NEW Singles & Videos + Release Announcements + Brand New Signings
Modern day troubadour; Andy Shauf - new video "Halloween Store" - Watch On YouTube
Andy Shauf has just released a new video for “Halloween Store” from his latest album Norm. The hand-drawn “Halloween Store” video is charming and timely, a perfect visual accompaniment for the fast-approaching holiday. “I was inspired by the warmth and hominess of looking forward to Halloween when you were a kid,” says Art & Animation Director Margaret Bialis. Of note, Véra (V) Haddad returns to handle creative direction on “Halloween Store,” who has been involved with all four of Norm’s music videos to date.
Listen to the full album here: https://antircrds.io/3HwfhTS "Halloween Store" by @andyshaufmusic from the album 'Norm', available nowOrder, stream & download...
Arca releases a literally shocking new video- Incendio - Watch and Read more on YouTube
Arca releases a self-directed video for “Incendio” that premiered at Mutant; Destrudo, her four-night performance series. The visual piece captures a raw performance of Arca featuring custom technology from Japanese artist Daito Manabe, who collaborated with Arca on the creation of a radical device that converts music signals into electrical signals. As Manabe explains further, “through myoelectric sensors attached to Arca’s face, we can use technology to intricately, and at times violently, control and transform her expressions.” Despite these technological constraints, Arca delivers a powerful performance, offering herself as a vessel, happily enjoying the pleasure and the pain of each rhythmic shock.
Korean-American alt-pop artist Babebee shares“EPHEMERAL” | Watch the gorgeous ethereal video HERE
The latest glimpse into their upcoming EP – ‘A PROPHECY’, out November 17th Babebee (they/them) shares their new single “EPHEMERAL” in collaboration with producer Jack Laboz.
Babebee crafts a story of soulmates and past life connections in a haze of alternative indie rock, dream pop, and shoegaze. Yes on Epitaph Records - not everything is punk/ hard rock on this fantastic label - seriously - check it out! FFO; Yaeji, Fazerdaze, Pickle Darling ...
BAR ITALIA release new single & video ahead of new album- Check Out the new single here
‘worlds greatest emoter’ follows singles 'my little tony' which is currently on the BBC 6 Music playlist and 'Jelsy', which The Times described as “slow-burning eerie bluesy rock with a hint of bossa nova from the celebrated trio”, while The Guardian said, “this mordant cowboy strum becomes hypnotic thanks to the London band's trifecta of vocalists, each sounding nihilistic and freshly released from a dark cupboard".
FUTURE ISLANDS announce new album & share new song | Listen to The Tower
Today, less than two months following the final tour date of their As Long As You Are tour, Future Islands announce the details of their new album People Who Aren’t There Anymore which will be released 26 January 2024. The seventh album from the band – Samuel T. Herring (vocals, lyrics), William Cashion (bass, guitars), Gerrit Welmers (keyboards, programming), and Michael Lowry (drums) – follows 2020’s As Long As You Are. People Who Aren’t There Anymore heralds a new chapter for Future Islands who, despite having formed nearly two decades ago, continue to challenge themselves and each other.
FFO: Waxahatchee: KATY KIRBY announces ANTI- debut album & shares new song | Listen to 'Table'
New York-based songwriter Katy Kirby is announcing her second album ‘Blue Raspberry’ today, to be released on January 26, 2024. Her first for ANTI- Records, ‘Blue Raspberry’ dives headlong into the artifice of newfound intimacy: the glitter smeared across eyelid creases, the smiles switched on with an electric buzz, the synthetic rose scent all over someone who’s made herself smell nice just for you. An exegesis of Kirby’s first queer relationship, ‘Blue Raspberry’ traces the crescendo and collapse of new love, savouring each gleaming shard of rock candy and broken glass along the way.
With today’s announce she is sharing the song and video for ‘Table’. Directed by Lane Rodges, the clip features Katy in puritanical garb as she sizes up a table that represents the limitations she experienced being raised as a homeschooled evangelical Christian.
