NEW Singles & Videos + Release Announcements + Brand New Signings
BADBADNOTGOOD release new single ft. Reggie | Listen to ‘Take What’s Given’ here
Canadian ensemble BADBADNOTGOOD return to release a new single ‘Take What’s Given,’ featuring emerging Houston vocalist reggie; out now digitally on XL Recordings with a limited edition 7” available for pre-order here. Recorded in Los Angeles at Valentine Studios, across multiple sessions in 2023, ‘Take What’s Given’ is a country inspired track that radiates at the point in which reggie’s soulful vocal performance and BADBADNOTGOOD’s funk inspired, horn-tinged arrangements intersect.
JAMILA WOODS shares new video from acclaimed album 'Water Made Us' | Watch 'Still'
Chicago musician and poet Jamila Woods has dropped a video for ‘Still’ from the acclaimed album that saw year-end accolades from The New York Times, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and many more. Woods notes on the song and video: Still is a song about the space before “getting over,” the period of time where you feel the presence of a past love even when they’re long gone. Sometimes ignoring or resisting the memories doesn’t help, you have to let them in, offer them a glass of water and maybe even dance with them in order for them to finally let you go. The character “Absence,” played by dancer Owen Scarlett, represents this lingering loved one. My friend, musician and filmmaker Hollis Wong-Wear directed the video and we worked with the brilliant Jas Lin on the choreography.
TOO CLOSE TO TOUCH share lead single from final album | Listen to 'Control'
Lexington, Kentucky post-hardcore band Too Close To Touch announce their final album ‘For Keeps’ today, coming out on March 8th via Epitaph Records. Over more than ten years and two full-length releases the band continuously earned praise for their skillful musicianship and intricate arrangements that highlight each member’s technical ability. The glue that held them together throughout it all was beloved front man Keaton Pierce, who met his untimely death in 2022. With atmospheric production and dynamic drums, Too Close To Touch share lead single ‘Control’ alongside a satisfying music video chronicling the meticulous process of artist/director Whit Flint painting the album’s artwork.
LEYLA MCCALLA shares two new singles | Listen to 'Tree' & 'Scaled To Survive'
Born in New York City to Haitian emigrants and activists, Leyla McCalla possesses a stunning mastery of the cello, tenor banjo and guitar and, as a multilingual singer and songwriter, has risen to produce a distinctive sound that reflects the union of her roots and experience. Today she is announcing the new album ’Sun Without the Heat,’ a record that is playful and full of joy while holding the pain and tension of transformation. Coming out April 12, she is also sharing two tracks from the album today that show its range, in terms of sound and storytelling.
LOREN KRAMAR shares his velvety voice on a new song | Listen to 'Glovemaker'
Loren Kramar, Secretly Canadian’s latest signing, announces his debut album Glovemaker out April 26. If the Chateau Marmont could sing. This would be it. Ecstatic aspiration. Doubt. Proximity. Desire. The album Glovemaker is about the skins we craft to be seen by the world, and Loren reminds us that we are all in drag. All exposed. No matter what gloves we slip on. At the heart of these songs is an irrepressible desire to be known. Loren’s fantasies of success and stardom read as metaphors for a deeply human longing for acceptance and connection. Kramar is a showman and you hear it in his words: Blistering truth. Drama. Urgency. Glovemaker explores love and loneliness, dreams and promises, everything Los Angeles dangles. Kramar’s witty, vivid lyrics unfold with his powerful and intensely yearning vocals. This whole album is a shrine, a mantle atop a blazing fire of life, spread with the memorabilia of Loren; all of the pain and lust dazzling on unabashed view.
