Christopher Owens (Girls) has a new solo album out at the end of September called A New Testament. It follows his 2013 LP Lysandre that followed the dissolution of the band Girls. here’s the brand new clip for the first single .Nothing More Than Everything To Me’. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Christopher Owens | Nothing More Than Everything To Me
Redspencer are two brothers (David and Aiden McMillan) from rural NSW, now based in Melbourne, who have formed a band around themselves and released this new single ‘Tell’ that is fairly bursting with jangly guitars, breezily melodic vocals and has an affinity with bands from the golden age of shoegaze. The band will have a debut EP out later this year. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Redspencer | Tell
Alison Goldfrapp tends to mix things up with each new album so it’s always great to see and hear what she comes up with each time. Her most recent LP Tales of Us came out last year and is filled with wistful, drifting folk music. Now she has released the beautifully shot clip for ‘Stranger’. Continue reading VIDEO: Goldfrapp | Stranger
After three excellent albums in Conatus, Stridulum II and The Spoils, Zola Jesus has announced her new album Taiga will be out on October 7th via Mute. Below you can stream the first single ‘Dangerous Days’. In regards to the album title, Nika explains, “Taiga is the Russian name for the boreal forest. For me it feels very alive… very expansive. It represents a feral, untapped world that could happily … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Zola Jesus announces new album Taiga
I was lucky enough to witness Earth live in concert in Sydney last night and it was a totally absorbing and sonically hypnotic experience with the Dylan Carlson-led trio playing a cross-section of music from across the second incarnation of the band’s existence. A few new songs were aired which sounded as good as anything else they’ve done. The new album Primitive and Deadly is out … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Earth | From The Zodiacal Light
They’ve been quiet on the live front for the last while but Step-Panther have been busy recording their new album with Big Scary’s Tom Iansek. The album Strange But Nice is due out in August via HUB/Inertia and here’s the video for its first single, ‘Nowhere’. Shades of Sonic Youth and 3Ds permeate the song before a hypnotic wave of tumbling guitar notes wash over the song and chugging distorted chords … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Step-Panther | Nowhere
Seven Drummers is the title of the album that East Brunswick All Girls Choir released earlier this year and a damn fine collection of songs it is too. They’ve released a new clip for the song ‘West Brunswick’, one of the album’s highlights. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: East Brunswick All Girls Choir | West Brunswick
Spoon are back with a brand new album called They Want My Soul. The Dave Fridmann produced record is out in Australia via Spunk on August 1st in a variety of formats including a limited vinyl version. Here’s the opening track ‘Rent I Pay’. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Hear the first track off the new Spoon album
Melbourne duo Dark Fair (guitarist Ramona Moore + drummer Ellie Dunn) have been getting better and better with each new song we hear and ‘Poison’ is their best to date. It’s a slow building slice of shadowy pop music that relies on guitar, drums and a great vocal melody and delivery. Adalita (Magic Dirt) also makes an appearance on bass guitar. ‘Poison’ comes from their … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Dark Fair | Poison
Geoffrey O’Connor has a new single out via Chapter Music and continues his immersion into 80s dream pop stylings reminiscent of Chris Rea, and the more synth leaning Double. ‘Her Name On Every Tongue’ is the first taste of O’Connor’s new album Fan Fiction which will be out on August 8th. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Geoffrey O’Connor | Her Name On Every Tongue
Anna Calvi and David Byrne get all mysterious and moody in this new duet covering Keren Ann’s song ‘Strange Weather’. The song appears on Calvi’s new cover EP of the the same name due out on Domino 14.07.14. David Byrne said the following on working with Anna: ‘I’m a big fan of Anna’s two records… and I caught her tour after her first record at Bowery Ballroom … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Anna Calvi & David Byrne | Strange Weather
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