Arun Kendall, Author at Backseat Mafia

Live Review and Gallery: Dark Mofo Festival – Bitumen, In The Hanging Garden, 10.06.2023

The marvelous thing about Dark Mofo is the opportunity to witness bands you normally wouldn’t know about or have experienced before. While I had to miss Drab Majesty due to…

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Live Review: Dark Mofo Festival, Max Richter – ‘Voices’ and ‘Reconstruction’, Federation Hall, Hobart, 10.06.2023

Max Richter is a pioneering composer known for his emotive and boundary-pushing music, blending classical and electronic elements. His work explores memory, sleep, and the human experience, captivating listeners with…

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Live Review and Gallery: Dark Mofo Festival, The Gathering, Denni and Tasman Keith, In The Hanging Garden, Hobart, 08.06.2023

The dynamic Dark Mofo Festival kicked off on Thursday with a night entitled ‘The Gathering’, a curated lineup of First Nations artists in a precinct-wide takeover of the MONA-owned venue…

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Track: We Set Sail are departing and their penultimate offering is a beautiful and passionate ‘Broken Umbrella’. Out through False Peak Records.

We Set Sail are a firm favourite here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia and if there is any certainty in life, it’s that good things don’t last for…

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Premiere: Italian neo-psych band Bluedaze unveils a little shoegaze sparkle with ‘Flesh’ ahead of EP release.

We are honoured to give you an exclusive look at the video for the new track ‘Flesh’ from Italian neo-psych band Bluedaze, title track to their new EP due out…

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Premiere: Judgment is made – Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits unveils ‘For The Term Of My Natural Life’, the visceral and haunting title track to new album.

We are overjoyed at being able to bring you exclusively the new single ‘For The Term Of My Natural Life’ from Matt Malone and the Holy Sprits. Hailing from country…

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News: Drab Majesty announces new EP accompanied by haunting and ethereal new single ‘Vanity’ featuring Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, ahead of appearance at Hobart’s Dark Mofo Festival

Today Drab Majesty have announced details of a new EP, entitled ‘An Object in Motion’, to be released on August 25th via Dais Records. Along with the announcement, they have…

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Track: According to Greta Stanley, ‘It’s Cool To Be In Love’ – a dreamy anthemic blast of rock pop goodness out through Double Drummer.

One of our favourites here at Backseat Mafia, the enormously talented Greta Stanley returns to the scene with a thoroughly energetic new single that seems to herald a new direction.…

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Premiere: Go to a special place with folkloric rock of The Elsewheres and their new single ‘Run Away With Me’, with launch date announced.

We are very pleased to premiere the new track ‘Run Away From Me’ from Melbourne folk rock outfit The Elsewheres. Coasting on layered instruments fringed by delicious horns and sparkling…

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Live Review Plus Gallery: The Church, Odeon Theatre, Hobart 03.06.2023

It was rather apt that The Church should mark their first gig in Hobart for more than twenty years one week ahead of the ritual bacchanalia that is Dark Mofo.…

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