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The first single from Mates of State's forthcoming release "You're Going To Make It".  Available June 16, 2015 on Barsuk Records in North America and June 15, 2015 in Europe/UK on Fierce Panda.

iTunes Pre-Order:
http://geni.us/matesofstate 

http://www.matesofstate.com
http://www.barsuk.com
http://www.fiercepanda.co.uk/

Mates of State "Staring Contest"

This is the second single of my debut EP 'Empty Palaces'

Produced by The one and only James Hall 

Written By Keiandra 

Available on Spotify Now! 

©℗ Milk Tooth Records 2016

https://open.spotify.com/track/2WeLP8vJSXO9Uz1VicZwqt

Icing Sugar

Order: bit.ly/1lhkzoR

Artist: Ashley Shadow
Album: Ashley Shadow 
Label: felte
Release Date: April 15, 2016 

felte.net/
https://www.facebook.com/ashleyshadowmusic 
https://www.instagram.com/ashleyshadowwebber/ 
https://soundcloud.com/ashley-shadow  

Ashley Shadow

Tired 

Ashley Shadow - Tired

Students

Please Don't Hold Me In Your Arms

Buy the Album: raremonk.bandcamp.com/
Written and Recorded by Rare Monk 
Engineered and Mixed by Skyler Norwood at Miracle Lake Studios 
Produced by Skyler Norwood and Rare Monk 
Mastered by Gus Elg @ Sky Onion Studios 
Artwork by Chris Bigalke (Showdeer)

Golden

"Flowers In The Basement" is available now on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, Bandcamp and more. It is the first release from Mammoth Indigo's sophomore album. 
Watch the video now: https://youtu.be/k6Pf-Segz5M

Flowers In The Basement

From the album Warrior, available April 6, 2018 from Western Vinyl

Pre-Order Warrior
Bandcamp: https://airwaves.bandcamp.com/album/warrior
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/warrior/1337353378?ls=1&app=itunes
WV: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv167

The album cover for Warrior, the third full-length by Brooklyn-based band Air Waves, features a ominous, androgynous figure standing with a bicycle, wearing a gas mask adorned with a daisy.  The remarkable image was taken on April 22nd, 1970 at the inaugural Earth Day celebration in New York City by Nicole Schneit’s dad, Martin Schneit.  Forty-seven years later, artist Em Rooney hand-painted Schneit’s original black & white photo, resulting in an image that radiates with Warrior’s indefatigable spirit, strength, and love

Like many queer women, Nicole Schneit is a warrior by necessity, fighting for basic rights, dignity, and acceptance.  Such determination in the face of hardship and injustice runs in Schneit’s family; her new album was inspired in part by her mom who was diagnosed with fallopian cancer last year.  As she explains, “The doctor told her she had a fifteen to twenty percent chance, and her response was ‘I’m going to get this mother fucker.’ So the title ‘Warrior’ and the song are about her. After chemotherapy,  surgery, and then more chemotherapy, all the cancer in her body has left and she's currently in remission. I feel like most of the people in my life, including myself, are warriors and have overcome obstacles that seemed impossible to defeat.”

The dignified fighter archetype referenced in the album’s title is explored on each of Warrior’s eleven pieces of bittersweet, empowering indie pop.  According to Schneit the song “Gay Bets”, written after the 2016 election is “about being gay and being proud and open. I was thinking about hate crimes spiking and the current state of the world. My friend Jennifer Moore, who sings on the track, was my partner a long time ago, so I felt like I was writing a fuck you to Trump, for trying to take away queer rights, women's rights, people's rights.”  The song “Tangerine” was inspired by the film of the same name in which two trans women try to make ends meet as prostitutes. This movie, a dark docu-comedy shot in the contrastingly sunny setting of L.A., reflects Schneit’s battle between identity and society via Brooklyn pop rock that swings between the pastel-tinged and the downright melancholic.

On the album’s gorgeous closer “Blue Fire,” (inspired by the Adrienne Rich poem "The Will to Change") Schneit equates her post-presidential-election anxiety to a flame that grows and recedes, as she pleads for herself and listeners to remain calm. Like its namesake, the track burns slowly and brightly into one of the most glowing points on the record, leaving the listener smiling with thoughtful hope.  Warrior’s highlights, and all of the unmissable, satisfying pieces that tie them together show Schneit’s perseverance and resilience through crumbling relationships, personal adversity, and the current political climate, all leading to her most powerful collection of songs to date. Understated, subtly sophisticated, and equally empowering and comforting, Warrior launches Air Waves above the apolitical complacency of too many of the group's contemporaries.  Schneit proudly declares her mission statement: “I want these songs to be heard by people in my queer community, but also by anyone that wants to feels strong, powerful, and included.”

Warrior

Air Waves - "Blue Fire"

Produced by Jarrad Kritzstein and Dappled Cities.
Recorded at Megaphon Studios, Sydney.
Additional recording by Luke Bertoz.
Mixed by Cenzo Townshend at Decoy Studios, Woodbridge, UK.
Mastered by Anthony Bitt at Breakneck Mastering

Run With The Wind

Taken from Frøkedal's forthcoming album 'How We Made It' - released August 31 via Propeller Recordings

Frøkedal - David

The one, the only, the inordinately bony, Camden; the Sydney 5 piece have released their new single, titled Too Pretty For Punk. 

Recorded at the former BJB studios, (now Turning Studios); under the watchful ear of producer, Evan McHugh (Jet, Midnight Oil, The Scare).

The new single Too Pretty for Punk continues the poetic landscape of the early releases; Handsome Ransom, Students and Please Dont hold me In Your Arms, with confronting themes of depression, romance, and escapism. 

Camden’s original music is often compared to a combination of Morrissey’s voice, Klaxons’s energy and the melodies of Motown. Camden's unique ability to photograph his emotions and voice his observations through lyrics and song is paralleled by none. 

Camden's debut promo film is available at 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVTIw_sFCaI 

with a Sydney launch in early 2013.


Too Pretty For Punk

"Hypochondriac" by Fenne Lily, out now on Dead Oceans. 

Buy / stream: https://ffm.to/hypochondriac

Fenne Lily - Hypochondriac

Instrumentation & Instrumental performance by BANGLADE$H.

Drums/Pecrussion/Backing Vocals - Jimi Mataio
Bass Guitar/Backing Vocals - Benjamin Smith
Guitar/Lead Vocals - Leroy Clampitt
Guitar/Backing Vocals - Kamrone Chadderton
Synthersizers - Oliver Plowright

Songwriting is credited to BANGLADE$H.
L. Clampitt/J. Mataio/K. Chadderton/B. Smith/O. Plowright

Production & Arrangement by Joel Little and Jaden Parkes in collaboration with BANGLADE$H

Mix Engineering by Djeisan Suskov in collaboration with Joel Little & BANGLADE$H

Mastered by Evan Short

Recorded at: 
Golden Age Studios by Joel Little
Revolver Studios by Djeisan Suskov
Roundhead Studios by Jordan Stone

Artwork & Photography by Jordan Arts
Logo by Jimi Mataio

Published by BANGLADE$H

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http://twitter.com/bangladeshNZ
http://youtube.com/bangladeshNZ
http://soundcloud.com/bangladeshNZ
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Please Don't Hold Me In Your Arms

CAMDEN

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