13 October 2025
Sleaford Mods have announced an Australian and New Zealand headline tour for April 2026. The band will kicks things off in Perth at the Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre Front Lawn, and continue through to Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Wellington and Auckland. Pre-sale starts on at 10am AEDT on Thursday 16th October and general sale will begin at 10am AEDT on Friday 17th October via handsometours.com. This will be Sleaford Mods…
10 October 2025
Following the official reveal of the tracklist last week, Blawan – aka Jamie Roberts – releases SickElixir, his debut XL Recordings album. The release lands ahead of his headline show at Village Underground in London on Friday 10 October, where he’ll debuted a brand-new live show, the first of two major headline live shows, with the second in Amsterdam on 22 October – tickets and info here. Crafted between Berlin, Leeds,…
10 October 2025
Stella Donnelly announces international tour dates across Australia, United Kingdom and Europe in support of her forthcoming album Love and Fortune, due for release on Friday 7th November. A deeply personal and anchored body of work that traces the journey back to herself after a period of profound change. Recorded in Naarm/Melbourne, the album carries the grounding energy of place, offering a sonic landscape that feels both intimate and expansive….
10 October 2025
Ruthven returns with ‘Kiss Goodnight’, a disco-infused single that marks a vibrant new chapter following his debut album Rough & Ready. The self-penned track arrives as Ruthven gears up for an extensive UK and European tour. Recorded in Ruthven’s South London studio following the release of his debut album, ‘Kiss Goodnight’ marks a shift in Nelson’s creative process. Moving away from the programmed production of Rough & Ready, he enlisted…
10 October 2025
Makaya McCraven releases four new singles today, one from each of his four upcoming EPs – Techno Logic, The People’s Mixtape, Hidden Out!, and PopUp Shop – released on all music platforms October 31st. Today’s four singles – ‘What a Life,’ ‘Prime,’ ‘News Feed,’ and ‘Sweet Stuff’ – and subsequent EPs are all compiled on a 2xLP and 2xCD physical release titled Off the Record, which is available for preorder…
10 October 2025
Mdou Moctar have shared a new session video: ‘Live at Smokey’s Wedding, Agadez’. The 14-minute clip documents the band’s short electric set at a traditional Tuareg wedding celebration. “Smokey’s was the last thing we filmed during the 2023 Niger sessions,” explains bassist/producer Mikey Coltun. “It was a wedding we were aware of since we arrived in Agadez. Smokey, our friend, invited us to play. Armed with a zoom recorder and…
10 October 2025
Death Cult laid the groundwork for the band we now know as The Cult, and in 2023, to mark the band’s 40th anniversary, Ian Astbury & Billy Duffy, along with John Tempesta on bass and Charlie Jones on drums, revived Death Cult for a special run of shows. Out on January 16th, 2026, PARADISE LIVE is a 16-track live album that documents this rebirth of Death Cult. Recorded at the…
3 October 2025
On 9th January 2026, Dry Cleaning will return with Secret Love, the group’s third studio album, produced by Cate Le Bon. They share its first single ‘Hit My Head All Day’, out now. Secret Love is the finest expression yet of the profound friendships that created Dry Cleaning, between frontperson Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton and bassist Lewis Maynard. Here, the south London four-piece take their place…
3 October 2025
London-based musician, composer and producer Danny L Harle today releases his latest single ‘Azimuth’, featuring vocals from long-time collaborator Caroline Polachek. The song marks the latest evolution in one of contemporary pop’s most compelling creative partnerships – a journey that started in earnest with Polachek’s 2019 solo album Pang, deepened on 2023’s equally acclaimed Desire, I Want To Turn Into You and now crystallises with Harle’s own solo work as…
3 October 2025
Richard Russell’s collaborative project Everything Is Recorded today release a new EP No Ends No Beginnings. Across four tracks, Russell is joined by long-time collaborators and new voices including Sampha, Florence + The Machine, Danielle Ponder, Jah Wobble, Roses Gabor and Jack Peñate. The record moves from the raw, broken soul of recent single ‘Wear and Tear’ to the spectral folk of ‘Welcome to the Meadows’, framed by the meditative…
