GOOD MORNING SHARE TWO-TRACK RELEASE 'OUT TO PASTURE / MISERY' + ANNOUNCE FULL BACK CATALOGUE VINYL RE-ISSUE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW + ANNOUNCE UK TOUR

Good Morning return today, with their annual two-track single release, 'Out To Pasture / Misery' alongside the announcement of the upcoming re-issue of their back catalogue on vinyl. 

~LISTEN + PRE-ORDER HERE.~
 

Following their recent Barnyard LP, 'Out To Pasture / Misery'  arrives as the result of endless studio time for Good Morning, the result of a refined studio schedule that has seen the band consistently write and record five days a week. With the freedom to craft multi-layered recordings, Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair indulge in experimentation and new firsts, namely Stefan's attempt at writing a string arrangement, and the addition of a rollicking banjo to the Good Morning fold. Plus the studio appearance of a parent or two, with Glenn Blair appearing on horns.

In Liam's words, 'Misery' was written when "I felt like yelling, and when we recorded it I still felt like yelling. The low key meeting the high is where I live most the time." 'Out To Pasture' features Naarm / Melbourne based violinist Chloe Sanger, who Stefan reveals "was able to take my vague instructions and turn them into something beautiful which was cool to hear. I also had a nice family day in the studio recording the horns so that was nice too. I’m not saying I’d always like to record with my parents, but that day was a good time. Ultimately I’m just making fun of myself about commodifying my darker thoughts through music. I know that I connect with a lot of darker music, and I know it has it’s place in the world, but it’s hard not to feel like it’s super conceited and dumb at times too."

To celebrate the two-track, Good Morning have announced a long-awaited reissue of their back catalogue onto vinyl for the first time in two years. In their decade-long tenure, Good Morning have released six records of varying sound and length: Shawcross (2014), Glory (2016), Prize // Reward (2018), The Option (2019), Basketball Breakups (2019), and their latest Barnyard (2021). Now, following feverish anticipation, each album will be made available on vinyl once again via Polyvinyl on May 27. Most significant are the pressings include their debut LP Shawcross (available for the first time ever),  which lives on as a classic in the minds of many fans for its sun-dappled, loose, elegiac indie-pop across the yearning 'Warned You', 'Don't Come Home Today' and 'Once You Know'.

Joining Shawcross includes Glory, which dives into slightly darker and weirder territories of tone and sound rendered with ruthlessly catchy hooks; and Prize // Reward, the only album by Good Morning to be recorded over an extended period of time as opposed to their short, sharp stints of recording. It's a record looser in vision and more chaotic through its sonic journey, from the snappy '$10' to wishful 'Escalator'. Through The Option and Basketball Breakups, Liam and Stefan re-captured the pleasure and excitement of their best friend-ship through music. Albeit short in delivery with songs that average a 2-minute length, both make-up for time with immediately resonant tracks that command repeated listens, be-it the charmant 'Sub', reverb flecked 'You Up?', or grungey 'Best Supporting Actor'. Pre-order for Good Morning's discography on vinyl is available now - until stocks last. 

On top of their stacked United States tour this April/May, where they will be joined by PACKS, Good Morning have also announced a string of dates across the UK in June. All tour dates listed below, with tickets available HERE. 

'Out To Pasture / Misery' is out now, buy/stream it here.

Poster by Mitchum Clemens

Poster by Dusty Anastassiou

GOOD MORNING ANNOUNCE BARNYARD LIVE VIDEO FULL ALBUM VIDEO FILMED LIVE AT THE VIC ROLLER DERBY LEAGUE, PREMIERING VIA YOUTUBE

Australian duo Good Morning are kicking off the new year with a free live video performance of their new album Barnyard for fans around the world. Filmed live at the Victorian Roller Derby League in November 2021, the performance will be available via YouTube on Thursday January 13th at 9PM EST / Friday January 14th at 1PM AEDT. Watch the live Premiere HERE.
 

Good Morning's long awaited album tour kicks off this month across Australia before they head to the US for a spring tour around the country. The band have a cult following in the US and these shows are expected to be nothing short of incredible.

