Maceo Plex’ share’s the official video of his track ‘Polygon Pulse’, taken from the acclaimed ‘Solar’ album on his Lone Romantic imprint that was released last year.
Directed by Joe Sill and produced by Whitelist.
The success of ‘So Far Away’ has barely gotten the chance to cool down while David Guetta and Martin Garrix collaborate again on ‘Like I Do’, this time also with Brooks. The track showcases a blend of progressive house and pure pop combined with beautiful vocals. Both have teased the track during shows all over the world the past couple of weeks and today it is finally available at all digital service providers.
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PARQUET COURTS
Announce new album Wide Awake!
Share new single ‘Almost Had To Start A Fight / In And Out Of Patience’
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DROP VIDEO FOR SWIM
Swim is taken from Chase Atlantic’s self-titled debut album which was released late last year. The 14 track album includes eight new songs alongside six previously released favourites off their series of releases from earlier that year –Part One, Part Two, and Part Three – which saw the band’s social following explode with nearly 900,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, with Chase Atlantic amassing over 30 million global streams to date.
Chase Atlantic is composed of brothers Mitchel and Clinton Cave and their long-time friend, Christian Anthony – personally write, produce, and perform their own urban-influenced brand of dark-alternative pop which has earned acclaim from Billboard, Alternative Press, and Associated Press, who declared, “the group’s genre-bending sounds echo The Weeknd and The 1975.”
Since forming in 2011, Chase Atlantic have packed multiple headline tours across Australia, released two successful independent EPs, and scored the viral single Friends, which has received over eight million Spotify plays.
Chase Atlantic will return to Australia, performing as part of the upcoming Download Festival, along with a string of support shows with Good Charlotte and Sleeping With Sirens.
CHASE ATLANTIC TOUR DATES
March 24 – Melbourne, Flemington Racecourse – Download Festival
March 26 – Sydney, Hordern Pavilion – Good Charlotte Support
March 28 – Brisbane, Riverstage – Good Charlotte Support
April 21 – Sydney, Big Top – Sleeping With Sirens Support
April 22 – Melbourne, Festival Hall – Sleeping With Sirens Support
April 24 – Adelaide, Thebarton Theatre – Sleeping With Sirens Support
April 25 – Perth, Metro City – Sleeping With Sirens Support
April 27 – Brisbane, Eatons Hill – Sleeping With Sirens Support
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Echoes In Blue tracklist:
Echoes In Blue Album |
The Men are sharing the final single from their upcoming LP, Drift before its release on March 2nd via Sacred Bones Records.
“Killed Someone” harks back to the “Leave Home” or “Open Your Heart” era of the band with a breakneck pace and huge fuzzed-out riffs that put that band on the map to begin with.
Drift is the seventh full-length by NYC rock polymaths The Men, and it marks their tenth year as a band. The band’s last album, the self-released Devil Music, was the sound of a band who had been through hell hitting reset and looking to their roots to rediscover themselves. On Drift, The Men return to their longtime label Sacred Bones Records and explore the openness that Devil Music helped them find.
The immediately evident result of that exploration is the experimental quality of much of the material on Drift. Songwriters Mark Perro and Nick Chiericozzi chase their muses down a few dozen thrilling rabbit-holes over the course of the album’s nine tracks. The songs on Drift veer in a number of directions, but notably, almost none of them feature a prominent electric guitar. The lone exception, “Killed Someone,” is a rowdy riff-rocker, worthy of the finest moments of the band’s now-classic Leave Home and Open Your Heart albums. The rest of the album drives down stranger highways. “Secret Light” is an improvisation based on an old piano riff of Perro’s. “Maybe I’m Crazy” is a synth-driven dancefloor stomper for long after last call.
The album was recorded to 2″ tape with Travis Harrison (Guided by Voices) at Serious Business Studios in Brooklyn. A whole pile of instruments was involved — synths, strings, sax, steel, harmonica, tape loops, on top of the usual guitar, bass, and drums. Unlike recent releases from The Men, there aren’t many overdubs on Drift — a reflection of the personalities of its makers becoming less frantic, Chiericozzi suggests. In fact, the band removed a lot of the additional parts they tried adding early on, giving the final product a bit of a ghostly feel. The songs on Drift took giant leaps and trips from their beginnings only to find the band returning to the first spark of creation.
