Sydney’s groovy, psych-rock six-piece Ocean Alley are thrilled to announce supports on their upcoming Australian tour, which recently expanded with a second and final show at The Forum in Melbourne on May 18. Kicking off later this month, the tour will feature New Zealand’s Tunes Of I nationally, plus a slew of stellar local acts added across each city.
Final tickets to remaining shows are on sale now via oceanalley.com.au.
Joining the lineup as national tour supports are Wellington sextet Tunes Of I, one of New Zealand’s most exciting up and coming roots acts, with a genre-defying sound that blends dub, rock, reggae, funk, soul and psychedelia. Funky, coastal chill-hop outfit Drop Legs and the warm sounds of psychedelic pop-rockers Sunrose will take over the stage for a night each in Brisbane, with spaced-out garage rockersThe Jim Mitchells opening the first Sydney performance and both shows in Melbourne. Groovy blues quartet Eagle Eye Jones will perform at the second Sydney show, and rounding out the bill in Fremantle are funk-infused indie-rockers Great Gable and indie-pop singer-songwriter Elli Schoen.
Hailing from Sydney’s Northern Beaches, six-piece Ocean Alley – Baden Donegal (vocals), Angus Goodwin (guitar), Nic Blom (bass), Lach Galbraith (keys/vocals), Mitch Galbraith (guitar) and Tom O’Brien (drums) – have captivated audiences around the country with their infectious melody lines and memorable blend of psychedelic-surf-rock, amassing 20+ million streams online and over 535,000+ monthly Spotify listeners. Their second LP Chiaroscuro, “12 tracks dripping in salty psychedelic surf-rock gold” (Pilerats) has received widespread acclaim, and with a stellar ARIA debut at #15 it’s clear“Ocean Alley’s biggest days are still ahead of them” (Life Without Andy).
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DREAMS Photo Credit: Jon Shoer
Announce headline shows in Sydney at VIVID LIVE
Following the release of the DREAMS single ‘No One Defeats Us’ comes its powerful, arresting video. Shot earlier this year by DREAMS and Jon Shoer in Los Angeles, it features standout performances from Daniel and Luke against a backdrop befitting the explosive track.
DREAMS is a collaboration between Daniel Johns (aka Dr Dreams) and Luke Steele (aka Miracle), ‘No-one Defeats Us’ the first song the famous musical duo wrote together.
Daniel explains, “No One Defeats Us says lyrically what our goal is, it’s a journey into our vision of the future.”
“Dan and I excel and struggle on similar levels” says Luke. “We have so much passion and we are so ambitious. That song came from a time when we were beginning the band and we needed something deep. I wanted to build a gang – like a gang of the future. We want the band to be for the common man, the underdog, the homeless, the person who shows love to his neighbour.”
DREAMS will perform ‘No One Defeats Us’ live for the first time at COACHELLA Valley Music & Arts Festival on April 13 and 20. The only band ever to be booked for the festival before releasing any music, the duo is the highest-billed Australian band, promising to put on a truly unmissable performance.
Their premiere performance in Australia is at VIVID LIVE, Tuesday May 29 and Wednesday May 30 at the Sydney Opera House (Concert Hall). Tickets available HERE.
ABOUT DREAMS:
Daniel Johns is best known as the front man of Silverchair whilst the enigmatic Luke Steele fronts Empire of The Sun and The Sleepy Jackson. The artists first met in 2004 when Luke’s band The Sleepy Jackson supported Silverchair on their sold-out Diorama tour, and Daniel recalls the connection between them was so instant that after the first show of that tour they played piano together backstage, and have basically never stopped.
With over ten million albums sold worldwide and an undefeatable twenty-nine ARIA Awards won between both of their respective acts, the pedigree of Daniel and Luke’s new collaboration is unquestionable.
Since Silverchair’s debut release ‘Tomorrow’ in 1994, Daniel has taken home a record twenty-one statues, the most of any Australian artist in ARIA history. Daniel has also won APRA Songwriter of the Year three times, and impressively, Silverchair is the only Australian act to have all of their studio albums, five in total, debut at #1 on the ARIA chart.