[Pop-punk-trap] LIL LOTUS shares new single 'she’s a vampire' from upcoming album |Check It Out Here
For Los Angeles alternative artist Lil Lotus, life has largely felt like one giant nosebleed— constantly being drained by the people around him, solitude and his internal demons. Directly drawing upon that feeling, he has titled his sophomore album ‘Nosebleeder’, which is coming out on December 1 via Epitaph Records. Today he is showcasing his singular storytelling skills in cinematic new single from the record, “she’s a vampire”.
sophie meiers Shares Ominous 'Hotline' | Watch the video HERE
Painting a disruptive picture of sickness, perversion and self-destruction, multimedia artist sophie meiers (they/them) views their upcoming EP ‘crawl__space’ as the place where secrets go to hide. The final piece of their immersive portals trilogy out on November 27, the dark new project embodies the muck and grime inside of us all — confessions of obsession, self-destruction and violent fairy tales.
SERPENTWITHFEET announces new album & shares new song | Listen to Damn Gloves
This week the Grammy-nominated groundbreaking alternative R&B artist serpentwithfeet announces the release of his highly anticipated new album, GRIP, is set for February 16th via Secretly Canadian. In celebration, he shares his insatiable new single “Damn Gloves” featuring Ty Dolla $ign and South African artist, Yanga YaYa, along with an intoxicating companion video. Ushering in a new era for the artist personally and sonically, we see serpent brimming with poise and tenacity in a fully realized form as he unveils his best work to date.
U.S. Mega Pop-Punkers, MAGNOLIA PARK release album - Halloween Mixtape II | Watch 'Candles' Video
As summer cools into fall, let Magnolia Park’s genre-rich, hook-packed Halloween Mixtape II be the perfect soundtrack to whatever you have in store this October. Whether it’s cuddling under a blanket to a horror movie classic or building out a killer costume, celebrate the season with their contemporary fusion of magnetic pop, hard-rock, nu-metal, hip-hop, phonk and 2000s theater-emo.
Out now via Epitaph Records, the band tapped longtime collaborators and Baku’s Revenge (2021) producers Andrew Wade (A Day To Remember, Wage War) and Andy Karpovck to expand on the hardened edge underlying their trademark catchy hooks and memorable melodies.
Drone Rock with keys! GLITTERER announces new album & shares video for lead single | Check Out The Video Here
Glitterer, the former solo project of Title Fight’s Ned Russin, returns with a new offering – and now, Glitterer is a full band. This week, they announced their forthcoming LP, Rationale, to be released on February 23, 2024 via ANTI- Records. Out now is the commanding lead single, ‘Plastic’; directed by Chris Tharp, listen and watch the song’s new video – which features quick-cutting clips of ramen, riding on a motorbike and the head of an insect costume...
WATER FROM YOUR EYES announces remix album of 'Everyone's Crushed' | Listen to new remixes
On November 17, Water From Your Eyes will release Crushed By Everyone, a song-by-song rework of the duo’s critically-adored Matador debut, Everyone’s Crushed.
Curated by band members Rachel Brown and Nate Amos, the album dips heavily into WFYE’s personal rolodex with contributions that map the group’s rapidly expanding community – friends, tourmates, and peers. It’s the rare “remix” record where everybody has met in person (or at least shared some DMs).
New Albums & EPs Out Now
CASISDEAD -“The UK’s most notorious rap star” - debut out today! | THE LABEL
CASISDEAD finally releases his hotly-anticipated debut album Famous Last Words via XL Recordings. Featuring the recent singles “Venom”, “Matte Grey Wrap”, “Traction Control” and “Boys Will Be Boys” among many highlights, it’s the London-based rapper, producer and director’s most ambitious statement yet. The 23 track album is a fully realised expansion of the dystopian futurism that has captivated audiences since CASISDEAD first announced himself in 2013. Over the past decade, he’s dipped in and out of the shadows, blessing fans with cult hits while maintaining his anonymity, shunning media attention and donning various masks; a rejection of the spotlight that’s helped to create folklore around a rapper who’s widely regarded as one of the UK’s most inventive lyricists.
Out this week...Friday October 27 | THE LABEL
On her expansive new album Water Made Us, Chicago musician and poet Jamila Woods shines anew as she asks the question, what does it mean to fully surrender to love? Across Water Made Us Jamila embraces new genres, playful melodies, and hypnotizing wordplay, as she wades through the exhilarating tumult of love’s wreckage and refuge.
