Backseat Mafia

Live Review: Underground Lovers/The Lovetones, The Corner Hotel, Melbourne

There is something special about seeing a band play in their hometown. You just know the audience will be filled with family and friends and there is a special frisson…

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Not Forgotten: Neil Young – Live Rust

One of the things that strikes you when you look at Neil Young’s extensive discography is just how many live albums he has put out over the years. No matter…

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Music

Album Review: Paul Kelly – Songs from the South (Greatest Hits)

Anyone with even a scintilla of interest in the music scene in Australia needs to know of the golden thread that runs through it in the form of Paul Kelly.…

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Album Review: White Lies – Five (Reissue)

Emerging in a crowded field with fellow indie nouveau goth bands like Interpol and Editors, White Lies have been, in my view very underrated over the years. Their 2019 album…

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Track: Fragile Animals – Waiting

One of the best exponents of the new wave of Australian shoegaze/dream pop, Queensland’s Fragile Animals have followed up their much lauded EP ‘Only Shallow’ earlier this year with a…

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Track: Tunnel Traffic – Another Story

The low-fi musings of Adam Hachey have been sorely missed and it’s fantastic to see another creative flourish from him under the moniker Tunnel Traffic. Single ‘Another Story’ heralds a…

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Book Review: The Ballad of Jethro Tull

Despite being one of the biggest acts of the 70s, Jethro Tull are not a band that have ever enjoyed career reassessment and rehabilitation by subsequent generations. Sure, they have…

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Classic Compilation: Clifford T Ward – Gaye and Other Stories

The aging process is a strange thing and effects us all in different ways. Some of us barely notice it, there are those that do all they can to hold…

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Track / Video

Album Review: Youth Group – Australian Halloween

Originating from the inner west of Sydney, Youth Group achieved a modicum of global attention for their exquisite cover of Alphaville’s ‘Forever Young’, a song so steeped in rosy-tinted nostalgia…

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Live Review: Underground Lovers/The Lovetones, The Corner Hotel, Melbourne

Not Forgotten: Neil Young – Live Rust

Album Review: Paul Kelly – Songs from the South (Greatest Hits)

Album Review: White Lies – Five (Reissue)

Track: Fragile Animals – Waiting

Track: Tunnel Traffic – Another Story

Book Review: The Ballad of Jethro Tull

Classic Compilation: Clifford T Ward – Gaye and Other Stories

Album Review: Youth Group – Australian Halloween