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If you need an emotional release from the current state of the world, look no further than R3HAB‘s new collaboration “Good Example” with singer/songwriter Andy Grammer. The song takes the format of a parent speaking to their child, and Grammer‘s voice on the tender lyrics is guaranteed to tug at your heartstrings. “Good Example” opens with Grammer‘s soulful performance over delicate acoustic guitar melodies, which break down into a groovy and melodic drop courtesy of R3HAB‘s expert touch. It follows R3HAB‘s recent release “Creep” with GATTÜSO and is his first collaboration with Andy Grammer, whose hits like “Don’t Give Up On Me” and “Honey, I’m Good” have made him a favorite artist of millions of listeners in the pop-rock/country-pop circuit.

“Andy Grammer‘s voice has always been one of my favorites. With this track it’s no different – good example is exactly that – a good example of a great song. Andy‘s message fits the track perfectly, and I can’t wait to share it with the world.” – R3HAB

“‘Good Example‘ is a song about the conflict of being with your kid or chasing your calling. This is an impossible decision, and sometimes showing them how to passionately go after your dream means spending time away.” – Andy Grammer

Over the last eight years, the Dutch/Moroccan artist Fadil El Ghoul – better known as R3HAB – has established himself as a leader at the forefront of modern electronic music. His talent has been called the “future of the craft” by the likes of Forbes and Billboard, and he’s circuited the globe’s best clubs and festivals, all without the backing of a formal record label. In 2017, R3HAB independently released his debut album “Trouble” through his imprint CYB3RPVNK, which amassed over a half-billion streams globally and officially placed R3HAB among electronic music’s heavy hitters. He made number 14 on DJ Mag‘s Top 100 list in 2019, topping the charts with tracks like “Lullaby” and “Hold On Tight,” while his sophomore album “The Wave,” revealing more complex, emotional and experimental layers of himself, has amassed over 250 million streams on Spotify alone. In 2019 R3HAB‘s “All Around The World” with A Touch of Class quickly became his biggest ever record already topping 200M streams across platforms and achieving gold & platinum status in 8 countries. It was followed by “Flames,” R3HAB‘s collaboration with ZAYN.

Andy Grammer‘s relatable and emotive music has made him a household name since 2011 when throughout his debut album Andy released to the world his first hits, such as “Fine by Me” and “Keep Your Head Up.” His second album “Magazines or Novels” was released in 2014, and featured “Honey, I’m Good” which is his most successful song to date, peaking at number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. This single has been certified triple-platinum RIAA and was ranked one of the ten best-selling songs of 2015 by Nielsen SoundScan. Andy Grammer‘s music can range from upbeat to heartbroken, and the honesty of his songwriting is part of his appeal. He also hosts his “The Good Parts” podcast, where he and guests, which have included Mike Posner and Sam Harris, which is available on his Youtube channel.

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MIGUEL LOBO – ‘STAY AWAKE/ ANOTHER DAY’ 
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Hailing from Talavera de la Reina, electronic music producer and DJ Miguel Lobo has spent his career crafting an inimitable sound packed full of percussive grooves. A purveyor of house music, he brings his multitude of influences together in his debut album ‘Moving Faces’ on Yousef’s seminal imprint ‘Circus Recordings’ with first EP ‘Stay Awake / Another Day’.

Releasing music since 2009, Circus Recordings is one of the worlds most respected and consistent imprints, bringing together global icons of electronic music alongside new and emerging names. Marking a notable moment for the imprint, ‘Moving Faces’ LP will be the first album project released on Circus Recordings by an artist other than label head, Yousef. Miguel joins a list of top tier producers such as Carl Cox, Sven Väth, Marco Carola, Scuba, Green Velvet, and Steve Lawler who have also released on the imprint.

Making waves through the underground scene as an international touring DJ, the last few years have seen Miguel Lobo releasing on a number of respected and established labels including 8Bit, Defected and Knee Deep In Sound. Affirming his abilities as a producer, Miguel has seen strong support from DJs across the board from Hot Since 82, Marco Carola, Nick Curly, Nicole Moudaber, and Oxia.

Not one to follow trends or conform to genre barriers, Miguel Lobo has created his own original style and sound. His investigative musical ideology sees him bring together many influences across ‘Moving Faces’ LP.

