Arun Kendall, Author at Backseat Mafia

Premiere: Melbourne trio Badinage sweep through the air with a delicious frisson in instrumental single ‘Surfin” released ahead of EP ‘Meander’ and launch date.

We are frozen with joy at being able to bring you an exclusive appraisal of the new single from post rock instrumental ensemble Badinage, out of the cultural petri dish…

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Track: Sand Brothers ride back into town with the sparkling, expansive ‘The Usual Things’ in their swag bag.

Following up last year’s track ‘Adelaide’, antipodean jingle jangle exponents Sand Brothers are back with ‘The Usual Things’. Burnished with a Hammond organ filigree, this is an expansive cinematic track…

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News: Stephen Cummings (The Sports) announces new album ‘100 Years From Now’ and preview gigs.

Stephen Cummings from the legendary The Sports (and years of subsequent solo work) has just announced a new album to be released by the magnificent Cheersquad Records & Tapes, entitled…

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Track: The Rookies blast out a little cool jazz ‘On The Shoulders of Giants’ along with new album details.

Following up on last month’s ‘Dry Bones’, Melbourne jazz ensemble The Rookies are back with the laid back blissful jazz of ‘On The Shoulders Of Giants’. A smooth bedrock of…

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News: RVG announces new album ‘Brain Worms’ and release the prowling, simmering single ‘Nothing Really Changes’ ahead of UK/Australian tour news and signing to Ivy League Records.

One of Australia’s most exciting post punk outfits RVG have just announced the impending release of their new album ‘Brain Worms’ due out on 2 June through Fire Records as…

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Premiere: Melbourne artist Montana Sharp sees ‘Something Wicked’ coming this way – a thumping theatrical tour de force. Launch date also announced.

We are very pleased to premiere the new single ‘Something Wicked’ from Melbourne artist Montana Sharp: an effervescent and dynamic slice of rock replete with a theatricality and pulse quickening…

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News: New Zealand’s Tiny Ruins announce new album ‘Ceremony’ and unveil luscious atmospheric single ‘Dorothy Bay’.

New Zealand band Tiny Ruins have just announced news of their new album entitled ‘Ceremony’ due for release on 28 April 2023 through the inestimable Milk! Records. And to whet…

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Album Review: Enter ‘The Hypnogogue’ – the spectacular and ethereal world of The Church, a venerable band at their very best.

In my recent interview with Steve Kilbey, singer, bass player and songwriter for The Church, he hinted that ‘The Hypnogogue’, the new album from The Church, would be their last.…

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Track: Jonesing unveils the exquisite beauty of ‘I Will Never Know (Who’s Always On Your Mind)’

Capturing all of the anxieties of trust and love in a relationship, the single ‘I Will Never Know (Who’s On Your Mind)’ from producer/songwriter Jonesing (the nom de plume of…

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News: Radio Free Alice sign with Double Drummer on release of the frenetic slice of post punk rock ‘I Gotta (Fall In Love)’.

The obscenely young and deliciously snotty Radio Free Alice‘s third single ‘I Gotta (Fall In Love) is a spine tingling slab of frenetic post punk that has deep inside its…

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