SEE ALL TOUR DATES BELOW.

In their near decade long tenure, in the wake of Barnyard's release Good Morning have been internationally celebrated, with widespread acclaim from Rolling Stone, NME, Stereogum, The Line Of Best Fit, Consequence, Alt Press, Paste, DIY Mag, Music Feeds, The Music, Northern Transmissions, KCRW, 6Music and many more, including a warm embrace across local community radio stations Triple R, PBS, FBi Radio, 2SER, Edge Radio and SYN. The album's release also tracked New Music playlist support upon release across DSPs, alongside tastemaker editorial.

Thoughtful, catchy, idiosyncratic, and nearly twice the average length of their back catalogue, Barnyard is all the things one might love about Good Morning, this time around presented with the fat trimmed and the edges sharpened. Recorded at Wilco's famed studio The Loft, for the first time in a long time the record was made with the help of an outside engineer and featured as an international release on a record label not operated by a friend, but instead, Polyvinyl, joining the likes of Alvvays, Julia Jacklin, STRFKR, Kero Kero Bonito and joining the ranks at Sub Pop Publishing.

Those seeking grand reinvention or earth-shaking hubris in Barnyard will come up short. This is an album of good, well-made, finely-written songs, notable for its purity and coherence of vision, but not by any means a concept album; it is a record significant in Good Morning’s history, but not one with such self-importance that it would consider itself historically significant for all. That is likely what those drawn to it will love about it. Including the singles 'Country', 'Burning' and 'Depends On What I Know', Barnyard is not too little and not too much. It’s just right - just Good Morning. The local leg of their world tour across so-called Australia follows their regional Victoria tour throughout 2021. Plus the band will play their biggest headline show to date at the Belasco Theatre. Supports will be announced soon!

Barnyard is out now, buy/stream it HERE.

AUS TOUR DATES

Sat 8 Jan - The Bridge - Dja Dja Wurrung Land / Castlemaine - POSTPONED

Wed 12 Jan - Sydney Festival @ Speakers Corner - Warrang / Sydney - WITHDRAWN

Thu 27 Jan - Altar - Nipaluna / Hobart - TICKETS

Fri 28 Jan - The Lab - Kaurna Land / Adelaide - TICKETS

Thu 3 Feb - The Zoo - Meanjin / Brisbane - TICKETS

Fri 4 Feb - Repentance Creek Hall - Bundjalung Land / Repentance Creek - TICKETS
Sat 5 Feb - St Kilda Festival - Wurundjeri Land / St Kilda - TICKETS

Sat 26 Feb - Ok Motels - Dja Dja Wurrung Land / Charlton - SOLD OUT

Sat 5 Mar - Nine Lives - Meanjin / Brisbane - TICKETS

Fri 18 Mar - Wombarra Bowls Club - Dharawal Land / Wombarra - TICKETS

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

Thu 31 Mar - Soda Bar - Kumeyaay Land / San Diego, CA - TICKETS

Fri 1 Apr - Glass House - Tongva Land / Pomona, CA - TICKETS

Sat 2 Apr - The Chapel - Ohlone Land / San Francisco, CA - TICKETS

Mon 4 Apr - Polaris Hall - Chinookan Land / Portland, OR - TICKETS

Wed 6 Apr - Neumos - Si'ahl / Seattle, WA - TICKETS

Thu 7 Apr - Neurolux - Shoshone, Bannock Land / Boise, ID - TICKETS

Fri 8 Apr - The Beehive - Pi'a-pa / Salt Lake City, UT - TICKETS

Sat 9 Apr - Ophelia's - Apache, Ute, Cheyenne, Comanche, Arapahoe Land / Denver, CO - TICKETS
Mon 11 Apr - 7th St. Entry - Dakhóta Land / Minneapolis, MO - TICKETS

