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I/AM/ME
NOCTURNAL SUNSHINE – ‘GRAVITY’ FT RY X OUT NOW 2019 was a point of new territory for Maya Jane Coles and her alter-ego, Nocturnal Sunshine. Unleashing the latest studio project in late 2018 with ‘Foundation’ and later ‘U&ME’ the storm began to stir in anticipation for the sophomore Nocturnal Sunshine album ‘Full Circle’, taking the alias in a new direction and delving deep into Maya’s hip-hop influences. Arriving with a plethora of collaborators in tow, Peaches, Catnapp, Three Six Mafia’s Gangsta Boo, Young M.A. and Rising London Rapper, CHA$EY JON£S to name a few, the album drew acclaimed support from all corners of the industry, from Resident Advisor and Mixmag to Q Magazine, FADER and Billboard. This stream only continued across the airwaves with support across Rinse FM and BBC Radio 1, rounding off with Maya appearing on BBC Radio 6 Music for a guestmix with Nemone’s Electric Ladyland.
Entering into a new year, Nocturnal Sunshine seeks to build on the path she has travelled so far, a journey that saw performances across the globe, gracing the stages of Coachella, Sonar Barcelona and London’s Field Day under the alias, along with a dual performance at esteemed London club, FOLD to launch her ‘Full Circle’ LP; Maya made a world first here by performing as both Maya Jane Coles and Nocturnal Sunshine in the same evening. As this story continues to unfold, Nocturnal Sunshine presents a link up with Australian singer-songwriter, Ry X on single ‘Gravity’. Having travelled the world guided by his innate musical compass, Ry X is a musician whose talents know no bounds. From Costa Rica and Indonesia, to London, Berlin and even Hollywood, his excursions have born their fruits in the many collaborations Ry has sought out, linking up with Frank Wiedemann of German electronic duo, Âme under a new alias, Howling. This pairing found Ry aligned with Wiedemann’s, pioneering Innervisions brand, co-founded with Dixon and saw live performances for Ry at Amsterdam’s ADE Fesitval, along with London’s Albert Hall. Adding to this, Ry later caught the ear of R&B queen, Rihanna who invited him to remix single ‘Love on the Brain’. Grabbing the attention of Maya with his ethereal vocals, they team up on ‘Gravity’ to create a bubbling and deeply emotive cut. Inclusive of the signature downtempo breakbeat nuances that lie at the foundations of the Nocturnal Sunshine universe, the haunting and mildly soulful vocals of Ry X strike a chord of their own on ‘Gravity’. Nocturnal Sunshine ‘Gravity’ ft. Ry X is out now via I/AM/ME |
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Just announced – Donny Benét Live – UK & EU 2020
Friday 22 May – Nouveau Monde – Fribourg, CH
Tickets
Sunday 24 May – Botanique – Brussels, BE
Tickets
Tuesday 26 May – The Dome – London, UK
Tickets
Wednesday 27 May – Paradiso Noord – Amsterdam, NL
Tickets
Thursday 28 May – Loppen – Copenhagen, DK
Tickets
Friday 29 May – Lido – Berlin, DE
Tickets
Saturday 30 May – Futurum – Prague, CZ
Tickets
Sunday 31 May – Sunday Moers Festival, Moers DE
Tickets
Tickets on-sale Friday 24 January 9AM BST / 10AM CET
via https://donnybenet.com/
Donny Benét Live – USA & Canada 2020
Tuesday 4 February – L’Esco, Montreal, QC
Wednesday 5 February – Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON
Friday 7 February – Rough Trade, Brooklyn, NY
Saturday 8 February – Great Scott, Boston, MA
Sunday 9 February – Boot & Saddle, Philadelphia, PA
Tuesday 11 February – Songbyrd, Washington, DC
Thursday 13 February – Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
Friday 14 February – Club Dada, Dallas, TX
Saturday 15 February – Barracuda, Austin, TX
Tuesday 18 February – The Echo, Los Angeles, CA
Wednesday 19 February – Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA
Thursday 20 February – Holocene, Portland, OR
Friday 21 February – Fox Cabaret, Vancouver, BC
Saturday 22 February – The Sunset, Seattle, WA
Tickets via donnybenet.com
What is your name and role within King of Foxes?
