Lauded last year as Best Acts of The Great Escape (NME) and a Rising Star of 2024 nomination (The Face), South-Londoner Sam Akpro kicked off the new year on his new worldwide label home ANTI- with his A-listed BBC radio hit ‘Death By Entertainment’. With a performance on the last edition of Pitchfork Festival Paris,… Read more »
Sydney songwriter Laura Jean is revered for the striking beauty of her music and the strength of her piercing, intimate lyrics. Shortlisted twice for the Australian Music Prize, and touring in the UK/Europe with Courtney Barnett, Aldous Harding and Jenny Hval, and New Zealand with Marlon Williams. Laura’s new album Amateurs was released in late… Read more »
How much noise can two people make? ’68 takes that journey to find out. These songs could fall apart at any point, yet never do…most of the time.
King Stingray is a story of lifelong friendship. Growing up together in Yirrkala North-East Arnhem Land (a very remote Aboriginal community on in the northern tip of Australia) founding members Theo Dimathaya Burarrwanga (frontman) and Roy Kellaway (guitar) have been playing and making music together for as long as they can remember. Read more about… Read more »
CIVIC – an origin story since time immemorial, the five-piece came together in 2018 through the traps of the Melbourne music scene. Bonding over a shared love of tightly coiled riffs and a collective musical ethos, they channeled this into their first EP New Vietnam. In a head rush recording session, the 7 tracks were slammed out… Read more »
On every level, Special Interest is uncompromising: in their adventurous sound, their high-energy live performances, and their convictions. Dance music and punk culture have flirted in the warehouse before, but Special Interest’s desire to dismantle genre is informed by a larger abolitionist worldview that resists constraint, category, and conformity. Their music is a soundtrack to… Read more »
Saint Phnx are a Scottish musical duo formed by brothers Alan and Stevie Jukes in 2016. Currently signed to Atlantic Records, they released their debut studio album DDMN on 31 January 2020. On 2 July 2021, the band released “Happy Place”, a song they wrote in tribute to their father, who died 19 January 2021.
Twin Atlantic are a Scottish alternative rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. The group currently consists of Sam McTrusty and Ross McNae. Lead guitarist Barry McKenna departed from the band in 2019, but continues to perform with the band at their live shows.
Glen Hansard is an Academy-Award winning singer-songwriter, and principal vocalist/guitarist for the bands, The Frames and The Swell Season. Born in Dublin, Ireland, Hansard left school at age thirteen to begin “busking” around town. During these early years he honed his craft on the street during the day and refined it for the stage at… Read more »