JESS RIBEIRO Shares new single & video 'Chair Stare', and announces album LOVE HATE out April 12

Jess Ribeiro today releases the brand-new track 'Chair Stare’ premiered via Double J and accompanying video premiered via Pilerats. ‘Chair Stare’ is the third single from Jess’s highly anticipated new album LOVE HATE – also announced today and to be released via Barely Dressed / Remote Control Records on  Friday April 12, 2019.

‘Chair Stare’ exemplifies one of the reasons Ribeiro is such a compelling and extraordinary songwriter – packed full of double and triple entendre, the protagonist addresses a wooden chair assigning it personality, agency and sexuality. Or maybe not. 

“Hard wood,
four-legged animal,
you know what I like to do…. I’ve got the chair stare I’ve got the chair stare”

Ribeiro is dead-serious about writing great songs, and this is close to her best. Staccato synths underpin a driving rhythm section that powers through one of the most undeniable and hook-laden songs of Ribeiro’s career.

Accompanying ‘Chair Stare’ is a rouge music-video directed by Jade Marie Elford and shot on Super 8 camera. The video doubles down on the song’s suggestiveness as it shows a couple (Jess Ribeiroincluded) admiring an Eden-like garden in bloom. Jade explains “The pair come across a dancer and become enamored - struck with lust. There is lots of fanning and some sensual dancing going on. They leave the garden in the nude. Jess suggested the bare bum scene. The best ending!”

Jess goes on to say “In awkward moments a nudie run is always a good suggestion to awaken and excite the air.” 

On Ribeiro's third album LOVE HATE Jess traverses the landscapes of love: its amorous peaks, its rough rivers, and its dark valleys. Much like a concept album – Jess ponders the metamorphisis of the many stages of love –attraction, passion, infatuation, adulation, longing, submissiveness, and madness. No doubt ‘Chair Stare’ is desire.

Jess Ribeiro is a shape-shifting musical enigma. The near-untouchable quality of her recorded output is astonishingly consistent and the wait for new music is always worthwhile. LOVE HATE will be Jess’s third studio album  - produced by Ben Edwards (Aldous Harding/Marlon Williams/Julia Jacklin) and recorded as a 3-piece Dave Mudie (Courtney Barnett) and Jade Imagine. 

Preorder Jess Ribeiro - LOVE HATE via https://jess-ribeiro.lnk.to/LOVEHATE

Jess Ribeiro - LOVE HATE is out Friday 12 April
via Barely Dressed Records / Remote Control Records.

CHITRA PREMIERES NEW VIDEO FOR 'BETTER THAN BEFORE' VIA FASHION JOURNAL

Genre bending songwriter Chitra is incredibly excited to release her new video for Better Than Before, directed by Nick McKinlay (Julia Jacklin, Phantastic Ferniture, Jess Ribeiro), with assistant director Julia Jacklin.  

The breathtakingly beautiful visuals for Chitra's debut single Better Than Before premiered overnight via Fashion Journal HERE.

"Filmed in the bay off Sandringham, Chitra and I found materials where she would blend in to her backgrounds. By doing this we hoped to convey her trying to change herself for another person, to fill the role she feels she should. We were followed by curious birds and the sunset, being out to sea west, took forever to dip."  - Nick McKinlay

"We shot the clip in one afternoon spending the day climbing up little bits of hill to get the right shot and over rocks to be closer to the shore. The concept of using the materials to blend into the landscape was a really nice and simple idea that Nick thought of which I think ended up working really well and is really effective in parallel to the song itself. The best part of that day was when the sun was just about to disappear and the whole atmosphere changed in the bay, it was very beautiful and is shown in the last shots of the clip. The whole experience was really lovely and surprisingly pleasant for a video that got whipped together so quickly. I admire Nicks work a lot and couldn't be happier with how it turned out." - Chitra

RVG SIGN TO SUB POP FOR PUBLISHING WORLDWIDE

Melbourne's RVG are thrilled to announce their signing to Sub Pop Publishing, who will be representing their catalogue worldwide, excluding AU & NZ. Sub Pop Publishing is the publishing division of the iconic Sub Pop Records, an independent record company based in Seattle. RVG join an incredible roster of artists at Sub Pop Publishing including U.S Girls, Chad Van Galen, La Luz, Bully, Still Corners and Melbourne's own Deaf Wish. Of the new signing Sub Pop Publishing's Gareth Smith says "I'm incredibly excited to be working with RVG and their management team Lorrae McKenna and Our Golden Friend". 