Where are you currently based?
How did King of Foxes form?
Your new single ‘No Wrong’ is out now, what influenced the sound and songwriting for this track?
Please talk us through the creative and collaborative process:
How did you go about writing ‘No Wrong’?
Where and when did you record and who with?
How did you approach the recording process?
Who did you work with during the recording/production process?
Who are you listening to at the moment?
What do you like to do away from music?
What’s planned for 2020?
Favourite food and place to hangout?
I’ve been working my way through a Costco-size box of chocolate truffles someone left at my house around Christmas… I don’t have a sweet tooth, but I do have a soft spot for dark chocolate with a little sprinkle of sea salt on it. (Café Brio, in Victoria BC makes the world’s best chocolate truffle, btw. It’s also one of my favourite places to hang out when I’m on the coast.) We did a lot of travelling last year, and honestly right now my favourite place to hang out is my own home.
Website: www.kingoffoxesband.com
The Lazy Eyes are a Sydney four-piece who create prismatic, sprawling psychedelic rock. ‘Cheesy Love Song’ is the lead single from their debut EP, the first of a number of releases over the coming year. Listen and watch HERE.
Harvey (vocals, guitar, keys), Itay (vocals, guitar), Blake (bass) and Noah (drums) have been playing together since they were 15, having met each other while attending Newtown Performing Arts High School. In between then and now, news of the band’s playfully jam-filled and constantly morphing live show has spread throughout their home city like word-of-mouth wildfire, building up a fervent, cult following. Now done with high school, The Lazy Eyes are finally ready to share their music with the wider world.
Showcases at Bigsound 2019 saw The Lazy Eyes take that buzz national, drawing praise from Home and Hosed’s Declan Byrne and seeing triple j, Happy Mag and more, name them as a future act to watch. They have also recently played Fairgrounds Festival, Newtown Festival and are set to perform at Laneway Festival in Sydney in February.
A patient, slowly unspooling track built around languid piano, echoing guitar lines and vintage soaked vocal melodies and harmonies, ‘Cheesy Love Song’ is content to take its time introducing the band, letting its tonal and textural choices lazily mutate from flourishes of soft strings and warm synthesizers into heavy-handed drumming and wild guitar sirens. As a debut single, ‘Cheesy Love Song’ is a wonderfully blooming introduction to The Lazy Eyes that surreptitiously disguises its true sense of ambition and skill.
With their debut release, The Lazy Eyes present themselves as part of the second generation of Australia’s burgeoning psych-rock scene. Bringing a meld of pedal-effected psychedelia, 60’s pop-inspired chord progressions, the tenderness of The Flaming Lips, and the pocket symphonies of Brian Wilson, The Lazy Eyes create emotive and expansive alternative rock. The type of music ideal for introspection, ‘Cheesy Love Song‘ is a small, insular universe unto itself.
The debut also comes with the announcement of management, distribution and agent signings with Travis Banko at Lunatic Entertainment (CHVRCHES, Baker Boy, Skeggs) and The Orchard signing for the world. On the live side, the band will be booked by Matt Bates at Primary Talent (Alt-J, The 1975, Wolf Alice) for UK/Europe/Asia bookings, Ryan Craven at Paradigm Agency (The War on Drugs, Lorde, CHVRCHES) for North America & Evan Davis at Village Sounds (POND, DMA’s, Hatchie) for ANZ.
‘Cheesy Love Song’ by The Lazy Eyes is out now – buy/stream it here.
THE BRAVE
ANNOUNCE THE BREAK OUT
TOUR DATES
Music Feeds @ UNIFY 2020″The Brave played a massive set… every song hit home.”
