New Music

Nick Van Breda, previously known from his work with the bands Staying At Home and Animal Shapes, is now releasing music as a solo artist. Nick has teamed up with emerging Sydney actor and director James Mackay, who recently won the The Heath Ledger Scholarship Award, to produce the video for his new single “The…

Melbourne trio Damn Terran – comprised of guitarist/ vocalist Lachlan Ewbank, bassist/vocalist Ali Edmonds (Heavy Beach, Little Athletics), and drummer Leigh Ewbank – are finally releasing their debut self-titled LP this September. The latest single from the release is called “Lost” and shows the influence of touring around Australia with bands like DZ Deathrays and…

Way back when in January, we peered into our crystal balls and sought to predict the top albums of 2013 with the help of our excellent contributors. Whilst some of the albums are yet to be released, it’s now exactly half way through the year and time to check out how well our predictions went…

One of our Reverb Nation winners, Nashville singer/songwriter Merry Ellen Kirk, presents the title track off her EP Feather and a Leaf. It’s a beautiful track that reminds us of local artists like Kate Miller-Heidke and Lisa Mitchell. Currently residing in Alaska, Merry spent much of her upbringing in Mongolia! Talk about a variety of…

One of our favourite Perth bands, The Novocaines are just about to release a 7″ complete with two new singles, “Freedom Please” and “‘Til Death”. We have the former available for your listening pleasure. It’s easily the heaviest track we’ve heard from the rocking and rolling five piece, and if this doesn’t get your blood…

Directors LAMAR+NIK, who we caught up with at SXSW earlier this year, have just released their music video for the first Pixies track to be released since “Bam Thwok” in 2004. The single, entitled “Bagboy” has been released a couple of weeks after Kim Deal quit the band, though the song seems to retain her…

Sydney based rapper Rapaport has just dropped a new music video for his track “Anaconda Remix” (Produced by Untold) which was released on the 2012 Patterns Mixtape on Big Village Records. We’re proud to premiere the music video today exclusively on the AU review! Come and do the drunk boogie… The video was directed by…

Premiering earlier this week on triple j, some of our favourite Sydney/Blue Mountains kids are finally back with new material after relocating to London. “Dojo Rising” is the first taste of the forthcoming Cloud Control record, Dream Cave, which is due out on August 9th, the follow up to their AMP winning debut Bliss Release….

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Our good friends Jinja Safari are about to release their long awaited debut album on May 17th through Island Records Australia, and to help get you all even more excited about it, New York’s Yeasayer have put out a remix of Jinja’s latest single “Plagarist”. You’re going to want to hear this one: Australia/NZ pre-order…

Has there been a more anticipated album release in recent memory? Sure, Justin Timberlake got everyone talking… but not like this. Every announcement comes with more mystery than the last, and there are more rumours out there than facts. All we know is that we can’t wait to hear the next Daft Punk record. Update:…

You’ve been waiting six years for this. We have too. We’re not going to waste your time with words. Word’s aren’t rock and roll. Let’s let the music speak for itself. Ladies and gentlemen, here is the long awaited new single from Queens of the Stone Age. On and that’s the new album artwork above….

The brand new video from The Weeknd is for the single “twenty eight”, which was one of three new recordings featured on his Trilogy release (out now through Universal). Directed by Nabil Elderkin (who has worked with Kanye, Bon Iver and Frank Ocean), the beautiful song is accompanied by a NSFW video. In other words,…

While we were in New York for CMJ, we headed down to Coney Island just before it was ravaged by Hurricane Sandy and happened to bump into Brisbane boys Dune Rats wreaking their own havoc on the Island, which happened to be celebrating the Halloween season at the time. They managed to get a music…

Currently on tour in Australia, I had the opportunity to catch Vancouver based outfit The River and the Road in Sydney last Thursday night and was truly blown away by their music and their strong performance. Last year the band released their debut album, and this track “I’m Broke” is one of its many fine…

