HAWA’s strong, direct voice set her apart from her peers and established her as a contender for the NYC’s next rap superstar. Now, she releases ‘I’m Safe’ which hears HAWA reunited with producer Tony Seltzer and combines her forceful bars with flexing vocals. The track is accompanied by her first-ever music video, directed by Keenan MacWilliam, watch below! At 17 years old and still in high school in NYC, HAWA...
Kurt Vile shares a third single ‘One Trick Ponies’, taken from his forthcoming album Bottle It In, which is released Friday 12th October and available for pre-order here. Watch the accompanying lyric video for ‘One Trick Ponies’ below! It’s a joyful and infectious country-rock number, with Vile playing harmonica, guitar, and piano, and harmonising with Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa and Farmer Dave Scher on the big-hearted singalong chorus. Vile performed ‘One Trick Ponies’ alongside a...
Following on from the announce of their debut record Euphoria, set for release on October 19, Melbourne’s Total Giovanni are delighted to share the video for their new single ‘Awake’. Watch below! Total Giovanni’s Vachel Spirason describes – “The song ‘Awake’ is about desire and insomnia so the original idea was of a late night 1900 number ad that comes on the tele as it playfully riffs on both those...
Melbourne trio Huntly bring emotional vulnerability to the dance-floor, making radical electronic pop songs where the personal and political coexist, where moving and feeling are symbiotic. Today they release brand new single ‘Drop Gear’ and announce they have signed to Barely Dressed Records. On ‘Drop Gear’, Huntly double down on their “doof you can cry to” manifesto, marrying intimate songwriting with forward-thinking dance music. ‘Drop Gear’ is a song about...
Gruff Rhys follows a series of sold out gigs played with full orchestras in Cardiff, London and Manchester with a new video for ‘Selfies In The Sunset’, the closing track from his fifth album Babelsberg, out now. Watch below! Directed and animated by Ewan Jones Morris, the video features Gruff and guest singer Lily Cole creating Animojis ahead of the apocalypse. Of the track, Gruff writes: A couple of years ago...
Molly Burch reveals the incredibly charming animated video for her latest single ‘To The Boys’, from her forthcoming LP, First Flower, set for release on October 5. The clip was directed by Emily Ann Hoffman who notes, “I loved how playful and strong the song’s message was and wanted the video to have the same feeling. I liked the idea of a paper doll seeming delicate and feminine, yet standing...
A year after the release of her extraordinary self-titled fourth album, Jen Cloher shares a set of brilliantly shot live band performance videos of three fan-favourite tracks from the record – ‘Regional Echo’, ‘Shoegazers’ and ‘Analysis Paralysis’. Watch below! Filmed late last year at Milk! Records’ Melbourne warehouse – the performances capture a rare camaraderie and bond between band members who had just finished a year of extensive global touring...
Details of the new Kurt Vile album have finally be confirmed, Bottle It In is out on Friday 12 October and now available for pre-order here. Today’s announcement is accompanied by the release of a new single ‘Bassackwards’, an ode to the parking challenges in Vile’s native Philadelphia. Watch the video below! The epic, loping ‘Bassackwards’ is the album’s beating heart and Vile’s most compelling evocation of how he sees the world: “I was...
17-year-old Toronto based artist Lil Berete has released his debut mixtape Icebreaker, out now. Written entirely by Lil Berete and including features exclusively from his STN crew from Toronto’s Regent Park, Icebreaker is a brilliant introduction to the area’s breakout star. With Lil Berete’s distinctive voice, raw talent, dynamic flow and a measured duality of confidence and vulnerability, it makes sense that Lil Berete cites Akon, T-Pain, and Young Thug...
Melbourne-born, LA-based multidisciplinary artist Banoffee (aka Martha Brown) has returned with new single ‘Muscle Memory’, it’s is the first new music since 2015’s SOPHIE co-production ‘Ripe’. Watch the accompanying video below! Written during a breakup, Banoffee explains, “Muscle Memory is about living in that phantom realm, where your body still feels in a two places at once. I wrote it to capture the feeling of when u touch someone and suddenly remember...
Brooklyn’s EZTV share a video for their new single ‘Daytime’. It was shot while the band were on a tour with The Clientele in 2017 and represents a nice slice of life from the band. Watch below! About the track the band say, “‘Daytime’ is about wandering around aimlessly in a weird and professional part of town. Feeling underemployed and vaguely miserable as hundreds of people shuffle by in a hurry....
King Krule releases a music video for ‘Biscuit Town’, the opening track from his latest album The OOZ. The video comes as the first of a three-part collaboration with WeTransfer, which sees King Krule explore the creative process with each video’s director, hosted on their WePresent platform. Watch below! Directed by friends and long-term collaborators cc. Wade (aka Michael and Paraic Morrissey), the video sees King Krule (aka Archy Marshall)...
Today Courtney Barnett shares the video for ‘Charity’, taken from her recently released album Tell Me How You Really Feel. Watch below! The video, by respected cinematographer Ashley Connor was shot on glorious 16mm film and captures fly-on-the-wall footage of Barnett and her band spending a day in Toronto, Canada. The beautiful honest depiction of a day on the road is interspersed with a roaring live performance of one of...
Hop Along have shared the charming, playful video for ‘Somewhere a Judge’, taken from their new album Bark Your Head Off, Dog which was released earlier this year. Watch below! The video invites viewers behind the scenes on the road, in the studio and documents the new Hop Along mural – which has just gone up on the Studebaker building in Philadelphia – done by the artist Noségo and woven together...
HANDSOME shares brand new single ‘No Cowards’. Today she announced her debut EP No Hat No Play will be released on Friday 21 September, available for pre-order here. Watch the accompanying video for ‘No Cowards’ below! HANDSOME welcome’s the growing visibility of queerness in music and art, saying “now more than ever the expression of sexuality in music is loud, proud and admired as a strength… its about time, isn’t it? I...
Kurt Vile has shared a video for ‘Loading Zones’, the first new music to surface from him since 2015. Directed by Drew Saracco, the video is a paean to his City of Brotherly Love, and farcical tribute to the song’s lyrics, themselves an account of Vile’s peculiar parking strategy. Watch below! “I PARK FOR FREE!” he proclaims, as he goes about his day moving his car from one loading zone to another, narrowly avoiding parking...
