Live Gallery: Svalbard and Support Rock the Crow Bar 24.05.2024
With thunderous riffs and electrifying performances, Svalbard and a powerhouse lineup of metal bands shook the Crow Bar to its very core.
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News: Gallery of NSW’s Volume Announces Free Program
The Gallery of NSW's Volume Festival has added a free program
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Live Gallery and Review: Sleater-Kinney at the Metro Theatre, Sydney 21.05.2024
Still Fierce, Still Feminist, Still Formidable. Sleater-Kinney Rock Out.
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Track: ‘No Words Can Reach It’ – the Brisbane chameleons of rock Fingerless unleash an electronic wash that hangs in the atmosphere like a sonic aurora.
Fingerless never stay in the same spot but continually explore new ways to display their musical prowess and creativity. Their new single ‘Now Words Can Touch It’ maintains their unerring…
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Track: Brisbane psych exponents Nice Biscuit want to stop the ‘Rain’ and find some respite in an effervescent glam stop.
Brisbane’s Nice Biscuit – a firm favourite here at Backseat Mafia – have unveiled their first single since their 2021 double EPs, ‘Create Simulate’ and ‘Passing Over’, and following last…
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Track: Amyl and the Sniffers Drop New Track
Amyl and the Sniffers say 'U Should Not Be Doing That'
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Track: Dropping Honey unfurl ‘Branches’ – a cathartic blast of immersive and spine chilling shoegaze.
Wollongong’s Dropping Honey display many of the facets of what I call the Marrickville Sound – bands from the eighties or nineties that have evolved into other bands or reconvened…
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News: Aussie rockers, Grinspoon release new single, ‘Unknown Pretenders’ amidst news of first album ‘Whatever, Whatever’ in 12 years plus 45 date national tour
After nearly 30 years of life together as a band, Grinspoon have announced news of the impending release of album number 8, ‘Whatever, Whatever‘ this coming August, coupled with the…
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Track: It takes ‘Seven Days’ for The Lovetones to spread a little spaghetti western joy.
Perennial favourites here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia, the glorious The Lovetones are back in the saddle with an intriguing new single ‘Seven Days’ that seems to stash…
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News: THE THE announce new album ‘Ensoulment’ – their first in 25 years – ahead of tour, with new visceral single ‘Cognitive Dissident’ unleashed as a taster.
With an Australian tour ahead, the fabled THE THE have announced a new album ‘Ensoulment’, their first studio album of new songs in a quarter century. This 12-song album will…
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