There was a period – let’s say between October 2010 and February 2011, from the time their record Gorilla Manor broke until they played Laneway in Australia – that everyone was talking about Local Natives. Naturally they haven’t so much been in hiding since then, but rather working on new material. Late last year we…

Having just finished up a tour around the country supporting Gotye, the wonderful Bertie Blackman is definitely on our minds at the moment. She has just released a new music video for her track “Stella”, which was directed by Andrew Kavanagh, the 2012 Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards winner of the Film Category. It’s a…

PVT are back with a new single in “Nightfall”, and for its music video they’ve teamed up with Jennifer Juniper Stratford. The result is a colourful, trippy, possibly Tron inspired journey. Enjoy it below! The track is currently available for download from PVT’s Soundcloud page: http://soundcloud.com/pvt/nightfall

Fresh off winning Best Album for A is for Alpine (for which they also received an ARIA nomination) at the 2012 The Age EG Awards, Melbourne’s Alpine have released a new music video for the track “Seeing Red” which sees the band getting their spacesuit on…

I think it’s fair to say most of the Australian music industry is battling a fierce hangover today – that’s if they’re even awake. So we thought we’d treat them – and all of you – to a new discovery. For fans of bands like Boards of Canada, we have a new outfit from Montreal…

If there’s one thing Amanda Fucking Palmer can do, it’s create unique music. On her latest single, “Do It With A Rockstar”, Her Eccentric Excellency has perfectly merged sly humour with her typical raw passion, creating a song that sounds like nothing you expected, and everything you ever wanted.

Out of the 20 bands that played at the recent Stamping Grounds Festival, She Rex were easily the most unique and talented group there, thus making them my favourite. They’ve just released their first single, “11th Hour”, meaning I get to listen to them, and use the phrase ‘sultry rap-rock.’ The girls have already been…

I’ve always found it a little awkward when Tonight Alive tried to include plot in their videos because it always seemed like they tossed it in as an afterthought. Thankfully, the punk-rockers have forgone any elements of a storyline in their latest music video, with the focus one hundred percent on performance.

Since his time as the frontman for The Academy Is… William Beckett has released two solo EPs (Walk the Talk and Winds Will Change) which are leagues ahead of his former bands music, in both quality and originality. With the third EP (What Will Be) about to drop, he’s now unveiled what could be the…

I’ve always thought that electronic music has plenty of artistic potential, but it’s squandered on repetitive riffs and heavily distorted vocals, saying nothing of value. I’ve had this opinion for years. But now, allow me to present to you Pair of Arrows, a brand-new electronic duo (made up of Swan on vocals/lyrics and R/D on…

Last month we raved about the new Big Village compilation, and now we’re proud to be premiering the new music video for the track “Get Ya Twisted” by Klue and Billy Rose, featuring P. Smuf. Here’s with Klue had to say about the track: “One of the focuses of the Big Things Volume Two project…

Heading our way in January for the Big Day Out, punk outfit OFF!, headed by the legendary Keith Morris (Circle Jerks/Black Flag), have just released a 80s VHS inspired music video to accompany two tracks off their debut self-titled album, “Borrow and Bomb” and “I Got News For You”. The hilarious video features News Radio‘s…

After prickling up a few ears with their debut single “Half of It” last year, Sydney based production duo YesYou – Jono Kirkham and Gav Parry – have released a new single and music video in “Frivolous Life”, which features Marcus Azon from Jinja Safari on vocal duties. The track is the first single off…

New Zealand’s Die! Die! Die! have returned to Australia and kick off their national tour in Newcastle tomorrow, before hitting the major centres. All the tour dates are below. But first we wanted to revisit the fantastic music video for “Oblivious Oblivion”, which was released officially last month. I caught the flash-like animated clip on…

We’ve known these guys for many years now and are proud to call them friends of the website. In fact you may have seen them take part in the Magical Mystery Tour tribute concert last Friday night! Anywho, the fine boys from Adelaide’s City Riots have just released a new, wonderfully produced single called “Wait…