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Sweet Whirl shares the dreamily buoyant and swaying opening track from one of our favorite albums of 2020...

Australian artist Annika Schmarsel aka Alice Ivy drops the absurdly charming video for her glorious new sunshine soul anthem (and her favorite song she's ever written) "In My Mind", featuring a triumphant and effortlessly cool assist from Ecca Vandal...

Melbourne's Esther Edquist aka Sweet Whirl shares an exquisitely bleary-eyed gem from her new EP Love Songs & Poetry, which features members of beloved Australian punk band Total Control, and is out next month on Chapter Music. The dreamy, unhurried "Ray C" has a gloriously languid twa…

LA-via-Melbourne-via-New Zealand songwriter Jess Cornelius shares her beautiful and emotional new self-released single "No Difference", an empowering jam that is accurately described in the press release as "part self-help mantra, part blind fatalism"...

Australian duo Phoebe Lou + Joey Clough, aka Two People, announce their signing to esteemed LA-based label Terrible Records for the release of their debut LP First Body, coming in early 2019. The record, which was mixed by Rodaidh McDonald (the xx, Sampha, King Krule), has a deeply sensuous and hyp…

Powerful new song and Nick McKinlay-directed video from Australia's Julia Jacklin, who's supporting First Aid Kit on their current North American tour. Julia says about haunting new single "Body":

Australian producer + DJ Jordon Alexander aka yung Mall Grab drops his new EP How the Dogs Chill, Vol. 1, on his brand new label Looking For Trouble. Check the entrancing EP opener "Liverpool Street in the Rain" below, and stream the whole EP (which also features a legendary Iron M…

We're psyched to debut this buzzing new track from Melbourne, Australia trio Primo, taken from the group's addictive debut album Amici, coming soon via Upset The Rhythm. The label says that Primo's deceptively minimal, alternately lilting/ripping post-punk jams sound like "the places you go whe…

Australia's G Flip follows up one of the debut jams of the year and her triumphant first-ever live shows at SXSW with a new single. Listen to "Killing My Time" + watch the lyric video below:

“I told her one day we’d be beautiful / and maybe we could start a band / ‘cause i was born to sing / and she was born to dance...”