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News: PRESIDENT Drop New Single RAGE, Announce Tour with Architects
Synths, poetry, and darkness: PRESIDENT return with RAGE and a new EP on the way.
News: Damiano David Sells Out Melbourne Solo Debut Ahead of 2025 World Tour
Melbourne’s gone — final seats for Damiano David’s Enmore Theatre show remain.
Track: Girl Monstar Reunite With First New Single in Over Three Decades
Girl Monstar are back with new music for the first time since 1992. ‘Blue Cat With Green Eyes’ out now.
Album Review: Blackbirds F.C. release the magnificent ‘Desire Lines’ – a treasure trove of pure pop delights – ahead of live dates.
One of our favourite bands here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia, Melbourne’s Blackbirds F.C., has just released their third album ‘Desire Lines’ and it is a dreamy treasure chest filled with delicious pop jewels. Songwriter Jeremy Gronow, a fan of homegrown Australian artists, says of the new album: This is a record that is …
Track: ‘Lucy’s Gardening Again’ is Moderate Lovers’ glorious sparkling paean to the pleasures of neighbourly horticulture in the sunshine.
Eora/Sydney trio Moderate Lovers follow up the power pop fuzz-infused serious message of their last single ‘Lost City’ (reviewed by me here) with a glorious sunshine filled ray of light in the single ‘Lucy’s Gardening Agin’. Filled with a delicious wry sense of humour and a sparkle you need sunglasses for, this is an hyperactive effervescent joy …
News: The antipodean guitarist’s guitarist Ashley Naylor (The Church, The Stems, Paul Kelly et al) announces new album ‘Alexandria Sunset’ and kicks off with sublime single ‘Good As Gold’
Ashley Naylor is simply a guitar god. Not only is he at the helm of the super jangle pop gods Even, a feature player in the Rockwiz Orchestra on the Rockwiz program on SBS TV (seemingly able to turn his hand to reproduce any guitar riff imaginable, note for note) but now is an integral part of …
News: Elliot & Vincent to support Pixies on Australia–NZ 2025 tour
Elliot & Vincent to support Pixies on Australia–NZ 2025 tour
Track/Video: Pussy Heaven unveil new single ‘Lily’ with lo-fi ode to Johannesburg
Pussy Heaven’s new single “Lily” is a lo-fi love letter to Joburg’s outcasts, punks, and queers.
Track: David Byrne shares new track ‘She Explains Things to Me’ from upcoming LP
David Byrne returns with ‘She Explains Things to Me’ – second single from Who Is the Sky?, out Sept 5.
News: Mulga Bore Hard Rock share storm-inspired new single “Heavy Rain”
Mulga Bore Hard Rock channel lightning and fear into “Heavy Rain”