Wall Of Sound @ UNIFY 2020
After ringing in 2020 with a rabid set at UNIFY, The Brave are backing it up with the announce of an Australian headline tour. Dubbed The Break Out Tour, The Brave will take in shows throughout QLD, NSW, VIC and SA kicking off next month.
Support will come in the form of rising Adelaide heavy-hitters Sleep Talk, emo metallers Bad/Love and Melbourne up-and-comers To Octavia with tickets on sale from 10am AEDT Friday January 24.
In 2019 The Brave revealed their sophomore album Aura, picking up a whopping 9/10 rating from Discovered Magazine in its wake, as well as nabbing compliments from Hysteria (“gritty, vulnerable and full of visceral emotion”), Wall of Sound (“a true demonstration of well-written music”) and more.
On their 2020 headline tour, The Brave will command stages in the Gold Coast, Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong, Melbourne and Adelaide before rounding the festivities out in their hometown of Brisbane. Tickets are on sale from 10am AEDT, Friday January 24.
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Fledgling Melbourne and Castlemaine act The Bell Streets make their debut with the first of 10 songs to be released in 2020, the slick bedroom pop number, ‘Fragile’. Birthed from the somewhat inevitable partnership of Nick Batterham (The Earthmen, Blindside, Cordrazine) and Josh Meadows (The Sugargliders, The Steinbecks), The Bell Streets started writing songs together about a year ago after a collective three decades or so working and playing throughout the Melbourne music scene and beyond.
Having known each other since the early ’90s when they were both in prominent bands on the long gone but not forgotten Melbourne indie label Summershine Records, Josh and Nick have played on the same bills, toured together, borrowed each other’s instruments and have become great friends.
That friendship is about to bear fruit with the anticipated release of The Bell Streets’ debut album Monument, set to land Friday 3 April via Popboomerang Records. For now though, fans of Nick’s signature moody melancholy and Josh’s distinct pop sensibilities can revel in the first released material from the album on the new single ‘Fragile’. After writing the opening phrase and accompanying ascending piano line, Josh took his humble idea to Nick who quickly put flesh on it, adding loungey licks and melodic charm, to become the pop lullaby that is ‘Fragile’.
“Fragile. A song in praise of fragility and vulnerability – qualities that are not highly valued in the world we live in, where brashness, bravado and self-confidence dominate. To be vulnerable with each other is to be truly human. But, of course, to be vulnerable is to leave ourselves open to being hurt. So our inclination is to harden up, to close ourselves off, to keep our true selves hidden. The song is about honouring the fragility in another person.” – Josh Meadows, The Bell Streets
Emerging from weekly songwriting sessions in Nick’s studio, the 10 songs of Monument are genuine collaborations, with the pair sharing lyric writing and singing duties. The Bell Streets’ voices harmonise easily, as if they had been singing together for years. As they’ve worked on the record, making themselves vulnerable to each other (as songwriting requires), the two have grown closer. Sometimes Josh has come up with the key line to one of Nick’s lyrics. Sometimes vice versa. The resulting sound has a classic feel, but remains fresh and new. The Bell Streets’ songs are poppy, yet have substance. They are born from experience, rejection, steadfastness and unfaithfulness, playfulness, pleasure, forgiveness, new beginnings and gratitude.
Written and performed by Nick Batterham and Josh Meadows
Vocals by Josh Meadows
Recorded and mixed by Nick Batterham
Mastered by Adam Dempsey at Deluxe
‘Fragile’ single is out now via
Bandcamp / iTunes / Apple Music / Spotify
Tour Artwork by Jonathan Zawada
“One of the leaders of the New School”
– Zane Lowe – Beats 1
“He’s the movement’s youngest by age, but arguably its most visible by virtue…”
– triple j
“Kwame has long been on our radar of international MC’s to watch.”