Alt punk band DEATH LENS share new single | Listen to 'Control'
Los Angeles alt-punk band Death Lens announce plans to release their new album Cold World on May 4th via Epitaph Records. Since 2015, the five self-described “Brown boys from La Puente” have demonstrated an explosive energy and attitude in their recordings and chaotic live shows. Along the way, they have blossomed into a refined example of their work ethic, dedication to social justice and their community. With slick guitar sonics and tender backing vocal harmonies that feel like the best parts of indie, punk and shoegaze, watch the surrealist music video for the album’s title track
DARTZ share new single/video| Listen to 'Paradise'
Rising New Zealand punks DARTZ share their new single, ‘Paradise,’ ahead of their new album, Dangerous Day To Be A Cold One, which is out Friday, 1 March, via Flying Nun Records. The infectious track comes with an Oscar Keys-directed video, showcasing the band rolling up their sleeves to tackle the real estate market in the form of Aotearoa’s newest sleazy property sales team, ‘Paradise Realty’.
FABIANA PALLADINO announces debut album & shares new single | Listen to 'Stay With Me Through The Night'
Fabiana Palladino by Buster Grey-Jung announces full details of her hotly anticipated self-titled debut album. The UK vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer will release Fabiana Palladino on 5 April 2024 via Paul Institute / XL Recordings. To celebrate the album news, Fabiana Palladino releases ‘Stay With Me Through The Night’, the second single to be revealed from the album (following 2023’s ‘I Care’ collaboration with Jai Paul) . A pivotal track for Palladino, ‘Stay With Me Through The Night’ was the first song to be written for the record and sits as the album’s centrepiece. It comes accompanied by a video – co-directed by Fabiana Palladino and Josh Renaut, and shot by Buster Grey-Jung – that showcases the beautiful intimacy of Palladino sat at the piano, the place where the whole album started.
COLD HART announces new album & shares video for '2017' | Watch '2017'
Filipino-American singer and producer Cold Hart announces his new album Pretty In The Dark arriving on May 18th via Epitaph Records. An architect of one of the generation’s most influential musical movements of the 2010s and beyond, he co-founded GOTHBOICLIQUE and changed the definition of punk and emo forever. With Pretty In The Dark, Cold Hart continues to explore the endless possibilities of the GBC ethos of blending the familiar with the unfamiliar, the light with the dark, and the nostalgic with the future. Cold Hart also shares the music video to the lead single and album opener ‘2017′ featuring GOTHBOICLIQUE. Over spirited pop-punk riffs and a steady driving beat, reverbed-out vocal harmonies are layered for a haunting effect. “A memoir of one of the craziest years in my life,” Cold Hart muses. “ ”2017” is a newer take on old GBC style, and almost every line is a homage to those days and most of the lyrics are references to old songs.”
MALICE K shares new single and video| Watch 'Radio'
NYC’s Malice K shares his new single ‘Radio’ via his new label home, Jagjaguwar. The track, which is co-produced by Issac Eiger (Hollow Comet) from Strange Ranger, showcases Malice K’s raw vulnerability and introspective lyricism with melodic tones that Elliott Smith would praise as he croons “I’m trying hard to be someone else, but someone else is already taken.”
GGLUM announces debut album & shares new single | Listen to 'Do You See Me Different'
gglum, the moniker of rising London-born songwriter Ella Smoker, announces her debut album and first for Secretly Canadian, The Garden Dream, out 29th March. Lead single ‘Do You See Me Different?’ is intimate and atmospheric, “about the confusion, chaos and deflation you feel during a difficult relationship,” Smoker explains. She’s also shared the instantly memorable ‘Glue,’ a song about “the desperation of wanting a broken relationship to be fixed again. Frantically scrambling to ‘glue’ things back together, but also feeling hopeless and numbing out.”
