News: The Cult Announce Australian Tour
Get ready, Australia—The Cult is bringing their explosive tour. downunder in November.
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Track: Sydney’s Postcards From Pluto demand to know ‘What Do You Wear’ with an effervescent indie swagger.
New kids on the block, Sydney band Postcards From Pluto sparkle with a sprightly effervescence in their second ever single ‘What Do You Wear’. Imbued with a detectable and delectable…
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Album Review: Girls In Synthesis – Sublimination
9/10 After two critically acclaimed albums (2020’s Now Here’s An Echo From Your Future and 2022’s The Rest Is Distraction), and numerous mini-album, EP and single releases, London based innovators…
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Album Review : Scott Lavene – ‘Disneyland in Dagenham’ : More alt-songs of wit, wisdom, life, love and laughs from the Essex story-teller.
Steve Earle coined the phrase ‘Hard-core Troubadour’ probably with one eye on himself and the other on Townes Van Zandt but it’s a tag you could easily stick into Scott…
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Say Psych: Video Premiere: Rhys Bloodjoy – Vividsection
BSM brings you the premiere of the new video from Rhys Bloodjoy. He unleashes the video to ‘Vividsection’, taken from his latest album, The Chaos In Veins. For the uninitiated,…
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Album Review: The ‘Heathen Sound’ of Big League is a deliciously fuzzy onslaught filled with melody and chainsaws.
Much loved here at Backseat Mafia, Naarm/Melbourne band Big League began as a series of lounge-room recordings by husband and wife team Travis (guitar, vocals) & Marie Velthoven (bass) before expanding into a full band…
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EP Review: ‘Accelerator’ – life speeds up for the brilliant HighSchool in this haunting epic release ahead of European tour.
Today, the imperial HighSchool release their EP ‘Accelerator’ via [PIAS] Australia, and it fulfils all promises made by the series of singles that anticipated its release. Based in London but coming from…
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Premiere: Italy’s Varanasi unveil video for the track ‘L’odore della notte’ off their evocative album ‘Cattedrali per principianti’
It’s an irritating side to this reviewing malarkey that you sometimes miss little treasures along the way, and certainly the album release by one of my beloved Italian bands, the…
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Track: oWo release the wild-eyed ‘Built’ ahead of EP release and launch.
‘Built’ is a driving angular romp from oWo with a muscular bass spine upon which the motorik beat and shouty vocals hang with a degree of sneery attitude. The guitars…
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Track: lutruwita/Tasmania band TEENS declare ‘I Am An Art Prize’ in a delicious blaze of fuzz and attitude ahead of launch gigs and album.
TEENS have been prowling the dark and wild recesses of the southern state of lutriwita/Tasmania for nearly a decade and have emerged into the sunlight with their swaggering single ‘I…
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