The announcement of the Sub Pop signing comes at the end of an extremely busy 2018 for RVG. This year has seen the band tour worldwide extensively, with two tours of the UK and Europe which saw them support Shame as well as playing Denmark's legendary Roskilde Festival, along with a trip to the USA for SXSW and key shows in Los Angeles and New York. 

RVG are now preparing for the release of their very highly anticipated second album in 2019, as well as looking forward to touring Australia in support of Kurt Vile & The Violators in April, and performing at some extra special festival spots across Australia during the summer months.

RVG
UPCOMING LIVE SHOWS

22.12.18 The Tote, Melbourne VIC w/ Dick Diver
02.03.19 Farmer & The Owl Festival, Wollongong NSW
09.03.19 Panama Festival, Launceston TAS
15.04.19 Enmore Theatre, Sydney NSW w/ Kurt Vile
16.04.19 UniBar, Wollongong NSW w/ Kurt Vile
17.04.19 Anu, Canberra ACT w/ Kurt Vile
22.04.19 The Forum, Melbourne VIC w/ Kurt Vile
26.04.19 Bendigo Autumn Music, Bendigo VIC
27.04.19 The Gov, Adelaide SA w/ Kurt Vile
28.04.19 Rosemount Hotel, Perth WA w/Kurt Vile

JESS RIBEIRO Shares new single & video 'Love Is The Score Of Nothing' & Announces Australian Tour

Jess Ribeiro has today released her new track ‘Love Is The Score Of Nothing’. Out now via Barely Dressed / Remote Control Record, it’s the first taste of new music in more than 3 years from one of Melbourne’s most beloved and acclaimed musicians. 

Premiered yesterday on Double J's Mornings with Zan, the new single is something of an indie rock banger from Ribeiro, signalling a new sound for an artist whose previous albums explored a kind of intricate folk-noire. This time round Ribeiro recalls the nonchalant coolness of the great French female vocalists of the 1960’s. Her vocal performance is detached while a delightful jangle of guitars, drums, keys and percussion swirls happily underneath.

Listen / Share 'Love Is The Score Of Nothing' HERE.

Produced by Ben Edwards (Marlon Williams/Julia Jacklin) and recorded as an all-star 3-piece (Dave Mudie of Courtney Barnett fame and Jade Imagine), 'Love Is the Score Of Nothing' features lyrics despairing about love at its most nihilistic. This is a song about love - but most definitely not a love song. 

Ribeiro suggests, "Love is like tennis. You win, you lose, you work up a sweat, the game ends. You go home, take a shower then go outside and keep playing."

Also released today is Jess Ribeiro’s new video for the single, premiered last night on the 405 – directed by Nick McKinlay and shot around Collingwood’s famous Ginger Hair Salon. As Ribeiro explains, “Hair stylist Ginger Light is well known for her love of Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin, and all things sixties fashion and hair.” As Nick goes on to say “It ended up being a celebration of Ginger’s life, shooting at her salon, in her car, and on her roof. We aspired to reflect her life on film…. with tennis racquets.” Watch via image below.

'Love Is The Score Of Nothing' is the first music out from Jess Ribeiro since her 2015 triumph Kill it Yourself. That album was shortlisted in the top 10 for the Australian Music Prize, received Album of the Week on multiple community radio stations and received impressive reviews across the board. Jess Ribeiro is undoubtedly a shape-shifting musical enigma – to show off her new sound (and new band), she has announced a run of east coast dates in February – details and tickets below.

Purchase / stream 'Love Is The Score Of Nothing': https://jess-ribeiro.lnk.to/loveisthescoreofnothingPR

Watch: Jess Ribeiro - 'Love Is The Score Of Nothing'

Photo by Nick Mckk

Jess Ribeiro - Love Is The Score Of Nothing Australian Single Tour 

Saturday 2 February - Geddes Lane, Melbourne - Tickets
Thursday 7 February - Leadbelly, Sydney - Tickets
Friday 8 February -  The Junk Bar, Brisbane - Tickets

Way Dynamic release debut EP 'What's It All For Now' today!

Way Dynamic are incredibly excited to announce the release of their debut EP What's It All For Now today, available for streaming and download online, and also on limited edition rubine red cassette tape! You can stream and download the track HERE, or you can order your own copy of the EP on cassette HERE!

What’s It All For Now features five tracks written, recorded and produced over the space of just a few days by Dylan Young, the multi-instrumentalist behind the songwriting and musical composition of Way Dynamic - all in the lounge room of his home in Carlton, Victoria.