Tue 12 Apr - Cactus Club - Millioke / Milwaukee, WI - TICKETS

Wed 13 Apr - Sleeping Village - Shikaakwa / Chicago, IL - TICKETS

Thu 14 Apr - Loving Touch - Anishinabe, Haudenosauneega Land / Ferndale, MI - TICKETS

Fri 15 Apr - Great Hall - Tkaronto / Toronto - TICKETS

Sat 16 Apr - La Sala Rossa - Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal, QC - TICKETS

Sun 17 Apr - The Sinclair - Massachusett Land / Cambridge, MA - TICKETS

Wed 20 Apr - Elsewhere Hall - Lenape Land / Brooklyn, NY - TICKETS

Thu 21 Apr - Johnny Brenda's - Coaquannock / Philadelphia, PA - TICKETS

Sat 22 Apr - Capital Turnaround - Nacotchtank Land / Washington, DC - TICKETS

Sat 23 Apr - The Southern - Monacan, Manahoac Land / Charlottesville, VA TICKETS

Sun 24 Apr - Richmond Music Hall - Algonquin Land / Richmond, VA - TICKETS

Tue 26 Apr - Grey Eagle - Cherokee Land / Asheville, NC - TICKETS

Wed 27 Apr - Purgatory at The Masquerade - Creek, Cherokee Land / Atlanta, GA - TICKETS

Thu 28 Apr - Proud Larry's - Chato Land / Mobile, AL - TICKETS

Fri 29 Apr - Chelsea's Live - Chitimacha Land / Baton Rouge, LA - TICKETS

Sat 30 Apr - The Satellite - Atakapa Land / Houston, TX - TICKETS

Sun 1 May - Paper Tiger - Payaya Land / San Antonio, TX - TICKETS

Tue 3 May - Hotel Vegas Patio - Tonkawa Land / Austin, TX - TICKETS

Wed 4 May - Deep Ellum Art Co - Nermernuh Land / Dallas, TX - TICKETS

Fri 6May - Club Congress - Ts-iuk-shan / Tucson, AZ - TICKETS

Sat 7 May - The Belasco - Tongva Land / Los Angeles, CA - TICKETS

808s & GREATEST HITS SHARE NEW ALBUM SOCIAL BUBBLE

Today 808s & Greatest Hits share their latest album Social Bubble. The third album from the band sees Skube Burnell team up with long time collaborator and band member Lochlan Funston, swapping tracks and ideas to create the perfect breezy summer album.

Aptly named Social Bubble was recorded amidst the lockdowns of Melbourne throughout 2020 and 2021, providing time for reflection and experimentation. Social Bubble is out today Wednesday 22nd of December 2021 on digital services via Our Golden Friend.

~LISTEN TO SOCIAL BUBBLE HERE~

The follow up to 2020's Greatest Hits II, this album sees Burnell again enlisting the help of Dylan Young (Way Dynamic, Snowy Band, Emma Russack) to engineer and mix the tracks, giving space for the album to evolve into its final form. Mastered by David Walker of Stepford Audio the nine tracks speak to the the banality, intricacies and abusurdities of the past two years indoors. Songs traverse genre and thematic lands but the distance is always visible and reachable.

808s & Greatest Hits, initially the recording project of Melbourne’s Skube Burnell has grown into a collaboration with long time member Lochlan Funston. 808s & Greatest Hits’ recorded material and live shows feature a revolving cast of friends and collaborators who allow the project to take unconventional and exciting detours along the journey swapping seamlessly between tracks written by Burnell and Funston. Previous incarnations of 808s & Greatest Hits have seen Burnell collaborate with a 5-piece band and other recordings and performances have captured 808s at its most intimate and introspective from Skube alone.

Greatest Hits II is released today Wednesday December 22nd via Our Golden Friend. Listen to the album HERE.

GEORGIA MAQ SHARES NEW SONG 'JOE ROGAN' + VIDEO + PLAYING VERY SPECIAL SHOW AS A PART OF MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK THURSDAY 27TH JANUARY @ MELBOURNE MUSEUM

A holiday treat for fans, today Georgia Maq has shared her second solo release of the year, 'Joe Rogan', premiered this morning by Rolling Stone.

