Kamasi Washington’s second album Heaven & Earth is set for release on Friday 22nd June. Two songs from the double album debut today, listen to Earth’s ‘Fists of Fury’ and Heaven’s ‘The Space Travellers Lullaby’ below. Heaven & Earth is comprised of two halves, which find Washington confronting quotidian realities with cosmic themes. A further investigation of Washington’s world building ideas, the new album explores his reckoning with current global chaos...
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Today, “D” grade Sydney celebrity, recording artist and relationship guru Donny Benét offers up his new album, The Don. Donny has also indulged us with a brand new video for ‘Love Online’, directed by PAXI. Watch below! The complete listening experience comes to us following previous singles ‘Konichiwa,’ a song as smooth as the silken tofu from whence the song’s spirit is inspired, and ‘Santorini,’ an ode to love worth fighting...
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MOURN have announced their third LP Sorpresa Familia, to be released on Friday 15th June. They share their first single and video from the record, ‘Barcelona City Tour’. The video was directed and edited by the band, and follows them as they explore and celebrate their Catalonian capital and hometown. Watch below! MOURN began when Jazz Rodríguez Bueno and Carla Perez started to release songs they had written as teens on...
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Belle and Sebastian have shared the video for ‘Poor Boy’, the latest single taken from their new triptych of EPs, How To Solve Our Human Problems, out now. Watch the video below! Continuing the EP series’ nuanced exploration of the tapestry of human lives and interactions, the video, made in partnership with Tidal and directed by Oscar Sansom & Ciaran Lyons of The Forest of Black, follows the various goings-on of...
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HANDSOME has announced her debut headline shows in Sydney on April 26 at Lansdowne Hotel and Melbourne on April 27 at The Gasometer (upstairs). In addition, HANDSOME shares the video for her second single ‘Save Some Love’. Watch below! Following on from some of the themes of ‘Late Night Ball Game feat. Joyride’, this video revolves around a tight knit group of friends, supporting each other through ups and downs of...
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Queens of the Stone Age have unveiled the latest creation for their video to ‘Head Like A Haunted House’, taken from their album Villains, which is available now to purchase or stream here. Watch the new clip below! Created, directed and art direction by frequent collaborator Liam Lynch, the video is a ghastly animated carnival ride through your worst fever-induced nightmares. Accompanied by disembodied hands, UFOs, smoldering hellscapes and grooving skeletons, Joshua...
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Ryan Downey shares the striking second single ‘Those Eyes That Answer’, from his jaw-dropping debut album Running out April 13, and has now announced a headline east coast tour in support of the album! See further ticket details and watch the video below. ‘Those Eyes That Answer’ encompasses everything that is great about Downey’s music. His undeniable voice resonates with richness and gravity while a minutely detailed and singularly original musical world unfurls around...
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Lehmann B. Smith announces his new record Poplar Music, due for release on Friday 25th May. To celebrate, he shares the first single and video ‘Thus Must Rust’. Watch below! Finding his success as a sideman for bands like Totally Mild and Kes Band, Smith has often been described as a musician’s musician, an undiscovered talent. He is a prodigious songwriter, laboriously notating album after album of unreleased material and...
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Parquet Courts share the title track off their forthcoming album, Wide Awake! The accompanying video was directed by Brother Willis and filmed in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, watch below! The video features the band, clad in purple tuxedos, acting, well, wide awake. “I was very intrigued by the band’s idea to spend a few days filming all around New Orleans during Mardi Gras,” says Willis. “Probably should’ve thought twice about it,...
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With just over a week until Jarrow’s second album Expensive Hugs is out in the world, the band share their rousing new single ‘Bleach’ and announce a run of headline shows. Watch the video to ‘Bleach’ below! Self-guided therapy through garage rock, that’s ‘Bleach’, the third single from Expensive Hugs. All riffs, melody and noise, the song moves at breakneck speed as Jarrow sings of strange childhood memories before finding catharsis and solace from...
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Smerz have released their much-awaited EP, Have fun. Launched with a video for new track ‘Worth it’, produced and directed by the Norwegian duo. Watch below! Produced, programmed and sung entirely by the Copenhagen-based duo. Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldts’ EP compiles the duo’s recent output with some new unreleased music. The visual for ‘Worth it’ follows a similar narrative output that we’ve come to expect from Smerz. A dark, twisted...
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Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders have announced their return with the darkly beautiful ‘White Flag’, the first taste from their forthcoming album Blue Poles, to be released Friday 4 May. Watch the video to ‘White Flag below! The spectacular video was shot in Indonesia by visual mastermind Wilk and directed by Jim Pillion. “It’s written from two perspectives”, says Ladder. “I didn’t want to duet so I sang both parts....
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Parquet Courts announce their fifth album, Wide Awake! which will be released on May 18th. ‘Almost Had To Start A Fight / In And Out Of Patience’ is the first taste of what’s to come from the record. Watch the clip below! Wide Awake! is a groundbreaking work, an album about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitarianism. Love is at its center. There’s also a freshness here, a breaking of new...
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Hachiku shares a steamy new video for latest single ‘Murray’s Lullaby’. Having just returned from a sold out tour of the Europe and U.K. opening for Jen Cloher, you can catch them heating up a stage in celebration of the single’s launch in March. Full details below! The video for ‘Murray’s Lullaby’ is slick in every other meaning apart from ‘cool’. Set within the dripping wet walls of a sauna...
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Robert Earl Thomas, guitarist of Brooklyn band Widowspeak, has just debuted his solo full-length, Another Age. To celebrate, he shares the new video for album track ‘Cryin’,’ in which delicate melancholy follows him from a winding, wooded road to a warmly lonesome hotel room. Watch below! Another Age‘s sweet nostalgia and glowing guitar shines through each shot. Of the single he notes, “‘Cryin’ isn’t really about crying; or me. It’s about being there for...
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Jarrow has released the exultant garage-rocker ‘Kelp’, it’s the second single to come from his second album Expensive Hugs, out Friday 16 March. Watch the clip below! As the opening track off Expensive Hugs, ‘Kelp’ perfectly sets the tone for Jarrow’s weird and wonderful second album. Hooks, yelps and a dynamic lead-guitar adorn his compelling turn of phrase as it battles to break free of the songs perfect garage pop...
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