Hailing from Ballarat and now firmly rooted in the Melbourne Music scene, Way Dynamic are influenced by the classic and offbeat songwriting of yesteryear (Carol King, Brian Wilson respectively), and yet their sound is strangely refreshing and modern. Young’ssongwriting and composition combine oddball arrangements with lyrical poetism that is both introspective and engaging. In it’s current formation the Way Dynamic live band features members of Totally Mild, Tam Vantage, The Ocean Party, Great Outdoors, ESC and Emma Russack, and the group are unified by their love of music and of each other. 

Dylan also answered a few questions about the making of What’s It All For Now here -

What are you listening to at the moment?

Right now, these and nothing else:

Gal Costa - Gal Costa

Murmur - REM

The Oddfellows’ Hall - The Ocean Party

Cactus Country - Cool Sounds

Did writing and recording the EP over two days have such impact over the feel of the songs? Can you hear the spontanaitety in any particular moments?

Yep. Knowing it needed to be finished the same day forced me to muster up some confidence on each of the instruments, and it worked so well, so most of what is on the EP is the first take. I do remember being able to let go and get pretty into be spontaneous.

There’s this bridge in ‘Losing Touch’ where each instrument is playing pseudo-randomly and culminates into a strange, syncopated, jagged thing - I don’t think it would have worked if it had been planned. The EP is certainly a bit rough around the edges but that is part of what charms me.

Tell me a bit more about the day you recorded the ep? how long did it take/where about did you do it/who was there etc.?

We had been recording an LP and putting a lot of care into it - quite often second-guessing decisions. And one morning I decided I wanted to put my creativity elsewhere for a moment, wrote 5 songs and recorded them that day. It took about 15 hours of being alone in this dead, tiny room. And I loved it.

The music video for losing touch is filmed at the Tote - do you have any favourite gigs you’ve seen there?

By far, it was The Ocean Party in the upstairs band room. I just have a heap of admiration for each of them. And that room seems so right.

WAY DYNAMIC PREMIERE NEW VIDEO FOR ‘LOSING TOUCH’, ANNOUNCE MELBOURNE EP LAUNCH SHOW & DEBUT EP 'WHAT'S IT ALL FOR NOW' RELEASED THIS FRIDAY

Melbourne six piece outfit Way Dynamic are excited to share the video for their debut single Losing Touch, which was directed by Sam Rogers and shot at Melbourne's iconic music venue The Tote.  Premiered by Pilerats today, you can watch the video for Losing Touch and read an inclusive interview with Dylan Young HERE!

"Losing Touch is about having broken your femur in a car accident. And having to spend the next few months in rehab, learning to walk again, feeling pretty isolated and forgotten. Top that with painkiller withdrawal and you end up in a bad and lonely headspace. But the clip, on the other hand, made by Sam Rogers, shows the band performing live a la Countdown or Top of the Pops. I hope it gives a glimpse of the love we have within the band." - Dylan Young - Way Dynamic

Losing Touch is a bright and poppy introduction to the incredible songwriting and musical composition of 22 year old multi-instrumentalist Dylan Young. Hailing from Ballarat and now firmly rooted in the Melbourne Music scene Young has played in several of Melbourne most beloved bands including Totally Mild, Emma Russack, Hollow Everdaze, Emma Russack & Lachlan Denton, Precious Earth and Great Outdoors.

Losing Touch is the first single released from Way Dynamic’s debut EP entitled What’s It All For Now which is set for release digitally and on limited edition bright red cassette tape this Friday, 16th November 2018. 

What’s It All For Now features five tracks written, recorded and produced by Young over the space of just a few days in the lounge room of his home in Carlton, Victoria. Way Dynamic are influenced by the classic and offbeat songwriting of yesteryear (Carol King, Brian Wilson respectively), and yet their sound is strangely refreshing and modern. Young’s songwriting and composition combine oddball arrangements with lyrical poetism that is both introspective and engaging. In it’s current formation the Way Dynamic live band features members of Totally Mild, Tam Vantage, The Ocean Party, Great Outdoors, ESC and Emma Russack, the group are unified by their love of music and of each other. 
 

You can pre-order your copy of the What’s It All For Now EP on limited edition rubine red cassette tape over at the Our Golden Friend Bandcamp page right HERE. Stay tuned for more music and exciting news from Way Dynamic in the not too distance future.

To celebrate the release of What's It All For Now, Way Dynamic will be treating the people of Melbourne to a very special full band launch show at Cactus Room in Thornbury on Friday 23rd November.  

Support will come from Emma Russack and The Stroppies, and all for only $10!