GLITTERER share 3rd single ahead of new album | Listen to 'The Same Ordinary'
In seventy seconds, Glitterer’s latest track ‘The Same Ordinary’ quickly unleashes high-impact musical gestures and grapples with purpose. The song is their last offering before unveiling their fourth LP and full band debut, Rationale, out next month on February 24 via ANTI-. “‘The Same Ordinary’ was one where I got lyrically ahead of myself and had to rearrange the song to make it fit,” shares lead singer and songwriter Ned Russin on his process. After several rounds of trial and error, “finally, I just decided to try and throw in abbreviated measure at the end of the phrase, like a little tag. After all, I wanted to keep the lyrics, which analyze how a pursuit of purpose is at times monotonous and maybe inescapable even if we are critical of it, in fact…I think it’s the element of the song that makes the whole thing work, a kind of harsh turn that also oddly acts as forward propulsion.”
JAKOBS CASTLE shares single & video from upcoming album | Listen to 'Catch Me'
Hailing from Long Beach, CA, today Jakob Nowell announces ‘Enter: The Castle’ – the debut record from his eclectic passion project Jakobs Castle – due April 12th via Epitaph Records. Born into music royalty as the son of late legendary Sublime frontman Bradley Nowell, there is no denying that his father’s legacy had a hand in shaping the young artist’s journey. On a personal quest to “mix California’s past with the fresh mystery of internet underground culture,” Jakobs Castle has a refreshing, cutting-edge sound that carries the keen sense of melody that has endeared his father’s music to millions of people all over the world. Layering psychedelic guitars and charismatic vocals, Jakobs Castle shares the alluring lead single and music video ‘Catch Me’, one his favorite songs he’s ever written.
JOY ORBISON releases new track 'Flight FM' | Listen to this dancefloor gem
Joy Orbison starts the year in style with the release of ‘flight fm‘ via XL Recordings. It’s a track that’s already made a big impact on dancefloors around the world, one that belies the speed and ease with which it was made. Written and recorded while waiting for a lift to perform at last year’s Lost Village Festival, ‘flight fm’ was (literally) road tested through the car stereo on the drive to the event, followed by much encouragement from the other passengers to debut it that night. Even on first play, through Lost Village’s Airbase Stage sound system, the response was phenomenal and a highlight of a set that saw the Evening Standard stating “the best, though, had to be Joy Orbison, who flexed every musical muscle he had in a two hour set which felt like a lawless free party”.
MOLLY LEWIS shares sultry single | Whistle along to 'Crushed Velvet'
Acclaimed foremost whistler Molly Lewis shares ‘Crushed Velvet,’ a sultry and cinematic highlight from her upcoming debut LP On The Lips, out 16th February via Jagjaguwar. Though the accompaniment of Molly’s band is precise and evocative, Molly’s singular talent takes center stage – her notes are as soaring as they are controlled, as seductive as they are mournful. ‘Crushed Velvet’ follows the album’s lead single ‘Lounge Lizard,’ which FADER described as “serene yet doleful” and earned global praise from the likes of BBC 6, Nylon, CLASH, Rolling Stone AUS and more.
ADRIANNE LENKER announces new album & shares new song | Listen to 'Sadness As A Gift'
Adrianne Lenker announces her new solo album, Bright Future, out on 22 March on 4AD, and shares the new single ‘Sadness As A Gift’. Bright Future marks Lenker’s first album since 2020’s songs & instrumentals, and features co-production from Philip Weinrobe, alongside contributions from Nick Hakim, Mat Davidson, and Josefin Runsteen.
MADI DIAZ shares new single & video ahead of new album | Listen to the new single
Nashville’s Madi Diaz, “one of indie rock’s most searing lyricists and vocalists” (NYLON), will release her new album, Weird Faith, on February 9th via ANTI-. Following 2021’s History of a Feeling, Weird Faith renders a self-portrait that captures Diaz in a fleeting moment in time, hungrily alive and forever searching. Today, Diaz presents the album’s third single, the upbeat and cathartic new number, ‘Everything Almost.’
