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Gold Coast (Yugambeh/Kombumerri)-based six-piece SELVE, continue to exponentially explode with their new single ‘Friday Night’ – a sweet and gentle paean to the exquisite feelings of love. It’s a whole different side to this band – a track that is ethereal and floating, coasting on a yearning emotional wave with subtlety and a melodic delicacy. It …

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We’ve waxed lyrical about the extraordinary first two singles from Gold Coast (Yugambeh/Kombumerri)-based six-piece Selve, and the delivery of pulse quickening music continues unabated with their third single ‘Strange Romance’. It confirms the emergence of one of the most exciting antipodean bands of the era. And it only serves notice that the band’s forthcoming album ‘Breaking …

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I was sonically stunned when I came across the work of Gold Coast (Yugambeh/Kombumerri)-based six-piece Selve. I reviewed their last single ‘Breaking Into Heaven’ (see my review here) and their new single indicates its business as usual when it comes to stunning songwriting and exemplary musicianship. The humorously titled track ‘Loki Horror Picture Show’ reveals …

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Led by Jabirr Jabirr frontperson Loki Liddle – Gold Coast-based (Yugambeh, Kombumerri) 6-piece band Selve today announce their forthcoming debut album ‘Breaking Into Heaven’ due out on 12 September, which has the honour of being the first full-length album to be recorded at the legendary Abbey Road studios by an Aboriginal artist. And by way …

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We here at the frozen antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia are catatonic with excitement at being able to bring you the premiere of the new track from the irrepressible and obscenely talented Gold Coast band, Chavez Cartel, on their return from a series of overseas tours. Signed to one of UK’s coolest labels End of …

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The funky disco bop of Anglo/Australian band Double Talk‘s ‘Swimming’ is positively incandescent and guaranteed to get the most lethargic soul up, down and twisting around. According to the Gold Coast band, ‘Swimming’ was conceived in a caravan in northern NSW and recorded across Switzerland and the UK whilst the band supported Gang Of Youths …

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Backseat Mafia has been following the rapidly ascending career of Gold Coast’s Chavez Cartel with great interest since we premiered their single ‘Dead Weekend’ at the beginning of the year, reviewed their EP ‘Man’s Best Friend’ released through the prestigious UK label End of the Trail Records and then featured them during their recent UK …

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The über cool Chavez Cartel have unleashed the filth and the fury of their new EP ‘Man’s Best Friend’ through UK’s prestigious End Of The Trail Records with a sneer and an insouciant indolence that radiates so much cool it would give you frostbite. This is a brilliant serving of gritty, posturing rock’n’roll that will seduce you and …

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Working under the nom de plume Burning Jacob’s Ladder, Gold Coast multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jake T Johnson is about to release his new single ‘Fickle Bones’, and we are very honoured to give you an early listen. With a crystalline edge and a haunting, atmospheric instrumentation, ‘Fickle Bones’ has the space and air of something …

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Radolescent‘s ‘Tough’ is a glorious jangle fest with a rock hard spine and anthemic rumble replete with a self-deprecatory glint in the eye. It’s as big and expansive as the beautifully shot video accompanying the track filmed somewhere in a rural and pastoral heaven filled with sunshine and giant agricultural machinery. The band says of …

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