Backseat Downunder
News: Stephen Cummings (The Sports) announces new album ‘100 Years From Now’ and preview gigs.
Stephen Cummings from the legendary The Sports (and years of subsequent solo work) has just announced a new album to be released by the magnificent Cheersquad Records & Tapes, entitled ‘100 Years From Now’ Recorded in the aftermath of a stroke, the album was made in collaboration with Robert Goodge of the legendary I’m Talking …
Track: The Rookies blast out a little cool jazz ‘On The Shoulders of Giants’ along with new album details.
Following up on last month’s ‘Dry Bones’, Melbourne jazz ensemble The Rookies are back with the laid back blissful jazz of ‘On The Shoulders Of Giants’. A smooth bedrock of piano and percussion wanders blithely across the sonic landscape while a wild and untrammeled trumpet blasts some hot air over the mix. A heady mix …
News: RVG announces new album ‘Brain Worms’ and release the prowling, simmering single ‘Nothing Really Changes’ ahead of UK/Australian tour news and signing to Ivy League Records.
One of Australia’s most exciting post punk outfits RVG have just announced the impending release of their new album ‘Brain Worms’ due out on 2 June through Fire Records as well as their signing to Ivy League Records in Australia (home to Hatchie and Rolling Blackouts C.F.) It’s been nearly three long years since the …
Premiere: Melbourne artist Montana Sharp sees ‘Something Wicked’ coming this way – a thumping theatrical tour de force. Launch date also announced.
We are very pleased to premiere the new single ‘Something Wicked’ from Melbourne artist Montana Sharp: an effervescent and dynamic slice of rock replete with a theatricality and pulse quickening pace. With the thundering crack of a wave on rocks, this track surges its way to shore with a grandiose presence and an anthemic and …
Live Gallery: Soccer Mommy Live at the Factory Theatre, Sydney 21.02.2023
Soccer Mommy delights sodden Sydney Crowd
Gallery: Arch Enemy, The Forum, Melbourne 18.02.2023
Arch Enemy is a Swedish melodic death metal band, originally a supergroup from Halmstad, formed in 1995. We caught them on their Australian and New Zealand Tour at the Melbourne Forum with Alissa White-Gluz out front, the guitar wizardry of Michael Amott and Jeff Loomis, and the thundering rhythm section of Daniel Erlandsson (drums) and …
News: New Zealand’s Tiny Ruins announce new album ‘Ceremony’ and unveil luscious atmospheric single ‘Dorothy Bay’.
New Zealand band Tiny Ruins have just announced news of their new album entitled ‘Ceremony’ due for release on 28 April 2023 through the inestimable Milk! Records. And to whet our voracious appetites, a new single has been unveiled. ‘Dorothy Bay’ is a reflective, dynamic track: an ambulant motion of instruments underpin the soft velvet …
Album Review: Enter ‘The Hypnogogue’ – the spectacular and ethereal world of The Church, a venerable band at their very best.
In my recent interview with Steve Kilbey, singer, bass player and songwriter for The Church, he hinted that ‘The Hypnogogue’, the new album from The Church, would be their last. While this was qualified, and given Kilbey’s almost Tourettes level of creativity, it seems hard to believe this would be so. However, Kilbey also reflected …
Live Gallery: Future Islands at the Sydney Opera House 19.02.2023
Future Islands Live at the Sydney Opera House 19.02.2023
News: Xylouris White announce new album, The Forest In Me, for April release, and accompany it with first single, the jaunty Latin White.
The duo of Jim White (Dirty Three and regular Ed Kuepper collaborator) and Greek laouto player, Giorgos Xylouris, collaboratively known as Xylouris White have announced news of upcoming album, The Forest In Me. It is the duo’s sixth studio album, and seventh overall following the release of their self-released Live At Columbus Theatre 2013 in …