– Highsnobiety
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Brisbane fans: Frontier Touring and I OH YOU are pleased to announce that Cameron’s Brisbane show on Saturday 7 March at The Outpost is now officially sold out! Fear not, as due to demand the ‘Miami Memory’ singer will perform a 2nd Brisbane show at the same venue. Cameron and band will perform on Sunday 8 March at The Outpost, Brisbane, with tickets to this newly added date on sale now via frontiertouring.com/
Melbourne: you’re all covered too, with Brunswick Music Festival yesterday announcing a 2nd show for Cameron. It’ll will take place on Tuesday 10 March at Estonian House. (Note: this is not a Frontier Touring show, get tickets here).
Supporting Alex Cameron at all headline shows in Australia is Melbourne’s Spike Fuck, whose debut EP Smackwave recently dropped on vinyl. Highlighted by Sydney’s FBi 94.5 in 2019 as one of the station’s ‘Independent Artist Of The Week’, Spike Fuck’s candid lyrics and bold, post-punk pop inspired sound addresses drug addiction and heartbreak, and saw her sign to Partisan Records last year. Check out tracks such as the addiction/exile tale ‘Body By Crystal’, ‘Tomorrow We Get Healthy’ or ‘Junkie Logic’. Spike describes her music as “a blend of late ‘80s new wave and late ‘70s post-punk with a dash of country music/singer-songwriter sensibilities delivered in Las Vegas Ballroom karaoke vocal style.”
Cameron’s last tour down under in February 2018 saw venue upgrades after tix flew out the door – grab your tickets now. Don’t miss Alex Cameron touring live in March 2020!
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Top Arts 2020
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square | 13 March – 12 July 2020 | Free entry
The annual Top Arts showcase returns for its 26th year presenting artworks from Victoria’s brightest emerging student artists at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from 13 March 2020.
Drawn from over 1,700 submissions from schools across Victoria, Top Arts 2020 presents artworks from 43 students who have excelled in VCE Art and Studio Arts.
Themes explored by the exhibiting artists include mental health, the impact of technology on everyday life, diversity and identity.
Working across mediums including painting, sculpture, performance art, theatre, photography and animation, students have undertaken comprehensive research to create innovative and complex artworks.
Tony Ellwood AM, Director, NGV said ‘Top Arts 2020 showcases the amazing breadth of young artists using their voice to speak out against injustice and generate awareness of issues and ideas that concern the youth of today. This is our 26th year of Top Arts and we’re so proud to continue to support and celebrate art education and provide more opportunities for students to engage with the arts and share their art with peers.’
Artworks in the exhibition are selected by a panel of four judges: Rachael Miller, Victorian Curriculum And Assessment Authority (VCAA) State Reviewer VCE Art; Giuliana D’Angelo, VCAA State Reviewer VCE Studio Arts; Julie Bond, VCAA Regional Representative and David Menzies, NGV Educator and Top Arts curator.
Exhibition highlights include Zach Smyrnis’s Progress Comics 2019, a vibrant series of comic book covers titled The Patriarchy Punishers, The Uni-Diverse Command and The LGBTeam. Influenced by street artist Keith Haring and comic book writer Frank Miller the work showcases characters inspired by modern day activists such as Malala Yousafzai, Antoni Porowski, and Lizzo fighting for gender, sexuality and race equality.
Race and identity are resonant themes throughout the exhibition. Angelo Ooi’s ceramic vessels Transience 2019 and Manifestations 2019 draw inspiration from his Australian upbringing and Malaysian-Chinese heritage. Dusty Diddle’s interactive protest artwork An Index of Childhood Memories, Anger and Intervention 2019 features 32 hand drawn postcards stored in a filing cabinet reflecting the artist’s wish to positively challenge racism, having experienced it firsthand.
Portraiture also features extensively, including Shae Jones’s Portrait of Murrundindi 2019, a large scale painting depicting Wurundjeri Elder Murrundindi. In her self-portrait patchwork 2019, Cat Distell combines different materials and textures to challenge our understanding of the fabric of identity.
Presenting a unique exploration of technology’s influence on society, Ignatz Cady Freer’s absurdist theatre film Tubularis Acrobatics 2019 features three screens with actors performing repetitive tasks in which their actions become more interactive but also increasingly disconnected as the film progresses.