Sweeping the ARIAs clean in 2008 was Luke Steele’s Empire of the Sun, taking home gongs for Best Album, Best Single, Best Group and Best Pop Release. With a total of eight ARIAs and two APRA songwriting awards to date, along with two BRIT Award nominations, Empire of the Sun has gone from strength to strength internationally, including a spectacular sold out performance at Hollywood Bowl in 2015, in front of an audience of 17,000 US fans.
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On May 25th, Vancouver-based quartet Jo Passed will release Their Prime, their first full-length effort, on CD/LP/CS/DL worldwide through Sub Pop Records, with the exception of Canada through Royal Mountain Records.
The band have delivered an official video for Their Prime standout “MDM,” which was directed by Eleanor Petry. Bandleader Jo Hirabayashi says of the video, “something something, on my phone too much, something something, marshall mcluhan, something something, stanley kubrick, something something, the medium is the message, something something, ouch my insides.”
Jo has been part of the DIY music scene since his late teens. Initially it was just him and his high school best friend Elliot Langford against the world. They were the “freaky music weirdos” and they began their own band projects. Jo was pretty sure that it would be two of them riding into the sunset – or maybe the gloom – together. Personal circumstances and the phenomenon of the late 20s return of Saturn (for those who believe in astrology) got in the way. Their band Sprïng called it a day. That’s where the life of Jo Passed began. The idea of a band dynamic is far more appealing to Jo than solo projects, and the current incarnation of Jo Passed feels like its most robust yet.
Jo, along with his friend and drummer Mac Lawrie, moved across the country from Vancouver to Montreal. The two would play shows in Montreal and eventually tour the far right corner of North America. Upon Jo’s return to the west coast, multi-instrumentalist Bella Bébé officially joined the band in January of 2016, expanding Jo Passed from trio to a full quartet. Multimedia artist Megan-Magdalena Bourne began working with Jo Passed on a video project for the song “Rage” (from the Out EP). This creative partnership would eventually lead to her taking on the role of bassist for the band.
When not geeking out over The Zombies, or Nirvana, or Johann Sebastian Bach… Bella, Mac, and Megan have worked with Jo to realize the live experience of Their Prime, following two Jo Passed EPs titled Up and Out.
Jo Passed has scheduled a few spring club shows and festival dates before hitting the road later this year. Current highlights include shows with Hardly Art’s Dick Stusso (March 16th-24th) and an appearance at Treefort Music Festival in Boise (March 21st).
Tour dates:
Mar. 16 – Bozeman, MT – Labor Temple*
Mar. 18 – Denver, CO – Lost Lake Lounge*
Mar. 19 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court*
Mar. 21 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Festival
Mar. 22 – Seattle, WA – Barboza*
Mar. 24 – Portland, OR – Crush House *
Apr. 14 – Victoria, BC – Lucky Bar
*w/ Dick Stusso
Preorders for Their Prime are now available through Sub Pop and Royal Mountain Records. LP purchases in North America through megamart.subpop.com
Their Prime is a record about identity and the loss of time that happens as a direct consequence of being in the city with nowhere to rent, no time outside of employment and no realistic expectations to live up to. It encompasses that fear of being beyond the glory years, the most creatively fruitful period of one’s life. Those years were lost to contemporary struggles for working relationships, home, identity and space. “It’s me owning my worst nightmare,” he admits. “A lot of the Jo Passed project has been about confronting fears. I was afraid to move away from Vancouver to Montreal on my own. Afraid to leave musical relationships I had. Afraid to bare the full responsibility of a project. I’ve been putting out records and not ones anyone’s necessarily heard. Being open about those fears is a good way of dealing with them. You end up at this point where you hit 30 and you’re like, ‘Oh what happened? Am I done? Did I not activate my main creative energy?’ It’s a ridiculous idea but 30 feels a little like 1000 in rock n roll terms.” You can hear the frustrations and the jitters in the crashing loud-and-quiet motifs throughout the album’s twelve tracks, which offer up a patchwork quilt of sound, similar to Faust’s IV or Fugazi’s Red Medicine [read more at Sub Pop].