~ Listen to 'Joe Rogan' HERE ~

Empowering, self reflective and a little bit on the nose, 'Joe Rogan' is a cheeky examination of taste and boundaries in the dating world. An anthemic piece of self-produced pop the track is both a self-diss track and a celebration of asserting autonomy and upholding standards even when dating your everyday Joe Rogan fans. A live-stream fan favourite 'Joe Rogan' was recorded and produced by Georgia while stuck in quarantine, it’s vocal layers are helped along by her friends who pepper the track with their own thoughts on her dating life as spoken word samples transposed atop the track's bustling synths. Watch the video by Tori Styles HERE.

Georgia reveals "I made this song alone in my house. It’s a burn on myself because of my historically bad taste. It’s a song about leaving a bad date because you realised you don’t have to sit around while some guy defends joe rogan and smokes a gatorade bong, it’s about a very... unique experience that isn’t actually that unique - I think it’s relatable." 

'Joe Rogan' follows the soaring 'Someone Stranger', featuring Alice Ivy, premiered and lauded by triple j, the release garnered widespread acclaim across Rolling Stone, NME, Brooklyn Vegan, Consequence, Stereogum, The Music, Purple Sneakers, Music Feeds and much more across community radio and DSPs. Plus this January, Georgia will take to the Melbourne Museum stage to perform one of her only solo headline shows in 2022. As part of Melbourne Music Week, Georgia shared an exclusive insight into what can be expected from her live show repertoire. WATCH HERE + BUY TICKETS HERE.

Since debuting with 2019's Pleaser LP, Georgia Maq has chased a more genuine form of pop music in her solo career, a vision in the vein of that pioneered by the likes of Robyn, Charli XCX, Carly Rae Jepsen and others, that retains all of the glamour and universality but feels unburdened from capitalist underpinnings. Full of DIY electro-pop that mined evergreen themes of romantic, sexual and self-love, Maq's solo debut was not so much a transformation as it was a revelation, opening up on her vulnerabilities and heartbreaks, finding strength in this self-exposure and revealing the multitudes to herself beyond the Camp Cope project. Stay tuned as Georgia Maq continues to paint new corners in her animated pop world.

'Joe Rogan' is out now, buy/stream it here.

Designed by Sebi White

GOOD MORNING ANNOUNCE 2022 WORLD TOUR IN SUPPORT OF RECENT BARNYARD LP OUT NOW VIA GOOD MORNING MUSIC COMPANY WORLDWIDE / VIRGIN MUSIC AU/NZ + POLYVINYL ROW

Riding high from the release of their recent album Barnyard, today Good Morning announce their worldwide tour across Australia and the United States in 2022. Tickets are on sale this Friday 3rd December, 9 AM AEST. 

BUY TICKETS HERE

In their near decade long tenure, in the wake of Barnyard's release Good Morning have been internationally celebrated, with widespread acclaim from Rolling Stone, NME, Stereogum, The Line Of Best Fit, Consequence, Alt Press, Paste, DIY Mag, Music Feeds, The Music, Northern Transmissions, KCRW, 6Music and many more, including a warm embrace across local community radio stations Triple R, PBS, FBi Radio, 2SER, Edge Radio and SYN. The album's release also tracked New Music playlist support upon release across DSPs, alongside tastemaker editorial.

Thoughtful, catchy, idiosyncratic, and nearly twice the average length of their back catalogue, Barnyard is all the things one might love about Good Morning, this time around presented with the fat trimmed and the edges sharpened. Recorded at Wilco's famed studio The Loft, for the first time in a long time the record was made with the help of an outside engineer and featured as an international release on a record label not operated by a friend, but instead, Polyvinyl, joining the likes of Alvvays, Julia Jacklin, STRFKR, Kero Kero Bonito and joining the ranks at Sub Pop Publishing.

