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Track: Laura Mac unveil a blinding ray of high-stepping sunshine with new track ‘Don’t Know What I’m Thinking’, and announce debut gigs.

Laura Mac‘s new single ‘Don’t Know What I’m Thinking’ is a effervescent blast of sonic goodness, with a hyper kinetic disco shuffle in a paean to bacchanalian excess. This Sunshine…

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News: Sydney’s fabulous Johnny Hunter release the shimmering and poignant single ‘Dreams’ and announce much anticipated debut album ‘Want’.

Sydney post punk band Johnny Hunter have long been on my list of spectacular rising bands in Australia with a series of stunning singles over the past two years and…

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Premiere: Melbourne based Māori musician Samuel Gaskin unveils the luminescent, incandescent video for the glorious track ‘RĀIN’, featuring The Merindas.

Melbourne based queer Māori musician Samuel Gaskin‘s track ‘RĀIN’, featuring The Merindas, is a mesmerising, enigmatic track filled with a sense of hope and yearning: statuesque and affecting. We are…

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News: UK legends The Charlatans announce ‘A Head Full Of Ideas, 32nd Anniversary ‘Best Of’ Australian/New Zealand Tour’.

One of the best and most enduring indie bands out of the UK, The Charlatans have released some of the most epic albums over thirty years that has seen tragedy…

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Premiere: Lewis Goldmark unveils sparkling new single ‘In Your Room’ and announces much anticipated album ‘Cut And Flash’.

We are overjoyed to premiere the new single ‘In Your Room’ from indie pop maestro Lewis Goldmark. Lewis Goldmark is the project of Liam Judson from Belles Will Ring (and Magnetic Heads) and…

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Meet: Matthew Smith from New Zealand’s band Deep Water Creek talks about inspirations and influences.

Give us a potted history of you / the band: I started the band Deep Water Creek about four years ago, sort of as a vehicle for my own songs. Before that I…

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Album Review: Screamfeeder are back with ‘Five Rooms’ – a pulsating collection of harmony laden fuzz pop.

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 just released their new…

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Track: These are not ‘Important Things’ – Marveline unleashes a glorious piece of charming and romantic whimsy.

Marveline – the inspiration of Pete Marley (The Nature Strip and a coterie of other bands) has opened the account for 2022 with a jaunty piece of whimsy with the…

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News: Indie power pop royalty Sunnyboys announce Australian tour in July.

The appropriately named Sunnyboys – the band that possibly did more to bring indie guitar music in a power pop guise into the mainstream in the eighties in Australia than…

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Track: Brisbane’s DARLING. releases the atmospheric and chilling double singles ‘Illusions’/’Isolating’, and announces launch date.

DARLING. is the bedroom project of Caitlin Finn (ex-Dorothy and Dog) and Joel Glazebrook (Edith Thomas Furey – a long time favourite here at Backseat Mafia), and features music that…

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