Hard rocking Brits Royal Blood are Australia bound this July, and they've just announced an exclusive single sideshow for those not lucky enough to nab tickets to Splendour In The Grass.

Earlier this week British rock outfit Royal Blood announced their forthcoming album, and now the duo have unveiled the first taste of it.

Royal Blood are gearing up to drop their second record and they've shared with us a little teaser of new music.

They dropped a 50 second clip on Twitter with the caption, "this is us then, where are you now," and it sounds pretty slamming.

A bunch of us were lucky enough to find ourselves at the Sydney installment of St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival on the weekend and we all took a turn at picking our best on ground from the jam packed all killer no filler lineup…

JON HOPKINS

Out there, there is an alternate reality. We, as the individual or the collective come across the two roads that diverged in the yellow wood, but could not take both. So per chance the opposite reality still exists, in a parallel universe the road not taken leads on and it is to that road that today I will go…

It’s getting to the time when all the Top 10 lists have been printed and read.

And even the list of all lists has been made.

And all the questions asked…

Finally! You can Choose Your Own Hottest 100 Adventure!

Wax Volcanic takes us on a wild Friday night using a bunch of our fave 2014 jams to navigate the evening’s events…

Which way will you make the night go? What song are you? Only YOU can decide!

This year has been a pretty outstanding one for new music, here are our pixelated picks of 2014 to date…


Can you name them all?