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PREMIERE: Canadian trio Captain Wildchild get weird with it on inventive new song ‘Fantasy’
You’re probably aware but there’s a bunch of excellent punk bands coming out of Canada. You got PUP, Single Mothers and the Dirty Nil up there, ffs. Clearly there’s more than enough riffs to go around. The latter hail from Hamilton, Ontario – as do Captain Wildchild, so they’re in good company. They put out …
Premiere: The Double Happiness create their own unique antipodean spaghetti western surf genre in their evocative new single ‘Smoking Gun’, and announce launch date.
Brisbane’s The Double Happiness have provided an endless source of brilliant shimmering sounds like no other band over the past few years, carving out a distinct sun-kissed brand of jangle that resonates and captures the sea salt encrusted radiant shores of coastal Queensland. We are ever so honoured to premiere their new single, ‘Smoking Gun’: …
Premiere: Perth-based troubadour extraordinaire, Damien Binder, starts 2022 with another shimmering, golden single, ‘Back To Me’, and announces launch gig.
We are honoured to premiere the new single ‘Back To Me’ from Perth-based New Zealand troubadour Damien Binder. Binder has perfected a brand of antipodean indie pop that shimmers and sparkles like a mirage on the desert horizon. His luscious fulsome sound fills his new single with a blinding glitter, laced with Binder’s trademark velvet …
Premiere: Thunder Fox sets the world alight with ‘Hard Times’: a funky paean to strength and resilience delivered in a red hot sonic missile. Catch them live in Sydney.
While Backseat Mafia’s northern hemisphere headquarters in the UK swelters in the extreme heat wave (a relative term given 40 Degrees Celsius is now a normal Sydney summer), down here at the Backseat Mafia’s far flung southern outpost there’s snow in Hobart (renamed with much excitement as Snowbart) and much need for some warmth. And …
Premiere Track: We Interviewed the Supremely Talented Nick Leng Ahead of the Release of His New Track ‘Easy’
Leng demonstrates an uncanny ability to draw on diverse sources for inspiration and produce music that is startlingly modern and yet somehow tinged with nostalgic hues.
Premiere: Night Crickets, featuring Bauhaus’ David J, release new video for The Unreliable Narrator. Watch it here, first
New outfit Night Crickets may have gone undermyour radar, but they boast a couple of famous faces in former Bauhaus and Love and Rockets man David J, alongside Victor DeLorenzo (Violent Femmes) and multi-instrumentalist Darwin Meiners. Their debut album A Free Society came out earlier in the year via Omnivore Recordings, and now they’ve released a new …
Premiere: Brisbane-based Platonic Sex exclusively unveil video for ‘Devil’s Advocate’: a visceral and melodic call for masculine vulnerability, delivered in a vibrant post punk blaze.
We are honoured to premiere the video for the single ‘Devil’s Advocate’ from Brisbane-based band, the delightfully named Platonic Sex. Opening with raw, expressive vocals and a slamming guitar splash, ‘Devil’s Advocate’ has a sneering attack leavened by a sky scraping vocal range filled with passion and expression, replete with a simple and vital message: …
PREMIERE: LA veterans Near Beer unleash their anticipated debut album
It would be fair to say the members of Los Angeles outfit Near Beer have put in the work. It’s coming on a decade since leader/vocalist/guitarist Joey Siara’s old band, The Henry Clay People, broke up. Getting a second chance in a lineup completed, in the main, by Brent Stranathan (drums) and Jeremy Levy (bass) …
Premiere: FLOWERTRUCK exclusively unveil their video for single ‘Pretending’ with announcement of new album ‘Partly Cloudy’.
We’ve long been fans of Sydney/Illawarra band FLOWERTRUCK who have perfected an antipodean-flavoured brand of indie pop that has a genetic link to an amalgam of The Go-Betweens and The Apartments on one side of the ditch, and the Dunedin sound epitomised by Flying Nun roster of The Bats and The Chills on the other …
Premiere: Blake Morgan – Violent Delights
Blake Morgan’s highly anticipated fifth studio album ‘Violent Delights’ is out now via ECR music group. Here at Backseat Mafia are very pleased to premiere the title track from the album and the music video to go with it. The video was shot entirely on location at legendary recording studio The Bunker in Brooklyn NY. …