KIM GORDON returns with a new single from upcoming album | Listen to 'Bye Bye'
Musician and visual artist Kim Gordon returns with her second solo album, The Collective, which will be released March 9th on Matador. Its lead track, ‘BYE BYE,’ is out now, driven by a snaking bassline which guides us through a haunting packing list. A video for ‘BYE BYE’ stars Coco Gordon Moore and was directed by photographer and filmmaker Clara Balzary, with cinematography by Christopher Blauvelt.
KHRUANGBIN share lead single from upcoming album | Listen to it here
Musical polymaths Khruangbin return with the announcement of A LA SALA or ‘To the Room’ in Spanish — the band’s fourth studio album and first LP in four years out April 5th on Dead Oceans in partnership with Night Time Stories Ltd. Also out today is lead single ‘A Love International’ illustrating the reflective, celebratory nature of A LA SALA with its wistful vocal flutterings underneath a propelling guitar and bass duet. After a decade spent cultivating an elusive, yet extraordinary musical path, ‘A Love International’ arrives as both a nostalgic and poised step forward for Khruangbin – a vista for a band posing subtle questions about the surreal nature of art’s representation and one’s own reality.
HELADO NEGRO shares new single | Listen to 'Best For You and Me'
Today, Helado Negro (aka Roberto Carlos Lange) releases a new single, ‘Best For You and Me’, from his upcoming album PHASOR, which will be released on 9 February 2024. In ‘Best for you and Me’ Lange retains the warmth of a childhood summer night on the Florida peninsular soundtracked by frogs and crickets, Bermuda grass between your toes. With its bright, pastel tones and uplifting melodies and rhythms, ‘Best for you and Me’ feels like an ebullient piece of dream pop, but the lyrics reveal a sadness beneath, of his parents splitting up and Lange standing outside beneath the moon contemplate it: “Mom’s asleep/ Dad’s not home/ It’s what’s wrong/ And I’ll go outside/ Looking at the moon way too long.” This epitomizes what makes Lange’s music special, the melancholic edge to his joyous sound, and that his words stick with you like the best short stories.
FAYE WEBSTER shares new single | Listen/play 'Lego Ring'
Faye Webster has announced that her new album, Underdressed at the Symphony, will be released on March 1st via Secretly Canadian. The album was recorded at Sonic Ranch Studios in Texas with her longtime band. Today, she shares the new single ‘Lego Ring (ft. Lil Yachty).’ The new song comes with a music video featuring both Faye and Yachty playing a video game, created by the video’s director Kyle Ng of Braindead Studios, that fans can play along with. Underdressed at the Symphony is available for pre-order beginning today.
GRUFF RHYS shares new track - Listen to 'Bad Friend'
Gruff Rhys is pleased to announce ‘Bad Friend’ – the third and final track to be taken from his new album ‘Sadness Sets Me Free’ before its release by Rough Trade Records on 27.01.2024. Remarkably, ‘Sadness Sets Me Free’ is Gruff Rhys’ 25th long playing record in a 35 year recording career. Gruff says on his new track: “People always refer to ‘good friends’. This song is toying with the idea of the ‘bad friend’. Maybe a bad friend is still better than not being a friend at all. Some friends function better than others, but they’re not enemies. Within the structures of 21st-century life, the pressure on people’s time – and what we are expected to be able to perform in daily life – is so kaleidoscopic. If I could shorten the sentiments to one line, it would be ‘all in good time’. It’s me reaching out to friends through song because maybe I haven’t had the chance to go to their house or talk to them on the phone.”
SERPENTWITHFEET releases captivating new single | Listen to 'Safeword'
Grammy-nominated groundbreaking alternative R&B artist serpentwithfeet releases his captivating new single ‘Safe Word,’ the second offering from his forthcoming highly anticipated new album, GRIP, out February 16th for the digital release and March 29th for the physical release via Secretly Canadian. Produced by serpent alongside producer collective, I Like That, the track reveals a universe around intimacy that is earned and the heights that can be reached in such a sacred space.
