April 2020

Local label Tremorverse Records, in collaboration with Melbourne’s Box Hill Institute, is thrilled to present a new compilation album featuring original songs from isolated music students the world over, with submissions now open. Songs From Home is set to once again obliterate genre boundaries and navigate the multimodal soundscapes that music students have to offer.

An exercise in isolation curation, students from Music Institutions across the globe are invited to upload original works, created during the COVID-19 social distancing lockdown, by midnight Friday 22 May for a chance to be featured on the album. Prospective tracks can be collaborative, multi-genre, instrumental, traditional or experimental. Despite the unprecedented circumstances, there are no limitations here. Songs From Home is inclusive of all genres and styles from students globally.

“Music students, like everyone else, have had big changes in their lives as a result of this pandemic. They can no longer go to band practice, choir practice, their own or others gigs or  festivals. Events that might have defined their way of living have been cancelled and they no longer see their friends face to face. They also may have lost their part-time jobs and be back at the family home. Conversely, they may now have more time and quiet to explore other aspects of their creative expression – learn a new instrument, collaborate in a different way.

Creating and experiencing music is a very human and interactive experience and that has altered. We thought this compilation might be a way to collate and document the creative response to this pandemic from music students. It gives a purpose or a goal where some may have been lost. It is open to all music students across the world and encourages new ways of working and creating together.” – Merida Sussex, Tremorverse Records 

Set to be released in June 2020, Songs From Home will be available to stream via AWAL on all good streaming platforms and to purchase through Bandcamp, with all proceeds going directly to the students featured on the compilation, as a way to give emerging artists a leg-up in this time of great difficulty.

The world was not expecting to spend 2020 in isolation and for many, it is not necessarily where we wanted to be. This compilation is a space for expression for new and emerging artists written in this time of isolation. So if you have a track about this strange isolation, a song that you wrote to help get you through, or maybe just something you created as a distraction from reality, Tremorverse wants to hear it! Upload your track to the Songs From Home compilation submissions today.

Songs From Home compilation submissions are now open until Friday 22 May midnight AEST via tremorverse.com

Submissions will need to include: 
Link to your song
A mixed song (the song needs to be recorded in high resolution)
Include all the credits for the song
Include your full name and contact details with a little bio about yourself
Include a short video about the track and what it means for you

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Musical phenomenon, Tyde Levi, has announced the release of his highly anticipated new single, ‘AAA’. The new track, released through BMG, is available today.

To prepare for the release of his new music, Tyde spent early 2019 writing in Norway, London and Los Angeles before releasing his single ‘Flying So Far’ at the end of last year. His newest track, ‘AAA’, was written with Matt Zara (Matoma, Olly Murs, Jason Derulo, James Blunt) and Caitlyn Scarlett, and offers listeners more of the smooth, alt-RnB style that is fast becoming known as Tyde’s signature sound.

Labelled by his brother Troye Sivan as his “favourite song of Tyde’s so far”, fans have already familiarised themselves with ‘AAA’ through Tyde’s live performances and have been patiently awaiting its release.

Of the song, Tyde Levi says, “I wrote ‘AAA’ when I was in London for a few weeks. I had been there a while and there were a couple things in my life that just weren’t going the way I thought they would. That’s always a tough battle to have. A lot of things had built up inside me and I just wanted to get out of there, so I wrote AAA, a song about being in love and running away. Getting as far away from all the things that could trouble someone in today’s world and falling so deeply in love that it doesn’t even matter that you left everything you know.”.

Tyde has recently performed headline shows to sold-out crowds in Melbourne and Sydney after supporting the likes of CXLOE, Honne, Mansionair and Troye Sivan on his latest national tours in Australia and China. With more new music on the horizon, Tyde Levi can be expected to be a constant on everyone’s radar in 2020.

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Remo Drive return! Today they’ve revealed details of their highly awaited new album, A Portrait of an Ugly Man, which sees its release June 26 via Epitaph Records. With its acrobatic guitar work, deeply self-referential lyrics and off-the-walls energy, the album calls back to the dextrous, eccentric sound that helped the band – brothers Erik (vocals, guitar) and Stephen (bass) Paulson – explode into the underground with their 2017 debut.

Remo Drive sound larger than ever on the album’s hook-filled, indie rock anthem, “Star Worship”. The lead single preaches the need to eschew reverence for others and instead trust in yourself. It comes accompanied with a video which the brothers shot in their parents garage to keep busy during the ongoing quarantine.

A slice of tremolo-heavy classic rock filtered through the lens of the gunslinging American West, Remo Drive’s third album, A Portrait of an Ugly Man finds them truly in their element – both physically and sonically. Whereas the Paulsons filtered their buoyant songwriting through the concise lens of storytellers like Bruce Springsteen and The Killers on Natural, Everyday Degradation, A Portrait of an Ugly Man is more spontaneous, bolstered by the same charm and levity that made 2017’s Greatest Hits such an underground favourite.

“I wanted to get back to playing guitar the way I used to, and then throw songwriting on top of that,” Erik says. “On the last album, I approached playing guitar in a more songwriter-y way. I had really scaled it back so it wouldn’t be as hard for me to sing and play simultaneously, but the guitar is way more forward again now.”

Self-produced and mixed, A Portrait of an Ugly Man feels all at once familiar and fresh. Taking shape in their parent’s basement, the space breathed a looseness into the songs, while the freedom of the sessions left the band able to explore the next evolution of their sound.

As such, the 10-song set tips its hat to both the classic rock the brothers grew up on as well as previously untapped influences: Erik namechecks desert-rock artists like Queens of the Stone Age while admitting The Good, The Bad and The Ugly soundtrack and his binge-watching of old Westerns contributed to the album’s tumbleweed pastiche. But this time around, the guiding hands of their musical influences are consciously less overt.

