Homeshake, the project of Peter Sagar, shares new single ‘Nothing Could Be Better’ from his upcoming record Helium, released February 15th. Watch the accompanying video below! Sagar says the song is about how “sometimes on the way to a social function you gotta ditch and hang out with your sweety instead because love is beautiful.” While the video director Steve Smith “tried really hard [to capture] the dancing” in the animated clip. Sagar puts down roots...
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Juan Wauters shares the second single ‘A Volar’, from his upcoming record La Onda de Juan Pablo. The beautiful and buoyant song about “dreaming wildly” was written in Mexico City and features multiple musicians that Juan met in Garibaldi, a popular square in Mexico City where musicians for hire gather. Mexico City was one of the many stops he made along a journey throughout South and Central America over the past...
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‘We Appreciate Power’ is the new track from Grimes; a hard, audacious rock banger which was produced, performed and written by Grimes and featuring HANA. Watch the accompanying video below! The song meshes the dark, heavy sounds of rock and industrial music with huge pop sensibility and hooks, further underlining the sonic innovation which Grimes time and time again masters. ‘We Appreciate Power’ is anthemic. Inspired by the North Korean...
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Jess Ribeiro has today released her new single ‘Love Is The Score Of Nothing’, it’s the first taste of new music in more than 3 years and is something of an indie rock banger from Ribeiro, signalling a new sound for an artist whose previous albums explored a kind of intricate folk-noire. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Nick McKinlay and shot around Collingwood’s famous Ginger Hair Salon, below! This time...
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Elena Tonra, guitarist, vocalist and lyricist of Daughter, has announced details of a solo project. Running parallel to Daughter, she’s assumed the pseudonym Ex:Re (pronounced ex ray) for her eponymously-titled debut solo album, a deeply personal record released digitally this Friday 30th November. Tonra’s candid solo songs document the time after a relationship ended and are written like unsent letters to herself and others. Taking on a creative moniker, she...
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In what could be either the most confrontational or hilarious video of the year, Jack Ladder willingly endures intense but creative punishment from British model, musician and writer Alys Hale in ‘Tell It Like It Is’, the fourth video taken from the Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders album Blue Poles, out now. The video was directed and shot by acclaimed and exhibited photographer McLean Stephenson. Stephenson isn’t worried about how it will...
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Today Molly Burch shares the video for ‘Candy’ taken from her recently released new album First Flower. Captured beautifully on 8mm film and playfully nodding to pushy photographers and crazed shoots, ‘Candy’ was shot by director, songwriter and actress Nöel Wells and is a perfect meeting of minds between the two artists. Watch below! Of the collaboration, Burch says; “I’ve been a huge fan of Noël’s for quite some time...
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The Lemon Twigs reveal the new video for ‘Never In My Arms, Always In My Heart’ from their new album Go To School. Shot on Long Island and directed by Michael D’Addario, who also stars in it, & Winston H. Case, the video was filmed inside a local Hicksville bar and tells the heartbreaking tale of one couple’s struggle. Watch below! In discussing the video, Michael said, “Brian and I played in a whole...
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After performing in Charli XCX’s band across the global Taylor Swift Reputation tour and curating three sold out Australian parties with Charli XCX, Melbourne-born, LA-based multidisciplinary artist Banoffee releases her new single ‘Bubble’. Watch the accompanying video below! ‘Bubble’ exemplifies Banoffee’s unique style of subversive electronica-pop. Banoffee explains the meaning behind the single: “Bubble is my combat to bullies. It’s for the underdogs when they lose sight of their power....
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Methyl Ethel announce their third album Triage, released on 15th February 2019. Following on from instant classic ‘Scream Whole’, they have shared new single ‘Real Tight’ along with the official video directed by Matt Sav. Watch below! Triage was written, produced and performed by lead singer Jake Webb. The album was recorded in Jake’s home studio in West Perth and mixed at Mute Studio in London with Marta Salogni. With his 30th birthday,...
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Minimalist pop-luxe masterminds Huntly have released new single ‘Wiggle’, a strikingly original and danceable track with a glossy and voguish new video (directed by Gianna Mazzeo and shot by Amy Dellar), watch below! On ‘Wiggle’, Huntly pair an elastic bass-line with a deep percussive groove to provide clean, evocative dance music at its best. Lead singer Elspeth’s typically mellifluous lead-vocal celebrates space and freedom while second singer Charlie’s compelling counter-melodies provide...
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Fresh from multiple tours of north America and Europe as a solo artist and as a member of lauded indie supergroup boygenius. Julien Baker has announced a run of dates that will see her phenomenal live show return to Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Byron Bay, Melbourne and outback NSW in 2019. This will be the Memphis native’s third visit down under after wowing Australian audiences with her sparse and devastating ballads...
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Deerhunter return with the announcement of their new album Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? out on Friday 18th January 2019. Today they share opening track ‘Death in Midsummer’, watch the accompanying video below! How do you describe an album out of time, concerned with the disappearance of culture, of humanity, of nature, of logic and emotion? Why make this album in an era when attention spans have been reduced to...
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Kamasi Washington debuts the Jenn Nkiru-directed video for ‘Hub-Tones’ today, the track is taken from Washington’s massively acclaimed new album Heaven and Earth, released in June. Watch the video below! “Hub-Tones is me trying to connect my ancestors via music,” says Washington. “As an African-American, a lot of us don’t know the country of our origin, that’s why most of us take on the ideology of Pan-Africanism. I was trying...
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Tiny Ruins announce the upcoming release of their new album Olympic Girls, out Friday 1st February 2019. To celebrate, they have released their new single and title track ‘Olympic Girls’ with its official music video. Watch below! Directed by Charlotte Evans, the video follows the first acoustic guitar flourish of ‘Olympic Girls’ ushering the potent words of Tiny Ruins’ Hollie Fullbrook. The track is buoyant with a rolling energy. Cascading...
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SOAK has shared the video for her acclaimed new single ‘Everybody Loves You’, the first sight of new SOAK material since 2015’s debut album, Before We Forgot How To Dream. Bridie also performed the track for the first time on Ireland’s prestigious Late Late Show. Director Joseph Wilson explains the video as following SOAK whilst she “navigates through a world of temptation before eventually succumbing and accepting the chaos and love...
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