“With every release the rising Pop star ups spectacle in every way, from the writing and  production to the accompanying visual identity. I’m steadfast in my opinion that Mila Nile is one  of the best acts to break through the monotony of today’s Commercial Pop landscape.”  – Luke, Futuremag Music 

“All hail our new pop queen.” – Celline Narinli, Triple J Unearthed 

“Mila is an extremely smart songwriter.” – Nic Kelly, Project U 

“There is a uniqueness, a smartness and a real artistry in her music which has only gotten better  and better as her career has progressed.” – Women In Pop 

“The Swedish Lorde” – Fashion Journal  

“This icy alternative pop innovator glides over boisterous beats with a cool and collected vibe  that can only be compared to icons of the genre” – Tone Deaf 

Sydney-based Indie pop innovator Mila Nile, celebrates  the release of her debut EP, Do You Remember That?,  a collection of nostalgia-soaked pop tracks chronicling  the five most influential moments in the singer’s   journey from adolescence to adulthood.

“Like most people, I’ve spent more of the past year thinking about the life I’ve lived than actually  living it,” Mila explains. “That’s definitely reflected in this collection”.  

The five-track EP features a track listing in chronological order, exploring the highest highs and  lowest lows of the Swedish-born singer’s life.  

The EP’s lead single, Old School Calling, sits at the more optimistic end of the EP’s emotional  spectrum, a joyful celebration song about friendships that feel like they’ve existed for a lifetime.  The track’s upbeat chorus is buoyed by a gang vocal, featuring voices of some of Mila’s closest  friends, recorded in their homes around the world.  

The EP’s penultimate track, Daughter, is a heartfelt examination of life as an Australian-based  expat unable to return home to family and friends in Covid times. The raw performance features  Mila Nile at her most vulnerable, as she pleads for a chance to return to the simplicity of being  close to family.  

Mila Nile will be celebrating the release of her debut EP, Do You Remember That?, with a launch  party at Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory Gallery Bar in early September (dates pending due to Covid  conditions).  

Do You Remember That? 

All tracks written by Mila Nile & Simon Brock    

Produced by HVTCH    

Distributed globally by AWAL   

Track-by-track breakdown 

Break My Heart To The Beat 

A brooding, 80’s-infused bop about dealing with loss and dancing out your demons. 

Too Much Like Love 

A bright, shimmering track about trying not to fall in love – and failing joyfully. 

Old School Calling 

An R&B-influenced singalong jam about new friendships that feel like they’ll last forever. 

Daughter 

A homesick ballad about how getting what you want isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. 

Don’t Need Your Love 

A self-love anthem about how the only opinion that really matters is your own. 

Mila is play at the Oxford Art Factory Gallery Bar on the 1st of October!

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Today, global megastar Jackson Wang and production powerhouse Internet Money release ‘Drive You Home‘, via 88rising, distributed by 12Tone Music LLC. LISTEN HERE.

To complement the single, Jackson has also released the music video to ‘Drive You Home‘ today, which Jackson scripted, directed, and produced himself alongside Mamesjao, WATCH HERE.

Featuring production from David Stewart (BTS – ‘Dynamite’) and Nick Mira (Juice Wrld – ‘Lucid Dreams’, Lil Tecca – ‘Ransom’, Internet Money & Gunna ft. Don Toliver, Nav – ‘Lemonade’), ‘Drive You Home‘ tells a heartbreaking, emotional story of a long night told in reverse. Listeners will notice that ‘Drive You Home‘ samples and interpolates the iconic 1984 single ‘Drive‘ from the legendary new wave band The Cars. The 80s-inspired love song blends sentimental guitar-driven melodies with booming hip-hop percussion and features Jackson’s most affecting and confident vocal performance to date.

Speaking on ‘Drive You Home‘, Jackson Wang says the song revolves around the idea of, “When I’m not here, who is going to drive you home?” His approach to the visual was also abstract. “I’ve always explained my music videos, the backstory, and the plot, to my audiences. But with this visual, 10 people can watch it and have 10 different feelings. I can’t wait for the fans to interpret it.”