Tour Dates:
Mar 2, 2018: Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool
Mar 3, 2018: Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool
Apr 21, 2018: Montreal, QC @ La Vitrola
Apr 27, 2018: Austin, TX @ Levitation Festival
Apr 28, 2018: Norman, OK @ Norman Music Festival
May 28, 2018: Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Festival
May 29, 2018: Madrid, ES @ El Sol
May 30, 2018: Lisbon, PT @ Music Box
May 31 2018: Porto, PT @ Maus Habitos
June 1, 2018: London, UK @ Oslo
Belle and Sebastian have released Part 3 of the band’s new trilogy of EPs, How To Solve Our Human Problems via Matador / Remote Control.
Recently adding an Australian leg to their busy live schedule in 2018, the band will embark on a national tour throughout May playing Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Full details and ticket links can be found below.
The band concluded 2017 in festive fashion, with radio sessions for Lauren Laverne on 6 Music (listenHERE), Jo Whiley on Radio 2 (listen from 1:11:50 HERE), and BBC Radio Scotland’s The Quay Sessions, where they performed a special cover of The Waitresses’ ‘Christmas Wrapping’. Watch the performanceHERE.
Recalling their 1997 release of three consecutive EPs, How To Solve Our Human Problems, has the classic blend of joy and melancholy and idiosyncratic spirit that has always characterised Belle and Sebastian. A double album’s worth of music – richly melodic, deliciously literate, as gentle as a summer stream but as insistent as a river – How To Solve Our Human Problems is both an era of its own, and part of a long, rich history.
How To Solve Our Human Problems
Purchase / Stream Part 1
Purchase / Stream Part 2
Purchase / Stream Part 3
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN
AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES
Wednesday 2 May – Astor Theatre, Perth
Friday 4 May – Palais Theatre, Melbourne
Saturday 5 May – Sydney Opera House, Sydney
Monday 7 May – The Tivoli, Brisbane
Tickets via mjrpresents.com/
Swedish star Ängie has released the video for her brand new single ‘Dope’. The new song is the lead single to be taken from her debut album Suicidal Since 1995 out on April 6th through Universal.
The new single features dark bass and rolling beats intertwined with a heady emotional flow, proving intoxicating and addictive in classic Ängie fashion. She explains, “‘Dope’ is actually a love song, confusing love with the rush for music and drugs. It’s a love song to music, dope and the person that makes me wanna fight for it.”
The ‘Dope’ release is accompanied by an exclusive t-shirt designed by Ängie, limited to a run of 150 pieces available soon through The Hyv. Each track on Suicidal Since 1995 will be accompanied by a limited-edition item of clothing especially designed by the singer. The album release is also marked by a limited edition Suicidal Since 1995 hoodie.
‘Dope’ is the first taste of Ängie’s debut album, which finds the Swedish singer on a darker and more emotive tip from the controversial pop that shot her to international fame. She burst onto the scene in 2016 and took the world by shock and awe with her debut single ‘Smoke Weed Eat Pussy’. The following singles ‘Housewife Spliffin’ and ‘Spun’ further cemented her status as one of the hottest names to come out of Sweden.
The songs have clocked up 6 million views on YouTube and Ängie has had unofficial fan clubs established across the world in locations as far flung as Brazil and Russia. She has received critical praise from the broadsheets, scandalised the tabloids and became an overnight internet sensation.
Suicidal Since 1995 showcases a new and ever-more intriguing side to Ängie, developing her sound in dark and unexpected ways that are sure to add to the huge acclaim she has received.
