for closure. What to do?”...
Melbourne trio Huntly bring emotional vulnerability to the dance-floor, making radical electronic pop songs where the personal and political coexist, where moving and feeling are symbiotic. Today they release brand new single ‘Drop Gear’ and announce they have signed to Barely Dressed Records. On ‘Drop Gear’, Huntly double down on their “doof you can cry to” manifesto, marrying intimate songwriting with forward-thinking dance music. ‘Drop Gear’ is a song about...
As warmer weather approaches the Eastern States, the team behind Falls Festival are delighted to announce Interpol sideshows in Sydney and Melbourne in January 2019. Tour dates and ticket info below! Landing in Australia to show off their excellent new album Marauder, Interpol play the Palais Theatre on Friday 4th January and the Sydney Opera House on Saturday 5th January. Catch their world beating hybrid of post-punk, post-rock and guitar pop this summer. Stream...
Gruff Rhys follows a series of sold out gigs played with full orchestras in Cardiff, London and Manchester with a new video for ‘Selfies In The Sunset’, the closing track from his fifth album Babelsberg, out now. Watch below! Directed and animated by Ewan Jones Morris, the video features Gruff and guest singer Lily Cole creating Animojis ahead of the apocalypse. Of the track, Gruff writes: A couple of years ago...
Sydney-based artist HANDSOME is excited to share her debut EP No Hat No Play, out today. Catch HANDSOME celebrate the release at Sydney’s Red Rattler & Melbourne’s Old Bar this October – supported by the freshly announced Sam Bluer, Geryon, Flower Boy, Kid Heron & Stereogamous. More info below! HANDSOME on No Hat No Play: “The title is a rule that we all grew up with in Australia, that was a...
Bedroom Suck and Sanpo Disco are thrilled to announce the release of Midday Moon: Ambient and Experimental Music from Australia and New Zealand 1980-1995, set for release Friday 2 November. To celebrate, two singles have been released including Helen Ripley-Marshall’s ‘Under the Sun’ and Garry Havrillay’s ‘Temple’. Listen below! Midday Moon is a collection of recordings curated by Sanpo Disco. It’s a survey of ambient and experimental music that emerged from Australia...
Ryan Downey has released the striking new track ‘No More Miracles’, alongside the haunting B-Side ‘Those Eyes That Answer (Reprise)’ – a fitting follow-up to his debut album released earlier this year. Listen below! ‘No More Miracles’ is the Melbourne-based indie-crooner‘s most stunning song to date. Ambitious in its scope but simple in its execution, a gritty introduction gives way to a majestic choral interlude. It needs to be heard...
Molly Burch reveals the incredibly charming animated video for her latest single ‘To The Boys’, from her forthcoming LP, First Flower, set for release on October 5. The clip was directed by Emily Ann Hoffman who notes, “I loved how playful and strong the song’s message was and wanted the video to have the same feeling. I liked the idea of a paper doll seeming delicate and feminine, yet standing...
Sleaford Mods are pleased to share their self-titled EP Sleaford Mods, out now on 12”, CD & DL. This is the band’s first new music since last year’s album English Tapas. Jason Williamson says, “The lead tracks are mostly full of violent tendencies that only transpire through imagination. People are powerless under the political monster and the intense anger and frustration morphs into illusions of attacking each other through the...
Following a string of celebrated singles including ‘Happy Man’, ‘Heavy, California’ and most recently ‘Beat 54 (All Good Now)’ Jungle’s second album For Ever is out now. To celebrate the release, Jungle have announced they will be returning to Australia in April 2019! Bringing their intoxicating live show to their ever growing fanbases in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & Fremantle, as presented by triple j & Secret Sounds. Jungle are excited...
Having left a trail of ecstatically exhausted fans in its wake from Niagara Falls to Australia, Queens Of The Stone Age’s world tour in support of their seventh album Villains has careened to a triumphant finish in Perth with its 129th show. As the tour came to a close, fans in Tasmania were treated to an intimate one-off acoustic set at MONA in Hobart – a benefit that generated $10,000 matched...
‘Weight’ is the first single from the eagerly anticipated self-titled debut album from Naarm (Melbourne) band Cyanide Thornton. Featuring members of Two Steps On The Water, the band was founded in early 2016 and has been steadily gaining traction in Melbourne’s alternative rock circuits. Watch the video below! While incorporating elements of folk and rock, Cyanide Thornton transcends its composite parts, moving into a space of raw emotion and fierce...
Tim Cohen (The Fresh & Onlys) unveils the second single ‘I’m A Girl’ from his upcoming album, The Modern World out September 28th. Listen below! The Modern World was recorded at home over the course of a restless and fruitful year. The birth of his second child, coupled with the constant juggle of a fledgling painting career and a day job, allowed strains of anxiety into the artist’s vision, and he...