‘Drive You Home‘ follows the global success of Jackson’s hit single, ‘LMLY’. To date, ‘LMLY’ has garnered over 60M streams, debuted at #1 on the Apple Music Charts (All Genres, 27 Markets), lived at #40 on Global Viral Charts on Spotify, and received over 15M views on the official music video (1.2M views in first 24 hours). Both ‘LMLY’ and ‘Drive You Home‘ will ladder up to Jackson’s highly-anticipated forthcoming second album expected this year.

‘Drive You Home‘ is out now, buy/stream it here.

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Today, Atlanta-based singer-songwriter TARYN shares her new single, “Brand New.” Opening with echoing finger clicks, TARYN begins the song with a simple chant that continues over the course of the track: “Wash my mouth of all the little things / Clean it out and begin again / Brand new ooh / And begin again brand new.” Even as the interlocking drums, bass and guitar kick in, her ethereal vocals remain the song’s driving force, building throughout with lush, layered harmonies.

TARYN wrote “Brand New” while driving on the freeway and worked with producer Joey Burcham to turn it into a fully-formed track. “There was a simple message I wanted to convey lyrically and the instrumental did the rest,” TARYN explains of her approach. “I’ve carried my past around and let regrets fuel decisions without justification. ‘Brand New’ let me realize our past is not something we have to correct, but it helps us understand our growth. We’re here to learn, experience, and explore. It’s a gift to be vulnerable, to feel comfortable expressing experiences in sonically harmonious ways”

Influenced by old soul and modern pop, TARYN seamlessly blends warm vocals with tasteful, cutting edge production. Lyrically, she searches for the connections that make each and every one of us human, exploring these areas with curiosity and understanding.

Originally hailing from Ohio, TARYN’s childhood was soundtracked by artists spanning all genres and decades. Her parents filled the house with the sounds of artistic greats like Norah Jones, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, and Cat Stevens. From a young age, TARYN was encouraged to explore her creativity and fell in love with guitar, her first instrument, when she was just six years old. After years of honing her sound and songwriting, the now 23-year-old Atlanta-based artist is coming into her own as an impressive left-of-center singer and songwriter.

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Madi Diaz
Reveals New Single/Video
“Resentment”

New Album
History Of A Feeling
Out August 27th via ANTI-

Photo Credit: Natalie Osborne

“Madi Diaz has a voice that erupts like a geyser.’” – NYLON “A slow burning, passionate ballad…It certainly has a lot of heart to it.” – The Needle Drop “[‘Woman In My Heart’ is] a saccharine blend of guitars and building percussion, with Diaz’s vocals resonating through it all.” – Paste Nashville-based songwriter Madi Diaz reveals the final pre-release single/video, “Resentment,” from her forthcoming album, History Of A Feeling, out August 27th via ANTI-. Diaz has released a string of powerful singles, and today’s “Resentment” is resonant and heartbreakingly honest. The song, written by Diaz, Wrabel, and Jamie Floyd, originally appeared on Kesha’s last album and featured Sturgill Simpson and Brian Wilson. In Diaz’s version of the song, the rawness of the emotional reaction she is singing about matches the recording – stripped back to only vocals and guitar: “I don’t hate you babe it’s worse than that // Cause you hurt me and I’m more than sad // I’ve been building up this thing for months // Resentment.” The accompanying video directed by $ECK  at the Four Lane Auto Salvage in Nashville picks up where the video for “New Person, Old Place” left off. Diaz wanders around the junkyard, letting her emotions out on the surrounding wreckage. “It felt completely and strangely cathartic  walking around ruin and wreckage in the salvage yard making the ‘Resentment’ video,” says Diaz. “It was somehow representative of all the feelings I’ve let sit and rot and rust, probably becoming more hazardous with time and neglect. It was almost a kind of joyful act smashing up cars like maybe I was crushing and compounding my own resentments. Basically it’s cheap therapy and I highly recommend it. I loved making this video and I think Seck has such a beautiful eye…somehow he made poetry out of something pretty brutal.” Watch Madi Diaz’s Video for “Resentment” History Of A Feeling undeniably marks Diaz’s status as a first-rate songwriter, a craft she’s spent years refining. Across the album, she cycles through the full spectrum of emotions of coming to terms with the dissolution of a meaningful relationship. She plays the line between the personal and the general with dexterity: in Diaz’s hands, quiet moments of self-pity are transformed into grand meditations on heartbreak, and unwieldy knots of big existential feelings are smoothed out with a sense of clear-eyed precision. The seedlings of History Of A Feeling first sprouted three years ago, before beginning collaborations with co-producer Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief, Bon Iver). Pulling from a range of folk, country and pop leanings, as much influenced by Patty Griffin and Lori McKenna as PJ Harvey and Kathleen Hanna, History Of A Feeling is comprised of the most direct and introspective songs Diaz has ever written. Throughout, she seamlessly weaves a profound sense of intimacy and camaraderie as her lyrics are relatable to anyone who has experienced heartbreak and great change in some manner. These universals are shaded by the fact that the relationship breakdown Diaz is chronicling coincided with her former partner transitioning, a complex reckoning Diaz approaches with empathy, candour, and care. Watch Madi Diaz’s Video for “Woman In My Heart” Watch Madi Diaz’s “Nervous” Video Watch the “Man In Me” Video

