Queens Of The Stone Age share the video to their first single from upcoming album Villains,’The Way You Used To Do’, created by Joshua Homme, directed by Jonas Akerlund and produced by Serial Pictures. Watch below! Homme says “Dancing and headbanging are truly individualistic expressions of losing oneself fully in appreciation of music—who better to combine these things into a singular vision than someone who’s directed Madonna and Lady Gaga videos–and also happens to...
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Banoffee has shared a new video for her single ‘Ripe’. Created alongside ‘I’m Not Sorry’ video collaborators, Coco and Maximilian, and featuring performers Aisha and Briana, watch it below! Banoffee says “I wanted to showcase the friendships I’ve made and the light heartedness that comes with making clanky pop music.” The video is also a reflection on the current, new state of Banoffee: “This video works to express the polarities...
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Widowspeak have revealed their latest single, ‘The Dream’, from forthcoming full-length Expect The Best out August 25. Listen below! Expect The Best sees Widowspeak finding their greatest balance between opposing forces: darkness and light, quiet and loud, tension and calm. The album was written while lead singer-songwriter Molly Hamilton was living in Tacoma, Washington after previous stints in upstate New York and Brooklyn. So much moving around, and specifically a...
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‘War Is Coming (If You Want It)’ is the new release from Car Seat Headrest. “This is a song about not murdering people” says Will Toledo of the band. Listen below! The demo version, ‘War Is Coming (If You Want It) [March Mix]’, cannot be heard anywhere anymore, having been made available for purchase via Bandcamp for just 24-hours on August 4th, to support their fundraiser for the Transgender Law...
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Perth duo Hamjam have released their new album a/s/l? along with sharing the video for ‘Sippin’ Rosé All Alone.’ Watch the clip below! Hamjam is the collaborative project between Hamish Rahn and James Ireland, two creative individuals who make music they describe as “blissed out sadness”. Distinguishing themselves as a band, and only sometimes as a bizarre type of food yet to be invented. Their debut full length, a/s/l?, is a collection...
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Jen Cloher releases her self-titled album. Four albums into her career, this is Cloher at her most incisive and witty, cutting and expressive. She’s delivered her best album yet. An album which plays it fearlessly close to the bone, with raw, unflinching dissections of her life, love, and Australia, Jen Cloher is the culmination of a period of artistic and personal growth in which the artist took her rightful place...
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Queens Of The Stone Age unveil ‘The Evil Has Landed’, the second track to be released from their new album Villains out Friday 25 August. Listen below! Produced by Mark Ronson, and written by Josh Homme, Dean Fertita, Mikey Shuman and Troy Van Leeuwan, ‘The Evil Has Landed’ sees Queens on classic form in a monstrous six and a half minute epic. Villains was produced by Mark Ronson and co-produced by Mark Rankin...
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Gold Class have released yet another stirring and urgent single, ‘Get Yours’, from the new album Drum, out on August 18. The accompanied video, directed by Defero Productions, was filmed at the band’s sold out Corner Hotel show last month. Watch it below! ‘Get Yours’ has been described by the band as the centerpiece of Drum. “It was the first of the songs we wrote for the album” said singer Adam...
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Daughter has unveiled a partnership with SQUARE ENIX®, to create an original musical score for their new game LIFE IS STRANGE: BEFORE THE STORM™. The entire soundtrack entitled Music from Before the Storm will be released digitally on Friday 1 September 2017. The game also includes three songs from Daughter’s back catalogue. BEFORE THE STORM is the prequel to LIFE IS STRANGE. It was a boundary-breaking videogame, with principal characters...
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The National share ‘Carin at the Liquor Store’, the 3rd single from their forthcoming album Sleep Well Beast, out Friday 8th September. Watch the accompanied video directed by Casey Reas, filmed by La Blogothèque and edited by Matthew Miller below! The album was produced by member Aaron Dessner with co-production by Bryce Dessner and Matt Berninger and recorded at Aaron’s Hudson Valley, NY studio, Long Pond. The National have announced...
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Alex Calder announces his self-titled LP, to be released Friday 20 October. Calder also shares the album’s first single ‘Morning Ritual (feat. Caroline Levasseur)’. Listen below! He notes, “‘Morning Ritual’ is the first song I wrote off of the new album. It wasn’t properly recorded until most of the rest of the album was done though. It’s essentially your typical song about being lazy and not wanting to change. Pretty simple stuff.”...
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Black Cab have have released their new album 明 (Akira). A blend of dark electronica, massed taiko drums and found sounds, the album is an alternative soundtrack to an anime sci-fi classic that is yet to be created. Written and recorded by Black Cab, the album was mixed and mastered by Simon Polinski. For the artwork, the band commissioned UK anime illustrator Mike Anderson to create some fictional anime cells...
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Achievement unlocked. Remote Control are thrilled to announce new partnership with Boss Battle Records, a new video game music record label. Focusing to bring the best of new, obscure, and esteemed video game music to global audiences, and in doing so, facilitate VGM culture the world over. Founded by Fabian Malabello, after running The Otherworld Agency for five years, Boss Battle Records marks a serious shift in the way video game soundtracks are...
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Total Giovanni have returned with new single ‘Your Light’. The first new music from the band since 2015, watch their new video below! “It was the first time we’d recorded with a live drummer instead of using drum machines and samples,” the band say, “we wanted the song to have a warm organic feel that reflected the sentiment and tone of the song.” “The song got written around the time my...
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Kamasi Washington’s new EP Harmony of Difference will be released on September 29th. Watch the short film to the single ‘Truth’ from director A.G. Rojas below. The EP is an original six-movement suite, featuring artwork by Kamasi’s sister Amani Washington. It explores the philosophical possibilities of the musical technique known as “counterpoint,” which Kamasi defines as “the art of balancing similarity and difference to create harmony between separate melodies.” Beyond the artistic impulse to...
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Melbourne’s electronic-rap pioneers Milwaukee Banks return with new single ‘The City’. It’s their first new music since their debut album Deep Into The Night. Listen below! The production on ‘The City’ gives way for a booming bass line, surging through a neon-bright, electrified soundscape. Dyl Thomas guides you through, delivering some of his most uninhibited, direct lyricism and flows to date. Resonating with an energy of ambition, this marks the...
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