Kamasi Washington’s new EP Harmony of Difference is set to be released on 29 September 2017 via Young Turks / Remote Control Records. This is the first new music from Washington since his acclaimed 2015 debut album The Epic. Harmony of Difference originally premiered as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art 2017 Biennial. It appeared alongside…
Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Woodes is heading back on the road for her debut tour. The alter ego of Elle Graham, Woodes is bringing her organic, emotive electronica to Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in July. The tour is in support of her new single “Run For It”. Last year she released her debut self-titled EP to much praise, featuring in Pigeons…
Melbourne alt-country favourites Miles and Simone have returned with the release of their new single “She And I”. The track was recorded with producer Dan Luscombe (The Drones, Courtney Barnett) and was birthed out of the chance discovery of a a battered old nylon-stringed classical guitar amongst boxes of old records behind the red velvet…
It’s been quite a wait, but Philip Pullman fans can expect new work from the author of the hugely successful His Dark Materials series. The first volume of the highly-anticipated The Book of Dust will be La Belle Sauvage. The book will be published simultaneously on 19 October 2017 by Penguin Random House Children’s and David Fickling Books…
A Boston-born Jew in Montreal and a Gaza-born Palestinian in Melbourne have just published the first English-language anthology worldwide in any genre of drama, prose or poetry by Jewish and Palestinian writers. The winner of Canada’s prestigious biennial 2017 Patrick O’Neill Award, Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas is edited by award-winning playwrights…
Virtuoso bassist and singer-songwriter Stephen Bruner aka Thundercat returns with his first solo material in two years, The Beyond / Where The Giants Roam. Having already made outstanding contributions to not one, but two, of the greatest albums of 2015 – To Pimp a Butterfly and The Epic – by fellow Los Angelians Kendrick Lamar…
US soul sensation Leon Bridges is releasing his new album, Coming Home, this week (on Friday, 19 June) on the Hallux label. The singer’s stage presence and soulful tunes are garnering comparisons with the great Sam Cooke; despite the fact Bridges is still only 25. You can judge for yourself come Friday. In the meantime,…
