Artist News
Catch up on the latest news about New World Artists and see what our artists are up to.
Australia’s favourite musical misfits and legends of noughties Aussie hip-hop, Butterfingers are back with their outrageous and fittingly titled new album Bad News, out today, April 8. Confident and with more rapturous energy and piercing lyrical wit than ever before, the band’s first album in 14 years is bold and adventurous, while still retaining that classic, clever, inimitable Butterfingers sound. To celebrate the album’s release today, they have very kindly delivered another gold nugget of true blue entertainment in...
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Sydney noise duo Party Dozen, saxophonist Kirsty Tickle and percussionist Jonathan Boulet, today reveal details of their second album "Pray For Party Dozen", as well as dropping new single "The Great Ape" and announcing a June East Coast tour.
"Pray For Party Dozen" is a typically DIY affair, produced by Jonathan and released May 22nd on their own label, Grupo. The album is the follow-up to their 2017 debut "The Living Man...
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Australia’s masters of brutality Thy Art Is Murder have announced the Human Target Australian Tour, set to cause carnage across the country in May 2020. Their first headline run since the release of their earth-scorching fifth record of the same name, The Human Target Tour will be a night to remember as Thy Art Is Murder unveil their most ambitious Australian production to date with help from supports Dying Fetus, Fit For An Autopsy, Enterprise Earth and Aversions Crown.
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Fresh from claiming the #3 spot on the Hottest 100 of 2019 with ‘Charlie’ and lighting up music festivals all summer long, the dreamy Queen of Australian pop, Mallrat, today announces her largest national tour ever, starting this May.
Mallrat, real name Grace Shaw, will play to packed out theatres across the country, starting in Adelaide on May 15, before floating across to Perth, and then returning to the east coast to perform in Melbourne, ...
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Exploding out of Sydney’s inner-west, The Regime is a 16piece funk collective that’s tipping the scales firmly back into the favour of soul funk and they’ve just this week dropped their cruisy new lovefest of a single Never Gonna Stop in time for Valentine’s Day, alongside yesterday’s huge Bluesfest lineup inclusion announcement. This extraordinary love funky revolution will also be hitting the road to play a run of shows through March, kicking off at Big Gay Day in Brisbane on...
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Brisbane’s favourite politically-charged quartet Good Boy are coming in hot with a plate of perfectly steamed (and somewhat bittersweet) announcements today – kicking off with the release of their new single ‘Extended Heavy’, a delicate and delicious addition to their already-delectable discography.
‘Extended Heavy’ leans further into the pop realm than previous singles, blossoming into a short, sweet, and singalong-worthy chorus following a bouncing, strum-heavy verse. It is the perfect final step into the announce of Good Boy’s long-awaited...
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Australias favourite musical misfits and auteurs of Aussie hip hop, Butterfingers are back, breaking hearts and bones (mostly their own) with a killer new single, Dancing (to the beat of my own drum), out today, January 30. Confident and with more ecstatic energy and sharp lyrical wit than ever before, Dancing (to the beat of my own drum) is classic Butterfingers, and is accompanied by a glorious video filmed by the band themselves. After a fourteen-year long album release...
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We don’t get to choose the people we fall in love with or the places that mean a lot to us;
these things just make sense on a deeper level, they connect each one of us in myriad
mysterious ways. And for The Brave, it’s these connections that they wanted to celebrate
on second album ‘Aura’.
“We all believe in auras,” explains vocalist Nathan Toussaint, “whether it be the auras that
surround the people we meet during our travels, or...
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After starting 2020 with a punishing set at Invasion Fest, a huge Australian regional tour with Northlane, and the most recent announcement of their first ever European tour supporting Fit For A King, Melbourne heavy outfit Gravemind are showing no signs of stopping. Today they add another notch to their belt as Gravemind announce their first headline tour of Australia in over two years, playing their debut album Conduit in full.
The Conduit 2020 tour will seeMirrors...
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Hyper will return in March 2020 as two events, including a curated line-up of the freshest local and national artists.
The new Drug Aware On the House event is free entry and will be held on Friday, March 13, 2020, between 6 – 10pm.
The inaugural event will feature Great Gable, Arno Faraji, Demon Days, Ghost Care and Muscle Club as well as silent disco DJs to be announced.
Drug Aware Hyper will be back on Saturday, March 14, 2020,...
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Once voted by the readers of Q Magazine as the “greatest front man of all time”, living legend Liam Gallagher will return to Australia and New Zealand in December as he celebrates the release of his massively anticipated second solo record, Why Me? Why Not? (out Sept 20).
Shows in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Auckland will give Australasian audiences a chance to revel in tracks from Gallagher’s untouchable back catalogue as well as taking in newer cuts from his...
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The highly anticipated ‘Mirrors’ EP from Brisbane’s First Beige is out today. The 5-track release sees First Beige indulge their desire to get their listeners on their feet with a mix of genre-defying sonics, inspired by jazz and dance music.
'Mirrors' is a dance EP; I've become so fascinated by dance grooves and the technicality behind the music,” reveals front man David Versace. “The EP came together pretty quickly, we had a bunch of ideas...
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