A few hours before Royel Otis plays at Montreal’s Osheaga Festival in early August, frontmen Royel Maddell and Otis Pavlovic are in search of a healthy meal and a full night’s rest. It’s been ...

It’s a slacker-strum of a track, so Nirvana-indebted you can practically hear the sleeve of Kurt Cobain’s cardigan snagging on those saggy electric guitar strings. Over the hook, Pavlovic offloads ...

Royel Maddell and Otis Pavlovic, who make up the Australian indie/pop duo Royel Otis, have been fans of English singer Sophie Ellis-Baxter since her song “Murder on the Dancefloor” became a global hit ...

Royel Maddell and Otis Pavlovic, who make up the Australian indie pop band Royel Otis, aren’t sure how everything happened so quickly. What began in 2019 with demos on laptops and cheap microphones ...

Australia’s rising stars Royel Otis have released the deluxe edition of their debut album PRATTS & PAIN - It Ain’t Over Til It Ends - available now via OURNESS. To celebrate, the duo have treated fans ...

What was a gloomy start to a cold May week for most Angelinos was a sunlit surf-rock celebration for the handful of lucky fans that managed to snag tickets to one of Royel Otis’s intimate shows at the ...

A year is a long time in pop. Twelve months ago, Royel Otis were being feted as indie-pop’s most lovable boys-next-door. Sweet, Aussie beach-bar tunes jangled through the Nineties grunge influences of ...