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Track: Allday’s new single ‘Void’ is an enigmatic, yearning anthem and comes with album and touring news.
Adelaide born but now Melbourne resident Allday (the moniker of Tom Gaynor) has gained a sizeable reputation as a rapper and songwriter over the recent years and you can see there is incontrovertible evidence in his new single ‘Void’. Coming off his newly announced album ‘Drinking With My Smoking Friends’, set for release 28 May …
Track: Belowsky releases the punchy ‘Hooks Jabs Words (remixed by Danny Saber)’ through Alan McGee’s Its Creation Baby
The legendary Alan McGee’s new label Its Creation Baby has just released an smashing new tribute to Muhammad Ali by pop-poet Belowsky, entitled ‘Hook Jab Word’ and remixed by Black Grapes’ Danny Saber. It’s a funky, restless track as light and fast as Ali himself with a dexterity and flow to the bass and vocals. …
Track: Melbourne punk trio CLAMM unleash blistering single ‘Liar’ to whet appetite for album ‘Beseech Me’
Fasten your seatbelts for the blistering new sing ‘Liar’ from Melbourne punks CLAMM. There are no such things as brakes when you get on board – ‘Liar’ is a frenetic unhinged blast of fury bookended by howling feedback and with rocket-fueled vocals. It’s cathartic and it’s explosive but also done with impeccable style. The band …
Track: The Chills unveil new track ‘Destiny’ ahead of May album release, and announce on-demand concert stream.
With news out already of the much anticipated new album ‘Scatterbrain’ from New Zealand giants The Chills (due out on 14 May 2021 out through Fire Records and Flying Nun Records), the band has set up their stall and displayed another valuable ware from the collection – the track ‘Destiny’. You know what to expect from this band …
Track: Stephen Fretwell returns with the beautifully restrained ‘Oval’
It’s been quite a while for Stephen Fretwell. As one of the people who adored his much lauded debut Magpie, and it’s follow up – 2007’s Man on the Roof, I (and I imagine quite a few others) wondered what had happened. Turns out family life, with Fretwell bringing up his two sons in Brighton, …
See: St. Vincent releases new video for ‘Pay Your Way In Pain’, along with new album details
Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent has revealed details of her forthcoming sixth album Daddy’s Home. The nitty gritty of it all is that its out May 14, 2021 on Loma Vista Recordings. You can Pre-Save the album now, or pre-order your choice of 8-track (yeah, 8-track), CD, Vinyl, Deluxe Vinyl, and Cassette. Take yourself off to https://lnk.ilovestvincent.com/Shop to pre-order exclusive picture …
News: Mdou Moctar set to release a new album for Matador; hear ‘Tala Tannam’
MDOU MOCTAR is at last gathering momentum. Still, it’s been an epic journey since 2008 when his raw, emotional guitar music first began to spread across West Africa via the DIY network of traded SIM cards. Picked up by Chris Kirkley of Sahel Sounds, who sent Mdou a much-needed left-handed Strat, and which label then …
Track: Jordan Merrick – ‘This Rainy Day’: sweet Americana to curl up inside
BRISBANE folkie Jordan Merrick has capturing hearts a while now; and it’s a dead cert he’ll capture a few more with the warming campfire Americana of “This Rainy Day”, which is just a bit of a tune, actuellement, and which you can hear below. His After releasing his debut album Night Music in 2019, Jordan released a clutch …
Track: Renée Reed – ‘Neboj’: mysterious verdancy from rising Louisiana folk chanteuse
WE’RE just a fortnight, a little more, away from the release of Renée Reed’s self-titled debut album, one on which she reveals a mysterious, perfumed songwriting aesthetic, steeped in the Cajun culture she grew up within. And today’s she’s dropped a third single from that album, “Neboj”; it’s a languid thrill, as you can hear …
Track: Lisel + Booker Stardrum – ‘In The Dome’: fractured, space-age experimental pop
ELIZA BEGG, the vocalist and composer who guises as Lisel musically, and electronica creator and percussionist Booker Stardrum, have been friends a long time, circulating in each other’s musical orbit. What with the absolutely bloody everything of it out there, they’ve elected to spend recent time wisely with a six-week, remote collaboration eliciting an album, …