“In the album I wanted to capture the different styles and moods with which I identify, sometimes experimental sometimes dark and moody and sometimes focused on the club. This is why I chose the name ‘Moving Faces’ for the LP as I share my multiple faces with the listener.” Miguel Lobo

Releasing first album EP ‘Stay Awake/Another Day’ kick starts the album journey. ‘Stay Awake’ conjures the nostalgia of watching DJ heroes play until the small hours of the morning, via moody basslines and infectious grooves blended with the smooth vocals of Rion S. Meanwhile, ‘Another Day’ presents Miguel’s melodic side with a euphoric mix, stitched together by the oozing groove that underpins the wider ‘Moving Face’ LP project.

Made entirely with the self-taught production techniques of Miguel, ‘Stay Awake/Another Day’ EP provides a sure taster of what’s to come on the forthcoming LP; set to land as a multi-purpose project ‘Moving Faces’ feels fit for clubs, festivals or even the comfort of ones living room.

Miguel Lobo’s ‘Stay Awake / Another Day’ LP is out now on Circus Recordings

‘Moving Faces’ LP will be available 1^st May via Circus Recordings

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“The Melbourne band went viral last year with a few ace footy songs and this proves they’re not just a novelty band with some sick punk/garage rock” – Declan Byrne, triple j

“Maybe the most fun you can have while indefinitely confined to your room for the foreseeable future. Legitimately though, this is a blast!” – Tommy Faith, triple j Unearthed

The Picket Palace boys have just released their tongue-in-cheek video for their latest track “No Fun Intended”. The song has already made waves being premiered on triple j, on high rotation on SYN FM and Spotify playlisting including “New Punk Tracks” (155k followers).

“This was the last time we all got to hang out before all the craziness so we got kinda drunk and turned the lights out,” said the band of the video.

 Inspired by the desire to revert back to a child in times of anxiety, ‘No Fun Intended’ doesn’t stray from the playful, chaotic & distinctly Australian sound the boys are known for.

“Anxiety makes you so worked up about everything that you aren’t really able to effectively deal with anything and you regress into a useless little baby. I wanted to play with how grotesque and stupid that transformation is,” says lead singer Seamus O’Connell.

The song features a running lyric only Australians would understand, “yeah, nah.” It’s contradictory yet we don’t question it, because we understand what it means without having to define it. Seamus explains he incorporated the line because “it calls back to the franticness and indecisiveness of anxiety and circular thinking.”

This release signifies the Picket Palace boys coming into their own, solidifying their sound outside of The Footy Record they became known for.

PICKET PALACE

Birthed and nurtured in a sweaty loft apartment above a picket fence workshop in Brunswick, Picket Palace crank out razor-sharp punk belters and anxious, rambling reflections with an enthusiasm that is innocent, unpretentious and completely infectious. Urgent, punchy rhythms underpin distinctive, angular guitar lines and lyrics so honest and guileless that you’ll feel like the band have set your own half drunken conversations to music.

The boys soared to virality after releasing the highly animated film clip for ‘Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti’ which has since garnered half a million views respectively, plucking the boys out of Melbourne’s underground garage-rock scene and into national consciousness.

Their follow up record, aptly named ‘The Footy Record’, began almost as a joke – a couple affectionate punk rock tribute to the band’s favourite footballers, written mostly to amuse themselves. But once they introduced a couple of those tracks into their live set everyone fell in love with their raucous, ridiculous energy, and the band realised they were too good to be wasted as unheralded throwaways.

Recent performances include a slot on the main stage of the sold out Beyond The Valley festival over new years, alongside a sold out headline show at Northcote Social Club last September. Their live show is an exuberant, exhilarating trip that is somehow both ferociously energetic and sincerely heartwarming — an adorable riot, not to be missed…

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Melbourne indie rockers Big League are returning with the second single from their upcoming full length “A Symbol Like a Cloud”.

The new single “Earth = Active Neutral” is haunting atmospheric jangle pop, the uneasy nature of the song captured by Gordon Holland with an eerie clip.

The release is set to continue the steady rise of the band since the release of their debut album , “I Thought Thunderbolt” that lead to critical acclaim from outlets such as Beat, The Music & Happy Mag as well as appearances at SXSW and extensive touring in Australia and the United States.

Melbourne label Off the Hip Records issued “I Thought Thunderbolt” on limited edition orange vinyl for Record Store Day 2018.

The new record is due out later in 2020.

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Big League: Best in Show. Live Session in Portland, Oregon

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Ivy League Records is incredibly proud to announce Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s highly anticipated second album, Sideways To New Italy – featuring recent single ‘Cars In Space’ and new single ‘She’s There’ – will be released on Friday 5 June. Lead by singer-songwriter-guitarists Tom Russo, Joe White and Fran Keaney, and rounded out by bassist Joe Russo and drummer Marcel Tussie, Sideways To New Italy is a stunning return for the five-piece following their internationally acclaimed debut album, Hope Downs (2018).

