‘Electric Cables,’ the debut album from Scottish synthpop act Lightships, has been made available for streaming online. Check it out below.

Lightships is the solo project for Gerard Love, member of Glasgow indie royalty Teenage Fanclub. ‘Electric Cables’ has been the work of several years for Love, who also enlisted Bob Kildea (Belle & Sebastian), Tom Crossley (The Pastels) and fellow Teenage Fanclub members Dave McGowan and Brendan O’Hare to round out the... read more

With the release of Nicki Minaj’s eagerly anticipated second album, ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded’ only days away, two new track from the hot New York rapper have surfaced online.

‘Champion,’ featuring Nas, Drake and Young Jeezy, pretty much blew up Twitter when it showed up earlier today, and another track titled ‘I Am Your Leader’ (featuring Rick Ross and Cam’Ron) has just turned up too.

Minaj has confirmed that the new album, set... read more

Byron Bay has delivered us many things; pristine beaches, the best vegie burgers this side of Nimbin and the excuse to wear tie-dye everyday, and now, four-piece indie rockers Glass Towers.

Once a Triple J Unearthed High finalist, their latest single ‘Jumanji’ is getting plays all over Triple J and is the first single lifted from their upcoming debut album, which they are in the process of recording with JP Fung (Birds Of Tokyo, Blue Juice, Last Dinosaurs) and is due out later... read more

In the vein of Childish Gambino, aka actor/rapper Donald Glover, singer/dancer Kat Graham is curently starring in US TV show ‘The Vampire Diaries’ but she’s been making music far longer than doing the acting thing.

Her debut solo track ”Put Your Graffiti On Me” is reminiscent of another one of our faves, Rye Rye, with a slightly more... read more

Nothing better than a crazy collab between world class artists, huh? Converse’s “Three Artists One Song” project has been responsible for a number of these mouth-watering teamings in recent times, with Best Coast/Kid Cudi/Vampire Weekend previously, and the recently released Gorillaz x James Murphy x Andre 3000 collab ‘Do Ya Thing.’

Now, in news more... read more

The Black Keys sure aren’t backward in letting their real feelings spring forth, huh? They’ve recently trashed Nickelback (“watered-down, post-grunge crap, horrendous shit“) and now, in the next exciting instalment of “stuff The Black Keys hate,” we see that the duo have music streaming service Spotify (or, at least, its founder Sean Parker) in their sights.

In... read more

!A swag of big-name artists have released snippets of new material today, with Sigur Ros, Best Coast and Silversun Pickups all teasing fans with tastes of their new albums. Icelandic maestros Sigur Ros have announced they will release a new album, titled ‘Valtari,’ on May 28. The first single is ‘Ekki Muk,’ and can be heard below. ... read more

Never one to rest on any laurels, Mr Sam Sparro has just wrapped up shooting his next video for the single ‘I Wish I Never Met You’ and we’ve got some brand new behind-the-scenes photos.

Director Mike Rosenthal (Britney Spears, Adam Lambert), Sam and a crew of other creatives filmed the video over two days in Downtown Los Angeles which takes place in the prohibition era LA (how very Boardwalk Empire), and happened to provide the perfect backdrop for next season’s John... read more

The Grates are embroiled in a conflict with a corporate giant over the alleged theft of one of their songs… with a much-loved breakfast cereal caught in the middle.

Weet-Bix are accused of pinching the tune from The Grates’ 2008 tune ‘Aw Yeah’ for a recent New Zealand commercial (see below for a video/audio comparison of the two tunes). Granted, the Weet-Bix tune is pretty similar to The Grates’ original.

…OK it’s pretty much exactly the... read more

Indie darling Lisa Mitchell has announced details of a new EP titled ‘Spiritus,’ and shared the title track this morning on Triple J.

The ‘Spiritus’ EP will be released in May, just before a run of dates in churches around Australia for the former Australian Idol-turned-Triple J-star. You can buy the ‘Spiritus’ single through iTunes now (click the link at the bottom of the page), and preview the track below.

Mitchell will play churches in all... read more