Live Review and Gallery: Hoodoo Gurus, Princess Wharf, Hobart, 31/12/2024
The Hoodoo Gurus set off their own blistering fireworks show at their end of year gig in Hobart, as part of the Tasmania’s Taste of Summer Festival. Of course, the Gurus have carved out a very special niche in Australian indie scene – they were part of an innovative underground movement in Perth, along with …
Feature: Backseat Downunder’s favourite Australian gigs and photographs from 2024
2024 represented a return to full service – and more – in the live music scene in Australia where the Backseat Mafia’s Backseat Downunder Team are located. With an ever expanding range of shows attended, we covered everything from international superstars like Taylor Swift to local bands plying their trade in small corner pubs. It …
Album Review: EWAH’s ‘Souvenir’ is a beautiful luminescent dreamscape.
Emma Waters, otherwise known as EWAH from EWAH & the Vision of Paradise, has just released the album ‘Souvenir’, her first solo album in fourteen years. After years of battling anxiety and bouts of depression, and ultimately procrastination, superstition and pedantry, EWAH says: …this is the album I kept trying to make for years. For a …
Premiere: The Elsewheres exclusively unveil their dynamic new single ‘Melt’ ahead of EP and launch date.
We are honored to premiere the new single ‘Melt’ from Melbourne band The Elsewheres. With a rollicking folk instrumentation, singer Oliver Northam’s unique vocals are filled with a raw veracity – a barbed wire coating dragged through a thorn bush laced with whiskey and regret, but with an indelible melody and passionate force. Harmonies and …
Track: Sydney born Tokyo resident Joey Sachi returns with the gorgeous, shimmering ‘7 Seconds’ – a collaboration with producer AKINAT.
Joey Sachi impressed us greatly with her first two singles ‘Fractured‘ and ‘Reverie‘ and she has returned with a bang with her new single ‘7 Seconds’, a collaboration with Sydney producer AKINAT. ‘7 Seconds’ begins with enigmatic spoken dialogue over haunting synths before Sachi’s ethereal vocals softly glide across the surface like a silken veil …
Premiere: Mid Wales/Bristol based Moletrap set the atmosphere alight with their eviscerating new single ‘Rhagofn’
We are very proud to premiere the new single ‘Rhagofn’ from rising Welsh trio based in Bristol, Moletrap. The band says of their songwriting: We’re three friends from three rural villages in Mid Wales. Our soon-to-be-released, frenetic rock album is us trying to capture the untamed and often overlooked centre of Wales, and an attempt …
Premiere: According to End Scene, there are ‘A Million Ways to Break Your Heart’, delivered in a shimmering and sparkling way.
We are very proud to premiere the new single ‘A Million Ways To Break Your Heart’ from the fabulous End Scene, proving that the dynamic duo are truly back, with an album release in sight. Their second album ‘I Will Not Live Safe, I Will Live True’ is set for release in January 2025. ‘A …
Track: Bonsai say ‘No Cleo’ – a luminescent burst of perfectly formed pop.
lutruwita/Tasmania band Bonsai have just released a very brilliant ray of sunshine in the form of the track ‘No Cleo’. Referencing an Australian kids TV series ‘H20: Just Add Water’, the track bounces along with the effervescence of a shaken bottle of soda that’s just been opened. Guitars jingle and jangle as the track launches …
Premiere: Rising star Natasha Kate exclusively unveils her gorgeous anthemic track ‘Chore’.
We are ever so proud to premiere the new single ‘Chore’ from Mornington Peninsula riser Natasha Kate who displays signs of incredible maturity and stature in the new single that belies her age. This is an artist that is going to make a huge impression. ‘Chore’ puts to the fore Kate’s dulcet tones – an …
Track: Postcards From Pluto continue on an upwards trajectory with the new blistering track ‘Dopamine Hit’.
Eora/Sydney band Postcards From Pluto are one of the most exciting rising bands in the Sydney scene at the moment – both live and on record delivering some pulse quickening outrageous and expressive performances. Their new single ‘Dopamine Hit’ is a more relatively restrained track, bleeding with authenticity, raw and complex as singer Logan Kilbey’s …