MADI DIAZ – HISTORY OF A FEELING – OUT AUGUST 27

History Of A Feeling Tracklist 1. Rage 2. Man In Me 3. Crying In Public 4. Resentment 5. Think Of Me 6. Woman In My Heart 7. Nervous 8. Forever 9. History Of A Feeling 10. New Person Old Place 11. Do It Now

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Aspiring artists in 2021 are facing uncharted waters. While music marketing used to be a straightforward relationship between artists and record labels, the pandemic gave power back to musicians through the rise of TikTok, live streaming, and cryptocurrency – all of which has shifted the landscape indefinitely.

Fender and professional musician, artist, best selling author, and host of the New Music Business podcast, Ari Herstand have teamed up to help up-and-coming artists navigate this changing landscape. When a hit song and viral fame are more within reach than any other time in the history of music, I’d like for you and your readers to be one of the first to learn how to take advantage of these shifts.

Launching today, the Fender Artist Playbook provides a step-by-step guide for emerging artists to navigate the new frontier of music, effectively release their music and build their career on their own terms. From cracking the TikTok algorithm to leveraging alternative revenue streams, digital marketing tips, NFTs, and more, it’s a comprehensive resource for “making it” in the music business in 2021. Both Fender and Ari Herstand have similar missions to support artists on their musical journeys and this free playbook is the ultimate goodwill gesture to an entire community of creators getting back on their feet once more.

https://www.fender.com/articles/how-to/artist-playbook

From a time before the internet, rose a legendary group of Brisbane alt rockers named Spillage. Since reuniting and releasing “You Said No” earlier this year, Spillage release the second single  “Unawares”, from their forthcoming album. “Unawares” sees the band really return to those grunge/punk sounds that made them so beloved, while still maintaining a heavy sense of modernity.

Recorded at the Blackbox Studios in Brisbane with the help of producer Jeff Lovejoy with  mastering from  Matthew Gray.  Band member Sam de Pasquale describes the songs meaning as, “It’s about living a life that you thought was fun at first but was actually bringing you down. Then making a decision and putting in the hard yards to change. You are then free to explore everything that this big, beautiful world has to offer – good and bad”. The band says, “We want fans to rock out and be taken away – like good music can do.”

Knowing each other for over 30 years, Spillage were playing to (almost) packed houses in Brisbane through the 90s. One night they gave their leader Sam some money to buy kebabs and they never saw him again. Until 20-odd years later he reappears and reforms the band and they write a whole bunch of new, grungy rock and roll songs.

