NEW Singles & Videos + Release Announcements + Brand New Signings
ANGEL OLSEN reveals the centerpiece of her new album
Angel Olsen has released the third single from her forthcoming album Big Time. After 'All the Good Times' and the title song, the singer-songwriter has shared 'Through the Fires.' It comes with a lyric video shot by Angela Ricciardi.
Boy Scouts TAYLOR VICK has a new band - introducing ART MOORE
The members of ART MOORE are all long-familiar faces on the scene - they're a trio made up of Taylor Vick (AKA Boy Scouts) and Ezra Furman collaborators Sam Durkes and Trevor Brooks. Learn more about their debut album and check out the first single 'Muscle Memory'.
Chicago 3 piece HORSEGIRL unveil a new garage pop anthem
HORSEGIRL do everything as a tight unit, including throwing a party for their friends at their elementary school and filming and directing their new video - the guitar-driven ‘Dirtbag Transformation (Still Dirty)’ at said party.... The Chicago DIY youth scene and their talented friends are one of the most important forces behind the 3 members of Horsegirl - rad!
Listen to INTERPOL'S brand new song 'Fables'
“‘Fables’ features one of Daniel’s hottest licks,” Paul Banks said in a statement, referring to guitarist Daniel Kessler and Interpols new single "Fables. “A breezy vocal with optimistic lyrics and a bouncy drum beat evocative of classic R&B with a nod to the golden age of hip hop. It’s a summer jam and a piece of music we are particularly proud of.”
Florida punks MAGNOLIA PARK announce new EP and urge you to sing out loud and jump around!
Ever since forming in just 2019, Magnolia Park has consciously pioneered inclusivity in the punk world. They are dedicated to spreading the message of #PopPunkInColor to ensure that the genre is one where people of all backgrounds are represented on and off stage. Check out their new prolific collaboration with Mayday Parade front man, Derek Sanders, ‘Feel Something.’
NZ songstress REB FOUNTAIN releases Andy Warhol inspired new video and announces IRIS tour dates
NZ songstress Reb Fountain has returned this week with a new video for 'Fisherman' - inspired by Andy Warhol's screen tests and shot on Super 8 at her home. She is also beyond happy to finally take her critically acclaimed new album Iris on the road with her band and a string of dates around the motu.
Irish singer/songwriter SOAK shares 'Swear Jar'
After their "spellbinding set" at our beloved Golden Dawn (RIP) back in 2015, NZ fans will be hanging out to see if Bridie Monds-Watson aka Soak will return on the back of their third album, released today. New single Swear Jar is accompanied by a lyric vid and to die for acoustic version of the song.
New Orleans no-wave punks SPECIAL INTEREST share Rough Trade debut '(Herman’s) House'
Following on from two full-length albums, an album of demos, and a remix album, new single, '(Herman’s) House' focuses on the story of Herman Wallace, a Black revolutionary who was held in solitary confinement while imprisoned in Louisiana. Combining elements of No-Wave, Glam and Industrial, the 4 piece create a frenetic and urgent revisioning of punk and electronic music for a modern world gone mad.
California rock stalwarts THRICE release new track, 'Dead Wake'
The song was written during the sessions for their most recent album, Horizons/East, which was released in September of 2021. Also released is an acoustic version of 'Scavengers' from the same album. Check them both out now!
New Albums & EPs Out Now
ARCA - Kick Series - in stores now!
Arca’s ambitious musical cycle concludes with four albums spanning reggaeton, club experiments, and tender synth lullabies. It’s a slippery, unwieldy, mind-bending collection of sound design that drives home the ur-theme of all her music: transformation. - Pitchfork
Kick II, III, IIII, IIIII are now available on vinyl at your favourite local record store!
Charlie Hickey - Nervous At Night
With influences from Taylor Swift and The 1975, to Elliott Smith & Conor Oberst, the debut album from 21 year old, Pasadena based Charlie Hickey via Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records is available digitally now with CD & vinyl due to be in stores later this month.
Mavis Staples & Levon Helm • Carry Me Home
Mavis Staples & Levon Helm’s Carry Me Home is out digitally now on with a physical release to follow. Recorded in 2011, the album is a time capsule and a memorial, a blissful homecoming and a fond farewell, a once-in-a-lifetime concert—and friendship—preserved for the ages.
Porridge Radio - Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
Available to stream now with a vinyl release to come. **Dana Margolin* blurts out primal declarations in the songs she writes, sings and sometimes screams for the English rock band Porridge Radio. The group’s seething, volatile arrangements summon multiple eras and styles — post-punk, psychedelia, low-fi indie-rock, synth-pop, chamber-rock — while Margolin’s lyrics often turn assertions into cathartic incantations. A band ‘about being messy and chaotic’? Porridge Radio finds its moment. On its new album, Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky, Dana Margolin’s indie-rock band thrives on emotional intensity".* - New York Times
SOAK - If I Never Know You Like This Again
Bridie Monds-Watson aka Soak and long-time collaborator Tommy McLaughlin (he/him) wrote most of the album while listening obsessively to indie bands like Broken Social Scene and Pavement, and Radiohead’s classic album The Bends. They honed in on this new riff-led, mid-90s sound, “nerding out on guitars and pedals like moronic bros,” before recording it with the rest of the band in Attica Studios in Donegal. If I Never… is the follow up to 2019’s Grim Town and SOAK’s Mercury-nominated 2015 debut Before We Forgot How to Dream.
ICYMI - Curated by The Label
ATTENTION KIWI ARTISTS!! The Brag Media Confirms First-Ever Rolling Stone New Zealand Awards
Nominations in the inaugural Panhead Rolling Stone New Zealand Awards open today and close Friday, June 17. The awards are open to New Zealand artists or groups that have released works during the eligibility period of April 1, 2021, to March 31, 2022. The nominees will be announced on Friday, June 24 with a special live event to follow.
Jarvis Cocker delves into the contents of his loft, exploring the origins of his creativity and what exactly makes good pop work and why bad pop fails.
"I know there's something important in here somewhere. Some kind of life story. Some kind of revelation." Jarvis Cocker is clearing out a loft. The loft contains ephemera from his early life. It might be gold, it might be garbage, but it's all linked to events that have shaped him. He's sharing his discoveries, mundane and monumental, in his book, Good Pop Bad Pop, serialised on BBC Radio 4.
