chimers formed during the lockdown of April 2020 ; they hadn't yet played a show when
a self released 7" single "Mono" came in September of the same year.
The self titled debut album is slated for release September 2021. Recorded with Jez Player of The Pinheads, the first single "Surrounds" drops July 3, 2021 on 9am Records.
Members
Binx: Drums
Vocals Padraic: Guitar
Vocals
22-year-old Eora/Sydney-based producer and DJ Club Angel today announces his signing to Astral People Recordings (Milan Ring, Wave Racer, Skeleten) and shares his debut single, ‘Control Dem’.
Today’s signing announcement harks back to the roots of the Eora/Sydney-based label, management and touring company. “The sounds of UKG and Bassline play a very important part in the history of Astral People, some of our early shows we promoted were debut tours for legends like DJ EZ and DJ Q, so we're very excited to be finally bringing this world to our label with Club Angel,” explains Astral People co-founder Tom Huggett. “There's definitely a real club resurgence taking place globally right now and we feel like Club Angel is an artist and DJ who can hold his own on any dancefloor.”
“Since day dot we’ve been blown away by the music,” shares Zachary Hamilton-Reeves, who, alongside John Halstead, forms one half of Club Angel’s management team Seven Seven Music. “For us it’s been about finding the right partners who are as big a fans as we are. We are very excited about Club Angel’s signing to our friends Astral People. It’s a classic pairing, with Astral's strong history in dance music and Club Angel’s beyond-his-years approach to it.”
Heavily inspired by late 90s UK dance music, Club Angel explores the moodier side of 2-Step, Jungle and Garage with tight drums, sampled orchestral stabs and melancholic vocals. ‘Control Dem’ bursts forth with lively, syncopated percussion, warbling sub-bass and infectious vocal hooks, a remarkably self-assured, impossible-to-hold-down introduction to the Club Angel project, a gun-fingers-in-the-air workout of rhythmic dexterity and melodic stickiness.
On the new track, Club Angel shares, “I initially wrote ‘Control Dem’ back in 2020 when I was still trying to find my sound, and it felt like a real eureka moment for me. I can vividly remember how excited I was after throwing that vocal on the initial idea, must’ve listened to the same 16 bar loop 100 times!”
Previously performing and releasing music under his own name, Gabriel Espinosa has long established himself as a prodigious fixture in Sydney’s underground electronic scene, having produced for the likes of ASTA, Colin Haye, Hey! Astro and more, receiving airplay on FBi Radio (who highlighted the then-18 year-old as their Independent Artist of the Week) and 2SER, and recently remixing Fred Again..’s ‘Hannah (The Sun)’. ‘BIG’, his track with Boy Soda, was also added to rotation at FBi Radio and garnered airplay across triple j, CADA, 4ZZZ, 3RRR, Double J and more.
Melbourne, Australia native Harry Permezel just can't help making music – it's in his blood, as natural as sports is to some, or keeping a diary is to others.
Building a home studio, the songwriter released his debut album back in 2016, ease out into the world through Muscle Beach.
Since then, both label and artist have built a close relationship, despite essentially being based on opposite parts of the Pacific ocean.
New album 'Wax Man' is Harry's return, a sombre yet poetic offering that beams brightly with a witty, observant songwriting eye.
Lonnie Holley (born 1950; Birmingham, Alabama)
Since 1979, Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music, born out of struggle, hardship, but perhaps more importantly, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity, has manifested itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, music, and filmmaking. Holley’s sculptures are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. Objects, already imbued with cultural and artistic metaphor, are combined into narrative sculptures that commemorate places, people, and events. His work is now in collections of major museums throughout the world (The Museums of Fine Arts, San Francisco; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Smithsonian American Art Museum; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and many others), on permanent display in the United Nations, and been displayed in the White House Rose Garden.
Holley did not start making and performing music in a studio nor does his creative process mirror that of the typical musician. His music and lyrics are improvised on the spot and morph and evolve with every event, concert, and recording. In Holley’s original art environment, he would construct and deconstruct his visual works, repurposing their elements for new pieces. This often led to the transfer of individual narratives into the new work creating a cumulative composite image that has depth and purpose beyond its original singular meaning. The layers of sound in Holley’s music, likewise, are the result of decades of evolving experimentation.
Holley has released five critically acclaimed albums––Just Before Music, 2012; Keeping a Record of It, 2013; MITH, 2018; National Freedom, 2020; Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection (with Matthew E. White), 2021. His sixth album, Oh Me Oh My, produced by Jacknife Lee, which includes collaborations with Bon Iver, Michael Stipe (REM), Moor Mother, Sharon Van Etten, and Rokia Koné, comes out March 10, 2023, on Jagjaguwar.
He has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand, and shared stages with Bon Iver, Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Bill Callahan, Saul Williams, Tinariwen, Daniel Lanois, and many others.