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1038392599664052/

INTRODUCING CHITRA! NEW SIGNING TO OUR GOLDEN FRIEND & SINGLE 'BETTER THAN BEFORE' RELEASED

Our Golden Friend are incredibly excited to announce the newest signing to their label and management family in the form of 21 year old Melbourne based artist Chitra. A genre bending songwriter that, much like her creative influences Alabama Shakes and Angel Olsen, seamlessly weaves the blunt force of rock’n’roll with the candid story telling of country and soul.  

Growing up amongst the rich music scene of the Bellarine Peninsula on the South Coast of Victoria, Chitra found herself fully immersed with sounds both local & global and quickly developed a passion for songwriting, which for her became a vital means of channeling emotion and experience.

Chitra's debut release on Our Golden Friend is the her stunning new single 'Better Than Before', which is available on all digital service providers today, and is the first taste of her forthcoming EP set to be released in early 2019.

'Better Than Before' has received quite a bit of love via the triple j Unearthed platform after being added to triple j Unearthed Radio and has received glowing reviews, with 4 and 5 stars across the board:

"Hooo, this is special. I hope you enter every room with someone announcing your presence Game Of Thrones-style - Chitra; singer of songs, taker of breath, voice of purest silver."
- Dave Ruby Howe (Unearthed Music Director)

"i first heard Chitra's voice live and it was so stunning. Plus she's such a great storyteller. Happy to say that this shows off both those great qualities."
- Declan Byrne (Triple J 'Home & Hosed' Presenter)

"Totally hear that Julia Jacklin vibe in Chitra's voice but, she is less of a dreamer and more of a worldly old soul. Still, SO MANY FEEL with this tune. OMG - it's like a heart seeped in sorrow. There's not light in the darkness but there is definitely beauty and wonder."
- Nkechi Anele (Triple J 'Roots 'N' All' Presenter)

CHITRA
UPCOMING LIVE SHOWS

Sunday 25th November
Carlton Baths, Melbourne, Victoria
'Sunday At The Baths'
Free Entry

Wednesday 28th November
The Curtin, Melbourne, Victoria
'Hunny' Fundraising Night
Tickets

Sunday 2nd December
Beavs Bar, Geelong, Victoria
Sweetfest Music Festival
Free Entry

MOONLOVER RELEASES VIDEO FOR 'MEKONG DELTA BLUES' AND HOSTS ALBUM LAUNCH AT 'OLD BAR' ON NOVEMBER 3RD

Watch the video for 'Mekong Delta Blues' here

Melbourne songsmith MOONLOVER has today released the beautiful video for track 'Mekong Delta Blues', paying homage to his Vietnamese heritage.

“Hi all,

This is the last film clip that I’m gonna make for Thou Shall Be Free. PHEW!

This one I sliced together from all sorts of different bits.

The song is called ‘Mekong Delta Blues’. I started secretly recording conversations with my father because he’s getting old and his stories about the old country and his life are really important to me. What you hear at the start is an excerpt of one of those chats. 

It’s a very strange thing to miss a place you never grew up in. I miss Vietnam, even though I was born in Australia. I grew up in mainly white schools and hung around with mainly white kids and always felt disconnected from being Vietnamese. It’s only in the past 5 years or so that I’ve properly realised how deep Vietnam runs in me and how magical it is to me. Something as simple as getting a banh mi in Footscray and speaking to other Vietnamese cats in Vietnamese gives me great delight and great melancholy at the same time. Oh the pang!

To all the Vietnamese people out there, I hope this clip might help you connect with your culture. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, culture is a beautiful thing and I feel very lucky to be a tiny little thread in such a rich tapestry.'

Thanks 

Q"

Moonlover is also very excited to be taking his full band along to Old Bar in Melbourne for a big ol' celebration of his debut LP 'Thou Shall Be Free' on Saturday night!
This will be Moonlover's last full band gig in Melbourne for 6 months as they are already making album number 2! As they never did a full band album launch for 'Thou Shall Be Free', here it is. 
Supports confirmed as Hobsons Bay Coast Guard and Yukumbabe. $12 on the door!

MOONLOVER RELEASES VIDEO FOR 'ON THE DAY THAT I WAS BORN' FROM ALBUM 'THOU SHALL BE FREE'

Watch the video for 'On The Day That I Was Born' here

Melbourne psychedelic pop songsmith MOONLOVER is stoked to release the video for ‘On The Day That I Was Born' – the latest of a string of videos taken from his acclaimed debut album Thou Shall Be Free. The ‘On The Day That I Was Born’ video was animated by May Krason-Plarre, and edited by Moonlover – aka the musical project of Quang Dinh, formerly of Little Red. The video is released this morning to coincide with his recent full band tour announcement, which will be taking him to Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Thirroul, Canberra, Wollongong and Hobart, as well as performances at Kyneton Music Festival and Gizzfest 2018 - all of which will be kicking off later this month.

