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Premiere: Grinspoon’s Phil Jamieson exclusively unveils the new video for the exuberant single ‘Lights On’ with news of debut solo album and tour dates as icing on the cake.
We are very pleased to be able to bring you an exclusive look at the new video for the track ‘Lights On’ from the legendary Grinspoon singer Phil Jamieson. ‘Lights On’ is a pacy and exuberant little number: inveigled with the kind of spicy bravura and attitude we could expect from the singer of one …
Premiere: Darcy Kate exclusively unveils her exquisite slow burning and yearning album ‘Wanderer’ and announced launch gig.
We are very pleased to provide an exclusive early listen to the new album ‘Wanderer’ from Queensland’s Darcy Kate. With a voice of smoky velvet and a slow burning sparkle to the sound, Kate is a prodigious talent: her songwriting is melodic and tinted with a touch of melancholia and her voice glides and floats …
Premiere: Brisbane electronic artist and producer Du0 exclusively unveils his ethereal EP ‘LIFT’: a dreamy, billowing collection of glittering gems.
Meanjin/Brisbane-based electronic artist and producer Du0 is releasing his gorgeous debut EP ‘LIFT’ (produced by the artist himself and mixed by Mario Borgatta – alt-J, Major Lazer, Foster The People). and we are very honoured to be able to bring you an early listen before its release tomorrow. The music is shimmering and cinematic: wide …
Live Review: Dark Mofo Festival – Kim Gordon – The Odeon Theatre, Hobart, 18.06.2022
Dark Mofo 2022 headliner, Kim Gordon and her band performed songs from her latest (and surprisingly, debut) solo release, 2019’s ‘No Home Record’. The sold-out crowd had come from all across Australia to see this one-off appearance with her band at The Odeon Theatre, and they would not have been disappointed, as she had assembled …
Live Review: Dark Mofo Festival, Cate Le Bon. Odeon Theatre, Hobart, 19.06.2022
Tonight, Cate Le Bon dedicated the song ‘Miami’ to the late great Julee Cruise: a fitting reference to the style and enigmatic sounds of the Lynchian favourite – elements that Le Bon herself displayed throughout this bavura performance as part of the Dark Mofo Festival. The creaky old Odeon Theatre played its part on this …
News: Melbourne’s shimmering Grazer unveil the floaty dreamy track ‘These Days (Pass Me By)’ with Lynchian flavours and an indelible melancholic sparkle, and announce album and launch dates.
Featuring a vibrantly snaking melodic bass line that would fit in Peter Hook’s repertoire and crystal sharp jangling guitars, the new single from Naarn/Melbourne duo Grazer (couple Mollie and Matt Grazer) is a gorgeous dreamy track that is aquatic and hypnotic. The distant almost dissociated layered vocals are like billowing clouds in the sky: transfixing …
Premiere: Richard Cartwright (Richard In Your Mind) exclusively reveals his dreamy, floaty tab of psychedelia, ‘Seaweed’.
We are honoured to be able to bring you the premiere of the single ‘Seaweed’ from Richard In Your Mind member Richard Cartwright, out through Broken Stone Records/Remote Control Records. Just like a piece of seaweed drifting across endless oceans, ‘Seaweed’ is a floating delight: dreamy, hypnotic movements propel the track forward with dappled splashes …
Premiere: The Shrugs exclusively unveil their new ultra cute video for the fuzz bomb blast of ‘Shoebox’.
We are very proud to premiere the new video by Sydney band The Shrugs for their poptastic fuzz blast of ‘Shoebox’. The Shrugs combine creative forces and a swaggering posture to produce a effervescent indie pop blast that adds a sixties bubble gum flavour to the intensity of bands like Pixies or The Breeders. In …
Live Review: Dark Mofo Festival – The Kid Laroi, MyState Arena, Hobart, 11.06.22
For the uninitiated, at only eighteen years old, The Kid Laroi (the nom-de-guerre of Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard) has made quite a global impact, made all the more remarkable given his age and the fact he grew up in the poor inner city housing estates of Redfern in Sydney. Now living in LA, he has …
News: Psych Rock Legends The Black Angels Announce New LP ‘Wilderness of Mirrors’ and new single ‘El Jardin’
Legendary Austin, Texas psych-rockers, The Black Angels have announced their new album Wilderness of Mirrors, which is due out on the 16th of September on Partisan Records/Liberator Music. Following on from their acclaimed 2017 album, Death Song, Wilderness of Mirrors is their first new full-length studio release in 5 years, and adds full-length album #7 to their already impressive discography. Fans …