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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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Track: Human Movement – Robots have a voice

Australian duo Human Movement, aka Blake Gilray and Edward MacDonald have unveiled a second track from their debut EP, following on from title track Dancing Girl, which dropped last week.…

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Track: Copywrite – Philophobia

Australian alt-indie four piece Copywrite are preparing for the release of their debut single, Philophobia. The band started to record when they were just 16 at high school, and it…

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Track: Touch Sensitive – Pizza Guy / Show Me

You might recognise the title of the song Pizza Guy. Released by Touch Sensitive aka multi-instrumentalist / producer / synth freak Michael Di Francesco back in 2013 in his native…

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Track: The Outdoor Type – When the Sun Goes Down

I certainly answwered in the affirmative when I reviewed the debut single from The Outdoor Type, ‘Are You Happy?’ at the beginning of this year. I went out on a…

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News: The Church announce May/June tour dates

One of Backseat Mafia’s favourite bands, The Church, is touring Europe next month and in June, and have also just announced a series of special gigs for Australia in July.…

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Meet: we interview Perth singer-songwriter Peyton

Backseat Mafia were recently impressed by the debut single, New York Era, from Perth’s Peyton. So impressed that we fired a few questions to singer/songwriter Peyton Sears to find out more: Where…

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