Deb Pelser, Author at Backseat Mafia

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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Live Gallery: The Waterboys return to Australia with a sprawling, transcendent Sydney show 15.05.2026

The State Theatre always feels slightly unreal at night. Gold detailing climbs the walls like something from another century, massive chandeliers hang impossibly overhead and the vast room seems almost too majestic…

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Track: Jess Macc steps out from behind the camera with debut album SEX, MEDS & THERAPY

For more than two decades, Jess Macc has existed just outside the centre of the frame, documenting Australian music culture from backstage corridors, photo pits and studio sessions. Her camera has followed…

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News: Angine de Poitrine expand massive North American tour due to overwhelming demand

Trying to explain Angine de Poitrine to somebody unfamiliar with them still feels faintly impossible. Somewhere between prog experiment, absurdist performance art and sweat-soaked dance music ritual, the anonymous “microtonal cardboard duo”…

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Track: Jaguar Jonze returns with explosive new single ‘Naked’ after two-year hiatus

After two years largely out of sight, Jaguar Jonze returns sounding less like she’s easing back into music and more like she’s tearing through the walls around it. New single ‘Naked’, released…

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News: Spacey Jane lock in special On The Steps performances with Telenova and Armlock as part of Heading Back Down Under Tour

There are few Australian bands right now capable of turning suburban uncertainty into something this communal quite like Spacey Jane. After a whirlwind start to 2026 that has pushed the Fremantle…

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