News: ‘Save Me’ – Caligula reigns again with a special thirty anniversary show and a shimmering new single unveiled, with an album on the way.
Caligula were a blast of electro-goth energy in the nineties with spectacular live shows. And while they burned briefly, they burned ever so brightly, releasing a couple of EPs and one album (albeit a classic) entitle Rubenesque. The past few years have seen the band return to the live scene, playing some well received gigs …
News: Luxembourg’s dark folk icon ROME announces debut Australian tour on 20th anniversary and release of album ‘Civitas Solis’
With a dark gothic timbre that sounds like a mixture of The The, Pete Murphy and Editors, the Luxembourg artist ROME has announced a debut Australian tour to celebrate 20 years of music. The work of Jerome Reuter, ROME has been creating an impressive body of work culminating in the recent album ‘Civitas Solis’. Reuter …
News: Ed Kuepper and Jim White release visceral video for the track ‘Swing For The Crime’ as they announce live dates to support their album ‘After The Flood’.
Living icons of Australian indie music, Ed Kuepper (The Saints) and Jim White (The Dirty Three) released the magnificent ‘After The Flood’ on 21 March through Remote Control Records (see my review here). The due have now announced a series of live dates in October and released a blistering video of the track from the album ‘Swing for the Crime’. …
Track: Supergroup Bleak Squad( Adalita, Mick Harvey, Mick Turner, Marty Brown) release second single ‘Strange Love’ ahead of debut live shows, with tickets on sale today for Sydney shows with support from Ed Kuepper and Jim White
Naarm/Melbourne’s gothic noir Bleak Squad consists of living legends Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Mess Esque), Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, The Birthday Party), Adalita (Magic Dirt) and Marty Brown (Art of Fighting) and they are back for more delicious musical misadventures with their new single ‘Strange Love’, title track to their forthcoming album. This comes …
Album Review: Blackbirds F.C. release the magnificent ‘Desire Lines’ – a treasure trove of pure pop delights – ahead of live dates.
One of our favourite bands here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia, Melbourne’s Blackbirds F.C., has just released their third album ‘Desire Lines’ and it is a dreamy treasure chest filled with delicious pop jewels. Songwriter Jeremy Gronow, a fan of homegrown Australian artists, says of the new album: This is a record that is …
Track: ‘Lucy’s Gardening Again’ is Moderate Lovers’ glorious sparkling paean to the pleasures of neighbourly horticulture in the sunshine.
Eora/Sydney trio Moderate Lovers follow up the power pop fuzz-infused serious message of their last single ‘Lost City’ (reviewed by me here) with a glorious sunshine filled ray of light in the single ‘Lucy’s Gardening Agin’. Filled with a delicious wry sense of humour and a sparkle you need sunglasses for, this is an hyperactive effervescent joy …
News: The antipodean guitarist’s guitarist Ashley Naylor (The Church, The Stems, Paul Kelly et al) announces new album ‘Alexandria Sunset’ and kicks off with sublime single ‘Good As Gold’
Ashley Naylor is simply a guitar god. Not only is he at the helm of the super jangle pop gods Even, a feature player in the Rockwiz Orchestra on the Rockwiz program on SBS TV (seemingly able to turn his hand to reproduce any guitar riff imaginable, note for note) but now is an integral part of …
News: It’s our ‘Lucky Day’ as the legendary The Bats announce new album ‘Corner Coming Up’ through Flying Nun Records, with a glorious new single as a delectable amuse bouche.
The Bats are still swinging from the glorious imperious belfry as the legendary band announce the release of their new album ‘Corner Coming Up’ on 17 October, preceded by the release of the shimmering single ‘Luck Day’. Since the sad death of The Chills’ Martin Phillipps, The Bats continue to stand tall as survivors of …
Premiere: Steve Lane returns with a dreamy single ‘A Song You Can’t Write No More’ ahead of new album ‘Where The Rivers Meet’ being released later in the year.
It was way back in 2022 that we were mightily impressed by the single ‘Don’t Forget To Breathe’ from central Victorian Steve Lane, and we are very honoured to premiere his new single ‘A Song You Can’t Write No More’. Coasting on crisp jangling guitars and heavenly melodies, this song has delicate layers of harmonies and …
Track: Silver Fleet Ships unveil the ghostly anthemic ‘Gemini’, second single off their forthcoming debut album.
Signed to Meanjin/Brisbane’s marvellous False Peaks Records, Nipaluna/Hobart band Silver Fleet Ships, have just released their second single ‘Gemini’ ahead of their debut album ‘Before Never, After Forever’ which is set for release in October 2025. This follows their first single from the album, the impressive ‘Surprised’, premiered by us last month. ‘Gemini’ reveals another side to …