Visionary US artist Lonnie Holley has announced his new album Tonky will be released on March 21st. Check out the first single ‘Protest with Love’. The album includes a plethora of guests including Mary Lattimore, Isaac Brock, Angel Bat Dawid, Jesca Hoop, Alabaster de Plume and Saul Williams. Foreword by Hanif Abdurrqib: There are poets like the great Mary Oliver, who might suggest that one’s … Continue reading LONNIE HOLLEY ANNOUNCES NEW 2025 ALBUM
Storied activist and music production non-profit Red Hot have again come through with a sublime, moving and inspired compilation of music. TRAИƧA includes 46 songs and contributions from over a hundred musicians, including Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Faye Webster, Julien Baker, Andre 3000, Perfume Genius, Yaeji, Arthur Baker, Adrienne Lenker, Fleet Foxes, Lee Ranaldo, Sharon Van Etten and many more, in celebration of the trans community and to bring … Continue reading Red Hot release new compilation TRAИƧA
Black Midi have been stretching time and reinventing song dynamics over the last five years and now singer and in the wake of the statement that the band is “indefinitely over” while the members focus on other projects, guitarist Geordie Greep has announced he’s stepping out on his own with his debut solo album The New Sound (Rough Trade, Oct 4th). The first single off … Continue reading Black Midi’s Geordie Greep releases the first single from his debut solo album
Sydney group 78 Saab were one of the leading lights of the Sydney (and national scene) through the 2000s, with their blend of melodically rich indie rock and jangly, chiming, guitar power pop. Their sophomore Tim Whitten-produced album Crossed Lines turns 20 this year and to celebrate, Ben Nash (vocals, guitar), Nicholai Danko (drums), Garth Tregillgas (bass) and Jake Andrews (guitar), joined on stage by … Continue reading 78 SAAB ANNOUNCE CROSSED LINES ANNIVERSARY TOUR & VINYL REISSUE
It’s been 30 years since the release of The Cruel Sea’s phenomenal, 5 x ARIA Award-winning / Triple Platinum album, The Honeymoon Is Over. While the five-piece were already a fixture on the live scene with two acclaimed albums, Down Below & This Is Not the Way Home, it was their 1993 third studio album, produced by Tony Cohen, that thrust the band into the spotlight and firmly planted itself in … Continue reading TOUR NEWS: The Cruel Sea announce shows to celebrate 30 years of The Honeymoon Is Over
Anti- have announced they’ll be releasing a new posthumous Sparklehorse album called Bird Machine on September 9th. The record was being worked on by Mark Linkous when he committed suicide in 2010 and has been completed by his brother Matt and sister-in-law Melissa. As Mark began work on what he planned to be the fifth Sparklehorse album in 2009, he and Matt would talk through … Continue reading NEW SPARKLEHORSE ALBUM COMING IN SEPTEMBER!
No sooner did punk legends Hard-Ons announce that Tim Rogers (You Am I) was joining the band, they released the excellent LP I’m Sorry Sir, That Riff’s Been Taken and played a heap of shows. Now 18 months later they back with their second album with Rogers in the fold. Ripper ’23 will be released on June 2nd via Cheersquad Records and today they’ve released … Continue reading HARD-ONS RELEASE BRILLIANTLY DISCONCERTING NEW VIDEO FOR ‘APARTMENT FOR TWO’
To celebrate their upcoming opening slot (April 16th @ The Zoo, Meanjiin/Brisbane) on the Australian Mudhoney tour, Gravel Samwidge have released the video clip for the song ‘Long Distance Drive‘, taken from their 2021 album Complaints. The song features Matt Kennedy (Kitchen’s Floor) on guest guitar and nails a coruscating fast/slow dynamic, reminiscent of Girls Against Boys if they were a more irreverent, post-grunge noise … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Gravel Samwidge – Long Distance Drive
Photo credit: Emily Rieman Mudhoney’s new LP Plastic Eternity is out this Friday, April 7th worldwide on Sub Pop. Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion, Mudhoney guitarist Steve Turner’s new book chronicling the birth and evolution of Mudhoney and the Seattle grunge scene, is available for pre-order now and will be out June 13, 2023. Australia Tour 2023 Sun. Apr. 16 – Brisbane, AU – … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Mudhoney like little dogs!
Definitive edition of their 1985 studio album Low-Life that includes the original album on 180g vinyl LP and CD – remastered. A second CD of unreleased audio, x2DVDs of live performances from 1984 & 1985, plus a hardback book. The vinyl album and CD are both wrapped in the original tracing-paper sleeve – not available since the very first pressing, and the first time ever for the … Continue reading DEFINITIVE EDITION OF NEW ORDER’S LOW LIFE OUT NEXT FRIDAY
Returning after a ten-year sojourn, freshly stewed from the mind of legendary rock outlier J Mascis, instrumental psych sideshow Heavy Blanket are back with the release of new album Moon Is on Outer Battery Records. Forever the creator and custodian of noise in all its inimitable forms, Mascis’ recent raid on a stash of unused riffs has yielded an exceptionally heavy trove of new tracks. Over six … Continue reading NEW HEAVY BLANKET (J. MASCIS) LP OUT END OF JANUARY
2022, another year of new music and further blurring of the distinction between genres new and old. This fragmentation and amalgamation of form continues to thrill and rejuvenate my depth of listening and inspire a renewed sense of vigour in digging deeper to find new artists. Like all of you I trawl the web, listen to favourite radio stations and shows, draw on the recommendations … Continue reading Favourite Albums of 2022
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