Their Prime tracklisting:
1. Left
2. MDM
3. Glass
4. Undemo
5. Facetook
6. Repair
7. R.I.P.
8. Millennial Trash Blues
9. You, Prime
10. Sold
11. Another Nowhere
12. Places Please
Links:
Jo Passed on Bandcamp
Jo Passed on Facebook
Jo Passed on Twitter
Jo Passed on Instagram
Jo Passed on Sub Pop Records
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Phoenix have released a brilliant remix of their Ti Amo song “Fior Di Latte” today by PC Music head honcho A. G. Cook. A glitch-filled melange of Technicolor, arcade-esque synths, Cook’s version takes the original in mind-melding new directions. Click HERE to listen to it.
Phoenix will headline the Air + Style festival happening this weekend in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park. They also recently announced residencies at Brooklyn’s Brooklyn Steel this July, and Paris’s La Gaité Lyrique, where they recorded 2017’s acclaimed album Ti Amo (out now on Loyauté/Glassnote Records), this May.
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New album Her out now on Chapter via Inertia Music
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ALL ALBUM PRE-ORDERS INCLUDE DOWNLOADS OF MAKE ME FEEL AND DJANGO JANE
GRAMMY®-nominated singer-songwriter/performer/producer/actress/activist, Janelle Monáe, has unveiled new details of her highly-anticipated third solo album project, Dirty Computer. The Emotion Picture includes an album and an accompanying narrative film. The album is available for pre-order beginning today and arrives everywhere Friday, April 27th. Release date for the accompanying narrative film to be announced soon.
Today, Monáe released two anthemic, electric singles, Make Me Feel and Django Jane with complementary music videos from the Emotion Picture. All pre-orders include downloads of the premiere singles, both now available individually across all DSPs and streaming services.
Make Me Feel, directed by Alan Ferguson, captures the spirited, celebratory voice of Monáe as she affectionately nods to the ripe sounds surrounding the 1980’s music and dance revolution. Delivering electric vocals, pop hooks and confident, female-driven lyrics, Monáe brings the song to life in a vibrantly colored video highlighted by provocative silhouettes moving across the screen. Django Jane underscores Monáe’s ability to unleash her biting, unapologetic flow in a song that embraces contradictions as part of the beauty of individuality. The video was directed by Andrew Donoho and Chuck Lightning with additional vagina monologue footage directed by Lacey Duke. The song is a powerful black girl magic womanifesto that celebrates the strength of black women and black culture while addressing the trials and tribulations of identity in the 21st Century. Both videos are streaming now on Monáe’s YouTube channel.
The Dirty Computer project was heralded with a very special teaser that premiered last weekend ahead of screenings of Marvel Studio’s history-making Black Panther. Notable outlets such as NPR, Billboard, and W Magazine, among others, praised Monae’s cinematic range and vision. The trailer is streaming now via YouTube and Monáe’s official website.
2016 saw Monáe embark on her film acting career with stellar performances in two milestone films, Hidden Figures and Moonlight; both films received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, with the latter winning the award at the 89th Academy Awards.
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Deorro wreaks havoc on “Offspring,” an electro house crowd pleaser released on Dim Mak. Delivering his signature Melbourne bounce sound, the track features supercharged synths and a tremendous big room drop. “Offspring” is also aptly named: Deorro samples his son’s voice, lending the release emotional significance. The hard-hitting track is the California native’s first single of the new year and arrives as Deorro joins select dates on Steve Aoki‘s Kolony US Tour. American producer Deorro is the perfect example of magnetic dynamism in music production. His impressive discography includes a myriad of original tracks, from his early hits “Yee” and “Five Hours” to last year’s “Rise and Shine,” as well as collaborations/remixes with Chuckie, Axwell, Krewella, Laidback Luke, Carnage, Diplo and more. Last year, he took listeners on the ultimate journey with his incredibly successful full-length album Good Evening, a 24-track pilgrimage that showcased many versions of Deorro‘s style. “It’s more than an introduction to a creative mind, it’s a story of sound and feeling,” quoted Billboardof the album. His prowess behind the decks has earned him premier spots at some of the world’s largest festivals and clubs, like Coachella, Ultra Music Festival, Lights OFF, and Electrobeach. Now with a renowned debut album under his belt and more new music on the way, the future is looking very bright indeed for Deorro. Deorro is joining Dim Mak label head Steve Aoki as a special guest on his North American Kolony Tour this winter, performing in Austin, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Purchase tickets here and see below for Deorro‘s full tour schedule: 2/23 – Springfield, MO @ The Complex |
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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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