Live Review & Gallery: Health at the Manning Bar, Sydney 3.08.2024
Sydney Gets a Dose of Metal with Health!
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News: Travis Scott Circus Maximus Australia and NZ Tour – New Dates Added
Travis Scott shows sell out, more added.
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EP Review: Hobart’s Black Sea Carnys emit a dark magnificence as they unveil radiant gem in debut EP, Nistar
The Black Sea Carnys are Harry Wass (guitar), Tim Davies (vocals), Alex Thomsen (bass) and Ivan Johnston (drums). Together, they are a glorious mix of post-punk, darkwave and industrial rock…
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Track: Eora/Sydney artist YAGKI reveals her stunning anthemic pop delight ‘Just A Ghost’.
One of our favourite antipodean artists here at the southern outpost of Backseat Mafia is the prodigious YAGKI, the nome de plume for Sarah Yagki, and she has just released…
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Live Review and Gallery: The Jesus and Mary Chain eviscerate The Enmore Theatre, Sydney, supported by Merryn Jeann, 01.08.2024
It’s been quite a week for seeing my favourite bands, with the magnificent Underground Lovers in Melbourne last Saturday and now on a Thursday night, the legendary Jesus and Mary…
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News: The Script will return to Australia for a tour and A Day On The Green
The Script are heading back down under on their ‘Satellites World Tour’ in January and February 2025. This will be the band’s first Australian shows in close to three years,…
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News: Aussie hardcore punk legends, The Hard-Ons, set pulses buzzing with news of 40th anniversary tour on back of new release single
The icons that are The Hard-Ons will undertake a 13 date Australian tour with a European tour to follow to celebrate 40 years as Australian punk rock’s quintessential great survivors.…
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Premiere: Blackbirds F.C. unveil their latest slice of sonic mastery with the single ‘Lake of Stars’ ahead of launch date and a new album on the horizon.
Naarm/Melbourne band Blackbirds F.C. are purveyors of the most sublime jingle jangle indie pop and they are back with a new single, ‘Lake of Stars’, which we are proud to…
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Track: The venerable Youth Group return with a new direction in the blazing single ‘Siberia’ as they continue live tour.
It’s been nearly five years since Youth Group blessed us with new material with their brilliant album ‘Australian Halloween’ (see my review here), and even that album broke a ten…
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Premiere: Nina Leo has a ‘Blind Spot’ and it is a delicious barbed wire-wrapped piece of cotton candy wool that burns with intensity.
We are absolutely honoured to bring you a first listen to the new single from Naarm based, Ngambri (Canberra) born songwriter and musician Nina Leo, as well as the immersive…
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