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Video and News: Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Over Everything

This must be the most perfect laconic, low-fi alt.country indie music match in history – Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile are releasing an album together entitled “Lotta Sea Lice”, due…

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Track: Tora – Empyrean

Australian quartet Tora have set heads turning ahead of the release of their debut album Take a Rest on June 9th, with this insistent, driving electro-indie. New track Empyrean –…

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Live Review: The Underground Lovers, Northcote Social Club 12.05.17 Plus Gallery

Deep in the heartland of the (apparently) hipsterville suburb of Northcote in Melbourne and the hometown of the Underground Lovers: there couldn’t be a better place to witness the launch…

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Track – Velvet Flare – Animal

Straight out of Brisbane and seemingly via the tenements of London comes Velvet Flare with “Animal”, a visceral, angry stab of glam rock that has all the hallmarks of an…

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Album Review: The Underground Lovers – Staring at you Staring at Me

In 2013, after a nine year hiatus, Melbourne’s legendary The Underground Lovers returned triumphantly with the album “Weekend” – listed as one of Backseat Mafia’s favourite releases for that year.…

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EP: The Clouds – Zaffre

Along with bands like The Underground Lovers, The Falling Joys and Ratcat, The Clouds held the banner for classic indie pop in Australia in the late eighties, early nineties.The sweet…

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News: Midnight Oil announce World Tour, includes first UK date since 1996

One of Australia’s most passionate, articulate and socially committed bands, Midnight Oil, have just announced they are reforming and undertaking a world tour in 2017. The enigmatic lead singer, Peter…

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Say Psych: Album Review, Mantra Music by Megaritual

One of the comments that I often make in this blog is something along the lines of “I can’t believe that only 2/3 people are making all this great noise”. With…

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Track: Why We Run – A Moment to Return

One of my favourite local Sydney bands, Why We Run, is back with no sign of a waning of their incredible talent. In fact, quite the opposite. I reviewed the…

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Album Review: Ben Abraham – Sirens

There have been several moments in reviewing this album where I have wanted to give it a ‘6’. ‘Sirens’ has a warm, lush sound, and the straightforwardness of his delivery and…

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