News
Oxy Music Due Out March 11 via Secretly Canadian
Mar 01, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Alex Cameron has shared a video for his new single, “K Hole.” It is the latest release from his forthcoming album, Oxy Music, which will be out on March 11 via Secretly Canadian. More
Oxy Music Due Out March 11 via Secretly Canadian
Jan 20, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Alex Cameron has announced the release of a new studio album, Oxy Music, which will be out on March 11 via Secretly Canadian. Cameron has also shared a video for a new single from the album, “Best Life,” in addition to announcing a North American tour. More
Plus Sweeping Promises, Just Mustard, Aeon Station, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Nov 19, 2021
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 44th Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a fairly slow week for new songs, perhaps with Thanksgiving impending next week, but we found 10 we liked. More
Out Now via Secretly Canadian
Nov 17, 2021
By Joey Arnone
Alex Cameron has shared a video for his latest single “Sara Jo.” It is the first new music from Cameron since the release of his 2019 album Miami Memory, and it is out now via Secretly Canadian. More
Miami Memories EP Due Out August 21 via Secretly Canadian
Aug 11, 2020
By Jennifer Irving
Following last year’s Miami Memory, Alex Cameron has announced a new four-song EP, Miami Memories, that features the original demo versions of songs found on the full-length album. The Australian musician has shared its first single, “Gaslight (Demo).” The songs aim to capture the original intimacy of Cameron’s ideas when writing his songs and the EP will be the first time he’s ever officially released demos. More
Miami Memory Due Out This Friday via Secretly Canadian
Sep 10, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Australia’s Alex Cameron is releasing a new album, Miami Memory, this Friday (September 13) via Secretly Canadian. Now he has shared another song from the album, “Stepdad,” which is about him becoming a “major presence in his girlfriend’s children’s lives,” according to a press release, and the song “is an ode to the oft-mocked peripheral parental role.” More
Miami Memory Due Out September 13 via Secretly Canadian
Aug 15, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Australia’s Alex Cameron is releasing a new album, Miami Memory, on September 13 via Secretly Canadian. Now he has shared another song from the album, “Far From Born Again,” via a video for the track that features Cameron dancing at a strip club and interviews with three sex workers. More
Miami Memory Due Out September 13 via Secretly Canadian
Jun 18, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Australia’s Alex Cameron has announced a new album, Miami Memory, and shared a video for a new song from it, “Divorce.” He’s also announced some new tour dates. More
Plus Flying Lotus, Africa Express, Alex Cameron, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
May 10, 2019
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to another Songs of the Week. We worried we were going to be able to come up with a Top 8 this week, but a couple of album tracks were able to round out the list.
New Tour Dates Also Announced
May 07, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Australia’s Alex Cameron has shared a new song, “Miami Memory,” via a video for the track. The video stars actress Jemima Kirke (Girls) and sax player Roy Molloy. Cameron has also announced some new tour dates. More
Plus Julien Baker, The War on Drugs, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Blood Orange, Japanese Breakfast, Kelly Lee Owens, Moses Sumney, Lucy Dacus, Big Thief, and More
Mar 13, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Chicago’s the Pitchfork Music Festival has been slowly announcing their lineup via a mural with the artists’ names being painted on it over the last few weeks. Now the final and full lineup has been revealed for the festival, which goes down July 20 to 22 in Chicago’s Union Park. More
Bravado Out Now via Terrible Records
Aug 17, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Australian experimental musician Kirin J Callinan released a new album, Bravado, back in June via Terrible Records. Now he’s shared a video for “Big Enough.” Danny Cohen directed the clip, which takes Callinan to the old west. More
Interviews
The Language of Addiction and Survival
Mar 11, 2022
By Matt Mitchell
The enterprise of Australian rocker Alex Cameron brandishes many faces: a washed-up lounge singer, your local sleazeball getting scammed on the internet, porn-addicted bozos, Gen-X bros reckoning with their problematic friends. Through a creative partnership with childhood best friend, and saxophone-wielding business associate, Roy Malloy, Cameron has set his sights on telling the stories of the men that society’s given up on. More
Reviews
Mar 18, 2022
By Ben Jardine
Sure, Alex Cameron writes some of the most nuanced lyrics around. His songs are acerbic, observational, dripping in irony and satire—and yet, they are deeply and confrontationally honest. But are Alex Cameron’s songs still hitting the same critique-laden mark that those on his debut Jumping the Shark did? More
Sep 09, 2019
By Adam Turner-Heffer
Over the past few years, there hasn’t been an act, or more accurately, entertainer, such as Alex Cameron. More