ERIKA DE CASIER shares new song| Listen to 'Lucky'
Erika de Casier returns to announce her highly-anticipated third album Still, out February 22st via 4AD, and shares the first single ‘Lucky.’ The 33-year-old Danish singer, songwriter and producer built a cult following with her 2019 debut album Essentials, and built on that “cult” designation with 2021’s Sensational, her first for 4AD. Since then, she’s performed at some of the biggest festivals in the world, written for pop stars (New Jeans) and sung on hyped dance tracks (Mura Masa,Shygirl). But when she ushers you into the expanses of her third album she’s inviting you to leave any crass The Nordics’ Next Big Thing or Rising Alt-Pop Star epithets at the door. She may have won a lot of new fans in the past three years, and a lot of high-profile collaborators (Dua Lipa, Blood Orange, Eartheater, etc.) but as this album’s title confirms, she’s the same old Erika de Casier. Still.
WAXAHATCHEE releases new song & video + new album out soon!!! | Listen to 'Right Back To It'
Waxahatchee, the solo project of Alabama-born and Kansas City-based Katie Crutchfield, is returning with her most confident and resilient album to date. Her first on new label home ANTI-, Alongside the album announcement, Waxahatchee shares the single ‘Right Back To It‘ with a video directed by Corbett Jones & Nick Simonite. MJ Lenderman adds guitar and harmony vocals to the track, a nod to country duets like Emmylou Harris & Gram Parsons, winding over a steadfast banjo from Phil Cook.
THE SMILE release brand new single|'Listen to Fiend Of A Friend'
The Smile have revealed their brand-new single Friend Of A Friend, taken from the forthcoming sophomore album Wall Of Eyes. Showcased live during the band’s 2022/2023 touring, the studio version features strings from the London Contemporary Orchestra and saxophone from Robert Stillman. The Smile’s new album Wall Of Eyes was recorded between Oxford and Abbey Road Studios, is produced and mixed by Sam Petts-Davies and features string arrangements by the London Contemporary Orchestra. Wall Of Eyes is the follow up to the band’s 2022 acclaimed debut, A Light For Attracting Attention.
JAMIE XX releases new song| Check out 'It's So Good'
Jamie xx returns with new track ‘It’s So Good’. Released via Young, ‘It’s So Good’ is the soundtrack to the latest Chanel Coco Crush campaign which also launched globally today. Available today on all digital services, it’s a subtly euphoric anthem that builds over four and a half minutes of stop-start tension and release.
Marlon Williams releases BILL FAY cover | Listen to ‘After the Revolution’
Dead Oceans has announced the re-issue of Bill Fay Group’s Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow, out for the first time in its entirety on a 28-track double-vinyl, as well as a 24-track CD and digitally, on 23rd Feb, 2024. Alongside, the next installment of Dead Oceans’ Bill Fay cover series is released today, via a cover of ‘After the Revolution’ by Marlon Williams. It follows previous versions of Fay songs by Jeff Tweedy, Kevin Morby, Steve Gunn, Mary Lattimore, Julia Jacklin and Hiss Golden Messenger.
FUTURE ISLANDS share new song | Listen to 'Say Goodbye'
Future Islands will release their highly anticipated new album, People Who Aren’t There Anymore (27 January 2024). And today, they’ve shared another new song, ‘Say Goodbye,’ an examination of a long distance relationship unravelling, with Samuel T. Herring crooning. “When I don’t wanna say goodnight / And every day without you Feels one closer to goodbye / I just need to make this world seem right / You just sleep tight, til I’m on your side.”
