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News: Clown Core Announce Long-Awaited Australian Tour
Alt-Jazz Cult Freaks Clown Core Announce First Aussie Tour
Say Psych: News: Sour Grapes announce full line up for Meltchester
Sour Grapes bring their festival back to Manchester for a fourth time. Meltchester will take place on 17 May at Projekts Skatepark. BSM will be there to review all the action, and you should be too! Headliners this year are Snapped Ankles, the nine band bill features a mix of national grassroots bands and international …
Album Review: Naarm/Melbourne’s USER release the delicious electronic late night thrum of ‘Mira Imposta’ ahead of launch dates.
USER have been together around six years and ‘Mira Imposta’ is their third album. Their oeuvre is a fascinating mix of throbbing Euro disco with pure pop sensibilities and an electronic snakiness that shimmers and slithers through the ears like a delicious unguent. And in this album, there is a heart of brooding gothic darkness …
Premiere: Naarm electronic shoegazers Double Happiness gives us an exclusive listen to their thrilling debut album ‘Derealisation’ – a deliciously dark gothic delight.
Not to be confused with Brisbane surfgaze band The Double Happiness, Double Happiness is the work of Naarm/Melbourne based multi-instrumentalist Sam Jemsek and we are ever so pleased to be able to premiere the debut album ‘Derealisation’. ‘Derealisation’ is a dark gothic delight that hums over a throbbing electronica that courses through its sonic veins. …
Live Review & Gallery: Trentemøller Lights Up Sydney in a Dream-Pop Fever 5.04.2025
Trentemøller Returns with a Dream and a Scream
News: The Church announce ‘The Singles Tour: A Career Retrospective’ with Australian dates in November.
In exciting news, one of Australia’s greatest music exports, The Church, has just announced an Australian tour that will feature all their singles: a stunning retrospective of their storied career. We have covered this band extensively here at Backseat Mafia and can attest that in their current form, they have never played better. The creativity …
Live Review & Gallery: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets Kick Start Mega World Tour Ahead of Upcoming Album – Oxford Art Factory, Eora Land/Sydney, 28.03.25
Oxford Art Factory’s main room is no stranger to swallowing revelers and spitting them back out in sweaty, chaotic tangles. Low ceilings, packed-in bodies, and just enough space for a proper melty mosh. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets know exactly how to wield that energy, and their set at OAF felt like a swirling, neon-lit vortex of …
Live Review: Melin Melyn / KuleeAngee – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 23.03.2025
Words: Jim F / Photos: Huw Williams / Jim FAfter working taxing six-hour Sunday (yes, Sunday) that left me drained and irritable, the prospect of attending a gig seemed daunting. Yet, the allure of Melin Melyn performing at Leeds’ Brudenell Social Club was irresistible; had it been any other band, I might have opted for …
Meet: Night Beats’ Danny Lee Blackwell on ‘Behind The Green Door,’ Directing, and the Art of Evolution
For over fifteen years, Night Beats—helmed by Texas native Danny Lee Blackwell—has been channeling a hypnotic fusion of vintage R&B, psych, and garage rock. His latest single, Behind The Green Door, feels like a continuation of that lineage, yet also marks a new chapter. Released today as the A-side of a forthcoming 7” due out …
EP Review: DVRKWorld’s self-titled debut EP is a delicious southern gothic blast of dark pop delight.
Fronted by Mary Shannon of Meres, Launceston band Dvrkworld deliver an icy, glacial form of shoegaze that seems intrinsically linked to the wild terrain and the weather in the southern isle at the very edge of the world. Formed in early 2023 by Mary Shannon and Drew Farrant-Jayet and later joined by Shawn Arnold and Ryan …