3 October 2025
In March, Matador set Circuit des Yeux’s haunting and midnight-hued masterpiece, Halo on the Inside, loose on an unsuspecting world. Critical adoration and a transcendent world tour followed. And now, we are doing it all over again. Out digitally today, Halo on the Inside: Director’s Cut is the album as it was originally delivered to the label – reinstating the original tracklist and adding three previously unreleased compositions, along with…
3 October 2025
Planet Rami is back with his new single ‘Never Gonna Come’, accompanied by a bold and playful music video directed by Tim Swallow. ‘Never Gonna Come’ captures those moments of deep desire and yearning. Speaking on the feelings behind the track, Rami shares “I’ve come to realise that things often have their own paths and reasons for eluding us. Sometimes, all they do is guide us toward a shared essence…
3 October 2025
Reissued and available for the first time on vinyl, pressed onto a double LP, remastered at Abbey Road; The Best Of Natacha Atlas will be released on November 14th, 2025. Natacha Atlas is an internationally-acclaimed artist with one of the world’s most distinctive voices. The Anglo-Egyptian singer has spent more than two decades fusing electronic beats with North African and Arabic music, finding links between seemingly disparate musical genres, exploring new…
1 October 2025
Bandcamp Friday is back! This coming Friday, October 3rd (at 5pm AEST for 24hrs – check your local timezone) is the next-to-last Bandcamp Friday of 2025. After that, the final Bandcamp Friday of 2025 will be on December 5th. As always is it Bandcamp Friday? has the details. On the first Friday of the month since March 2020, Bandcamp waived their revenue share to help support artists. Thanks for your…
26 September 2025
Rough Trade Records is thrilled to announce Tyler Ballgame’s stunning debut album For the First Time, Again, out January 30th, 2026. A bracing reminder of how great songs delivered by a gifted vocalist can move, captivate and inspire, it boasts 12 finely crafted tunes rooted in classic rock, indie and Americana. Ballgame’s infectious melodies draw the listener into a story, and his message of belief in one’s true self resonates…
26 September 2025
John Maus announces his return to Australian shores, with five headline dates across the country, set for April and May, 2026. Maus will perform in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Coorabell as part of a national tour celebrating the release of his upcoming album Later Than You Think, out today! General sale starts at 9am AEST today, Friday 26th September. Tickets on sale via mistletone.net Written, produced, and recorded in…
26 September 2025
Patrick Watson releases Uh Oh, a deeply personal 11-track collection that investigates the idea of life as being a series of “uh ohs”: a little phrase uttered in response to everything from childhood accidents to our most overwhelming anxieties. The songs on this album were written during a period where Watson was experiencing his own career-threatening “uh oh” – he’d lost his voice. Unsure if he would ever sing again,…
26 September 2025
Blawan – aka Jamie Roberts – returns with ‘Rabbit Hole,’ the next single from his highly anticipated forthcoming album SickElixir, out 10 October. Where the first single ‘NOS’ surged forward with a pulsing, vocal-led intensity, ‘Rabbit Hole’ takes a different path. Featuring vocals by Monstera Black alongside his own, it tunnels listeners inward, revealing a more vulnerable and restless side of Roberts’ writing and production. Crafted between Berlin, Leeds, Paris,…
25 September 2025
Carla Geneve releases her new single ‘Ashamed’, the third single taken from her forthcoming album Don’t Be Afraid due Friday 17 October. The new single shows Geneve at her most reflective, with piano-led instrumentation framing her direct, intimate lyrics. Carla shares “This is another one of the tracks that we redid. This one was originally theatrical, grandiose. We never quite knew how to finish it off, it felt as though…
25 September 2025
After a whirlwind summer of global festivals and her Asia headline tour, NYC-via-Seoul artist, producer, vocalist and DJ Yaeji is back with ‘booboo2’ – the playful sequel to her 2024 banger ‘booboo.’ This time around, she teamed up with hyper-pop-punk artist underscores and rising rapper influencer Aliyah’s Interlude to supercharge the track into a high-octane reinvention of the original. 2025 has been a transformative year for Yaeji. From her stand-alone…
