We are very honoured to premiere the debut single from duo The Darling Hearts with the amusingly titled ‘Jerk Face’. The Darling Hearts are a meeting of two musicians from the creative hub of the inner west of Sydney, with a track record: Maia Jelavic (Maia Marsh, Motion Sickness, Good Side) and Jordan Wilson (Georgia …

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With the welcome regularity and relief of a southerly buster after a stinking hot Sydney day, the esteemed The Nature Strip are back with another album packed full of pop goodness, delivered with their usual wry sense of humour and an uplifting lilt that’s as infectious as the crowd in a mosh pit these days. …

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Meanjin/Brisbane’s Cloud Tangle, the nom de plume of the glorious Amber Ramsay, is releasing her third album ‘Dreaming Again’ this week, and you can get an early listen of this exquisite album premiering here thanks to the dynamic duo of 4000 Records and False Peak Records. Cloud Tangle creates sonic architecture that lives up to …

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The Horrors have announced their sixth studio album ‘Night Life’, which is due out on the 21st ofMarch via Fiction Records. The album announcement is accompanied by brand new single and video ‘The Silence That Remains’ as well as a winter string of intimate shows including London’s ICA on November 28th. See a full list …

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There’s something actually refreshing about a singer/songwriter who describes their ‘creative process’ as “…something makes me frustrated, and then I turn it into a little passive-aggressive song…just obsessing about stuff that’s not that important, actually!” So said Berlin based, indie pop realist Anna Erhard when asked about how her latest album ‘Botanical Garden’ which is …

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Chicago-based cult band Pulsars have announced the long-awaited digital release of their self-titled debut album, PULSARS, set to arrive on streaming platforms on November 15th. Today, the band has released the 3 track single ‘Trilogy’, comprising the first three tracks from the album. The digital release is more than just a reissue—it represents the culmination …

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Award-winning British alt-pop artist Chloey Rose shares the theatrical and powerfully 80s pop infused new single ‘Runaway’. Moving away from the downbeat, more organic sound of previous material, ‘Runaway’ brings a fresh faced, upbeat vibrancy to Rose’s sound. Retaining the sense of emotion and melancholy through her vocal delivery but brings a fizzing backdrop of …

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There’s almost an operatic gloss to singer/songwriter Brigitte Bardini‘s vocals in her dreamy new single ‘Fool’: a floating and ethereal delivery above an aquatic bubbling instrumental that is cool and urbane. There is a sixties laid back quality to the track with the arpeggiated strings that swell in the distance – a song to be …

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We have traversed the shimmering Oceans before with their antipodean brand of glittering shoegaze, and the band (formerly the solo project of Thomas Lee) has now collaborated with solo artist Mayzie (New Zealand born, Melbourne based Mayzie Lee who we have also covered separately) in a an album entitled ‘Luminosity’ due out on 5 October …

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Returning for it’s third year Forwards Festival continued it’s growing reputation for showcasing international, national and local bands. From huge names to those most won’t have heard of across a massively diverse range of musical genres. Set on the Bristol Downs, Forwards isn’t your typical summer festival. For a start it’s just two days instead …

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