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Premiere: Key Out releases video for haunting single ‘Buildings’ plus list top ten influences

Key Out are a phenomenal Sydney band – I recently rated their brilliant album ‘Anthropomorphia‘ a well deserved nine out of ten. Backseat Mafia is therefore utterly delighted to premiere…

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Meet: We chat to Salarymen plus review their sparkling single ‘Runaway’

Out of the depths of a Sydney winter (a rather benign concept, I admit), Salarymen have released an absolutely delightful ray of sunshine in the form of the single ‘Runaway’.…

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EP: Johnny Hunter – Early Trauma plus tour news

‘Early Trauma’, the new EP from Sydney’s Johnny Hunter is quite simply brilliant. It is a sweeping, cinematic and statuesque release filled with five close to perfect pop songs that…

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Meet: We chat with Carl Redfern (Golden Fang) and review the new album ‘Here.Now Here.’

The sound of Golden Fang is to some extent the DNA of the wild inner west of Sydney: raw, visceral and teetering on the brink of collapse. There’s constant movement,…

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See: Juanita Stein releases video for the haunting track Snapshot, plus album news

Juanita Stein has impressive form – she was part of Sydney band Howling Bells, a band that achieved success both in its home country and in the UK with its…

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Album Review: Even As We Speak – Adelphi

There is a fragile and elegant beauty in Even As We Speak‘s new album ‘Adelphi’ that leaves the listener swooning with bliss. The entire architecture of the album is built…

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Track: Even As We Speak – Unknown

Even As We Speak are of the most successful Australian musical exports in the late eighties, early nineties – catching the attention of the legendary John Peel and signing to…

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Album Review: Key Out – Anthropomorphia

Key Out are proving to be one of the more exciting bands in Sydney – even the world – at the moment and this is never evident than in their…

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See: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Cameo (Video)

Following the release of their impressive second album, ‘Sideways to the New Italy’ (reviewed by me here) , one of Australia’s greatest musical exports, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever (RBCF) have…

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Album Review: Warmer – Wooden Box with Strings

Warmer is the project of Nature Strip’s John Encarnacao – Backseat reviewed their last EP, Past Pacific, back in 2018. More recently the other main songwriter in The Nature Strip,…

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