Remix of the Week
SPECIAL INTEREST announce Endure Remixed | Listen to Concerning Peace
Special Interest have announced Endure Remixed, six remixes from their critically acclaimed 2022 album Endure, out Friday, November 10th, 2023 on Rough Trade Records / Remote Control. Today they are sharing electronic cyber-punk duo Machine Girl’s remix of ‘Concerning Peace’ – Special Interest’s incendiary screed against authority. The song title is inspired by the “On Violence” section from philosopher Frantz Fanon’s 1961 book “The Wretched of The Earth”. Straddling the line between club banger and punk anthem, the remix feels especially timely.
Heads Up!
MARAUDERS a handycam time machine feat. FAT FREDDY’S DROP out soon | Get ready for the Premiere
In 2003, Fat Freddy’s Drop embarked on an auspicious debut European tour. Twenty years later, rare and glorious handycam footage of the tour is the base for MARUADERS, a slow-burn web series like no other. Presented by RNZ Music and Transmit with Student Radio Network and made with support from NZ On Air, MARAUDERS is an absorbing time machine with the now internationally acclaimed band. MARAUDERS premieres on Monday, 30 October, on rnz.co.nz/marauders and from 6 November, it will stream on SRN’s YouTube @studentradionetwork. Spanning four seasons with six episodes apiece, MARAUDERS roams from London and Berlin, to Vienna and Amsterdam. Each episode is under ten minutes, and viewers can binge-watch full seasons or dip in and out of the action at their leisure.
Tours, Events and Festivals
Queens Of The Stone Age announce 'The End Is Nero' summer 2024 tour | Click Through for Dates
Queens of the Stone Age officially announce ‘The End Is Nero’ Summer 2024 Australian and New Zealand tour, the band’s first appearance in Australasia since 2018. The official announcement comes after the band excitedly teased the news via social media last week, “sending shockwaves of excitement through the Gold Coast and beyond.” – GC Mag.
The far-reaching tour, hailed by NME as “a band reaching the peak of their powers” and the Lincoln Star Journal to proclaim it “the best rock show I’ve seen in a very long time” will see the band start at Red Hill Auditorium in Perth on 10th February, ahead of shows in Adelaide, Hobart, Torquay, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast and Brisbane. Queens of the Stone Age will then continue their tour in Auckland and Wellington before concluding the run in Christchurch on 3rd March.
‘The End is Nero’ tour is in support of their acclaimed eighth studio album, ‘In Times New Roman…’ ’ and is an invitation from Joshua Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita and Jon Theodore to come celebrate the end of the world, which we hear is “in a month or two.”
WOMAD NZ 18 captivating international and local artists | Check Out the latest additions
The world’s most iconic world music festival, WOMAD NZ, unveils 18 exciting additions to its 2024 New Zealand event, guaranteeing a round-the-world musical journey like no other. For three days in March, the award-winning Brooklands Park and the TSB Bowl of Brooklands, Ngāmotu/ New Plymouth, will be home to this incredible melting pot of artists.
WOMAD NZ is thrilled to welcome Senegalese icon Baaba Maal and his rich blend of traditional West African rhythms along with the revival of the 1970s Zamrock genre for a new generation with Zambia’s WITCH.
Bosnia & Herzegovina’s Dubioza Kolektiv’s explosive, genre-blurring experience of high-energy ska, reggae, punk, and hip-hop are set to wow audiences.
Brazilian legend Gilberto Gil’s captivating bossa nova and tropicalia, the groundbreaking fusion of Mexican folk traditions and modern innovation from Son Rompe Pera, and the electrifying Angolan-Portuguese sensation Pongo are poised to bring their exhilarating and diverse musical flavours to the 2024 festival’s program.
KORA have started a MOVEment - Show us your dance moves
KORA have started a MOVEment They are reaching out to their fans to capture their finest dance moves to their latest single, 'Dancing In The Rain,' and to share them to social media. The band says, "Remember, dancing is all about having fun, feeling good, and embracing the moment, rain or shine."
KHRUANGBIN release 'People Everywhere (Shifting Sands remix)' | Check Out New Remix
Today, the globe-trotting, genre-bending Houston, Texas trio Khruangbin closes out their year long collection of live albums with the announcement of Khruangbin: Live at Sydney Opera House, a double LP exclusively comprised of Khruangbin compositions, available December 1st on Dead Oceans, in partnership with Night Time Stories Ltd. In conjunction with the announcement today the band also released ‘People Everywhere (SHIFTING SANDS REMIX),’ their own fresh take on The Universe Smiles Upon You classic.