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Review: The Lumineers live at the Aware Super Theatre, Sydney 15.11.2022
The Lumineers are back in Australia and New Zealand as part of their ‘Brightside’ World Tour 2022. This is their first trip to our shores in three years. Tonight the Aware Super Theatre is hosting a capacity and excited crowd. This is a truly impressive venue, its steeped levels shrouded in haze, as I enter. …
Track: Ōtautahi/Christchurch resident T.G. Shand returns with the shoegaze shimmer of WAWO ahead of EP release.
The irrepressible dream pop/shoegaze queen T.G. Shand is back with another shimmering masterclass in fuzzy pop with ‘WAWO’. T.G. Shand is the moniker of Ōtautahi/Christchurch resident Annemarie Duff, formerly of the legendary Melbourne shoegaze band Miniatures (on the iconic Saint Marie Records label). We here at Backseat Mafia have been transfixed by her stream of jangling, sparkling singles over …
Premiere: Sydney trio Motion Sickness steady the waves with the enigmatic video for the driving, shimmering single ‘This Body’, and announce live dates.
Back in August we were very honoured to bring you the single from Sydney auteur Maia Marsh, and the pleasure is doubled with an exclusive look at the new video from her band Motion Sickness for the track ‘This Body’. ‘This Body’ oozes with a delicious frisson of excitement: a snaky driving bass creates an …
Track: Sarah Mary Chadwick Releases Title Track ‘Flipped It’ & New EP
Sarah Mary Chadwick releases new EP ‘Flipped It’
News: The Wombats Have Released A New Track Ahead Of Their Australian Shows
The Wombats have released a new track ahead of their upcoming Australia shows.
Album Review: ‘Dave Graney & Clare Moore in a mistLY’ reverberates with a delightful, playful sense of a drunken fin de siecle wake.
There is a clattering, chaotic stately grace about the songs created by the legendary duo Dave Graney and Clare Moore: born in a rock’n’roll cradle of unadorned guitars and pattering percussion with a louche, fey, self-deprecating delivery. They create the most glowing and comforting aura as Graney states with a come hither tone that he’s …
Premiere: Willie J & The Bad Books give us a moment to revel in with an exclusively delectable taste of blistering new single, Backdoor Man.
Willie J & The Bad Books, one of Melbourne’s finest blues-rock outfits have given us an early serving of things to come by way of the searing new recording, Backdoor Man. Following on from their official video release of Ain’t No Fool (story here), the band have quickly followed up with this searing track which …
Review: Laura Jean’s ‘Amateurs’ Is A Commentary On The Vagaries Of Fame & Fortune
I was at the Oxford Art Factory when Laura Jean launched her album, ‘Devotion‘ in 2018. At that concert, Laura Jean brought her sister on stage to dance when she sang ‘Girls On The TV’. It was an incredibly moving experience, especially given the subject matter of that song. It is one of those moments …
Track: Hatchie takes a ‘Nosedive’ into a darker, frenetic world as new US and Australian tour dates are announced.
Brisbane’s Harriette Pilbeam – as Hatchie – has just unveiled a new, darker slice of shoegaze dream pop in new track ‘Nosedive’, in the midst of her US tour. Out through label Secretly Canadian, ‘Nosedive’ pulls on a hoodie and pogoes with a degree of gothic-fringed menace and aggression – stabbing fragmented instrumentation drives through …