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News: Due to incredible demand Olivia Rodrigo announces 5 new UK dates on Guts world tour
Due to incredible fan demand, multi-platinum, three-time Grammy award-winning artist Olivia Rodrigo announced 18 new dates on her highly anticipated 2024 GUTS world tour. Produced by Live Nation, the colossal global tour will now include third and fourth shows in New York, London and Los Angeles, as well as second shows in Chicago, Montreal, Dublin, Amsterdam, Paris, San Francisco and more, bringing …
Track: AYLA is awash with ‘Fire and Wine’ in a gorgeous ambulant track that heralds a new album.
Collaborating with Sam Thomlinson (Oh My My, Bad Pony), Queensland songwriter and chanteuse AYLA has today unveiled the first of four new singles ahead of a new album due for release in February 2024. ‘Fire and Wine’ crests the waves of a scything, aquatic electronica that bubbles underneath AYLA’s gorgeous vocals that ache with emotion …
Premiere: Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Isla Noon provides us with an exclusive look at the video for her new single, the shimmering and lush single ‘Body’.
We are very honoured to premiere the brilliant accompanying video for the shimmering new single ‘Body’ from New Zealand chanteuse Isla Noon. The project of Shani Sauerman, her vocals are stunning – soft, velvet and diaphanous with a shimmering warmth, heartbreakingly yearning over an instrumentation that is contrastingly thumping, bombastic and dramatic at times, crashing …
Premiere: Wilding is back with a brilliant double single release ‘Logical Steve’ and ‘Difficult Day’, displaying his usual wit and songwriting craft.
We are very honoured to premiere the new double single from one of our favourite artists, Naarm/Melbourne’s Wilding, released through the legendary Half A Cow label. Wilding – the brainchild of Justin Wilding Stokes, is the sonic architect of some very fine whimsical, intelligent pop and we have been following his career for a number …
Live Review: Christine & The Queens / Rhodes – 3Olympia, Dublin 10.09.2023
The venue seemed apt for what followed. The theatrical nature of the headline act in particular suited 3Olympia, itself an old theatre married together to provide an unforgettable evening, with costume changes and intricate set decorations all part of the set. Supported ably by Rhodes and his smart pop music, even in stripped down form, …
Track: Hollie Carmen – Anything Bad For Me
London based Hollie Carmen has shared her new single ‘Anything Bad for Me’ which follows on from her previous track ‘Never Been Kissed‘. Her new track was written 2 months into her sobriety journey as she started to wonder if her addictive tendencies were playing out in a new relationship. “I was newly sober and …
News: National Album Day Announces Lineup Of Exclusive 90s Releases & Reissues To Coincide With Annual Event
National Album Day today announces the exclusive list of limited edition 90s albums that are being released for the annual event celebrating the art of the album on Saturday 14th October. The special titles will be available to purchase in retailers across the UK on NAD itself, and can also be pre-ordered from 9am on Wednesday 13th September. …
Premiere: Two Times Shy are at their ‘Wit’s End’ in a blistering pop punk blast.
Meanjin/Brisbane pop punkers Two Times Shy are not wilting wallflowers given evidence of their new single ‘Wit’s End’, which we are very pleased to premiere today. With a buzz saw blitz married with powerful vocals and a keen pop sensibility, ‘Wit’s End ‘ is a vibrant hyperkinetic track that emits thunderbolts. The blistering guitars range …
Track: Coyle Girelli – So Predictable
Backseat Mafia’s favourite Coyle Girelli has returned with new track ‘So Predictable’ the next single from his forthcoming third album ‘Museum Day‘ due out later this year. Regarding the track, Girelli explains: “In a lot of ways this song is a kind of ode to Los Angeles. It’s a complicated town, filled with complicated people …
News: Thea Gilmore releases new track ‘Nice Normal Woman’
Critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore today releases her brand new single, the commanding Nice Normal Woman. Taken from her highly-anticipated forthcoming album, Thea Gilmore, the track is accompanied by the inspired stop-motion video created by Thea herself. Watch the video and listen to the track here. Thea has said of Nice Normal Woman, “The song was inspired by a quote from Bette Davis in All About …