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See: Cat and Calmell release evocative video for stripped back version of Dramatic and announce live debut.

With a debut late last year with single ‘Dumbshit’ followed up by ‘Dramatic’, Sydney-based duo Cat and Calmell have been establishing quite a bit of interest in Australia and beyond.…

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See: Marveline releases surreal and psychedelic video for power pop track Our Parade

Marveline, the moniker of Sydney musical maestro Pete Marley, released a wondrous power pop track ‘Our Parade’ earlier this year, and he has just put out a surreal and psychedelic…

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EP: Sydney’s Silky Roads lets slip a smooth and ultra cool EP ‘Granada’

What’s on the label is certainly in the box – Sydney-based band Silky Roads has just released an EP entitled ‘Granada’ and it is one silky smooth piece of cool.…

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Track: Musical prodigy flowerkid’s single ‘Miss Andry’ is an epically beautiful and deeply personal reflection on childhood pain

At only nineteen, Sydney musician flowerkid‘s single ‘Miss Andry’ shows a power and stature way beyond his age. Imbued with a sense of deep pain, there is a sweeping dream…

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Album Review: Huck Hastings unveils a sparkling and gorgeous album ‘Cheers to Progress’, draped in love, loss, longing and optimism.

Huck Hastings is a Sydney based singer/songwriter whose new album ‘Cheers to Progress’ is a cinematic sweep full of longing, love and loss – a vivid and beautifully expressed series…

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Album Review: DMA’s bottle their indie pop magic into the spectacular ‘Live At Brixton’ Album

DMA’s‘ concert at Brixton this time last year marked the launch into the precipice that was the COVID lockdown. As such, it has achieved a certain iconic status as one…

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Track: A pop punk blast from Sydney’s SoSo delivers the ultimate laconic message: ‘Yeah, Nah’

SoSo aren’t very happy and you can’t really blame them. The News South Wales Government shut down an entire night time subculture in Sydney’s erstwhile good time suburb Kings Cross…

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Track: Dominic Breen’s honey-gold vocals adorn the beautiful, shimmering track ‘James Street Tonight’

‘James Street Tonight’ by Sydney musician Dominic Breen is an absolutely exquisite delight, draped in chiming guitars and melancholia and lifted skywards by Breen’s gorgeous vocals. This immediately takes its…

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Album Review: Jessica’s ‘The Space Between’ is an immersive masterpiece of haunting dream pop

Backseat Mafia had the pleasure of premiering the track ‘Silence’ from Sydney artist Jessica last week which lead inexorably to listening to the source album ‘The Space Between’. And what…

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Premiere: Jessica releases the ethereal and ghostly single ‘Silence’

We are very pleased to premiere the video for Sydney musician Jessica‘s new track ‘Silence’ on Backseat Mafia. Jessica’s voice is as majestic and ethereal as Kate Bush’s and ‘Silence’…

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