“Dismissing Ängie as another cookie-cutter pop star would not only be extremely patronising, it’d be foolish.” – Huck
“Forget Beyonce, we’ve found our favourite new pop diva” – The Sun
“An emblem of the liberal-minded revolution” – The Guardian
“Ängie may be the most controversial star we have ever seen” – Daily Star
“Ängie looks set to continue shaking up the pop sphere” – Wonderland
“The most provocative singer is back with a bang.” – Loaded
“The young Swede’s career is on a dizzying upward trajectory” – Red Bulletin
“We wouldn’t call her controversial, we’d just call her real.” – The 405
“Sweden’s answer to Miley Cyrus” – Pink News
Photo Credit: Pooneh Ghana
POST ANIMAL SIGN TO POD/INERTIA MUSIC
Announce debut album When I Think Of You In A Castle
Out Friday, April 20 on Pod via Inertia Music
Share first single ‘Ralphie‘
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| Post Animal When I Think Of You In A Castle1. Everywhere All At Once 2. Gelatin Mode 3. Tire Eyes 4. Ralphie 5. Heart Made of Metal 6. Castle 7. Special Moment 8. Victory Lap-Danger Zone 9. One Thing 10. DirtpickerFor more information: www.facebook.com/postanimal www.twitter.com/ www.instagram.com/postanimal |
AIR + STYLE LA REVEAL FOOD PROGRAM
ANNOUNCE SNOW & SKATEBOARDING LINEUPS
PREVIEW BRAND NEW CUSTOM BUILT COURSES
ZEDD, PHOENIX, GUCCI MANE, PHANTOGRAM, TINASHE, CASHMERE CAT, CUT COPY, DRAM, GRiZ, MURA MASA, WASHED OUT, BADBADNOTGOOD & MORE
MARCH 3,4 – LOS ANGELES, CA – EXPOSITION PARK
(February 20, 2018) The countdown is on for Air + Style LA happening March 3,4 in Exposition Park at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Part music festival, part skateboard and snowboard competition, the music lineup includes
Zedd, Phoenix, Gucci Mane, Cashmere Cat, Cut Copy, DRAM, GRiZ, Mura Masa, Phantogram, Tinashe, Washed Out, BADBADNOTGOOD and more. 2-Day General Admission Tickets ($149) and 2-Day VIP Tickets ($239) as well as Single Day Tickets ($79) are on sale now at www.airandstyle.com.
The lineup for the skateboarding and snowboarding competitions is heating up with an incredible list of athletes confirmed to compete. For snow, competitors include Francis Jobin, Frank Bourgeois, Zak Hale, Anto Chamberland, Dylan Alito, Darcy Sharpe, Halldor Helgason, Jill Perkins, Ozzy Henning, Nate Haust, Drayden Gardner, Brandon Davis, Kyle Mack, Johnny O’Connor, Desiree Melancon and Jordan Morse. For the first time in LA, Air + Style will have a skateboarding competition as well and is pleased to announce Greyson Fletcher, Raven Tershy, Tom Schaar, Alex Sorgente, Karl Berglind, Cory Juneau, CJ Collins, Nora Vasconcellos, Lizzie Armanto, Chis Russell, Heimana Reynolds, Sky Siljeg, Keegan Palmer, Patrick Ryan and Willy Lara will all be competing at the festival.
Tour Dates
Thursday 29th March: The Court, Perth
Friday 30th March: CBD Laneway Party, Melbourne
Saturday 31st March: Chinese Laundry, Sydney
Sunday 1st April: Rabbits Eats Lettuce Festival, Byron Bay
Sunday 1st April: The Met, Brisbane
Click here for a 4 hour Dusky mix recorded
at Warehouse Project!
Dusky are London born production/DJ duo Alfie Granger-Howell and Nick Harriman. After gaining recognition during the UK’s 2011 house renaissance with their breakthrough track ‘Flo Jam’, the duo have developed a reputation for classy, club-ready anthems ranging from their Beatport #1 ‘Careless’ to last year’s classic house homage ‘Square Miso’.
2016 saw them cement their reputation as a cult production force with their expansive and well received ‘Outer’ LP. Described by Popmatters as ‘one of the best records of any genre of the year so far‘, it included the sample-heavy, electronica mutation ‘Ingrid Is A Hybrid’, and the techno/grime fusion of Wiley collaboration ‘Sort It Out Sharon’. In the 18 months since, the pair have returned to their club-ready sound with the Gerd Janson-approved ‘Cold Heart‘, the swampy beats of ‘Buckets‘, and the classic NYC House sounds of ‘Square Miso‘.
As label owners, their 17 Steps imprint has released forward thinking house and techno from the likes of Bwana, Velvit, Trevino and Christian Piers. Next up on 17 Steps is the big room techno sounds of Sheffield’s Hope Works resident, Lo Shea.