In a moving reflection of suburban life, Lucy Randall takes inspiration from her 87 year-old neighbour as he runs around the streets of Hampton in the hyper realistic sculpture The Shuffler 2019.
Building on the success of Top Arts 2019, which welcomed over 25,000 students and teachers to exhibition and learning programs and events, Top Arts 2020 will be complemented by a dynamic schedule of social and learning opportunities including artist presentations and virtual tours for students in regional and remote areas. Programming also includes introductory talks and folio viewings to inspire and support current VCE students in their Art and Studio Art studies.
Top Arts is a part of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority’s (VCAA) annual VCE Season of Excellence showcasing outstanding VCE and VCE VET students through a festival of concerts, exhibitions, film screenings and a research presentation program.
Top Arts 2020 is FREE and on display from 13 March 2020 – 12 July 2020 at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square. Additional information is available from the NGV website: NGV.MELBOURNE
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Australia continues to provide a wealth of antipodean talent with legendary producers Yolanda Be Cool, indie-pop shiner Pearl The Girl, Sydney electro-producer Tori Levett, Melbourne’s R&B queen Mimi and rising duo Happiness Is Wealth added to proceedings. From Japan, a formidable run of acts from the worlds of pop and electronica make their way to Hakuba Valley, including Tokyo’s underground house pioneer Chida, eye-popping, electro-pop duo FEMM (Far East Mention Mannequins), the globe-trotting Gonno, Rainbow Disco Club’s Kikiorix, revered Sapporo sound designer and producer Kuniyuki Takahashi, party-starter Mayurashka, pioneering house producer Shinichiro Yokota and the inimitable Soichi Terada with his decade-spanning selection of house cuts. Overseeing the entire event will be the festival’s official ski instructor/techno matriarch, former Triple J Radio host and icon Linda Marigliano.
Joining the already stacked lineup including What So Not, Peking Duk (DJ Set), Hermitude, Confidence Man, Hot Dub Time Machine, Kenji Takimi, DJ Kentaro and Shinichi Osawa, five incredible stage areas, a host of apres-ski locations boasting traditional Japanese bars and restaurants, Japan’s world renowned hot spring Onsen culture (which should prove a hit for aching limbs post-slopes) to sink into, plus a plethora of on-snow antics still to be announced, it’s no surprise that there are now only a handful of Snow Machine tickets left. Already establishing itself as a go-to bucket-list event before a beat has even dropped, Asia’s first ever snow-based festival promises to open up an exciting new chapter in the continent’s rich music entertainment history.
Speaking about the additions to the festival’s line-up, organisers explained they’re “pleased to round out the lineup with some of our all-time favourite Japanese DJs and local talent. In addition to the off-piste entertainment, there will be a number of on-mountain pop-up stages, activities and activations. Keep your eyes peeled for info on all these and more, and of course updates on the Best. Powder. Ever.”
Snow Machine is an all-in-one ticket offering a variety of accommodation options, a full four day festival ticket as well as snow passes and hire. Booking is simple, jump online and pay a deposit and you’ll be put in touch with one of the festival team members to further customise your trip and book your flights with our unbeatable discounts. Better be quick, only 400 tickets remain!
A fully curated destination festival, it’s worth flying across the world for.
Hakuba Valley, Japan
Sunday 1st March – Wednesday 4th March 2020
TICKETS
Yolanda Be Cool
Pearl The Girl
Tori Levett
Mimi
Happiness Is Wealth
Chida
FEMM
Gonno
Kikiorix
Kuniyuki Takahashi
Mayurashka
Shinichiro Yokota
Soichi Terada
and
Linda Marigliano
joining
Peking Duk (DJ Set)
What So Not
Hermitude
Illy
Kenji Takimi
The Jungle Giants
Client Liaison
Hot Dub Time Machine
Crooked Colours
Running Touch
Bag Raiders (DJ Set)
Shinichi Osawa
ShockOne
Young Franco
DJ Kentaro
Confidence Man
Owl Eyes
Godlands
Art vs Science
Tom Tilley & Hugo Gruzman present: First Base
Following the announcement of international acts including Kevin Morby, The Blind Boys of Alabama and Hand Habits plus our own Alex Cameron, Brunswick Music Festival has today delivered its full 2020 program. Running March 9 – 22, it’s about as Brunswick as hosing down your concrete.