REMO DRIVE announce new album & share title track | Watch the Spaghetti Western style music video
Following a six-year run of pristine emo-influenced rock ‘n’ roll records, today Remo Drive announce their fourth studio album ‘Mercy’ due for release on February 23rd via Epitaph Records. Featuring brothers Erik (vocals, guitar) and Stephen Paulson (bass) and produced by Phil Ek (The Shins, Band Of Horses), it’s the band’s most vulnerable and lyric-focused offering to date. The band is also sharing the album’s title track, intricately arranged with crisp vocals and swells of guitar. Inspired by a Nick Cave interview on the idea of mercy, the lyrics were written from a sarcastic POV and suggest to the listener that they should be completely unforgiving of anyone who ever does something that they don’t like. “This is (in my humble opinion) not good advice,” Erik warns. The lead single is accompanied by a black and white Spaghetti Western style music video complete with a standoff involving toy guns.
THEY HATE CHANGE announce new EP | Listen to new track
They Hate Change, the Tampa Bay production/rap duo have announced a new EP Wish You Were Here… via Jagjaguwar, their first project since 2022’s breakout LP Finally, New. Consisting of five tracks the EP marks the the first time They Hate Change has used outside production featuring collaborations from Wu-Lu, 96Back, and DJ Orange Julius, as well as Odd Future/NRK’s Vritra, a foundational influence on Change, all of whom they met on their global travels. The EP is an incredibly concise and masterful display of their rap skills and ear for production, building on their sonic omnivore aesthetic bringing together an amalgamation of musical influence. Today you can listen to ‘Wallabies & Weejuns’ produced by Manchester’s 96Back, a track that brings a kaleidoscope of dance, R&B and hip hop production viewed through thrilling tempo changes.
New Albums & EPs Out Now
BURIAL - new 12" available now | Get your copy today
XL Recordings announces Burial ‘Dreamfear / Boy Sent From Above’, released 9th February on 12” vinyl and digitally. The vinyl is available to pre-order now. Earlier, a limited edition run of 500 white label 12”s also appeared in select record stores around the world, available in store only.
THE SMILE - New album 'Wall of Eyes' | Out now
The Smile’s new album Wall Of Eyes is the follow up to the band’s 2022 debut LP A Light For Attracting Attention, which received critical acclaim from the likes of The Guardian, Pitchfork, The Observer, The Needle Drop, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, Uncut and MOJO, and more. The new album was recorded between Oxford and Abbey Road Studios and was produced and mixed by Sam Petts-Davies. It features string arrangements by the London Contemporary Orchestra.
GRUFF RHYS - New album 'Sadness Sets Me Free' | Out now
Sadness Sets Me Free, the new album from Gruff Rhys. Incredibly, this will be the 25th album of his career (individually, collaboratively and as a member of various bands) that has spanned 35 years.
THEY HATE CHANGE drop new EP - 'Wish You Were Here…' | Stream it here...
They Hate Change, the Tampa Bay production/rap duo have released a new EP ‘Wish You Were Here…’ via Jagjaguwar, their first project since 2022’s breakout LP Finally, New. Consisting of five tracks the EP marks the the first time They Hate Change has used outside production featuring collaborations from Wu-Lu, 96Back, and DJ Orange Julius, as well as Odd Future/NRK’s Vritra, a foundational influence on Change, all of whom they met on their global travels.
KATY KIRBY releases new album ‘Blue Raspberry’ | Listen to 'Blue Raspberry'
On her second album ‘Blue Raspberry’ – out now – the New York-based songwriter Katy Kirby dives headlong into the artifice of 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, savoring each gleaming shard of rock candy and broken glass along the way. Reaching high levels of critical acclaim before it was even released, ‘Blue Raspberry’ has been named Stereogum’s Album of the Week and one of the Most Anticipated Albums of 2024 by Pitchfork, Stereogum, Paste, BrooklynVegan, The Tennessean and Uproxx, and the tracks ‘Cubic Zirconia’ and ‘Party of the Century’ were included on Best Songs of 2023 lists by Paste and Consequence.
