2024 was another stellar year for music. I say it every year but there were way to many A-list albums to go back through and revisit over the last week or so. As usual this isn’t a ‘best’ list, just the ones that hit the spot and stuck with me the most over the last year. There will no doubt be others I’ll get to … Continue reading FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF 2024
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
Tristan Courtney-Prior is best known around Sydney as guitarist for the bands Peabody and Shearin’ but over the last year or so he’s stepped out of the shadows of those bands to release a couple of singles in the lead-up to his debut album Replication which is set for release on September 13th. As a solo artist, Tristan dives deeper into dark, post-punk guitar rock. … Continue reading VIDEO PREMIERE: Tristan Courtney-Prior – Irene and I
Alan Sparhawk‘s new solo album White Roses, My God will be released on Sub Pop on September 27th. The record, his first solo effort following the end of his legendary band Low (R.I.P. Mimi Parker) features the first single ‘Can U Hear’ and this second release, ‘Get Still‘. The track finds Sparhawk continuing his exploration of dissonant sounds and textures that began across the last … Continue reading Alan Sparhawk (Low) shares the video for his new single ‘Get Still’
American musician and singer-songwriter Joan As Police Woman has released her new single ‘Long For Ruin’, the first taste of her forthcoming new album Lemons, Limes & Orchids (September 20th) Pre-Order. The song is a scintillating hybrid of indie rock and alternative soul featuring distorted electric guitar chords and shuffling percussion. Joan Wasser says of the track, ““This song refers to the human race’s seemingly willful move away … Continue reading Joan As Police Woman Announces New Album + Releases New Single
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa / Auckland, NZ band Ringlets have a new 7″ and digital single out via Leather Jacket Records and Flying Nun Records. It follows the band’s excellent debut, self-titled album of last year. ‘New Life‘ jitters and jerks like a lost Parquet Courts single, all twitchy nerve ends before the verse smooths out the cracks with Leith Towers’ melodic lead vocal and chugging … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Ringlets – New Life
Fantastic news over the weekend that Matt Johnson’s THE THE are set to release their new album Ensoulment on September 6th 2024. This their first album since NakedSelf in 2000. Check out the first single ‘Cognitive Dissident’ with its dark, rhythmic and soulful groove and Johnson’s immediately recognisable vocal. Encompassing characteristic topics ranging from love & sex, war & politics, life & death – to … Continue reading THE THE RELEASE NEW SINGLE AND ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM ‘ENSOULMENT’
Sydney duo Aether + Vassallo are set to release their debut collaborative album Unbroken next month on vinyl/digital and today we are pleased to present the second single from the album, ‘Desire‘. The song is another chapter in the ambient drone and drift of Unbroken, an album built on the slide guitar of Paul Vassallo and Bronwyn Eather‘s vocals, field recordings and composed soundscapes. ‘Desire’ … Continue reading PREMIERE: Aether + Vassallo release new hypnotic and atmospheric ambient single
Sydney songwriter, singer and pianist Jessica has released her (self-recorded and produced) new single ‘And In The Quiet There Is Desire‘, her first new music since her beautiful 2021 album With Reverie. The song comes from a forthcoming album, her third since embarking on a solo career after initially establishing herself as one half of folk noir duo Jep and Dep. Haunting and ethereal, there’s … Continue reading JESSICA RELEASES HAUNTING AND ETHEREAL NEW SINGLE/VIDEO
The Australian instrumental post-rock trio Dirty Three have announced their long-awaited return, with a new album, Love Changes Everything, set for release physically on June 14th and digitally on June 28th. “What joy to kick off the tour for our new album “Love Changes Everything “ in Melbourne Australia for the Rising Festival. Recorded in 5 days. Mixed in a year. Nothing has changed. Older … Continue reading DIRTY THREE ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM AND AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Formed in 2023 while all three members were flatting together in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa/NZ, Family Band take influence from Chicago noise rock and late 00’s Trans-Tasman post-punk. Today they share ‘Large Dirt Piles’, the first single from their debut EP The Dog Box (out digitally on April 30 via Sunreturn). It’s a minimal, repetitive and visceral slab of post punk, rock deconstruction that brings to mind Big Black, Die! Die! Die!, METZ and some of the … Continue reading AOTEAROA’S FAMILY BAND RELEASE POST PUNK/NOISE ROCK SINGLE AHEAD OF NEW EP
Brisbane band Dumb Things have a new single out called ‘Instant Coffee‘ and it certainly has an immediacy in terms of bittersweet hooks, jangly guitars and a gentle surge of energy that effortlessly lifts this way above generic indie fare. Once it hits the chorus the guitar notes spiral off like chemtrails as the rhythm section takes a free range approach. Lovely stuff! Singer, songwriter … Continue reading DUMB THINGS RELEASE A REWARDING HIT OF ‘INSTANT COFFEE’
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