Those seeking grand reinvention or earth-shaking hubris in Barnyard will come up short. This is an album of good, well-made, finely-written songs, notable for its purity and coherence of vision, but not by any means a concept album; it is a record significant in Good Morning’s history, but not one with such self-importance that it would consider itself historically significant for all. That is likely what those drawn to it will love about it. Including the singles 'Country', 'Burning' and 'Depends On What I Know', Barnyard is not too little and not too much. It’s just right - just Good Morning. The local leg of their world tour across so-called Australia follows their recently announced appearance at the upcoming Sydney Festival and regional Victoria tour earlier this year. Plus the band will play their biggest headline show to date at the Belasco Theatre. Supports and more dates will be announced soon!

Barnyard is out now, buy/stream it HERE.

AUSTRALIA

Sat 8 Jan - The Bridge - Dja Dja Wurrung Land / Castlemaine - TICKETS

Wed 12 Jan - Sydney Festival @ Speakers Corner - Warrang / Sydney - TICKETS

Thu 27 Jan - Altar - Nipaluna / Hobart - TICKETS 

Fri 28 Jan - The Lab - Kaurna Land / Adelaide - TICKETS

Thu 3 Feb - The Zoo - Meanjin / Brisbane - TICKETS 

Fri 4 Feb - Repentance Creek Hall - Bundjalung Land / Repentance Creek - TICKETS 

Sat 26 Feb - Ok Motels - Dja Dja Wurrung Land / Charlton - SOLD OUT

Sat 5 Mar - Nine Lives - Meanjin / Brisbane - TICKETS
Fri 18 Mar - Wombarra Bowls Club - Dharawal Land / Wombarra - TICKETS

Poster by Mitchum Clemens

NORTH AMERICA

Thu 31 Mar - Soda Bar - Kumeyaay Land / San Diego, CA - TICKETS

Fri 1 Apr - Glass House - Tongva Land / Pomona, CA - TICKETS

Sat 2 Apr - The Chapel - Ohlone Land / San Francisco, CA - TICKETS

Mon 4 Apr - Polaris Hall - Chinookan Land / Portland, OR - TICKETS

Wed 6 Apr - Neumos - Si'ahl / Seattle, WA - TICKETS

Thu 7 Apr - The Shredder - Shoshone, Bannock Land / Boise, ID - TICKETS

Fri 8 Apr - The Beehive - Pi'a-pa / Salt Lake City, UT - TICKETS 

Sat 9 Apr - Ophelia's - Apache, Ute, Cheyenne, Comanche, Arapahoe Land / Denver, CO - TICKETS

Mon 11 Apr - 7th St. Entry - Dakhóta Land / Minneapolis, MO - TICKETS

Tue 12 Apr - Cactus Club - Millioke / Milwaukee, WI - TICKETS

Wed 13 Apr - Sleeping Village - shikaakwa / Chicago, IL - TICKETS

Thu 14 Apr - Loving Touch - Anishinabe, Haudenosauneega Land / Ferndale, MI - TICKETS

Fri 15 Apr - Great Hall - Tkaronto / Toronto - TICKETS

Sat 16 Apr - La Sala Rossa - Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal, QC - TICKETS

Sun 17 Apr - The Sinclair - Massachusett Land / Cambridge, MA - TICKETS

Wed 20 Apr - Elsewhere Hall - Lenape Land / Brooklyn, NY - TICKETS

Thu 21 Apr - Johnny Brenda's - Coaquannock / Philadelphia, PA - TICKETS

Fri 22 Apr - Capital Turnaround - Nacotchtank Land / Washington, DC - TICKETS

Sun 24 Apr - Richmond Music Hall - Algonquin Land / Richmond, VA - TICKETS

Tue 26 Apr - Grey Eagle - Cherokee Land / Asheville, NC - TICKETS

Wed 27 Apr - Purgatory at The Masquerade - Creek, Cherokee Land / Atlanta, GA - TICKETS

