Almost a year after the release of her self-titled fourth album, Jen Cloher delivers multiple surprises in the form of a gorgeous acoustic EP, the announcement of her first ever solo European shows and a set of brilliantly shot intimate live band performance videos. The solo EP Live at The Loft and Loew’s features performances captured at Wilco’s famous Loft studios in Chicago and from within the decaying glory of...
After presenting the chiming guitar and sweeping synths of lead single, ‘Letting Go’, Wild Nothing now shares the ’80s-heavy ‘Partners In Motion’ featuring saxophonist Taylor Plenn, from his fourth album, Indigo, released on August 31st. Listen below! Recorded at LA’s Sunset Sound and produced by Jack Tatum and Jorge Elbrecht, Indigo is its own cyborg world, utilising the artful mechanisms of human touch with the precision of technology to create the...
Following last week’s announcement of The Lemon Twigs’ musical album Go To School, released out August 24, the pair share new single ‘Small Victories’. This is the second song released from the 15-track opus written, recorded, produced and mixed by the pair in their home in Long Island. Listen below! Ruminating on this new song, brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario say, “When life’s obstacles start to wear you down, it’s the little things...
Chastity (aka Brandon Williams) today releases his debut album, Death Lust. This week, Chastity also shared a video to the single ‘Heaven Hell Anywhere Else’, watch below! Reflecting the working class background of Whitby, Ontario, Chastity’s songs are charged with the ethos of archetypal youth on the fringe. Chastity stands to confront the struggles of those existing in the unseen, often silenced periphery. It is an artifact of youth culture constantly...
Who knew Ben Stiller had a post punk band in high school? Capital Punishment announce the upcoming reissue of 1982 sole LP Roadkill. Now remastered and expanded, the LP will be released on September 14. The band has shared first single, ‘Muzak Anonymous’, a Beefheart-ian, gong-afied freak-funk that needs to be heard to be believed. Listen below! Capital Punishment formed in 1979 in NYC when the 4 band members were teenagers. The...
To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their acclaimed album Boxer, The National performed the record from beginning to end at a very special show in Brussels, Belgium on November 9th, 2017. A limited vinyl version of the recording was released exclusively on Record Store Day, which sold out immediately. After much demand, the live LP is today released both digitally and on CD. Boxer (Live In Brussels) is out now. Stream / purchase Boxer (Live...
Body/Head, the duo of Kim Gordon and guitarist Bill Nace, have released their second studio album, The Switch , a slow-moving narrative that requires as much attention and care from the listener as it did from everyone involved in its creation, it is a record that sticks around after it’s done playing. Creative alchemy doesn’t just happen in the studio or in the practice space; so much of it is the...
Ibeyi are back with their beautiful music video for ‘Transmission/Michaelion’ which was directed by Jamie-James Medina and Fons Schiedon, premiered via Lenny Letter here. Watch below! The song is the masterful centerpiece of the twins sophomore album Ash and features Meshell Ndegeocello on bass, a sample from the audiobook ‘Citizen: An American Lyric’ by Claudia Rankine plus an excerpt from The Diary of Frida Kahlo read by the twins mother Maya Dagnino. Lisa-Kaindé...
Honey Hahs are excited to announce their debut album Dear Someone, Happy Something, to be released on Friday 7th September. They have shared the first single ‘Stop Him’, to be lifted from the album, an anti-Donald Trump song along with an accompanying video, watch below! Honey Hahs are three sisters from Honor Oak Park in South London, aged 16, 13 and 11. Rowan plays guitar and piano, Robin plays bass and...
Interpol have released the video for powerhouse new single ‘The Rover’, taken from their forthcoming Dave Fridmann-produced album, Marauder, out August 24th and available for pre-order here. Watch the video below! Shot on-location in Mexico City in June, where Interpol announced their new album via a live streamed press conference – only to be unexpectedly interrupted halfway through by a mysterious figure played by Ebon Moss-Bachrach, capturing the attention of...
The Lemon Twigs announce details of their second album, Go To School to be released August 24. A musical conceived by brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario. They have also shared ‘If You Give Enough,’ the soaring album closer. Listen below! In lines like “Your life’s only good as love, if you give enough,” the moral of the fable is revealed: give a lot of love without expecting it in return and you...
In anticipation of her new album Deep in The Big due Friday 17th August, Rabbit Island has released a new single ‘Interstate’, listen below! Amber Fresh aka Rabbit Island explains “The songs on this album were made when I was hearing from The Big a lot. The Big seemed to be teaching and comforting me, and I’d hear the voice and follow it. Sometimes I got visions, and often was intimately connected...
Wiki has shared a new video to ‘Litt 15’, directed by Ryosuke Tanzawaand and serves as the closing chapter to Wiki’s love letter to New York that was his debut album No Mountains in Manhattan. The track features Wiki’s New York counterpart Your Old Droog and is produced by DJ Earl Teklife. The visual is an introspection on Wiki’s past year, a monumental one for his career, anchored and inspired by...
Melbourne three-piece Loose Tooth release new single ‘You Say’ from their debut album Keep Up to be released on August 3rd. The trio has also created a DIY lyric video to accompany the latest single. Watch below! Guitarist, Nellie comments, “this was the first song that was written for Keep Up. An off-shoot from some of the heart break themes in Saturn Returns. Etta couldn’t help but pack one last punch...
East Brunswick All Girls Choir release their long-awaited second album Teddywaddy. To celebrate, the four-piece have released a video for their ferocious new single ‘Dog FM’, watch below! Speaking of ‘Dog FM’, frontman Marcus Hobbs explains: “You know when people say they don’t have any regrets, they’re lying. Hindsight is a beautiful thing. We reworked this song from an old slow solo piece I had been playing, introduced Rie’s filthy bass line...
Following the release of the impeccably produced ‘Coming For You’ and the collaborative follow up ‘No Time To Waste’ featuring Rromarin, Milwaukee Banks are thrilled to be releasing their new album No Time, out today! Of the album, Dyl Thomas offers: “It’s a record about perception. Time is something we all perceive differently, sometimes it speeds up but at the same point in time it slows down for another person....