That unflinching sense of self-awareness is what made Remo Drive so endearing as they found their footing in the mid-2010s, but it’s never been as crystalized as it is on A Portrait of an Ugly Man. The loathsomeness Paulson explores on the album certainly reflect less glamorous aspects of both his psyche and that of others, but when they’re cut with his quick wit and self-deprecation, they seem less like an actual indictment and more of an embrace of all of life’s imperfection and absurdity. “I was bumming myself out by trying to be more serious than I actually am,” Erik admits. “On this album, I wanted to write stuff that still communicated real ideas but had a bit of lighthearted, fun energy to it.”

In turning the mirror back at themselves in this way, Remo Drive have learned a lot about who they really are: A Portrait of an Ugly Man is an album that doesn’t seek to minimize important subjects like mental health or self-worth, but rather welcome them in and accept them as part of what it means to be human. The record also cements their place as an insular, self-sustaining act who don’t need shiny gear or expensive studios to produce a great album – that task starts and ends with the songs themselves. And, as it turns out, the recording process was proof that when it comes to a nurturing, creative environment, there’s no place like home.

REMO DRIVE – A PORTRAIT OF AN UGLY MAN – OUT FRIDAY JUNE 26 A Portrait of an Ugly Man Track Listing: 1 – A Guide To Live By 2 – Star Worship 3 – Dead Man 4 – If I’ve Ever Looked Too Deep In Thought 5 – The Ugly Man Sings 6 – True Romance Lives 7 – Ode to Joy 2 8 – The Night I Kidnapped Remo Drive 9 – A Flower and a Weed 10 – Easy as That

Melbourne-based electropop artist Lakelend has today released ‘Fall Down’, a euphoric debut for the solo project of former Storm The Sky guitarist and songwriter Lachlan Avis.

Combining dreamy synths, smooth beats and Lachlan’s heartfelt vocals, the upbeat track tells the decidedly downbeat story of Lachlan’s first love and, by extension, first break up. In a word, ‘Fall Down’ explores a lover’s betrayal. “It creates a nostalgic yet heartbreaking feeling upon listening that was written for those that really need it – including myself,” Lachlan explains. Mixing vulnerability with likeability, and turning pain into something upbeat, Lachlan has created an entirely relatable sound that “people can listen to, drive to and dance to,” Lachlan continues.

Drawing influence from artists such as Lauv, LANY, The 1975 and The Chainsmokers – Lakelend was created after two years working with renowned producers Cam Bluff (Amy Shark, Illy, Hilltop Hoods, Allday), Xavier Dunn (Peking Duk, Graace, Jack River) and the MSquared team Michael Paynter & Michael DeLorenzis (Aloe Blacc, CXLOE). It is his first project since the breakup of alternative rock band Storm The Sky, with whom he toured extensively and released two ARIA Top 50 albums.

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‘Fall Down’ is OUT NOW.

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“Fa-Fa-Fading is a literal dream; a soft-sung haze of melodies and harmonies that unite for this cloudy, dream-pop sound that still bites with the Timi Temple-esque crunch.”
– PIlerats (AUS)

“Big fan of Timi’s stuff. He packs more little sonic easter eggs into his tracks than the credits of a Marvel movie.” – 4/5 stars
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Following the release of their hit new single in late 2019 Diplo & SIDEPIECE’s single ‘On My Mind’ they now reveal an insane new video which could arguably stand confidently for video of the year. On a steady journey to the top of the global charts the single has reached almost 20 million combined streams and been chosen by BBC Radio 1 as ‘Tune Of The Week’, as well as reaching #1 at U.S. Dance Radio 

Using intense visual effects and a small but motley cast of characters, the video delivers a totally unexpected and fun work of art. Seemingly an exceptionally high-end artistic production, the video for ‘On My Mind’ was created using a new technology supplied by the ‘Sway’ app that uses Al- powered motion filters that can make any regular Joe throw some serious shapes.

Curtailing the spirit of dancing and grooving that the song trajects, the ‘On My Mind’ video provides a truly unique visualiser for the internationally acclaimed song.

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From the minute the signature house drums roll in, Maya entwines romance and melancholy accented by the velvety vocals of Claudia Kane on a track that is proving to be a huge dance floor weapon in recent weeks.

It’s been ten years since the British-Japanese producer unleashed the often sampled, modern house classic “What They Say” and “Run To You” feels like another modern classic has been born. The relentless uncompromising detail in “Run To You’ is another affirmation to influence others.  The tracks cavernous mix of both fresh and familiar textures demonstrates that sometimes delving into a new territory marks a more acquainted sound than ever. “Run to You” looks set to dominate charts and playlists, propelling the prolific producer into the summer, Maya’s sinister and atmospheric wall of sound has a sultry and elastic taste; trademark in production quality and delivered with a sense of ease and statement.

As Maya’s alter ego Nocturnal Sunshine’s “Full Circle” album campaign continues with fervour with collaborations with Young M.A., Peaches and Ry X. Maya has proved time and again that she really brings that best out of her guests. Adding to a list of vocalist dignitaries that include Tricky and Nadine Shah to Miss Kittin and Kim Ann Foxman; Claudia Kane’s feature performance delivers a powerful debut vocal performance that’s soaked in both the tragedy and beauty while Maya stays immersed in the groove. The results are impressively adventurous.

While primed for the right club moment, Maya Jane Coles latest single “Run To You” provides an inquisitive source of identity as has her rich musical career extends confidently into yet another new space.

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