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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Melbourne three-piece Loose Tooth announce their debut album Keep Up to be released on August 3rd. In addition, Loose Tooth share the album opener ‘Keep On’, watch the accompanying clip below! With Keep Up, Etta Curry (drums, vocals), Luc Dawson (bass, vocals, guitar, keys), and Nellie Jackson (guitar, vocals) have inked their impeccable ear for a hook on a fresh sonic palate. Long time friends with a democratic approach to...
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For their new music video for ‘Honesty’, Tune-Yards collaborated with Creative Growth, an organisation dedicated to providing a professional studio environment for artists with developmental, mental and physical disabilities. Watch it below! Written and directed by Susan Janow, the animated mixed-media video stars Merrill as a ‘60s housewife finding freedom through an absurd journey from grocery store to tropical giant-food paradise. Susan Janow and other Creative Growth artists created everything from...
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Barcelona’s fledgling rockers MOURN share ‘Fun At the Geysers’, the second single from their third LP Sorpresa Familia, out Friday 15th June. The accompanying video was shot in Iceland where the story that inspired the song took place. MOURN explains the song and video, “The people from the label that came with us [to Reykjavik] were telling us that through the years we’d learn how to endure being hungry. They didn’t really...
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Courtney Barnett shares ‘Sunday Roast’, the fourth taste from her forthcoming album Tell Me How You Really Feel which is released next Friday, May 18. Watch the accompanying video below! ‘Sunday Roast’ (which was given a very special limited release on 12” alongside ‘City Looks Pretty’ to celebrate Record Store Day last month) is the beautiful album closer, an ode to friendship and simple pleasures, the perfect conclusion to a rich and complex record,...
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East Brunswick All Girls Choir announce their new album Teddywaddy to be released Friday 29th June. The band share first single ‘Essendon 1986’, an old song revisited and accelerated, with an accompanying video shot in Castlemaine and directed by Thomas Hyland, watch below! Frontman Marcus Hobbs shares – “The song is about the drudgery lumped upon the working class in order to maintain. It’s about the little things people do in order to feel...
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Starcrawler have launched a new video for their song ‘Love’s Gone Again’. The single comes from their debut self-titled album, which was recorded by their #1 fan Ryan Adams. Filmed mainly at two shows in Tokyo during their recent sold-out tour of Japan, the video for ‘Love’s Gone Again’ is a fun view into their stunning and impressive live shows, and the amazing reaction from audiences in Japan. Starcrawler are...
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Melbourne’s Lehmann B. Smith shares his uniquely romantic new single ‘Tropical’, featuring Sarah Farquharson, of The Finks. It’s the second single from his upcoming new record Poplar Music, out Friday 25th May. Watch the accompanying video below! Speaking of ‘Tropical’ Smith divulges “I wrote the music with Caetano Veloso’s ‘Tu Me Acostumbraste’ in mind, and then the lyrics in bed while it rained and I sat up in bed listening to it in the house...
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Snail Mail shares new single ‘Heat Wave’, taken from her upcoming debut album Lush, out June 8th. “I’m not into sometimes”, sings 18-year-old songwriter and guitar virtuoso Lindsey Jordan in this infectious and affecting guitar pop. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Brandon Herman, below! The video showcases Jordan’s formidable ice hockey rink chops, picked up during her days on the high-school team, while delving hauntingly into the psyche of growing up –...
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Evelyn Ida Morris has shared a new video directed by Julia Suddenly for ‘Darwin Heat’, from their newly released self-titled album. Watch below! Evelyn shares – “When Julia pitched the idea of a naked body filmed in the murky waters of a river it resonated with me so clearly that I insisted on being that body. I am a big fan of using artworks as experiences, and the challenge of letting...
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Courtney Barnett shares ‘City Looks Pretty’, the third single from her upcoming album Tell Me How You Really Feel, out Friday 18 May. Watch below! ‘City Looks Pretty’ has Barnett experimenting with new song structures while delivering one of her most exhilarating guitar performances to date. It’s metronomic drive and squealing lead guitar provide the sonic foundation from which Barnett sings a melodic exploration of friendship, place and home. A Record...
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The Finks announce their new album Rolly Nice to be released Friday 25 May. Today they have shared the first cut from the record ‘Body Language’. Watch the accompanying video below! The Finks play the songs of Oliver Mestitz, who records everything in his Melbourne home, layering instrument upon instrument and mixing each song straight to tape. As Oliver describes “‘Body Language’ started as a melody that I misheard Sarah humming to...
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Iceage present a final single, ‘The Day The Music Dies’ ahead of their new album, Beyondless, released on Friday 4 May. Watch the accompanying video below! Shot throughout Detroit at the historic bathhouse, The Schvitz, at the city’s legendary Masonic Temple, and the MUG warehouse space, ‘The Day The Music Dies’ video was directed by the band and Graeme Flegenheimer, and, as Flegenheimer describes it, is “a love letter between friends...
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Today Princess Nokia – aka shapeshifting New York emcee Destiny Frasqueri – has dropped her new emo-inspired mixtape A Girl Cried Red, as well as a video co-directed with longterm collaborator Milah Libin for ‘Your Eyes Are Bleeding’ from the release. Watch below! Princess Nokia has been releasing music via Youtube and Soundcloud since she was in High School and catapulted herself to the next level with last year’s rap...
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Gruff Rhys announces his fifth album, Babelsberg, set for release on Friday 8 June. It’s his first record for Rough Trade since 2007’s classic Candylion. Gruff also shares the first track from the record ‘Frontier Man’, watch the video below! The album’s ten tracks were 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...
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Nines returns with new single ‘I See You Shining’, his first new music since the release of last year’s debut LP One Foot Out. Watch the clip to ‘I See You Shining’ below! “When you was inside watching Netflix, I was in the crop house wiring electrics.” Hailing from the Church Road Estate in North West London, Nines’ easily recognisable laid-back flow takes a turn for the anthemic on ‘I...
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