NEW Singles & Videos + Release Announcements + Brand New Signings
Alex Cameron | Architects | Ethan P Flynn | High Pulp | Jamaica Moana | Pinegrove | Soak | Sophie Meiers
ALEX CAMERON Announces Album & Shares New Video
This week Alex Cameron has announced Oxy Music, his new album out in March on Secretly Canadian, and shares its opening track 'Best Life.'
ARCHITECTS Announce 'For Those That Wish To Exist at Abbey Road'
Architects have announced the release of their live album For Those That Wish To Exist at Abbey Road on March 25th, which captures a historic livestream performance at London’s iconic Abbey Road studios, spiritual home to legends like The Beatles and Pink Floyd.
ETHAN P. FLYNN Announces Debut EP w/ New Single
Songwriter, beatmaker, and multi-instrumentalist-maverick Ethan P. Flynn announces the release of his first “finished” project Universal Deluge; a purposefully curated seven-track EP. Set to be released digitally and as a 12” vinyl on Friday 11 March 2022 via Young. The announcement is made in line with the release of the visual for the lead single ‘Father of Nine.'
HIGH PULP Announce Their Debut Album *Pursuit Of Ends*
Drawing on bebop, punk rock, shoegaze, hip-hop, and electronic music, experimental jazz act High Pulp are announcing Pursuit of Ends today, their first full-length album with Los Angeles’s ANTI- Records. The frenetic 'All Roads Lead To Los Angeles' is the first song from the album they have shared.
JAMAICA MOANA (NGĀPUHI/TAINUI Descent) Presents new single 'CYA'
Pointer Recordings is thrilled to announce the signing of Jamaica Moana to their growing roster. The Sydney-based artist, rapper, creative director & songwriter of Maori (Ngāpuhi/Tainui) and Samoan descent makes her Pointer Recordings debut with fiery new single ‘CYA‘.
PINEGROVE Share Video For Epic Lead Track 'Habitat'
New Jersey-based group Pinegrove have shared a new video for the mini-epic lead track ‘Habitat.’ Taken from their just released album 11:11
SOAK Announce Album & share 'last july'
Bridie Monds-Watson, aka SOAK has announced their third album If I Never Know You Like This Again, released by Rough Trade Records on May 20th, 2022. Listen to a new track 'last july' and watch the accompanying video.
sophie meiers, Signs To Epitaph & Releases Grungy & Hypnotising New Single
The newest signing to Epitaph Records, sophie meiers (they/them) releases new single ‘collar.’
New Albums & EPs Out Now
We HIGHLY recommend supporting one of our wonderful local record stores: - many have websites you can order from too: Tāmaki Makarau / Auckland: Marbecks, Real Groovy, Flying Out, Southbound. Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington: Slowboat, Rough Peel, Death Ray, Flying Nun. Rotorua: Q Records & Collectibles, Keri Keri: Sound Lounge, Ngāmotu / New Plymouth: Vinyl Countdown, Ōtautahi / Christchurch: Penny Lane, Ōtepoti / Dunedin Disk Den and Relics!
COMBO CHIMBITA Release New album IRÉ
Deemed “powerful music that speaks to a global counterculture movement” by the San Francisco Chronicle, New York City’s Combo Chimbita has released their new album IRÉ today.
PINEGROVE Release New Album 11:11
New Jersey-based group Pinegrove have released their new album 11:11 today via Rough Trade Records. Self-produced with mixing by Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Tegan & Sara), 11:11 is the band’s fifth studio album following 2020’s Marigold.
STEVE GUNN Releases New EP NAKAMA
Out today digitally, Steve Gunn’s Nakama EP features reinterpretations of six songs from the guitarist’s recent full-length, Other You. Created with close friends, this includes new studio recordings made alongside Mikey Coltun and Ahmoudou Madassane of Mdou Moctar, and Natural Information Society, as well as remixes by Circuit des Yeux and Bing & Ruth.
THE SMILE Release New Single
The Smile, the new group comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet’s Tom Skinner, have today revealed a new track 'The Smoke' and its accompanying lyric video, created by the BAFTA-winning writer and director Mark Jenkin.
The band are playing three consecutive live shows in twenty-four hours in the heart of London’s Docklands, THIS WEEKEND. Performing to a seated audience in the round, each show will be broadcast in real-time via livestream. YOU, dear fan, can buy tickets here
NZ screening times are: Auckland – 9am Sun, Auckland – 2pm Sun or Auckland – 12am Mon.
The performances bring together a live show, a livestream, and a cinematic film, captured by award-winning director, Paul Dugdale and produced by Driift.
TORO Y MOI Announces New Album & Shares Two New Singles
Toro y Moi, a.k.a Chaz Bear, announces his new album MAHAL due April 29th via Dead Oceans. The 13-track project marks the seventh studio album from Bear under the Toro y Moi moniker. To celebrate the announcement, Toro y Moi shares two singles from the forthcoming record ‘Postman’ and ‘Magazine.’ Each of the new singles arrives with accompanying visuals.
Bandcamp Fridays Resume in 2022: See the Schedule
One of the plus sides of the pandemic & a great way to support local artists while we remain at red light settings. Bandcamp will once again waive its share of profits on select Fridays in 2022.