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Premiere: New supergroup Victoria (with members from Youth Group, The Vines, Smudge and Songs) unveil the video for the indie pop gem ‘Creative Frenzy’, and announce launch date.

We are madly overjoyed to be able to bring you the premiere outing of the new track ‘Creative Frenzy’ from the newly formed Sydney band Victoria. You know you are…

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Premiere: Alannah Russack (The Hummingbirds, Aerial Maps) invites you to ‘Tend Your Fire’: a slow burning southern-tinged paean to positivity and resilience. Catch her light the fuse live.

It is with the greatest pleasure that Backseat Mafia exclusively brings you the second solo single this year from the singer/guitarist Alannah Russack, an icon of the indie music scene with…

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News: EWAH and the Vision of Paradise storm back with announcement of new album ‘The Warning Birds’ and unveil the haunting single ‘Hole In The Sky’.

There has been a very long build up to the release of EWAH and the Vision of Paradise‘s (EVoP) second album, ‘The Warning Birds’, delayed by births, deaths and of…

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Album Review: Christopher Coleman and the Great Escape releases the statuesque and breathtakingly beautiful album ‘The Great Tasmanian Escape’, and announces launch date in March.

‘The Great Tasmanian Escape’ can proudly take its place amongst the great Australian albums and songs that beautifully capture the landscapes, skies and very heart of the land. Albums from…

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Track: Sydney’s Flowertruck blossom brightly in their return with the effervescent, hyperactive ‘Crying Shame’, complete with album and tour news.

There seems to be a strange black hole in everyone’s calendar between 2020 and 2021 where nothing seemed to happen, and we all existed in a kind of void. Musically,…

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News: Australian institution Screamfeeder announces new album ‘Five Rooms’, tour and unveils the delicious pop fuzz single ‘Don’t Get Me Started’

Screamfeeder have been a veritable indie institution in Australia for more than a remarkable thirty years, and following a return to the live scene recently, they have announced the release…

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See: Sulfate unveil a chilling horror tale in the video for the ominous, prowling track ‘Bottle It In’ off the Flying Nun album ‘Godzone’.

New Zealand band Sulfate have just released the most terrifying and unsettling video for the track ‘Bottle It In’, off their recently released album ‘Godzone’ (Flying Nun Records). ‘Bottle It…

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Premiere: Sydney trio oWo unveil their ‘Exit Plan’: another vital slice of shimmering, anarchic post punk pie.

We are very pleased to exclusively reveal the new single from Sydney band oWo, ‘Exit Plan’. This is a thundering insistent track with a fuzzy chain saw guitar attack. The…

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Premiere: Hobart musician Ben Salter unveils new VR video for the luminescent track ‘bliss’ and we review his mesmerising new album ‘twenty-one words for happiness’.

We are very pleased to unveil the premiere of a new video by Hobart/nippaluna artist Ben Salter on the eve of the release of the last of a trilogy of…

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Premiere: Brisbane icons Cloud Tangle and Fingerless release split single ‘Eve’/’Villanelle’ through 4000 Records in tribute to Season 4 of Killing Eve.

Ever the promoter of sonic innovation and taste maker extraordinaire, 4000 Records, has rounded up two of Brisbane’s most exciting artists (and perennial favorites here at the antipodean headquarters of…

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