Deb Pelser, Author at Backseat Mafia

Track: Colleen Ave harness heartbreak and euphoria on ‘i cant believe it’

“i cant believe it” the latest single from Queensland indie outfit Colleen Ave, has just dropped. Built on punchy guitars, glistening synth lines and the kind of widescreen hooks designed to…

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News: Jade Rich channels memory, friendship and resilience on new single ‘How We Were’

After years spent refining her craft behind the scenes, Jade Rich steps fully into focus with her new track, “How We Were” that feels deeply personal without collapsing into sentimentality.…

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News: Killswitch Engage announce biggest Australian and New Zealand headline tour yet

After celebrating 25 years as a band and releasing their latest album This Consequence, Killswitch Engage are heading back to Australia and New Zealand in 2026 for their biggest headline…

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News: Harry Styles adds final Melbourne stadium show to massive 2026 residency tour

Harry Styles the former One Direction star launched the opening nights of his sprawling Together, Together residency this week in Amsterdam, the first stop in a seven-city run that will dominate stadiums…

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News: Beartooth announce biggest Australian headline tour alongside new album ‘Pure Ecstasy’

Beartooth, the Ohio heavyweights have announced their biggest Australian headline tour to date for January 2027, alongside news of their sixth studio album of the same name, due 28 August…

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Track: Grace Barr fuse folk rock and old-time textures on ‘Siren’

There’s a wiry tension running through “Siren”, the new single from Sydney/Gadigal four-piece Grace Barr. Built from folk rock, old-time instrumentation and something far less tidy lurking underneath, the track…

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Track: Giddy Explores The Difficult Middle Ground Of Relationships On New Single ‘salt’

Giddy didn’t grow up planning to become a musician. In fact, just a few years ago, the Sydney-based artist says she barely sang at all. Before songwriting entered the picture, her…

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News: Foxy Shazam To Bring Their Gloriously Chaotic Live Show To Australia

Since exploding out of Cincinnati in the mid-2000s, Foxy Shazam have treated rock music less like a genre and more like an unstable science experiment, throwing glam, soul, piano-rock, punk…

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News: Last Dinosaurs announce Australian tour celebrating 10 years of Wellness

A decade ago, Lost Dinosaurs‘ Wellness album arrived carrying the impossible weight that often follows a beloved indie debut, landing in the long shadow of In A Million Years while the Brisbane band tried…

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Album Review: REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE confirms Genesis Owusu’s singular brilliance

Trying to summarise Genesis Owusu in neat terms at this point feels almost pointless. Across three albums he has dismantled genre, expectation and the increasingly flimsy boundaries between political commentary, theatre, punk…

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