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BOY SCOUTS
ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM
‘WAYFINDER’

OUT OCTOBER 1 VIA ANTI-

WATCH VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK
“THAT’S LIFE HONEY”

Photo Credit: Tonje Thilesen

“Boy Scouts’ Taylor Vick makes music that thrives on intimacy” – San Francisco Chronicle “Her music is defined by its warm tenderness—twangy guitars, cooing vocals, supportive keys—but she doesn’t necessarily want to be your caretaker.” – Paste “Though Boy Scouts’ backing tracks are hazy and dreamlike, calling to mind tour mate Jay Som, Vick’s writing is direct, sharp, more bee-sting than butterfly.” – Pitchfork Oakland, CA’s Boy Scouts aka Taylor Vick has announced her new album Wayfinder today. The follow-up to the acclaimed 2019 album Free Company, Wayfinder has a warm, expansive style that recalls the raw punctures of artists like Lucinda Williams and Alex G with Vick once again showing herself to be a fearless seeker, shedding light on the unanswerable. The first new song from the record is the wry “That’s Life Honey,” a fantasy of engineering a painless existence that takes inspiration from George Saunders’ short stories. Directed by Jake Nokovic, watch Taylor take the song out on the water in the track’s new video here – https://youtu.be/3DFC3fBxhl0 “This song is about trying to make light of a shitty situation,” Vick explains. “Having a circumstance that sucks, like wanting to go to therapy but you can’t afford it, and fantasising about a world where you could get a chip implanted or have some surgery that rewires your brain and resolves you from whatever problems you have. This song is mostly my attempt at writing a tragicomedy, combined with true experiences of figuring out how to open up to people.” Working once again with longtime collaborator Stephen Steinbrink, Wayfinder was recorded in Anacortes, Washington at The Unknown. Working slowly, they invited a roster of collaborators to join them over time, in person and over email, including Vick’s brother Travis and Jay Som’s Melina Duterte. The effects of working in a new space and with more people can be heard across the bold, assured Wayfinder, which takes place across a wider scale than Vick’s prior work. Strands of slide guitar, organ, and strings ring under her affable, expressive voice, bolstering layers and layers of harmony. Vick found the title to Wayfinder in Sallie Tisdale’s book Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying. The word prompted her reflection on the ways that music has, throughout her life, illuminated the path ahead. “For my whole life, music has been a crucial part of my identity and how I relate to the world,” Vick says. “The act of making music has been my wayfinder during the past year.”

BOY SCOUTS – WAYFINDER TRACKLIST 1. I Get High 2. Lighter 3. A Lot to Ask 4. That’s Life Honey 5. Not Today 6. Charlotte 7. The Floor 8. Big Fan 9. Didn’t I 10. Model Homes

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BUY/STREAM: WILL HYDE – BOY.

WATCH: WILL HYDE – BOY.
(PREMIERES 12.30AM AEST THURS 29TH JULY 2021)

“PARESTHESIA” & “REVEL BERRY”

Photo credit – Joe Villano

Alt-indie pop band Early Eyes have just released a two-song single featuring “Paresthesia” & “Revel Berry.” The tracks were produced by Minneapolis locals Caleb Hinz (Hippo Campus, Samia) and Jake Luppen of Hippo Campus. “Paresthesia” deals with the struggle to live up to societal standards and expectations while feeling as though one has lost their focus or direction. While “Revel Berry,” examines the emotional response pointing out the dichotomy of how art wants you to feel versus how you really do. Jake Berglove explains, “As the climate collapses, global capitalism flattens our ability to build meaningful relationships, and people in positions of power sit idly waiting for the world to eat itself, it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that as a band, we desire radical, revolutionary change. In fact, we need it. In order to see this change through, it is important that radical thinking goes beyond political discussion and becomes part of who we are. ‘Paresthesia’ and ‘Revel Berry’ were two of the first songs we wrote in the pits of the global pandemic. With the fine mist of capitalism condensing into a thick wall before us, we often found ourselves struggling to find meaning in making art behind that wall. We eventually realised that struggle was really becoming the music rather than purely informing it. The state of the world is… pretty fucked. And these two songs are our attempt at pointing out the perpetual tightrope walk of being forced to participate in a system you despise in order to find success. Believing in communal thinking while being forced into the spotlight. Trying to find meaning in the mud while understanding that our individual meanings are not essential to change. Wanting to be sincere in a sea of subjugation.” CHECK OUT “PARESTHESIA” & “REVEL BERRY” NOW Early Eyes is Jake Berglove (vocals/guitar), Joe Villano (guitar), John O’Brien (guitar), Megan Mahoney (bass), and Sam Mathys (drums).

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