Speaking about the new video for 'On The Day That I Was Born', Moonlover enthuses "A friend of mine fortuitously put me in touch with May Krason-Plarre, a local claymation specialist. I looked at some of her graduate work that she'd done and was blown away by it, so I asked her if I could cut it up and use some of it. She made some brand new stuff which is in there too. I think the clip speaks for itself. It's my favourite clip of the vid clips we've released for the album."

'Thou Shall be Free' is an eclectic record that tells stories through the fantasy of surreal psychedelic songs across to the great reveal of romance. Called “surreal” by Pilerats, the album is a collection of batty psychedelia, midnight moon pop and dreamy water ballads, including title track ‘Thou Shall Be Free’ that was gifted to Dinh by the late, great David Bowie, who came to him in a dream. The entirety of the album was recorded, produced and performed by Moonlover in his personal oasis Pink Slime Studios, sharing impressive recording credits with John Lee (Lost Animal, Beaches, Emma Russack) who was on mixing duties, with mastering by Joe Carra (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Courtney Barnett, Eddy Current Suppression Ring). 'Thou Shall Be Free' has received praise from fans and media alike, with The Music noting “It’s pop music, certainly – but has the self-awareness that it doesn’t want to be too obvious about it” and Speaker TV calling it a "cosmic adventure."

MOONLOVER FULL BAND TOUR

Friday, October 26 | Kyneton Music Festival
Kyneton
TICKETS

Saturday, November 3 | Old Bar
Melbourne
$12 ON DOOR

Thursday, November 8 | The Bearded Lady
Brisbane
$10 ON DOOR

Saturday, November 10 | The Homestead
Hobart
$10 ON DOOR

Saturday, December 1 | Gizzfest
Melbourne Showgrounds
TICKETS

Friday, December 7 | Botany View Hotel
Sydney
FREE SHOW

Saturday, December 8 | Frank's Wild Years
Thirroul (afternoon show)
DONATION ON DOOR

Saturday, December 8 | The Phoenix
Canberra
$10 ON DOOR

Sunday, December 9 | North Wollongong Hotel
Wollongong
FREE SHOW

WAY DYNAMIC - NEW SIGNING TO OUR GOLDEN FRIEND

ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF DEBUT EP + SHARES FIRST SINGLE 'LOSING TOUCH'

Our Golden Friend are incredibly excited to announce the newest signing to their label family in the form of Melbourne six piece outfit Way Dynamic. The band’s first single Losing Touch received it’s worldwide radio premiere last night on Melbourne’s 3RRR FM via Simon Winkler and Lauren Taylor on their drive time program Breaking and Entering. Losing Touch is a bright and poppy introduction to the incredible songwriting and musical composition of 22 year old multi-instrumentalist Dylan Young. Hailing from Ballarat and now firmly rooted in the Melbourne Music scene Young has played in several of Melbourne most beloved bands including Totally Mild, Emma Russack, Hollow Everdaze, Emma Russack & Lachlan Denton, Precious Earth and Great Outdoors.

Click below to listen to Losing Touch by Way Dynamic 

Losing Touch is the first single released from Way Dynamic’s debut EP entitled What’s It All For Now which is set for release digitally and on limited edition bright red cassette tape on Friday 16th November 2018. What’s It All For Now features five tracks written, recorded and produced by Young over the space of just a few days in the lounge room of his home in Carlton, Victoria. Way Dynamic are influenced by the classic and offbeat songwriting of yesteryear (Carol King, Brian Wilson respectively), and yet their sound is strangely refreshing and modern. Young’s songwriting and composition combine oddball arrangements with lyrical poetism that is both introspective and engaging. In it’s current formation the Way Dynamic live band features members of Totally Mild, Tam Vantage, The Ocean Party, Great Outdoors, ESC and Emma Russack, the group are unified by their love of music and of each other. 

Losing Touch is available on all digital music services today and you can pre-order your copy of the What’s It All For Now EP on limited edition rubine red cassette tape over at the Our Golden Friend bandcamp page right HERE. Stay tuned for more music and exciting news from Way Dynamic in the not too distance future.

WAY DYNAMIC
UPCOMING LIVE SHOWS

Friday 26th of October 
The Eastern, Ballarat, Victoria 
Supporting Jade Imagine & Culte
Tickets