Deb Pelser, Author at Backseat Mafia

News: Lydia Lunch returns to channel Suicide’s raw intensity in Australian shows

This June, Lydia Lunch returns to Australia not to gently revisit the past, but to drag it, still twitching, back into the light. Marking ten years since the death of Alan Vega, Lunch…

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Track: Tractor Beam’ finds Snail Mail exploring dissociation and distance

There’s a moment in Snail Mail’s new single ‘Tractor Beam’ where everything seems to lift, not in triumph, but in escape. It’s a feeling that runs through the track like a current, a quiet…

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Track: Julia Cumming captures the fragility of memory on ‘Please Let Me Remember This’

There’s a fragile kind of clarity running through ‘Please Let Me Remember This’, the new solo offering from Julia Cumming. Built around trembling piano and gauzy, slow-drifting guitars, the track moves with…

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News: Escape The Fate return to Australia with The Word Alive for June tour

This June, Escape The Fate return to Australia not as a band still operating at full throttle, bringing two decades of hard rock muscle back into rooms that have been waiting far…

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News: Sunk Loto return with new single ‘Dead Shadows’ and intimate August shows

here’s a particular kind of return that doesn’t rely on nostalgia so much as it destabilises it. Sunk Loto’s re-emergence has carried that energy since 2022, not a reunion framed as revival,…

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Track: ‘Labour Of My Love’ sees For Nina refine their quiet intensity

There’s a quiet kind of confidence that doesn’t announce itself, it just settles in and refuses to leave. On ‘Labour Of My Love’, Dublin trio For Nina lean into that space, returning with…

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Track: Jorja Smith delivers cinematic new single ‘Price Of It All’ for Bait soundtrack

There’s a certain kind of song that doesn’t just soundtrack a story but inhabits it, threading itself through the cracks of a character’s unraveling. On ‘Price Of It All’, Jorja Smith leans into…

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Track: ‘I Have Always Loved You’ sees Freya Ridings at her most exposed and assured

There’s a moment in every artist’s arc where reinvention stops being aesthetic and starts becoming survival. On Mother Of Pearl, Freya Ridings arrives at exactly that point, emerging not polished but forged. Announced…

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Track: Lykke Li sharpens her sound on haunting new track ‘Knife In The Heart’

There’s a particular kind of pop song that doesn’t so much arrive as it seeps in, slow and inevitable, like a bruise blooming under the skin. With ‘Knife In The Heart’,…

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News: Lil’ Kim, Ella Mai and Alison Wonderland lead Carriageworks’ stacked Vivid Sydney takeover

Vivid Sydney has always had its neon-lit spine, but in 2026, Carriageworks becomes its beating industrial heart. Across three weekends, the cavernous precinct transforms into a collision point for hip…

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