Arun Kendall, Author at Backseat Mafia

Track: The Night Packers relive a footy day like no other on ‘Cumberland Oval 1975’

It’s not every day a post-punk band writes a footy song, and rarer still that they do it as a first-person, spoken-word true story rather than a terrace singalong. The…

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Album Review: Marlophone’s debut– ‘Remembered Adventures in Widescale’ is a stunning cinematic debut

Ten years from now, when someone asks what the Marrickville Sound actually was, point them here. Patrick Haid spent a decade and a half fronting Key Out, a band that…

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Premiere: Bloom Parade let the twang in on ‘By Another Name’ – a lush and sparkling release.

Bloom Parade wrote and produced their new single ‘By Another Name’ themselves, at home in Alderley, and you can hear the decision-making in every bar of it — nobody in…

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Premiere: Icecream Hands declare it’s ‘Shakespeare Always’ as they exclusively unveil video for the anthemic track ahead of EP release and live dates.

We are honoured to exclusively premiere the video for the track ‘Shakespeare Always’ from Melbourne power pop icons Icecream Hands on the eve of the release of their new EP…

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Track: ‘Out Of Thin Air’ – the iconic paisley-clad jingle jangle pop exponents Up and Downs conjure up first release in ten years as they announce EP and tour.

The Ups and Downs reflect for me a particular era in the inner city of Sydney in the late eighties when on every street corner on every night of the…

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Premiere: ‘I Kinda Love You’ – Boorloo/Perth band Salt Museum exclusively deliver an extraordinary shimmering debut.

Some songs are about certainty. This one isn’t. Perth five-piece Salt Museum have built their debut single around the space just before a confession of love — that fragile, half-terrified…

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Premiere: Naarm/Melbourne-based artist SRU confronts self-abandonment on new single ‘be ur girl’

There’s a particular kind of song that doesn’t announce its darkness — it just lets you sit in it. Melbourne artist SRU‘s new single ‘be ur girl’ is exactly that…

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Track: Osaka’s LADY FLASH’s ‘Titans Baby’ Is a sugar rush of noisy indie pop

Two minutes. That’s all Osaka’s LADY FLASH give you on ‘Titans Baby’, and they don’t waste a second of it. Jagged guitars collide with melodies so sweet they practically apologise…

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Premiere: Flame to Grey – Billy Peril Premiere the Jangling ‘Tornado’

Melbourne’s Billy Peril have been quietly building one of the more compelling debut album rollouts of the year, and ‘Tornado’, the third single lifted from that forthcoming record on Cheersquad…

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News: The enigmatic Hoolahan unveil the shimmering single ‘Zircon Ring’ ahead of album and gig

Signed to legendary producer Wayne Connolly’s Scenic Drive Records label (home of fellow Backseat Mafia regulars Nagging Doubts and Victoria), Hoolahan have released two highly lauded albums over the past…

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