Thu 28 Apr - Proud Larry's - Chickasaw Land / Oxford, MS - TICKETS

Fri 29 Apr - Chelsea's Live - Chitimacha Land / Baton Rouge, LA - TICKETS

Sat 30 Apr - The Satellite - Atakapa Land / Houston, TX - TICKETS

Sun 1 May - Paper Tiger - Payaya Land / San Antonio, TX - TICKETS

Tue 3 May - Hotel Vegas Patio - Tonkawa Land / Austin, TX - TICKETS

Wed 4 May - Deep Ellum Art Co - Nermernuh Land / Dallas, TX - TICKETS

Fri 6 May - Club Congress - Ts-iuk-shan / Tucson, AZ - TICKETS
Sat 7 May - The Belasco - Tongva Land / Los Angeles, CA - TICKETS

GEORGIA MAQ SHARES RAW & INTIMATE LIVE PERFORMANCE OF BIG EMBARRASSING HEART + PLAYING VERY SPECIAL SHOW AS A PART OF MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK THURSDAY 27TH JANUARY @ MELBOURNE MUSEUM

Overnight Georgia Maq shared a glorious live rendition of 'Big Embarrassing Heart' ahead of her debut headline show at Melbourne Music Week on January 27th.

Filmed at Meat Market by Shoelace Creative and accompanied by her step mum Bec on piano, she presents a breathtakingly raw and beautiful performance. A one shot video, Georgia's voice fills the space with simultaneous strength and vulnerability, a gut wrenching odyssey of begging for love and meditation on acceptance of self, all in a single song.

A track from her debut album Pleaser, this take on 'Big Embarrassing Heart' is a glimpse at what to expect at Georgia's headline show at Melbourne Museum on Thursday January 27th as part of Melbourne Music Week. An ardent performer Georgia will weave heartbreak and euphoria across the set through well loved tracks from Pleaser and as yet unheard anthems. Tickets are on sale now from the Melbourne Music Week website.

Keep an eye out for a little holiday treat from Georgia coming soon and watch the video for 'Big Embarrassing Heart' here.

Since debuting with 2019’s Pleaser LP, Georgia Maq has chased a more genuine form of pop music in her solo career, a vision in the vein of that pioneered by the likes of Robyn, Charli XCX, Carly Rae Jepsen and others, that retains all of the glamour and universality but feels unburdened from capitalist underpinnings. Full of DIY electro-pop that mined evergreen themes of romantic, sexual and self-love, Maq’s solo debut was not so much a transformation as it was a revelation, opening up on her vulnerabilities and heartbreaks, finding strength in this self-exposure and revealing the multitudes to herself beyond the Camp Cope project.

If Pleaser was a left-of-field toe dip, 'Someone Stranger' is a full, unencumbered immersion: the chrysalis. Linking with Alice Ivy, 'Someone Stranger' continues the revelation of Georgia Maq, musing on loneliness, desire, the need for connection and the therapeutic potential of dancefloors, whilst proving once again her penchant for a surprise that rewards.

Tickets to Melbourne Music Week are on sale now here.

CHITRA SHARES NEW SINGLE 'GIVE UP' + ANNOUNCES SINGLE LAUNCH SHOW THURSDAY JANUARY 20

Chitra, Naarm / Melbourne-based singer-songwriter, today returns with the shimmering new single ‘Give Up’. 

~STREAM/BUY 'GIVE UP' HERE~

‘Give Up’ is a transportive release that sees Chitra footnote her contemporaries - Julia Jacklin, Angel Olsen, and Adrianne Lenker - and fuse their influences onto a bed of rousing rock, forged with an alt-folk twang. Praised for her ability to deliver sophisticated emotional complexity through her lyrics, on ‘Give Up’ Chitra details the dissolution of a relationship, amidst a tempo that picks up and shifts with each verse, before culminating in an entrancing storm of emotion. 

Of her newest single Chitra reveals that ‘Give Up’ is “about the end of a relationship and sitting directly in the feelings of anger and exasperation. Feeling like it was too brief and wallowing in that for a moment. Or 3 minutes. Whilst writing this song I was thinking a lot about choices. A friend said to me, relationships don’t just end, someone has to stop trying, someone makes the conscious decision to end it whether it's communicated or not. I thought this was interesting and started to write about the nasty feelings that live inside when you feel let down in a similar scenario, even if those feelings can be a bit dramatic and turn out to be fleeting."

