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News: Nirvana’s Nevermind Reaches It’s 30th Anniversary
The September 24, 1991 release of Nirvana’s Nevermind touched off a seismic shift in global youth culture. Rising to #1 worldwide over the next few months, its impact would elevate Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl from a promising Pacific Northwest cult band to one of the most successful and influential artists of all time. Nevermind returned …
PREMIERE: Leon Creek stream debut album ‘Far from Broken’ in full ahead of release tomorrow and share closing track’s video
If you’re a fan of Chris Pierce and the Los Angeles-based artist’s various musical outlets – we certainly are – then we’ve got a treat for you today. Two of them, actually. We premiered the video for his side-project trio Leon Creek‘s ‘Shakes the Ground’ last month and are delighted to share a full stream …
PREMIERE: Constant Follower tap Martin J. Pickering for ‘Weave of the World’ video; debut album out next Friday
The Stirling-based project led by Stephen McAll, Constant Follower, have been building up to the release of their debut album for a while – releasing its lead single a whole 10 months ago – but it’s finally pencilled in for release next Friday, and they’ve got one final taster to share before the full thing …
Amon Tobin asks ‘How Do You Live’, presents imminent new album in pitch-black premiere event tonight
With his new album arriving tonight at midnight via Nomark – we’re excited, and you should be too – Brazilian electronic trailblazer Amon Tobin is introducing it to the world in a rather fitting way; and by ‘the world’, we mean ‘London’. Specifically, Highgate; if you’re in the area and looking for something to do …
PREMIERE: Royal Canoe get surreal in cinematic video for new album highlight ‘Surrender’
Back in July, Winnipeg-based quintet Royal Canoe released a rather good new record called Sidelining, the fruits of the band’s labour over the two years since 2019’s Waver. They probably weren’t planning on putting together a follow-up so soon, but seizing upon the lone upside of a pandemic putting the last year on ice sounds …
Track: Still Corners release the driving shimmering single ‘Heavy Days’ and announce massive EU/US tour.
‘The Last Exit’ from UK duo Still Corners, released earlier this year (reviewed by me here), was a magnificent and evocative collection of glittering and sparkling songs filled with magic and mystery. Still Corners are back with a new single – ‘Heavy Days’ – and an announcement of a comprehensive tour of the EU and …
Premiere: Brisbane artist Aren’t unveils debut single, the transfixing ‘The Black from the Dark ft McKisko’ and announces debut EP.
Brisbane band Requin burned brightly but tragically briefly, leaving behind an impressive body of work (see our review of the single ‘Rules That Won’t Be Broken’ last year). All is not lost however – Fionn Richards from the band has formed the project Aren’t, and we are honoured to provide an exclusive listen to the …
PREMIERE: My Son the Doctor play with pop-punk tropes on spiky new song ‘Bethany’
Subversions of popular songwriting tropes, if done well, can really speak to an artist’s strengths. In the case of Brooklynite new wave bunch My Son the Doctor, their new song skewers a classic pop-punk fallback: the mutually toxic relationship. Its subject? Er… we’ll let the band explain that one. “We genuinely love pop-punk and thought, …
Premiere: Melbourne’s Skybelly unveils the chapter of an exotic space adventure in the dreamy track ‘Sapphire’, ahead of debut album.
The vivid, sparkling and unbound imagination of Sara Nelson, working under the name Skybelly, creates a whole new universe in her forthcoming album ‘A Space Tramp Odyssey’, due out on 23 September 2021. As a taste of what’s to come, we are honoured to premiere the track ‘Sapphire’ which is due out on 17 September …
Track: Brisbane’s dream pop queen Hatchie is back with another incandescent shimmering single ‘This Enchanted’ and news of singing with US label Secretly Canadian
There’s a frisson of excitement in Backseat Mafia’s antipodean offices. It’s been two years since Brisbane’s dream pop queen Hatchie graced us with her presence with her album ‘Keepsake’ (see my review here), and while she has raised her head above the parapets with a few collaborations (including her duo on the stunning Rinse single …