Backseat Downunder
News: Brisbane alternative blues-rockers, The Blackwater Fever set to unleash brand new single ‘The Hurt’.
Ahead of October album release, Temptator (their 6th full-length outing) The Blackwater Fever return to bring us this gem of a slow-burning, yet electric ballad. Right from its’ opening bars (played with a guitar sound that wouldn’t be out of place in a modern-day spaghetti western) The Hurt takes you on a brooding and gritty …
Live Review: Spin Off Festival, Adelaide Showground, 23.07.2022
The return of Spin Off Festival in Adelaide was huge after having to cancel and reschedule several times since 2019. The huge line-up included acts coming over from the Splendour in the Grass Festival in Byron Bay, which meant that tickets sold out instantly. If you were lucky enough to get your hands on this …
Live Review + Photo Gallery: Don’t Tell Malcolm at Altar, Hobart 22.07.2022
Rick Brewster, lead guitarist of Aussie music icons, The Angels, has joined forces with local Hobart legend Dave Wilson (Dave Wilson Band/Four Letter Fish) to dabble in something that can only be described as “music for musicians”. Rick and Dave were joined on stage by a red-hot line-up, including multi-instrumentalist Nick Norton (The Angels), Mick …
Track: Julia Jacklin Drops New Track ‘Love, Try Not To Let Go’
Julia Jacklin’s new track ‘Love, Try Not To Let Go’ is a delight that augurs well for her new album ‘Pre Pleasure’ which is out on 26 August.
Track: Ruby Gill Releases New Track ‘I Forgot To Be Profound Today’
Ruby Gill proves that she is a master of social observation with her new track ‘I Forgot To Be Profound Today’
Track: Charlie Needs Braces unveils the exuberant and hyperkinetic track ‘Daryung’ and announces launch gig.
With a looping, breathing backtrack and an hyperkinetic restless lilt burnished by a wild and abandoned trumpet, the new single from artist Charlie Woods, under the name Charlie Needs Braces, is an exuberant ray of golden sunshine. Woods comes from a proud First Nations background (a GuriNgai woman, descendant of Bungaree and Matora) and the …
Live Review: The Came, They Saw, They Conquered. Starcrawler live in Sydney 20.07.2022
Starcrawler blitz Sydney with their total music onslaught and hyperkinetic onstage antics
News: Ash announces ‘Teenage Wildlife Tour’ for Australia – celebrating 30 years together.
The formidable trio Ash have just announced an Australian leg of their ‘Teenage Wildlife Tour’ which is celebrating their thirty years together. Famously making a massive impact with the album ‘1977’ as teenagers (the title referencing the birth year of two members as well as the release date of Star Wars), the band has continued …
Track: New Zealand’s MACEY unveils the smooth and bucolic sounds of ‘Summer Grunge’ and announces EP ‘Lovers: Side A’.
‘Summer Grunge’ from Auckland-based artist MACEY is a smooth and shimmering track which has an easy sibilant and aquatic flow evoking images of balmy sun-soaked afternoons in a green and pleasant land. The instrumentation provides a string-laden billowing dream pop pillow supporting the velvet soft vocals that hypnotise. MACEY is the nom de plume for …
Track: New Zealand’s magnificent Fazerdaze makes a welcome return after 5 years with the melodic anthem ‘Come Apart’, and the world is a better place.
It’s been five long years since Fazerdaze released the brilliant debut album ‘Morningside’ through the legendary Flying Nun Records – an album that still resonates after so long, and which still has a permanent place on my turntable (read my review here). The result of such a blinding debut, however, took its toll: something that burns …