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Premiere: Dread FM Shares New Video For ‘Runner’ With Bones Ate Arfa

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Premiere: Naarm/Melbourne Twin Sisters, Idol Minds, Enchant with ‘Needed You’ – A Mystical Odyssey Through the Intricacies of Love

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Premiere: Eldridge Rodriguez release Atrophy.

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We are very honoured to premiere the single ‘Ruby Shoes’ from Naarm/Melbourne indie band Alcotomic: a track so bright and boisterous you need anti-gravity boots and sunglasses to listen to it. Alcotomic formed in 1996 when John Baxter left nineties band Holocene and played to great acclaim for five years. In 2024, bassist Doug Lee …

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Earlier this month I reviewed the new solo album from Paris-based Australian artist Karen Vogt, part of the much vaunted band Heligoland. Today we are proud to premiere the video for the track ‘Spirit’ off the album. The track has a spiritual, dreamy tone as Vogt’s yearning vocals enter above echoed, delayed crisp guitars – …

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Indie rocker Iain T. McKelvey is back after a year’s absence with his new evocative single ‘Midnight Song’, and we are humbled to bring you an early listen. ‘Midnight Song’ as a hint of an alt country twang with its crystalline guitars and McKelvey’s velvet, yearning tones, augmented by delicate harmonies and an indelible melody. Threaded …

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Having recently signing to the new Californica Based label Sleep Walk Sounds, North Western Italian Soul-Funk band West Riviera also announced the release their self- titled debut album. Here at Backseat Mafia we have the pleasure of streaming the album a day before the official release. The 5-piece perfectly blend soul, funk, jazz with a distinct Italian …

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The glorious Eora/Sydney band GRXCE are back with the soaring anthemic track ‘Spit It Out’, which we are inordinately proud to premiere today. The single features a passionate melodic delivery seething with anger and a thumping percussive drive, replete with an eviscerating guitar. The track seems to represent an evolution of the band’s sound into …

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One of my favourite antipodean outfits, Naarm/Melbourne band Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird (CTBNF) today announce a new album ‘Rosewater Crocodile’ due out on 27 June through the glorious Double Drummer label. Tomorrow, the band is releasing the second single, ‘Mercury Rising’, off the album and it is another astounding and euphoric piece of music which we …

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We are very honoured to premiere the new single ‘Lean In’ from Bundjalung/Byron-based band Off Judy. ‘Lean In’ canters along with a luminescent sparkle: seemingly incorporating the gently dappling sunlight of the region with an easy going air of yearning. Finn Mcildowie says of the anthemic track:  This song is about embracing where you’re at, …

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Ahead of their new album ‘Silverlinings’, Lutruwita/Tasmanian trio Verticoli release their new single ‘Home’ tomorrow, and it’s great to have them back. We are honoured to bring you an early listen. Delivering their usual visceral and vibrant sounds, ‘Home’ contains scything guitars and a driving rhythm with singer Sam Hunn’s huge vocals: a sound that …

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Reports of the demise of All India Radio have clearly been exaggerated with the various hints coming from All India Radio’s main presenter Martin Kennedy that fresh work was on the way, and today we are honoured to turn the dial to the video for the first single, ‘Catch The Breeze’, off the forthcoming album …

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Lōwli is the nom de plume for Irish composer and songwriter Roisin Lowry and we are honoured to bring you a first listen to her new single ‘Ground Above You’, released through Veta Records. The track opens up with a raw insistent piano: so evocative and enigmatic you can hear the very mechanics of the …

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