Listen to the new 17 Steps single here:
Lo Shea – Iterations
Equally loved for their considered, well sourced DJ sets, the duo have toured extensively since 2011 playing prestigious venues such as London’s Fabric, Berlin’s Panorama Bar and Ibiza’s DC10, as well as festival stages across the world. Forward to today and Dusky are known for their diverse, inimitable sound that draws on everything from hardcore and Detroit techno to ambient, progressive house, jazz, and other more experimental musical forms.
They are easily one of the most in-demand electronic music acts on the planet.
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Expensive Hugs out March 16 – Melbourne residency at Evelyn this month!
Jarrow has today premiered a new clip for ‘Kelp’ via Grain Zine. The exultant garage-rocker comes from his anticipated album Expensive Hugs due Friday 16 March and available now for pre-order.
As the opening track off Expensive Hugs, ‘Kelp’ perfectly sets the tone for Jarrow’s weird and wonderful second album. Hooks, yelps and a dynamic lead-guitar adorn his compelling turn of phrase as it battles to break free of the songs perfect garage pop structure.
‘Kelp’ is accompanied by an incredible experimental clip using software that links a dozen iPhones together to record simultaneously. As Dan (the mastermind behind Jarrow) explains, “I was approached by director Mike Plumridge who came up with the idea of filming a band in 360 degrees while they shredded to their hearts content. As a massive fan of The Matrix I just couldn’t help but say yes.” He goes on to say “To make this recipe you will need: 16 smartphones, a warehouse in Collingwood, a bike, a smoke machine, my friend Travis, a game of Scrabble and a cardboard cutout of yours truly. Mix it all together and you got a tasty dish indeed.”
Listen/share ‘Kelp’: https://Jarrow.lnk.to/
Click below to watch ‘Kelp’: http://bdr.ec/jarrowkelpvid
Jarrow is Footscray’s favourite self-taught, self-produced, garage-pop multi-instrumentalist. Drawing inspiration equally from 21st century meme culture and classic 90’s indie-rock, Expensive Hugs is an immensely enjoyable dash through Jarrow’s world of pop-hooks, weird soundscapes and riff-jams.
Available for a limited time on translucent purple splatter vinyl, you can pre-order it on all formats here:https://Jarrow.lnk.to/
Jarrow is also half way through his Wednesday night residency at the Evelyn Hotel. He has self curated an incredible all-star line up including visual artists each week. For all those in Melbourne – don’t miss these last 2 weeks!
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Ahead of his debut album release on March 30th via Akira Records, Bristol-based electronic artist Henry Green has shared two new tracks from the album. “Without You“ & “Shift” are streaming online now.
Henry spoke about the two tracks, explaining the meanings behind them. “‘Without You’ is about being completely absorbed by someone, that hazy feeling of being so enveloped in the present, that you just neglect any external distractions. The track was created at home in Bristol, but heavily inspired by a trip to Paris”
Speaking about “Shift” he said “It’s all about movement. The whole album is based around this theme, but none more so than this track. It felt like a very natural theme to explore and one that I constantly gravitated towards when writing lyrics or describing the evolution of a track. Lyrically, ’Shift’ refers to the sensation of falling, unaware of when you’ll reach an end but enjoying the loss of control and feeling of weightlessness.”
Listen to & “Shift” & “Without You” here:
Wander the riverbank of Berlin’s Köpenicker Chaussee for long enough, and you’ll find a grand cold war nuclear facility, or what looks like one. It was here, at the beautiful, eerie Funkhaus – actually a radio broadcast site built in the 1950s – that rising Bristol electronic artist Henry Green wrote part of his new album.
The main theme of the album for Henry Green is movement. He explains “We’re constantly moving in some manner, at some pace… whether its physically or emotionally. This year was all about progression and change for me, so I found myself constantly gravitating towards that idea of movement in my lyrics. ‘Shift‘ was a word that just kept reappearing when writing the tracks, whether I was describing the structures of the tracks, the instrumentation/arrangement and obviously, the lyrics. I wanted to exhibit a feeling of constant movement in the album and that idea that every element is constantly shifting, but at a variety of paces.”
The result is a sound both subtle and cinematic that combines intimate, confessional songwriting with an obsession with electronics that has built in him since age 16. ‘Shift’ is laden with delicate, complex electronic sounds that show a maturity far beyond Green’s age of 22.