The release of ‘Give Up’ follows Chitra’s self-titled debut EP, which was released right at the dawn of the pandemic in February 2020. A three-year in-the-making endeavour, Chitra’s music is the vessel for an old soul growing up and navigating the world with a firm lens of the present. Growing up in the Bellarine Peninsula, her adolescence as a coastal kid - jubilant and carefree - shines across her vocals and production work. Though the instrumentation and melodies appear as breezy, catchy jaunts, Chitra’s magnetism lies in catching listeners off guard with her astute observations of relationships, the world, and her place amongst it all. Stay tuned for more Chitra coming soon. 

To celebrate the release of Give Up Chitra will play her very first headline show in over 18 months at the Northcote Social Club on Thursday 20th of January 2022. She’ll be joined on the night by very special guest David M Western, tickets are on sale now and full event details can be found below.

‘Give Up’ is out now via Our Golden Friend, buy/stream it here. 

Photo by Georgia Wallace. Poster design by Sebi White.

RVG LIVE ON KEXP + ANNOUNCE CASTLEMAINE SHOW THURSDAY DECEMBER 9

Today sees the release of RVG's Live on KEXP at Home session, a rip-roaring set that includes some of the band's most beloved songs and two brand new unreleased tracks. Filmed amidst the latest lockdown RVG reunited for the first time in months, invoking the energy and magnetism of their live shows within the familiar walls of Soundpark Studios.

~Watch the full KEXP session HERE~

Directed by Nick McKk with sound by Andrew 'Idge' Hehir the session is an electric look at the renowned live band (recently nominated Best Live Act at the Music Victoria Awards) in action, with their energy and earnest intensity an intoxicating thread throughout the set. The debut of two new songs 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tambourine' is a look into what the band have been working on these past two years, a glimpse of what 2022 holds.

RVG today also announce a show at the Theatre Royal Castlemaine on Thursday December 9th. Marking their first headline show in Castlemaine it will be a chance for the band to celebrate Feral for the last time before moving onto their next chapter. RVG will be joined by special guests Mod Con and Blonde Revolver, you can buy tickets here. Closer to home tickets to their show at the Corner Hotel on Saturday November 27th are selling fast, get them while you still can here.

Released in April 2020 Feral was both a cry for help and call to action, resonating deeply with audiences, the album was nominated for five Music Victoria Awards, received Album of the Week on Double J, RRR, PBS, 2SER, 4ZZZ, SYN FM, Edge Radio, Radio Adelaide, The Music, Tone Deaf, was album of the day on Bandcamp and landed on a glut of end of year lists. Recorded at Head Gap studios with producer Victor Van Vugt (PJ Harvey, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Beth Orton), Feral was RVG’s first full-length release in three years, coming just as the world went into hibernation.

To Romy Vager, RVG’s lead singer and lyricist, to feel feral is to feel outside of everything. Throughout the album that feeling of isolation is incited, but it never feels hopeless: these songs channel the raw energy of despair and frustration into melodies that often feel victorious, perhaps only because they so aptly supply a soundtrack to the end of days.

This year has seen a collaboration with Julia Jacklin, covering Björk's 'Army of Me', a slot at Boogie Festival, and what would have been an Australian tour. RVG end the year and the Feral era with two shows, November 27th at the Corner Hotel and December 9th at Theatre Royal. Tickets are on sale now.

RVG live is Romy Vager,Reuben Bloxham, Marc Nolte and Isabele Wallace.

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RVG ANNOUNCE MELBOURNE ALBUM LAUNCH SATURDAY NOVEMBER 27 AT THE CORNER

Today RVG announce their long awaited Feral Album Launch. Now well over a year since it's release, and with plenty of time for the band and fans alike to ruminate on it's themes in isolation RVG are bringing the album to life for one night only at The Corner Hotel on Saturday November 27.