25 September 2025
Ahead of her upcoming headline To Survive Australia Tour, Liz Stringer has revealed the local charities she’ll be supporting at each show. Representatives from these organisations will attend the concerts, and audience members will have the chance to donate directly throughout the evening via QR codes displayed around the venues. Donations and further information about all charity partners are already available on the To Survive Tour landing page on Liz’s…
24 September 2025
Earlier this year, Horsegirl released one of the year’s most lauded releases, Phonetics On and On. Produced by Cate Le Bon, the album has already landed on mid-year best of 2025 lists from major publications, including Esquire, Stereogum, The Ringer, UPROXX, FLOOD, Paste, Rolling Stone, and more. The band has been touring extensively since the release, recently returning from an entirely sold out, first-ever Japanese tour. Today, Horsegirl shine a…
19 September 2025
Mouseatouille return with their third album DJ Set, out now on vinyl and all music platforms. This October, the band will take the new record on the road, bringing their intricate live show to headline stages in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and Sydney – Tickets on sale now. Mouseatouille, the Melbourne nine-piece collective, has always sought comfort in numbers. There is a reassurance in the orchestra, the knowledge that a friend…
19 September 2025
keiyaA announces her highly anticipated, sophomore album hooke’s law, out October 31st, and also shares the project’s second single ‘take it’, accompanied by a second self-co-directed music video with Caity Arthur, which follows last month’s ‘stupid prizes’. Written and produced over five years, hooke’s law is keiyaA’s document of survival through self-interrogation. The album deconstrusts and rebuilds her ego on her own terms, offering a safe space to process conflicting…
19 September 2025
Sleaford Mods make an explosive return with brand new single ‘Megaton’, out now. Over an arc of rolling beats and atmospheric electronics, the track is peppered with acerbic bars digging out cultural mediocrity. A union of groove and guile, Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn are ruffling feathers and moving feet with their first new release as Sleaford Mods since 2023 album UK GRIM. Continuing the duo’s partnership with the charity…
19 September 2025
bar italia release new single and video ‘rooster’, the latest preview from their upcoming album Some Like It Hot, released October 17th. Flowing between sinuous groove and sinister guitar onslaughts, ‘rooster’ is another showcase of the new album’s union of the anthemic and unbridled. Some Like It Hot is a 1959 film starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon about a group of rogue musicians on the adventure path….
19 September 2025
On the eve of kicking off a 24-date regional Australian tour, Melbourne punk rock icons The Smith Street Band have dropped a brand-new single and announced their seventh album Once I Was Wild, out Friday November 21. The album’s title track, ‘Once I Was Wild’, serves as its third single, following on from earlier releases ‘This Is It’ and ‘Star Child’. The new track captures a bittersweet nostalgia, as the…
19 September 2025
Makaya McCraven releases four new singles, one from each of his four upcoming EPs – Techno Logic, The People’s Mixtape, Hidden Out!, and PopUp Shop – which will be released on October 31st. The new singles – ‘Boom Bapped (feat. Theon Cross & Ben LaMar Gay)’, ‘The Beat Up’, ‘Dark Parks (feat. Jeff Parker)’, ‘Los Gatos’ – and subsequent EPs are all compiled on a 2xLP and 2xCD physical release…
19 September 2025
Tune-Yards release a new EP, Tell the Future With Your Body, off the back of their latest album Better Dreaming in May, which saw the duo deliver some of the grooviest music of their career so far. On this new EP, Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner expand on the loopy, homespun energy of their latest album with four more tracks of irresistible rhythms, basslines and melodies. The tracklisting offers three previously…
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