“I’m inspired by the production of artists like Four Tet, Mount Kimbie and Bonobo. I love the collision of acoustic and synthetic sounds in music, completely contrasting elements that somehow work in harmony,” says Green. “I’m also a huge fan of Jon Hopkins, Ólafur Arnalds, and Nils Frahm (“my dream collaborator”). The use of space in their music is so powerful; each sound somehow isolated, unobscured and left to be appreciated.” It’s a different artist he’s most associated with, though – Norwegian production megastar Kygo, who in 2013 remixed Green’s cover of MGMT hit ‘Electric Feel’ to the tune of 10m SoundCloud streams.
Green has two cult adored EPs, over 8m Spotify streams and shows with London Grammar and Nick Mulvey to his name. With his debut album ‘Shift’, set for release on March 30th, recorded in both Bristol & Berlin and co-produced by Nico Rebscher and mixed by Jack Shuter, he’s continuing to push the boundaries of his sound, drifting further away from the guitar that formed the epicentre of his early songs and leaning heavier icy synth shimmers. “I’ve become obsessed with the idea of creating atmosphere. As I learnt more about production,” he explains, “I found it easier to translate my ideas and find new ways to create the sounds that would reflect my lyrical style.”
Henry Green will tour later this year with a headline London show already announced for Corsica Studios on 3rd May. More live dates will be announced soon.
‘Shift‘ tracklist:
1. i
2. Aiir
3. Shift (stream)
4. Another Light (stream)
5. Stay Here (stream)
6. We
7. Without You (stream)
8. Contra
9. Diversion
10. Something
See Henry Green live:
21/4 – Motel Mozaique Festival, Rotterdam, NL
24/4 – Paradiso (upstairs), Amsterdam, NL
25/4 – Nochtwache, Hamburg, DE
26/4 – Privatclub, Berlin, DE
27/4 – Wohngemeinschaft, Cologne, DE
2/5 – Exchange, Bristol, UK
3/5 – Corsica Studios, London, UK
17/5 – A38, Budapest, HU
The long-awaited album from the show Struggle With Glory by Australia’s premiere jazz chameleon Harry James Angus will be released on March 1st, 2018. A re-imagining of classic tales from Greek mythology set to a sublime reduction of gospel, jazz and soul, Struggle With Glory is another impressive step in an extraordinary musical journey for the Melbourne-born, Mullumbimby based musician.
Ahead of the album release the brand new single “Paper Faces” has just been issued and is another tantalising taste of what is to come. “I was drawn to Greek mythology because the myths are such great stories,” Harry explains. “Paper Faces is the story of Persephone and Hades. Persephone was the daughter of the goddess of the harvest, and she was kidnapped to become Hades bride.”
Having lapped the country in 2017 with Parlour Gigs playing intimate shows in people’s lounge-rooms to introduce his closest fans to the concept. Harry is now set to upscale the show to its full incarnation. To commemorate the album release, The Cat Empire co-front man will take his 10 piece big band, featuring some of the country’s most acclaimed jazz soloists on the road for a number of special, one-off festival show appearances throughout March including Perth Festival, Adelaide Festival and The Peninsula Picnic with more large scale shows to be announced shortly.
Harry James Angus has come far from the fresh-faced, but committed teen taking his first tentative steps on the path to jazz. Finding critical and commercial success on stages and charts across the globe with Australia’s beloved The Cat Empire, the jazz disciple, trumpeter and sublime vocalist has succeeded in branching out with a number of acclaimed projects of his own.
Exploring deep within and far outside the realms of the genre which he is enamoured, Struggle With Glory signifies an important chapter in the artist’s development and a step closer to realising his ideal musical vision.
Struggle With Glory physical pre-orders are available from the 14th till the 23rd of February. For pre-orders visit: www.vitamin.net.au
Struggle With Glory Digital pre-orders made between Feb 21st – 28th via iTunes and Google Play will instantly receive the track “Paper Faces”
Harry James Angus Struggle With Glory is out on March 1st 2018, through OP/Vitamin Records
Harry James Angus
Struggle With Glory
Tour Dates
March 1 Perth Festival, WA
https://www.perthfestival.com.
March 14 & 15 Adelaide Festival, SA
https://www.adelaidefestival.
March 17 The Peninsula Picnic, Vic
https://www.peninsulapicnic.
www.harryjamesangus.com.au
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