Deb Pelser, Author at Backseat Mafia

Live Review & Gallery: Counting Crows balance nostalgia and new blood in a career-spanning Sydney set 29.03.2026

Counting Crows Enmore Theatre review – The Enmore Theatre fills early tonight, the room already humming before a note is played, and Kingswood waste no time leaning into it. There’s nothing tentative…

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Live Gallery: Anthrax prove their enduring power with high-velocity show at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre 28.03.2026

Anthrax Enmore Theatre Sydney review – The Enmore Theatre feels like a pressure cooker tonight. Long before Anthrax appear, the floor is already shifting with anticipation, bodies packed tight, voices…

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Live Gallery: Avalanche and The Datsuns crash headfirst into Sydney’s Crowbar with high-octane sets 27.03.2026

The Datsuns Crowbar Sydney review: high-octane rock at full throttle.

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Track: CAVS expands his sonic palette on new single ‘First Light’

Michael ‘CAVS’ Cavanagh steps out from behind the kit and further into his own orbit with ‘First Light’, a track that trades impact for immersion, unfolding with a quiet, deliberate patience.…

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Track: Liliana de la Rosa expands her cinematic world on ‘High Like Heaven’

Sydney-based Liliana de la Rosa leans fully into atmosphere on ‘High Like Heaven’, a track that doesn’t so much unfold as it drifts, slow and deliberate, into something more immersive. Her second release…

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Track: Bachelor Girl rework ‘Treat Me Good’ with Jessica Mauboy

Bachelor Girl revisit ‘Treat Me Good’ with a renewed sense of purpose, teaming up with Jessica Mauboy to reshape the track into something both familiar and newly resonant. Originally released in 1998, the track has…

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Track: Tkay Maidza returns with explosive new single ‘Must Be’

Tkay Maidza doesn’t ease back in on ‘Must Be’. The track opens like a warning shot and follows through on it, snapping into motion with a jagged, high-voltage energy that feels…

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News: Split Enz expand their Forever Enz Tour with new Brisbane and New Zealand dates

The Forever Enz Tour is gathering pace, with Split Enz announcing additional New Zealand dates and a brand new Brisbane show in response to growing demand. What began as a tightly mapped…

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EP Review: STAHR interrogate memory and momentum on debut EP BLIP

There’s a particular elasticity to memory that STAHR tap into on BLIP, their debut EP that treats emotional upheaval less as permanence and more as distortion. What once felt seismic now flickers in…

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Track: VAN PLETZEN and SOSSI reimagine ‘Maia-hee’ as a hyper-colour dancefloor revival

Some songs don’t just exist, they haunt the collective memory, looping endlessly through car radios, dance floors and the internet’s more chaotic corners. VAN PLETZEN and SOSSI’s take on ‘Maia-hee’ knows exactly…

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