Refurbished, revamped and raring to go, the festival hub returns as Mechanica at Brunswick Mechanics Institute. Still a mystery to many, the prized BMF venue that premiered in 2019, Estonian House also returns; providing the chance to experience some incredible artists inside Brunswick’s stunning best kept secret.
Sheer Mag (USA) return to Melbourne, bringing their huge energy, pure passion, call-to-arms attitude and total defiance of the powers that be, all the way from Philadelphia to fill the rock’n’roll hole in our heart. Seeker Lover Keeper, the musical meld of Sarah Blasko, Holly Throsby and Sally Seltmann, is a triple treat with a double feature: appearing in conversation with Fee B-Squared, before alighting the Estonian House stage with Harmony Byrne.
Did someone order the six course degustation? Brunswick Music Feastival will be serving up a delicious and nutritious aural menu with the likes of Crepes, Eggy, Sunfruits, Baked Beans, Long Lunch and Biscotti on Wednesday March 11.
ARIA nominated Mama Kin Spender will be performing their first Melbourne show in over a year with the harmonious backing of twenty-something strong First Chorus Band of Singers choir, and C. W. Stoneking will mesmerise the Estonian House audience on Friday March 13 – storyteller, genre-defier and a voice as unique as his every performance, this is a headlining spot not to be missed.
Sui Zhen‘s multi-disciplinary craft will weave a landscape of love, loss and utopian dreams on Sunday March 15, while on Tuesday 17 March Xylouris White will enchant with a collaboration that is curiously comparable to the heritage and culture of Brunswick itself.
Rejoice in the rise of imbi and Cry Club; the next generation of music makers and status quo shakers, forging paths and winning hearts on a very special weekend at the Brunswick Mechanics Institute.
And that’s not all – Dyson Stringer Cloher, Hayley Mary, Elsy Wameyo, Elizabeth, Rolling Blackouts C.F., The Merindas, Pinch Points, MOD CON, On Diamond, Ajak Kwai, Ziggy Ramo, Diimpa and more all lend their unique flair to the festival. Like a fabric store fever dream, you’re guaranteed to find something unusual and alluring in the lineup.
Plus; a highlight of the Brunswick calendar, Sydney Road Street Party returns on Sunday March 1 with another perfect afternoon of free tunes and free rein over the suburb’s centre strip. Six offical street stages, five local venue stages, a brand new food truck park featuring Triple R DJs, the Blak Dot Gallery Artist Market, and it wouldn’t be a Brunswick party without a plant sale (featuring Noisy Ritual wines).
Like picking fruit off your neighbours lemon tree, #BMF2020 celebrates what is quintessentially, charmingly and blissfully Brunswick.
Treat your ears to the entire program here:
brunswickmusicfestival.com.au
Brought together by Common Good, APRA, Studios 301 and SIEGE JR, Common Good Sessions intends to make the best music possible with the new wave of artists.
If you are on the verge of stepping out and showing the world what you have been crafting and refining in the studio, Common Good wants to make music with you.
Common Good Sessions is a day-long event where a selection of artists are carefully curated to work side-by-side with the Common Good collective. If you’re currently working on a track but need that extra input, or want to start something from scratch, Common Good Sessions is your time to shine.
Formed in 2019, Common Good is a collective of like-minded artists who strive to provide opportunities for the Sydney music community. Headed up by Billy Fox, the collective provides an open space for artists to write, produce, perform and collaborate with one another.
Common Good artists Billy Fox, Mookhi, Lover, Isy Isy and Reggie Banks, have been making moves in their own spaces recently with releases receiving heavy support from Spotify, Apple Music and triple j along with support from international tastemakers alike.
Expressions of interest are now open until COB Friday 20 March.
