Album Review: Unruly Girls – Epidemic
Two and a half years ago, Italy’s Unruly Girls unleashed their debut album ‘Cruel Tales’, reviewed by me in September 2017. This was a stunning debut: anarchic, arrogant and infused…
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Arun Kendall
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Writer/ Senior Editor for Backseat Mafia (UK) and Backseat Downunder (Australia and New Zealand). Singer/guitarist/songwriter with Australian band The Hadron Colliders.
Track: DMA’s – The Glow
Australia’s DMA’s continue to forge a bright and exhilarating path of their own with the release of the third single – ‘The Glow’ – off their forthcoming album ‘The Glow’,…
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Interview: Blixa Bargeld (Einstürzende Neubauten)
The legendary Einstürzende Neubauten (Collapsing New Buildings) will be releasing their first album in 12 years (if you don’t count the commissioned work Lament) entitled ‘Alles in Allem’ (All in…
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Track: Coalfalls – Coalfalls/Stephenson Street
The challenge that instrumental bands have is being able to evoke images and ideas without words – and bands like Mogwai and (for the older readers) The Durutti Column are…
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Track: Jack Bratt – Spades
Jack Bratt is a Brisbane performer who has recently received the prestigious Grant McLennan Fellowship jointly funded by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the Australian Performing Rights Association.…
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Track: Dip Road Dogs – Lazy
Country Victoria has produced the geographically dispersed but very much together Dip Road Dogs with their new single ‘Lazy’. ‘Lazy’ has a slow burning tone with sweeping strings and crisp…
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Album Review: Pilotcan – No More Shan Goodbyes
Edinburgh’s Pilotcan has just released their fifth album ‘No More Shan Goodbyes’ and it is an absolute delight. Bringing together elements of nineties low-fi simplicity with a touch of eighties…
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Video: The Lovetones – Modern Life is Killing Me
We are huge fans of Sydney band The Lovetones and recently published a glowing review of their new album as well as an interview with the enigmatic singer/songwriter Matthew J…
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Track: An Early Bird – One Kiss Broke The Promise
Backseat Mafia have been ardent supporters of Stefano De Stefano ever since reviewing his first band Pipers back in our early days in 2014, through to his debut album ‘Of…
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Track: Einstürzende Neubauten – Ten Grand Goldie
The legendary Einstürzende Neubauten have just released a new track ‘Ten Grand Goldie’ in anticipation of a new album ‘Alles in Allem’ due out on 15 May 2020. And what…
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