Playing one of the first full capacity shows of the year at The Corner, RVG will be joined by special guests Leah Senior, Enola and Kill Bell.

Released in April 2020 Feral was both a cry for help and call to action, resonating deeply with audiences, the album was nominated for five Music Victoria Awards, received Album of the Week on Double J, RRR, PBS, 2SER, 4ZZZ, SYN FM, Edge Radio, Radio Adelaide, The Music, Tone Deaf, was album of the day on Bandcamp and landed on a glut of end of year lists. Recorded at Head Gap studios with producer Victor Van Vugt (PJ Harvey, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Beth Orton), Feral was RVG’s first full-length release in three years, coming just as the world went into hibernation.

To Romy Vager, RVG’s lead singer and lyricist, to feel feral is to feel outside of everything. Throughout the album that feeling of isolation is incited, but it never feels hopeless: these songs channel the raw energy of despair and frustration into melodies that often feel victorious, perhaps only because they so aptly supply a soundtrack to the end of days.

This year has seen a collaboration with Julia Jacklin, covering Björk's 'Army of Me', a slot at Boogie Festival, and what would have been an Australian tour. This Melbourne show will be both a celebration and a closing of the chapter that was Feral. Tickets are on sale now.

RVG live is Romy Vager, Reuben Bloxham, Marc Nolte and Isabele Wallace.

Poster by V

GOOD MORNING SHARE NEW ALBUM BARNYARD RELEASED VIA GOOD MORNING MUSIC COMPANY WORLDWIDE / VIRGIN MUSIC AUSTRALIA AU/NZ + POLYVINYL ROW

Mavericks, iconoclasts and renegades are all words to describe Good Morning, energised and invigorated on their new album Barnyard. As friends first, band second, business third, often in spite of function, Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair today present their latest record together with a couple of incidental and accidental, self-imposed rules broken.

~LISTEN TO BARNYARD HERE~

Barnyard is Good Morning at their most meditative, thoughtful and careful in its evocations - their catchiest too. It’s a world-weary record concerned with the state of things in a loose, unfocused sort of way, like many who are also frustrated both with the way things are and with everyone’s general inability to fix any of the many issues endemic to our society, complete with everything we’ve come to know them for - drone synths, ambient sketches and country ballads with their token sense of humour. Every time the machinations of the industry have zigged, Good Morning have zagged and it’s probably why people like them so much. Barnyard, however, proves just how serious their craft has been all along.

Recorded for the first time in a long time with the help of an outside engineer and released on a label that’s not operated by a friend, what you now hear on Barnyard is exactly what was laid down in that first spell of recording. From demo’s tweaked gently in the lead up to a lengthy American tour, Liam and Stefan decided to go back to basics, recording as they had prior on Shawcross and Glory, as a duo again. Decamping in Chicago at Wilco's famed studio, The Loft, they found not only more gear than they could ever want or need, but also a kindred spirit in the studio’s in-house engineer, Tom Schick. Credited as their guiding force, Schick became a close accomplice, enabling that same ethos of the records past that continue to breathe through The Loft's walls - to make first, and break apart second.

Including the previously released, part Tweedy, part 'Taxman' piano ballad 'Burning', a scathing address to climate inaction; the rousing appeal to return to a simpler time in 'Country'; and the groovy, power chord laden 'Depends On What I Know'; are new features including 'Big Wig // Small Dog', a takedown of the generally useless and pigheaded ego’s who parade through life and the music industry; a recount of bellyache inducing love on 'Tree', the kind that sees one overcome with a desire to do literally anything for their lover; and a considerate reflection of vices in 'Green Skies', to name a few.

Although those seeking grand reinvention or earth-shaking hubris in Barnyard will come up short. This is an album of good, well-made, finely-written songs, notable for its purity and coherence of vision, but not by any means a concept album; it is a record significant in Good Morning’s history, but not one with such self-importance that it would consider itself historically significant for all. That is likely what those drawn to it will love about it. Barnyard is not too little and not too much. It’s just right - just Good Morning.

Barnyard is out now, buy/stream it HERE.