Now Playing - July 2014
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On this page you'll find a selection of the music we're enjoying in July! More tracks will be added to this page throughout the month, so come back often! |
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The 8tracks playlist below will give you most of the same content as the Spotify playlist above, so choose the format that works best for you. The 8tracks playlist has the tracks in reverse order though, so the newest additions to the playlist are up first.
Other music we're enjoying this month...The latest Kim Deal and Morgan Nagler song "Range On Castle" is a beautiful track that will get stuck in your head.
Charles Bradley & LaRose Jackson have just released a 45rpm. It's not available in full, digitally, but you can listen to a preview of it here, and we recommend you do! We're loving "Lockdown Hurricane" from the latest Eels album. Check out the clip here. |
White Fence (a.k.a. Tim Presley) has enlisted Ty Segall to produce his fifth album, For The Recently Found Innocent.
Los Angeles Police Department (a.k.a. Ryan Pollie) will release his debut album on 2nd September. The self-titled album's songs will take the listener on a journey following a burgeoning relationship until its untimely end. The album will be released by on vinyl by Forged Artifacts an cassette by ChillMegaChill.
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Melbourne artist Courtney Barnett has had a big year, playing overseas festivals including Coachella, Primavera Sound and Glastonbury plus countless other shows. She's just released "Pickles From The Jar" which will appear on the forthcoming compilation by the label she runs, Milk! Records. Other Milk! artists on the compilation include Royston Vasie, Jen Cloher, Fraser A Gorman and The Finks. Courtney will play Splendour in The Grass this month, before shows around Australia and New Zealand in September and October, and visiting North America and Europe again before the end of the year. Full tour dates here.
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British musician Bat for Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) has contributed "Skin Song" to the Body of Songs project. The compilation will also feature Goldie and Ghostpoet, amongst others, and all tracks will be about human anatomy. It's due for release in 2015. Khan recently appeared on Damon Albarn's solo album (singing on the track "Selfish Giant") and last year, collaborated with John Hopkins on a song for the film "How I Live Now". Watch the clip, directed by Khan here.
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Austin/Brooklyn act Meenk have recently released their debut track EP Scamu Scau, containing 4 lo-fi pop tracks.
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Gum is the solo project of Jay Watson (Tame Impala, Pond) and Delorean Highway (his debut album under the Gum moniker), was released at the end of May by Spinning Top. Watson describes the album as a consisting of "paranoid pop songs, mostly about falling in love and all of the things he thinks are going to kill him."
Melbourne artist Banoffee (aka Martha Brown) has just released "Got It", which will appear on her debut 5 track EP, due in August through artist run label Two Bright Lakes. Co-produced by Oscar Key Sung, the EP will include lead singles "Ninja" and "Reign Down".
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"Do You" is the most recent single from the forthcoming Spoon album They Want My Soul. The band will release their eighth studio album in early August.
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Spoon image courtesy of mxdwn.com
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Georgia Anne Muldrow image courtesy of egotripland.com
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Georgia Anne Muldrow is an American singer, musician and producer, and the first female artist signed to Stone's Throw Records. "Personal" comes from her first official rap release, a 5 track EP called Ms. One (Rap EP).
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"I'm Not Coming Back" is the first single from the forthcoming Husky album. They're touring in support of the single, playing on 18th July at Northcote Social Club; on 19th July at Jive Bar, Adelaide; 24th July at Rosemount Hotel, Perth; 25th July at Mojo's, Freemantle; 31st July at Newtown Social Club, Sydney; and 1st August at Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane.
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Melbourne band Total Control released Typical System at the end of June through Inertia in Australia, and through Iron Lung in the USA and La Vida Es Un Mus Discos in Europe.
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"We Are Strangers" is the new single from Ali E, the solo project of Ali Edmonds from Damn Terran, Heavy Beach and Little Athletics. She'll launch the single on Friday 18th July at The Workers Club in Fitzroy.
Ali E image courtesy of whothehell.net
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Want more music?
Check out our June Now Playing page to hear tracks by Aldous Harding, Kate Tempest, Augie March, Angus and Julia Stone, Lower Plenty, Alt-J, Luluc, Firekites, Milwaukee Banks, Woods, Taylor McFerrin (feat. Nai Palm), Laura Jean, Adult Jazz, First Aid Kit, Firekites and Marlon Williams. Listen here.
You can also listen to tracks from the following artists in the June playlist via Spotify and 8tracks: Jack White, Parquet Courts, First Aid Kit, Sharon Van Etten, Nick Mulvey, Damon Albarn, Conor Oberst, Herzog, Gum, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Temples, Chad VanGaalen and Gruff Rhys.
For more music, visit the Now Playing pages from previous months here.
To listen to our current Feature Album go to the HOME page.
Previous Feature Albums from further back than that can be listened to here and include Sylvan Esso, tUnE-yArDs, Woods, EMA, The Murlocs, The War On Drugs, Teeth and Tongue, Mac DeMarco, Sun Kil Moon, Real Estate, Beck, Angel Olsen, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Warpaint, Beaches, Phosphorescent, Parquet Courts, King Krule, Mazzy Star, James Blake, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Washed Out, Horrorshow, Jen Cloher, Sebadoh, Jagwar Ma, Laura Marling, Adalita and stacks more!
You can also listen to tracks from the following artists in the June playlist via Spotify and 8tracks: Jack White, Parquet Courts, First Aid Kit, Sharon Van Etten, Nick Mulvey, Damon Albarn, Conor Oberst, Herzog, Gum, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Temples, Chad VanGaalen and Gruff Rhys.
For more music, visit the Now Playing pages from previous months here.
To listen to our current Feature Album go to the HOME page.
Previous Feature Albums from further back than that can be listened to here and include Sylvan Esso, tUnE-yArDs, Woods, EMA, The Murlocs, The War On Drugs, Teeth and Tongue, Mac DeMarco, Sun Kil Moon, Real Estate, Beck, Angel Olsen, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Warpaint, Beaches, Phosphorescent, Parquet Courts, King Krule, Mazzy Star, James Blake, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Washed Out, Horrorshow, Jen Cloher, Sebadoh, Jagwar Ma, Laura Marling, Adalita and stacks more!