Eighteen year-old Los Angeles-based artist Hana Vu today releases her debut EP How Many Times Have You Driven By. The EP is warm, sparse, smooth and whisper-intimate; showcasing Vu as an exciting and genre-straddling songwriter. Written and produced by Vu herself, and mastered by Clay Jones, How Many Times Have You Driven By displays an extraordinary maturity and originality. With rocking post-punk ballads such as ‘Shallow’, and super silky and infectious...
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Fresh off the back of a run of east coast shows launching his fifth album, Blue Poles, and prior to solo shows in Los Angeles and New York, Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders have released a video for ‘Feel Brand New’. Watch below! Returning to Bali, where Ladder filmed ‘White Flag,’ the first video from the album, ‘Feel Brand New’ has a markedly different tone. Where Ladder was once attempting...
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Total Giovanni are thrilled to share their new single ‘Comes In Waves’. The track arrives accompanied by a new music video, watch below! Of the track, co-frontman Vachel Spirason explains “The lyrics came in bursts. Each section reflects a moment of becoming conscious of something. The feeling of being outside yourself. The song is different in that it doesn’t have a chorus – just three different verses with instrumental breaks...
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The Don returns for another round of tour dates. After a sold out tour earlier in the year, Donny Benét will bring his seductive and sweaty live show back this October. Fresh from enamouring his European fans and backed by his band of professionals, The Donny Benét Showband, it’s a guarantee that hearts will be melted once again like gorgonzola on gnocchi. Experience the pure physicality of The Don ‘Back Again’...
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Chastity (aka Brandon Williams) shares new single ‘Heaven Hell Anywhere Else’, taken from his forthcoming debut album, Death Lust, out Friday 13 July. He says “this song is about trying to get into heaven with my friends, or doing all that we can together to survive.” 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...
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Kamasi Washington releases new album Heaven and Earth, the long-awaited follow up to his debut The Epic. To celebrate, Washington shared new video, directed by A.G. Rojas for ‘Street Fighter Mas’, watch below! The video includes cameos by famed Street Fighter legends Gootecks and Combofiend and one of Washington’s Los Angles heroes — Kevin Gilliam a.k.a. BattleCat, a longtime collaborator of Dr. Dre, Snoop and Tupac Shakur. The video was inspired by Washington’s...
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After a seven-year hiatus, Gang Gang Dance return with their new album Kazuashita; the band’s first record together since Eye Contact in 2011. It’s an intoxicating mix of shoegaze and electronic ambience, all held together by Lizzi Bougatsos and her otherworldly vocal. Bougatsos, alongside founding members Brian DeGraw and Josh Diamond, formed the group as an improvisational outfit in the early 2000s, and have consistently worked to blur the boundaries between...
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MOURN began when Jazz Rodríguez Bueno and Carla Perez started to release songs they had written as teens on Youtube; soon after, Antonio Postius and Jazz’s sister Leia Rodríguez joined, completing the quartet. Today, MOURN release their third LP, Sorpresa Familia. Although MOURN have only been making music for a short time they have since seen more than their fair share of bureaucratic troubles and music industry red tape. The momentum...
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Perth’s angelic Rabbit Island announces her newest album Deep in The Big, to be released August 17, along with sharing the title track. Rabbit Island play five shows in Melbourne from Friday 29 June – Wednesday 4 July. More info below. Deep in The Big is a culmination of the music Amber Fresh is known and adored for in her hometown Perth, and beyond. Rabbit Island shoots for her own constellation of sound, lands there,...
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Milwaukee Banks share their latest single ‘No Time To Waste’ featuring Rromarin along with an accompanying live video. The track comes from their upcoming album No Time, due Friday 29th June. Catch the duo playing live at Changes Conference, Collective Artists showcase on July 4th. Details below! Vocalist Dyl Thomas says of the collaboration with Rromarin: “Rromarin is a long time friend and collaborator, so it was great to work with her again on...
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Ibeyi joined Brazilian rapper Emicida to record a beautiful collaborative track titled ‘Hacia El Amor’. Accompanying the track is a captivating music video, for which the two artists gathered in Paris to record. Watch below! Directed by Christian Beuchet, the video illustrates the plural lyrics that promote the breaking of barriers, bringing the artists into a shed covered with graffiti and filled with people, dancing and celebrating the ancestral feeling...
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Perfume Genius has released Reshaped, a special remix EP of tracks taken from his album No Shape. Reshaped presents six adventurous takes on the albums vivid sonic world. Featuring contributions from the stellar cast of Mura Masa (‘Slip Away’), Laurel Halo (‘Die 4 You’), Jam City (‘Just Like Love’), King Princess (‘Run Me Through’), mmph (‘Braid’), and No Shape producer Blake Mills (‘Every Night’). Previewing the collection upon release, was artist and...
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Gruff Rhys releases his fifth album, Babelsberg, it’s his first record for Rough Trade since 2007’s classic Candylion. Babelsberg was initially recorded in early 2016 in a whirlwind three day session that took place before producer Ali Chant’s studio was demolished. The band he gathered for the record were his regular drummer Kliph Scurlock and multi-instrumentalists Stephen Black and Osian Gwynedd. The tracks then hibernated for eighteen months, awaiting orchestral scores by Swansea...
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Following ‘J-TREE’ and ‘Lotus’, New York act Gang Gang Dance have released a third new song, ‘Young Boy (Marika in Amerika)’ from their upcoming album Kazuashita, out Friday 22 June. listen below! A piercing, heartfelt elegy, Lizzi Bougatsos empathetically sings for those lives unjustly lost to police brutality over weighty, tug-o-war synths and destabilising beats. Founded by Lizzi Bougatsos, Brian DeGraw and Josh Diamond, Gang Gang Dance has consistently blurred the...
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Swedish-born 24-year-old Baba Stiltz (real name) releases his Showtime EP. A playful brand of electronic music that crosses boundaries and genres unlike many before. Opening the EP with jazz inflected slow-jam ‘Showtime’ and peaking with ‘Maze’- the kind of summer floor-filler Baba is such a natural at crafting. “This EP is a collection of songs that were recorded during the past couple of years,” says Baba. “They all represent things I’ve...
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Details of the new Interpol album can finally be confirmed: Their sixth album, Marauder, will be released on August 24th. The album’s first single, ‘The Rover’, can be heard below, and will be performed live on US television show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight. Overnight, Interpol revealed all details (Themes! Making-of! Album art! Producer! Visuals!) to a convergence of their most fervent fans and media, live from General Prim...
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