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PREMIERE: Laddio Bolocko take you on an ear-splitting trip back in time with ‘Nurser’, announce retrospective boxset for May
Featuring former members of The Mars Volta, the Psychic Paramount, Dazzling Killmen and Panicsville, Laddio Bolocko burned bright and then burned out in 2001. Now, more than two decades later, the New York experimentalists get their moment in the spotlight, with a little help from John Dwyer (him from Osees, Oh Sees, Thee Oh Sees …
PREMIERE: Piers Thibault stuns with the brief and brilliant ‘Dusk’, announces debut EP ‘Ire’
If you’re reading this, we bet there have been times when you’ve wanted to completely lose yourself in a piece of music. French artist Piers – last name Thibault – is great at producing pieces that evoke that all-consuming longing. His debut EP, Ire, isn’t even 13 minutes long, but it’s an ideal refuge. If …
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 in for something special when you have a combination of legendary producer Wayne Connolly’s label Scenic Drive Records, a band consisting of members of seminal …
PREMIERE: Blonde Diamond dazzle on brilliant new single ‘Strange Times’, prep debut album
It would be fair to say that Vancouver quartet Blonde Diamond have been in album mode for a while now. It’s the reason they all but vanished for two years before resurfacing a few months ago with the intense ‘Red Flags’. As the first we heard from them since 2018, it was the sound of …
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 snarling delivery and attack recedes to something more ethereal and dreamy half way through as a wayward intermission, before launching back into the scything assault. …
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 recordings he has done as artist in residence at the Museum Of Old and New Art (MONA) – the largest privately funded collection of art …
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 Backseat Mafia), Cloud Tangle and Fingerless, for a limited edition split single. The inspiration for this momentous occasion couldn’t be cooler: the release of the …
Premiere: Brisbane’s A Country Practice unveils beautiful, emotive video for the poignant track ‘The Longest Drought’ and announce launch dates.
A Country Practice exemplify an archetypal antipodean sound: unabashed Australian accents mixed with a detailed eye for the minutiae of everyday life, bursting ripe with a poignancy and sense of place. We are very honoured to be able to premiere the exquisite video for the track ‘The Longest Drought’ from the band’s debut album ‘I …
PREMIERE: Catcher deliver a cathartic shock to the system on their powerful debut album ‘The Fat of a Broken Heart’
You may have noticed, but we like New Yorkers Catcher quite a bit. We broke the news of their debut album in this effusive premiere post of its lead single ‘Behind a Bleeding Heart’. Well, we got offered an upfront stream of said debut album and when we say there’s enough energy here to power …
Premiere: Sydney’s oWo unveil the post punk arctic blast of ‘Super Role Model’, the title track for debut album due out on 25 February.
We are very pleased to premiere today the new track ‘Super Role Model’ from Sydney trio oWo: a slinky louche slice of attitude-laden post punk rock. With a sardonic and dissociated vocals imbued with a sneery attitude, the music is dramatic and bold with shards of guitar slicing the ether. There is an archetypal Australian …