FUTURE ISLANDS unveil highly anticipated new album | Out Now
People Who Aren’t There Anymore, the band’s seventh album, heralds a new chapter for Future Islands, who, despite having formed nearly two decades ago, continue to challenge themselves and each other. Where they’ve pursued ever-higher energy anthems in the past, they’ve turned inward this time and unlocked a new level of ferocity. The album delivers some of their most inspiring and heartbreaking tracks by doing the opposite: taking their time, and making each breath, syllable and cymbal crash count. The result is a powerful, defining statement from a group of musicians that have made the best album of their career.
MENZINGERS release their seventh album - Get your ears around it!
"It’s all written with smartness, a rough, street poetry, and a huge dollop of Americana populated by burned-out restaurants and big cars and rock’n’roll dreamers and John Hughes suburbia." - Kerrang. Philadelphia’s The Menzingers seventh album 'Some Of It Was True' OUT NOW via Epitaph Records.
SAMPHA releases 'Dual EP' for 10th anniversary - New album 'Lahai' out now
Sampha's Dual EP marks its 10th anniversary with a limited indie exclusive orange vinyl pressing. Recorded in his bedroom in Mordern, South London, Dual provided an intimate and idiosyncratic glimpse of Sampha’s artistic intent to come, and has seen multiple tracks reworked as part of his recent LAHAI and Satellite Business live shows in 2023.
Reissue of the Week
PIXIES announce Pixies at the BBC, 1988-91 Reissue | Get Yours on Vinyl!
Coinciding with a sold-out tour, Pixies at the BBC, 1988-91 is being released on March 8th via 4AD / Remote Control Records. Being pressed for the first time on vinyl, it’s also going to be available on double CD and in HD digital audio. Between 1988 and 1991, Pixies recorded six sessions for the BBC, five for John Peel and one for Mark Goodier. Catching the raw energy of the band’s live performances, these sessions felt immediately noteworthy, time-stamping a moment when Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering were motoring out front.
STORNOWAY announce reissue of first two albums | Check it out here
Stornoway have announced that their first two albums Beachcomber’s Windowsill (2010), and Tales From Terra Firma (2013) are finally being repressed on vinyl, the first time for either title in over a decade. With many fans asking for them, these new editions will come on black ReVinyl housed in FSC-sourced card sleeves, being released by 4AD on 19th January 2024.
Happy New Year
Welcome to this MASSIVE edition of MUSIC NEWS FROM THE LABEL. It's been a very exciting start to the year with some incredible releases. We hope you'll love them as much as we do! Enjoy!
WOMAD NZ adds Half Queen & Mo’Ju to the festival lineup | Check out the 2024 Stage Schedule here
WOMAD NZ is thrilled to unveil two captivating additions to its 2024 lineup. Joining the ranks of 29 extraordinary musical acts, WOMAD NZ proudly introduces Aotearoa’s very own Halfqueen, a boundary-pushing DJ renowned for her expertise in global club sounds infused with nostalgia and joy. In addition, Naarm/Melbourne-based award-winning singer-songwriter and multi-disciplinary artist Mo’Ju brings their unique talent and visceral brand of storytelling to WOMAD NZ.
The WOMAD NZ 2024 stage schedule, including World Of Words and OMV STEAM Lab is now available at womad.co.nz. The adored artist workshops at the welcoming Te Paepae stage, and the highly anticipated Taste The World schedules are still to be announced.
Independent Music NZ announces Taite Music Prize 2024 |Check out the details here
Independent Music New Zealand (IMNZ) with the support of Founding Partner Recorded Music NZ announces the return Taite Music Prize for 2024. This event continues to celebrate the vibrant and diverse voices of Aotearoa’s music community. As we look forward to the 15th year of the Taite Music Prize in 2024, we remember Dylan Taite, not only as an inspirational figure in the music industry but also as a beloved TV personality who captured the hearts of 80’s-early 2000’s audiences with his coverage of local happenings. He left an indelible mark on the music scene, from playing soccer with Bob Marley during his visit to NZ to breaking stories about rising Kiwi artists including The Datsuns.