Toronto-based producer, film composer, and author Meg Remy announces her intuitive and adventurous U.S. Girls album Scratch It (out June 20) with the release of an epic and sprawling 12-minute lead single, ‘Bookends’. Co-written with Edwin de Goeji, ‘Bookends’ is the heart of Scratch It. The sprawling ballad pays tribute to Remy’s late friend and former Power Trip frontman Riley Gale, through the lens of Remy’s reading of John Carey’s Eyewitness To History, a historical collection of 300+ eyewitness accounts of great world events spanning twenty-four...
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Mess Esque, the heavenly duo of Helen Franzmann and Mick Turner, descend from their altostratus with a new single! ‘Let Me Know You’ is out today with a music video from Denny Ryan. With no guitars or drums anywhere in sight, just keyboards twinkling in stark space, Mess Esque assume an improbable new form on ‘Let Me Know You’: the celestially curious star child, caught in the unfamiliar weight of...
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Jennifer Vanilla shares their new single ‘Humility’s Disease’ off their forthcoming album Castle In The Sky out August 5. ‘Humility’s Disease’ is a campy adventure where Jennifer Vanilla, aka Becca Kauffman, portrays a pseudomasculine devil-like figure with two angels surrounding them. Watch the video directed by Luca Venter below! Jennifer Vanilla’s forthcoming full length is a deft and mercurial “jennifreaky” journey, traversing 90s dance music, no wave, post-punk, art pop,...
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Friday June 3rd, 2022 – Two months after the release of the critically acclaimed SOLO album, Montreal songwriter and producer Jesse Mac Cormack is thrilled to share three filmed live sessions. The videos were filmed at Le Livart in Montreal and are directed by Félix-Antoine Boutin & Thomas Leblanc-Murray. “Watching these songs come alive was a good buzz. It was easy and felt very natural”, reveals Jesse. “Surrounded by such...
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New Zealand/Aotearoa eight-piece The Black Seeds have released their exciting new single and video, ‘It’s So Real’, alongside the announcement of their upcoming new album Love & Fire – out Friday 17 June via Remote Control Records. A raw funk masterpiece destined for dancefloors worldwide, ‘It’s So Real’ is The Black Seeds at their party best. Driven by an infectious muted guitar riff and backed by a rock solid bass and drum groove, ‘It’s So Real’ weaves and tantalises. The groove constantly evolves, dropping in...
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Unstoppable Aotearoa eight-piece The Black Seeds, return with the invigorating new single ‘Bring The Sun’, the third release from their upcoming new album. Following on the release of last year’s single, the perfect summertime banger ‘Let The Sunshine Through’, the new single sees The Black Seeds set out to further their quest to produce the perfect mix of reggae, funk, afrobeat and dub. ‘Bring The Sun’ features a stellar debut guitar solo from new guitarist Ryan Prebble and was written by frontman Daniel Weetman and The...
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The Black Seeds are an eight-piece band whose origins lie in the windy hills of Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington). The group have crafted their own brand of South Pacific Soul, skillfully blending the deep grooves of reggae, funk, afrobeat and dub into an undeniably infectious mix that has embedded itself in Aotearoa’s collective consciousness. The band continues to headline festivals, alight and delight audiences across the globe and push the creative boundaries of the Aotearoa roots...
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Later this month on June 25th, Lucy Dacus will release her new album, Home Video, via Matador / Remote Control Records. Today, she presents ‘Brando‘, the album’s fourth track in a string of emotive singles – ‘VBS‘, ‘Hot & Heavy‘, and ‘Thumbs‘. Continuing to showcase Dacus’ incredible storytelling and songwriting, ‘Brando‘ weaves together Old Hollywood references with frank observations of a temperamental relationship. “‘Brando’ refers to a very dramatic friend I had in high school whose whole personality was the media...
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Chastity Belt and Loose Tooth have shared a “digital split single” today featuring new material from both acts: Chastity Belt’s A Side ‘The Process’ and Loose Tooth‘s B side ‘Lonely.’ Fifty percent of Bandcamp sales for either track will benefit Australian wildfire relief efforts, specifically the Red Cross and Country Fire Authority. Purchase here. Additionally, Chastity Belt and Loose Tooth hit the road together for a run of North American...
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After finishing a 2019 tour with Frankie Cosmos and signing to Captured Tracks, Christina Schneider, the brainchild behind Locate S,1, shares the first single/title track “Personalia” from her forthcoming sophomore album Personalia, out 3 April. Schneider seeks to address how the attention economy is plaguing us with feelings of FOMO and anxiety, and is causing many of us to abandon more progressive values. Working under various aliases since 2014—including CE Schneider Topical, Jepeto...
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Pure energy; stripped-back simplicity; a big Smog sample; creative spontaneity; two contrasting but equally vital new collaborators; the universal feeling of anticipation and excitement that fuel a Friday night out… these are the raw materials that make up ’10:51PM / THE NIGHT’, the new single from Richard Russell’s collaborative artist project Everything Is Recorded. It introduces two new Everything Is Recorded collaborators in the form of Trinidad-born Londoner Berwyn (his...
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On October 22nd, Courtney Barnett performed a unique live show in Melbourne called MTV Unplugged (Live in Melbourne) at the invitation of MTV Australia. A stripped back, vulnerable and emotional performance of eight tracks, including an original track from Barnett herself titled ‘Play It On Repeat‘, is available now digitally via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Joined by her usual band Dave Mudie and Bones Sloane, she also enlisted cellist Lucy Waldron, legendary songwriter Paul Kelly, angelically-voiced New...
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A reimagining of Gill Scott-Heron’s last studio album will be released by Makaya McCraven under the title We’re New Again. The release marks the tenth anniversary of Scott-Heron’s album I’m New Here, to be available on LP, CD and via digital services on February 7th 2020. Equally renowned and revered as a musician, drummer, sampler, beat-maker and producer, McCraven is widely regarded as one of the most exciting and original voices in...
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Collaborative project Dance et al. releases their debut album The Higher Infinite out now via Broken Stone Records. The project is inspired by the collaborative work of James Turrell and Tadano Ando, 20th century mathematics, blackness in sound, single colours. Initial inspiration came from prepared tracks, performed at Equation festival in Hanoi 2017. Recordings were since made at Golden Retriever Studios in Syd with Johnny Dance (The Killing Words), Josh...
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Algiers release their new single ‘Void’, premiered by Adult Swim as part of their Single Club series. It will appear on the Atlanta group’s third album, There Is No Year, to be released on January 17th 2020 via Matador Records / Remote Control Records and will be available to purchase as a special flexi disc as part of the vinyl package.
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South Pacific reggae-soul legends The Black Seeds have debuted new single ‘Freakin.’ The band’s funkiest offering to date, ‘Freakin’ is a disco-inspired dance floor filler that gets down with 808 drums, bouncy synths and a beat to strut to. “Freakin is one for the end of the week, end of the line, letting loose. Shaking it off.” says band leader Barnaby Weir. “It is the party pick me up track...
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