Premiered by Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1 alongside the album announcement, new single ‘She’s There’ is a cosmic Rolling Blackouts C.F. offering; a wistful love song championed by surging guitar riffs, driving beats and the band’s limitless energy. Forever evolving and reshaping Australian guitar pop into a force of their own, ‘She’s There’ is a bright and stunning glimpse into a triumphant second record by the Melbourne five-piece.

After enough time away from home, even the familiar starts to feel foreign. For Rolling Blackouts C.F, returning to Melbourne after long stretches looking out at the world through the windows of aeroplanes and tour vans lead to a dislocation, like being the knot in the middle of a game of tug-o-war. Sideways to New Italy sees the band interrogate their individual pasts and the places that inform them. In clicking the scattered pieces back into place, they have crafted for themselves a new totem of home to carry with them no matter where they end up.

The eponymous New Italy is a village near New South Wales’s Northern Rivers – the area Tussie is from. A blink-and-you’ll-miss-it pit-stop of a place with fewer than 200 residents, it was founded by Venetian immigrants in the late-1800s and now serves as something of a living monument to Italians’ contribution to Australia, with replica Roman statues dotted like souvenirs on the otherwise rural landscape. The parallel between these remnants of home and the band’s own attempts to maintain connections and create familiarity during their disorienting time on the road were not lost on Russo. “These are the expressions of people trying to find home somewhere alien; trying to create utopia in a turbulent and imperfect world.”

The record’s very present geographic identity emerged from the band losing their grip on their own, whether that was through the pressure of touring, the dissolution of relationships, a frustrating distance from their daily lives – or some combination of all three – which stemmed from having been slingshot all over the world. The past two years have seen Rolling Blackouts C.F. play the world’s biggest music festivals, from Coachella, Governors Ball, Pitchfork Music Festival, Primavera, and Shaky Knees to Lowlands, Pukklepop, Green Man and Splendour in the Grass, plus sold-out headline shows across London, San Diego, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, Philadelphia, New York City and of course, landing back at home for their sold-out Australian album tour.

In addition to the specific town, the songs on the record exist variably in Darwin (‘Cameo’), Melbourne (‘Beautiful Steven’), Los Angeles (‘The Cool Change’), the tiny town of Rushworth (Not Tonight) and the driver’s seat of a car at a drive-in movie (‘Cars in Space’). Rolling Blackouts C.F are well-versed in a detailed and cinematic style of songwriting, where landscapes, interactions and memories materialise as characters and stories that reflect the tight, swirling guitars that emote alongside the trio’s voices.

“I felt completely rudderless on tour,” Keaney says. “It’s fun but you get to a point where you’re like, Who am I anymore? You feel like you’re everywhere and nowhere at the same time. And no one in particular.” Russo adds, “We saw a lot of the world, which was such a privilege, but it was kind of like looking through the window at other people’s lives, and then also reflecting on our own.”

Sideways To New Italy is the first new music from the band since 2019’s 7”, two-single release of ‘In The Capital’ and ‘Read My Mind’, which followed the band’s 2018 debut album, Hope Downs. Featuring singles ‘Mainland’, ‘Talking Straight’,  ‘An Air Conditioned Man’, ‘Time In Common’ & ‘Sister’s Jeans’ – Hope Downs was embraced by lovers of their early EPs, Talk Tight and The French Press, and new fans alike. The record quickly became one of the most internationally acclaimed Australian albums of the year, appearing in many sought after Best of 2018 lists, coming in at #5 on Rough Trade’s Albums of the Year list, #3 on MOJO’s Album of the Year List (+ was named MOJO’s Debut Album of the Year), #2 on UNCUT’s Albums of the Year, being shortlisted for the prestigious AMP Award & receiving tremendous support from the likes of FBi Radio, PBS, Triple R, triple j, Double J, Pitchfork, The Guardian, Paste Magazine, NME, Rolling Stone US, BBC 6 Music, Stereogum, DIY Mag, and countless others.

Sideways To New Italy is out on digital, CD and Sub Pop’s limited Loser-edition coloured vinyl on Friday 5 June, available to pre-order now!

‘She’s There’ Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Single out now through Ivy League Records Available to buy/stream hereSideways To New Italy Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Album out 5 June 2020 through Ivy League Records Available to pre-order here Sideways To New Italy tracklisting: 1. The Second Of The First 2. Falling Thunder 3. She’s There 4. Beautiful Steven 5. The Only One 6. Cars In Space 7. Cameo 8. Not Tonight 9. Sunglasses At The Wedding 10. The Cool Change

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