Kim Gordon’s vision of art and noise has come sharper into focus just as readily as it has changed—a paradigm of possibility that, four decades on, still feels like a dare. The adventure continues on the artist’s third solo album, PLAY ME, which will be released March 13. The lead track ‘NOT TODAY’ is available now, accompanied by a short film directed by Rodarte fashion label founders and filmmakers Kate and Laura Mulleavy with director...
North Carolina based singer-songwriter Anjimile announces plans to release the full-length album You’re Free to Go, due out March 13. The announcement comes with the luminous lead single ‘Like You Really Mean It’ which overflows with tenderness and vulnerability, accompanied by a beautiful roller skating video directed by Caity Arthur, watch here. Anjimile shares: “I wrote this to make my girlfriend want to give me a kiss. We live about an hour apart,...
Los Angeles six-piece The Sophs have ridden a wave of notoriety ever since signing to Rough Trade Records on the strength of their demos – which they cold-emailed to labelheads Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee before they ever even played a show. Following last year’s releases and worldwide touring, the band are ready to unleash their debut album GOLDSTAR, out March 13. The album’s title track is out today, a ferocious, explosive song...
Dry Cleaning release their new album Secret Love, out today, along with its final single/video ‘Joy’ earlier in the week, watch it here! With lyrics initially pieced together from advertisements in Virginia Tech University’s History of Food and Drink archive, ‘Joy’ serves as a compassionate coach to those in desperate need of positivity and kindness. Like Stumpwork swansong ‘Icebergs,’ it’s an optimistic sign-off for Secret Love with the parting words, “Don’t give up on being sweet.” Lyricist Florence Shaw comments, “Recently I...
Generational pop icon Robyn announces her ninth studio album, Sexistential, which will be released on 27th March 2026. Sexistential is the most ecstatic record that Robyn has ever made, the sound of one of contemporary music’s most influential artists coming home. After the club music meditations of 2018’s Honey, the album features nine, deeply playful pop songs that tie back to her era-defining Body Talk trilogy, designed to feel “like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at a really high speed and...
Buck Meek announces his new album, The Mirror, out 27 February, and shares its lead single, ‘Gasoline’. There’s a tender power, countered by immutable vulnerability. With an uncanny curiosity, he reveals the uniqueness in the mundane. The Mirror searches for new meaning and the familiar is reframed through Meek’s singular voice. On The Mirror, love, as an idea, is always close – but in its reflection comes an afterimage of the way things could...
Tyler Ballgame, Rough Trade Records’ astonishingly gifted, infectious crooner shares new single ‘Matter of Taste’ and its accompanying video. This is the latest track to be released from his stunning debut album For the First Time, Again, out January 30th, 2026 and follows earlier album singles ‘I Believe in Love’ and ‘Got a New Car’. A hook-laden rocker, ‘Matter of Taste’ shows Ballgame and his band cutting loose, with what the singer-songwriter calls the...
Dry Cleaning share a quieter moment from their upcoming third album Secret Love, out 9 January 2026. The third single ‘Let Me Grow and You’ll See The Fruit’ follows ‘Cruise Ship Designer’ and ‘Hit My Head All Day’ and offers a gentler side to Dry Cleaning. ‘Let Me Grow and You’ll See The Fruit’ was one of the first songs written for Secret Love and is inspired by 60s folk act Pentangle, 2001: A Space Odyssey, ancient Roman poet...
Fresh off a North American tour supporting I’m With Her, Ye Vagabonds share the second single ‘The Flood’ from their upcoming album, All Tied Together, out Jan 30th, 2026. ‘The Flood’ comes with a video directed by Ellius Grace (watch here) and follows the album’s first single ‘On Sitric Road’ which was accompanied by a live video recorded in Dublin. ‘The Flood’ is an upbeat, fiddle-propelled window into a lively but...
After selling out her first Melbourne date, Naarm-based artist Stella Donnelly has announced a second show at the Corner Hotel on Sunday 1 March 2026. The newly added date comes ahead of Donnelly’s Love and Fortune Tour, which launches in Australia this February before travelling through the UK, Europe and Japan. Please find full tour details and ticket links below. Donnelly also shares the music video for opening single ‘Standing Ovation’, which...
David Byrne releases a new single ‘T Shirt’. Co-written by Byrne’s longtime friend and collaborator Brian Eno, the song is a classic piece of electro-pop wrapped in lightly humorous, but always earnest, political commentary. The track has become a notable moment and quick fan favorite on Byrne’s latest tour. David Byrne is currently touring North America, celebrating the release of his critically acclaimed new album Who Is The Sky?, Byrne’s...
Lisa O’Neill releases her new EP, The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right, out now digitally alongside a 12″ available to pre-order. She has also shared a video for her stunning version of the seasonally classic ‘The Bleak Midwinter’. The EP is comprised of a group of six tracks, they include Lisa’s haunting rendition of Bob Dylan’s ‘All The Tired Horses’ recorded to soundtrack the closing scene of the final...
North Carolina based singer-songwriter Anjimile releases a new single ‘Auld Lang Syne II’. The track, produced by Brad Cook, is the first release since his emotionally raw 2023 album The King, picking up where he left off with a tender note-to-self on resilience and hard-fought freedom, characterised by delicate finger-plucked strings, charming horn passages, and intimate vocal delivery. Anjimile shares: “‘Auld Lang Syne II’ was originally intended as something of...
Robyn returns with her first new music in over seven years. New single ‘Dopamine’ sees the generational Swedish pop icon teaming up with longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund for one of the decade’s most hotly-anticipated comebacks, and the latest in a long line of era-defining pop moments. Released today via new label home Young, it’s a song that captures the rush of chemical euphoria that floods your body when you fall...
Dry Cleaning share ‘Cruise Ship Designer’, the second single from their new album Secret Love, out 9 January 2026. The new track follows lead single ‘Hit My Head All Day’ and arrives alongside a music video featuring the band’s Lewis Maynard performing a dance routine choreographed for the track by BULLYACHE. ‘Cruise Ship Designer’ is a classic Dry Cleaning pop song sung from the perspective of a nautical entrepreneur who...
caroline are excited to announce caroline 2 (deluxe), featuring seven new tracks and out now digitally. Additionally, their 2025 album caroline 2 has been named one of Rough Trade shops’ Albums of the Year. To celebrate they have announced a new 12” exclusive available at Rough Trade shops with 5 tracks from the band titled Not everything needs to even out, which includes some from the deluxe release of the...
