Backseat Downunder
Premiere: The irrepressible Charlie Needs Braces bounces back with new track ‘Yanoo’ and news of debut album and launch dates.
Charlie Needs Braces has a very fresh, effervescent and quite unique sound and we are ever so delighted to premiere her new track ‘Yanoo’, due out on Thursday, 27 October 2022. This delight is further compounded by news that she will be releasing her debut album, ‘Saltwater People’ in the new year. Charlie Needs Braces …
Gallery: Spring Loaded Festival, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 22.10.2022
It was a rather brilliant return to the nineties with a very special line-up of some of the most engaging Australian indie bands for the Spring Loaded Festival held at Wollongong University. Many old favourites – Grinspoon, You Am I, Regurgitator, Jebediah, Frenzal Rhomb, Tumbleweed, Screamfeeder and Caligula, many who still tread the boards today …
Live Review + Photo Gallery: Bad//Dreems at The Republic Bar, Hobart/nipaluna 22/10/2022.
Adelaide rockers, Bad//Dreems turned out at The Republic Bar, Hobart for the second of their two Tasmanian shows as part of their national Spring tour……and the punters turned out in force to see a band who were at their energetic best. Led by the enigmatic, yet charismatic frontman and lead singer, Ben Marwe, Bad//Dreems punched …
EP: Bec Sandridge Releases New EP ‘Lost Dog’
Bec Sandridge’s ‘Lost Dog’ is packed with shimmering delight.
Live Gallery: Amazing Aldous Harding Wows Sydney 22.10.2022
Aldous Harding Received Two Standing Ovations After Mesmerising Her Sydney Audience
Live Review + Gallery: The Ugly Kings at Hobart Brewing Co 15.10.2022
Melbourne’s hard-rocking power blues quartet, The Ugly Kings stopped off in Hobart/nipaluna at Hobart Brewing Company as part of their ‘Paranoid’ national tour. Despite the smallish crowd in attendance, the band lit up the stage with a powerful performance led by the magnificent vocals of Russell Clark atop the grand riffage of guitarist, Christos Athanasias. …
Track: Adalita releases evocative second single, Savage Heart, from forthcoming album, Inland.
Liberation Records have released the second single from Australian rock icon, Adalita‘s upcoming album, Inland. The song is accompanied by a lush, widescreen video clip which was produced with film-maker, Adam Harding and is shot on the open roads and vast spaces of rural Australia. Along with a classic 70’s muscle car (a Chrysler Valiant …
News: Tkay Maidza Announces Dua Lipa AU/NZ Support & drops ‘High Beams’ remix
Tkay Maidza announces tour in support of Dua Lipa and drops remix of ‘High Beams’
Track: The charismatic Bakers Eddy surprise with release of double A-side ‘Motor Racing/Easy Steeze ahead of tour.
It seems Bakers Eddy just don’t have an off button. Right when you think they might take a little time off having just surmounted a 25-date headline tour as well as lapping up the country supporting WAAX, Stand Atlantic and Beddy Rays respectively, which all ingeniously came off the back of their debut album ‘Love …
Track: Tex Perkins is a ‘Brand New Man’ – Tex Perkins & The Fat Rubber Band unveil the achingly beautiful new single ahead of new album and tour.
Indie music legend, the inimitable hell raiser Tex Perkins (who fronted the Australian rock band The Cruel Sea and also performed with the Beasts of Bourbon, Thug, James Baker Experience, The Butcher Shop, Salamander Jim, and Tex, Don and Charlie) has just released the achingly beautiful track ‘Brand New Man’ with his band The Fat …