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Track: ‘Hurt Me Harder’ – Jacob Fitzgerald unveils a masochistic urge with his sparkling, vivacious new single, ahead of tour.
News: Teenage Dads unveil new single ‘Speedracer’ on announcement of expansive Australian and New Zealand tour
Track: Everything is ‘Bright’ for New Zealand’s Marmalade: a shimmering tasty dollop of sweet indie pop, with launch date announced.
rancid – tomorrow never comes (hellcat records)
Premiere: We are in the Big League now with their new single ‘Dine Out On The Subdivide’ and single launch party.
Track: Maya Ongaku – Melting
Live Review: Wide Awake Festival – Brockwell Park, London 27.05.23
Live Review: Carcass / Conjurer / Slimelord – The Warehouse, Leeds 30.05.23
Live Review: John Fogerty – The O2, London 29.05.23
News: The Monolith Deathcult release ‘I Spew Thee Out Of My Mouth’ – 15-year anniversary version
Track: THE HYBRIS Share The Punching New Single ‘The Game Of Cat And Mouse’
Interview: Jodie Bryant Talks New Music & ‘Discover Monthly Live’
EP Review: psykhi – Forest People
News: Full lineup announced for Lytham Festival 2023
News: With only weeks to go till its Sea Sessions time! Barefoot Beach Sports Return For the Biggest Beach Party of the Year
Live Review: Steel Panther / Winger – Kentish Town Forum, London 20.05.23
News: Twisterella Festival Announce Latest Wave Of Acts Including Prima Queen & Shelf Lives And Un(Conference) Programme Announced
Live Review & Gallery – Chris Masuak and Dog Soldier with The Silver Dragons, The Link & Pin 210523
News: CMAT announces new album and confirms UK & Irish headline tour
Premiere: The Gleeman new single ”Marie” out 2nd of June

Say Psych: Album Review – Smoke Beach by Kill West

See: DJ Harrison drops the claymation-accompanied lyrical roll of ‘Cosmos’ feat. Pink Siifu

Chris Sawle November 18, 2021

Track: ‘Hurt Me Harder’ – Jacob Fitzgerald unveils a masochistic urge with his sparkling, vivacious new single, ahead of tour.

Arun Kendall June 2, 2023

Jacob Fitzgerald has an ability to craft heartfelt indie pop anthems that sparkle and shimmer with vivacity. His new single, ‘Hurt Me Harder’ is no exception: a bright bouncy track with a cyclic riff that has a thread of deep yearning throughout, aided by Fitzgerald’s velvet tonsils. A saxophone burst adds a lounge room burnish …

Backseat Downunder Music News Track / Video

News: Teenage Dads unveil new single ‘Speedracer’ on announcement of expansive Australian and New Zealand tour

Arun Kendall June 2, 2023

Teenage Dads, currently touring UK, Ireland & Europe,have unveiled a science fiction-inspired new single ‘Speedracer’, and the announcement of a huge 30-stop national headline tour across Australia & New Zealand over August – September of this year, playing to their biggest venues to date. ‘Speedracer’ is a louche, funky track that seems to be imbued …

Backseat Downunder Music News Track / Video

Track: Everything is ‘Bright’ for New Zealand’s Marmalade: a shimmering tasty dollop of sweet indie pop, with launch date announced.

Arun Kendall June 1, 2023

Tāmaki Makaurau-based five-piece band Marmalade today release their new single ‘Bright’ – a jangly sparkling track laden with a dusting of melancholy and the sweetest harmonies to ever nest inside your head. With a chorus more expansive and beautiful than the Southern Alps, this is a shimmering piece of pure antipodean indie pop that floats …

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rancid – tomorrow never comes (hellcat records)

Andi Callen June 1, 2023

So here we are 30 years after Rancid’s eponymous debut. The 10th studio album and 7th to be produced by Bad Religion and Epitaph head honcho Brett Gurewitz, Tomorrow Never Comes has dropped. When Operation Ivy decided to shut up shop, there was a genuine feeling that the band never reached anything like their full …

Backseat Downunder Music News Premiere Track / Video

Premiere: We are in the Big League now with their new single ‘Dine Out On The Subdivide’ and single launch party.

Arun Kendall June 1, 2023

It is with the greatest of pleasure that we premiere the new single from Melbourne’s venerable Big League, the intriguingly titled ‘Dine Out On The Subdivide’. Driven by a wall of fuzzy guitars and pattering drums, the song crackles with a vitality and power – the high voltage riffs driven by powerful passionate harmony of …

Say Psych: Album Review – Smoke Beach by Kill West

See: DJ Harrison drops the claymation-accompanied lyrical roll of ‘Cosmos’ feat. Pink Siifu

News: Bowling For Soup Are Heading Back On Tour!

Blu-ray Review: Casanova

News: The Enemy announce 2022 reunion tour dates

ALBUM REVIEW: Magik Markers – ‘2020’: New England noiseniks’ filthy return

Blu-ray Review: La Haine

Live Review: Hookworms, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, 19.11.14

Interview: Foreign Talks

Past Lives: April 1st 1983, and the death of Marvin Gaye

Track: Splintered in her head – 女の子

Album Review: The Laurels – Plains

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Album Review: Dot Dash – Winter Garden Light (plus free “Countdown” download)

Meet: We chat with Mazes ahead of their new album and European tour dates

See: Joel Compass releases new video for Back To Me

Meet: Paul Browse – Visions of Excess, Clock DVA, electronic music….and me.

Track: Low Tide Theory – Time Will Tell, plus album news

Track: ‘Hurt Me Harder’ – Jacob Fitzgerald unveils a masochistic urge with his sparkling, vivacious new single, ahead of tour.

News: Teenage Dads unveil new single ‘Speedracer’ on announcement of expansive Australian and New Zealand tour

Track: Everything is ‘Bright’ for New Zealand’s Marmalade: a shimmering tasty dollop of sweet indie pop, with launch date announced.

rancid – tomorrow never comes (hellcat records)

Premiere: We are in the Big League now with their new single ‘Dine Out On The Subdivide’ and single launch party.

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