The hardest working men in showbiz Ed Kuepper and Jim White reunite for a limited run of shows this October in support of their new album After the Flood. On sale 11am Wed July 27.
“… the results are stunning. Playing tunes as old as The Saints Swing For the Crime and as new as The Ruins (from Kuepper’s 2015 Lost Cities), the album is a brilliant roll of invention” – Byron Coley (The Wire).
Ahead of his just announced Sydney show Four tet has shared his new song “Into Dust (Still Falling).” The track, which samples Mazzy Star’s 1993 song “Into Dust,” is now available both digitally and as a limited-edition 12″ vinyl record via XL. Check it out here.
This October 25th, come celebrate the 50th anniversary of Brisbane community radio station 4ZZZ via the only Australian show for The Saints ’73-’78 in 2025! Tickets on-sale 12pm June 12 via feelpresents.oztix.com.au
British/Greek singer, songwriter and producer Eleni Drake returns to Australia this December. Eleni’s hauntingly beautiful sound is at once refreshing and timeless, uplifting and introspective, inspired by a deep love of music that spans from Mazzy Star and Adrienne Lenker to Mac Miller and Cleo Sol. With over 40 million streams to date and still only just getting going, 2025 promises to be Eleni’s biggest year yet with her most personal and profound music on the way. Grab a taste of new single Deloris here and get your tickets here.
The Purple Bird finds Bonnie “Prince” Billy working with a “producer” for only the second time in his illustrious career. His relationship with David ‘Ferg’ Ferguson dates back more than two decades to the sessions for the Johnny Cash album American III with Rick Rubin, where Ferg served as engineer and where Cash performed a cover of the BPB track I See A Darkness. The pair have worked together on numerous projects over the years but none as deeply as The Purple Bird (which takes its name from a drawing Ferg made as a second-grader). He is credited as a co-writer on 7 of the 12 tracks. Oldham says of the relationship:
“I’ve made records with friends, collaborative records like The Brave and the Bold with Tortoise; the two Superwolf records with Matt Sweeney; The Wonder Show of the World with Emmett Kelly; Get on Jolly with Mick Turner. These collaborators get top billing because that’s how this business works. This record, The Purple Bird, is similarly a collaborative effort but the collaborator is the producer, David Ferguson. He’s a giant of a man, an epic musical force, a dear friend. Our work together on this record was the result of years of sharing hard times and great joys, songs and stories, of making music together and apart. There’s a lot of trust in this record on Ferg’s part and on mine, and the trust was hard- and well-earned. When I listen to the record, oftentimes I can’t help but laugh in wonder that life allowed me to participate in such a thing.”
The Purple Bird is available now via No Quarter / Rocket distribution. Watch/hear first single London May here
** UPDATE! Live dates now announced ** Bleak Squad is a new Melbourne four-piece comprised of true Australian art-rock royalty. Featuring Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Mess Esque) Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, The Birthday Party), Adalita (Magic Dirt) and Marty Brown (Art of Fighting), the unlikely quartet unite for the first time on Bleak Squad’s brooding, noir-rock debut LP, Strange Love. Borne from spur of the moment jam sessions, Strange Love sees all four members juggle multiple instruments, songwriting, their own idiosyncrasies, and lead vocal duties between Adalita and Harvey. The result is a confident nine-song set of love, loss and lonesome-ness, set to fizzing guitars, slippery basslines, and the signature illogical squawk of Turner’s guitar. With Strange Love, Bleak Squad announce the boldest of entries into the Australian music landscape.