He has also experimented with film, photography, and video throughout his career. His directorial debut, the short narrative film I Snuck Off the Slave Ship, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
The 2023 podcast, Unreformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, follows the history of the infamous reform school in Alabama (which many refer to as a “slave camp for kids”) and profiles Holley’s early life and the struggles he and so many others suffered at the hands of the state of Alabama.
In 2022 Holley was named a USA Artist Fellow. His visual art is represented by Blum & Poe Gallery (Los Angeles) and Edel Assanti Gallery (London). He continues to make art and music from his home and studio in Atlanta, Georgia.
NEW MELBOURNE SHOW ADDED!
Michigan Midwesterners Hot Mulligan announce they will make their long-awaited trip to Australian shores in March 2024 for their first ever string of Australian shows. Joining them will be Nashville special guests and fellow first time visitors Free Throw.
Hot Mulligan have a way of manifesting things into existence, whether it's name dropping Michelle Branch and Mark Hoppus in song titles and netting responses from both (only one got the joke) or, true to their word, becoming synonymous with the newest wave of pop-punk and emo.
Since forming in Lansing, Michigan in 2014, the college friends have ascended from basements to buzz band on the back of two beloved albums out via No Sleep Records, 2018's Pilot and 2020's you'll be fine.
Now, bolstered by 140 million Spotify streams, a sold-out nationwide headlining tour, support slots for the likes of The Wonder Years and New Found Glory and headlines in Alternative Press and Rock Sound, the band's third LP out via Wax Bodega, Why Would I Watch, cements their evolution as one of the most versatile and profoundly moving bands in the underground.
Produced by longtime collaborator Brett Romney, Why Would I Watch is Hot Mulligan at their loudest, their poppiest, and, ultimately, their most poignant: twinkly Midwestern emo guitars and mathy, synthy-heavy rhythms, Sanville's sandpaper vocals and indelible melodies, the lighting-in-a-bottle kinetic energy of Long Island ca. 2001 updated for newer generations.
Free Throw join the festivities equipped with four albums under their wing. Their fourth and latest full length, Piecing It Together soundtracked a reality where the quintet grapple with hard truths. After three prior albums and a decade of hard work, including countless performances worldwide, the members have a fresh perspective on life.
The band is through obsessing over what comes next and romanticising the moments that have already passed. Instead, Free Throw is making music about the present and how seeking balance in our lives is far more meaningful work than the endless pursuit of whatever is deem to be 'enough.' The latest album finds the men of Free Throw abandoning childhood notions of success and happiness through a thorough exploration of personal fulfillment. Piecing It Together is an exploration of self-acceptance, and Free Throw invites everyone to join.
After gigging around Australia, Chris Cheney's right-hand-man Andre Warhurst is releasing his debut album, This is Andre Warhurst out via Rubber Records. Join Andre Warhurst & The Rare Byrds for an afternoon full of blues-infused tunes, celebrating the release of Andre's album.
We're also extremely lucky to be joined by Hamish Cowan from Cordrazine (also Rubber Records) and Lalu.
Northcote Social Club strives to create a safe space that everyone can enjoy.
Crowd surfing & dangerous behaviour will result in removal from the venue.
Maple Glider is the project of singer/songwriter Tori Zietsch (sounds like peach). Hailing from Lismore and schooled in Brisbane, she now lives in Naarm/Melbourne and released her debut album 'To Enjoy is the Only Thing' in June 2021.
Her second album 'I Get Into Trouble' is out October 13th 2023, including singles "Don't Kiss Me" and "Dinah", and the new released Double A-Side "You At The Top Of The Driveway" / "You're Gonna Be A Daddy" (focus track).
She'll be touring Australia's East Coast this November.
Maple Glider has sold out two debut London headline shows this September. Her first LP earned over 22M streams, and had her performing on NPR's Tiny Desk At Home, and Colbert's #PlayAtHome series.
Pretty Uglys are 3 piece surf/punk band based in Perth WA. The first half of 2022 has seen them join forces with SKEGSS as main support for their WA tour as well as multiple festival slots and headline shows.
Their latest single 'ROLL ON' is out Oct 6th, followed by their EAST - COAST debut happening at The Chippo, Sydney Oct 7th and WA headline release show later in the month. Having shared the stage with some of Australia’s favourite artists such as RUBY FIELDS, SPACEY JANE, PIST IDIOTS and SLY WITHERS as well as their debut film clip for SOAK IT UP getting added to ABC's RAGE, the wave is not slowing down anytime soon.
Four years (and one global pandemic) since the Australian Music Prize-longlisted “Guiding Light” (2017) elevated the band to new peaks of artistry, Ron S. Peno and The Superstitions return with their new album, “Do the Understanding”, a stunning record born from connection and perseverance