Backseat Downunder
Live Gallery: Parquet Courts Metro, Sydney 29.07.2022
Gallery: Parquet Courts – impossible to define, mesmerising to experience live.
Track: Huck Hastings collaborates with Charlie Gradon for some harmonic and shimmering ‘Turbulence’, with a launch date cleared for take off.
We here at Backseat Mafia (downunder branch) have been massive fans of Huck Hastings – his 2021 album ‘Cheers To Progress’ (reviewed here) was described as being a cinematic sweep full of love, loss and longing. Having crossed paths on many occasions with fellow Sydney singer/songwriter Charlie Gradon, Hastings has just released a new collaboration …
Premiere: The magical All India Radio unveils shimmering new instrumental ‘Beginning Part 1’ along with news of nineteenth album ‘The Generator of All Infinity’.
The world of Martin Kennedy’s All India Radio is one of mystical sounds and visions that reflect a retro sci-fi world; rich, lush, shimmering sonic architecture that transports you to another universe, another dimension. The astonishing layered nuanced sounds are accompanied by videos and graphics that evoke this strange and alien metaverse. We are therefore …
News: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Announce Australian Carnage Tour Dates
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis to bring Carnage to Australia.
Live Gallery: All that Glitters is Dayglow – Live in Sydney 25.07.2022
Gallery: All that glitters is Dayglow – Live In Sydney.
News: Brisbane alternative blues-rockers, The Blackwater Fever set to unleash brand new single ‘The Hurt’.
Ahead of October album release, Temptator (their 6th full-length outing) The Blackwater Fever return to bring us this gem of a slow-burning, yet electric ballad. Right from its’ opening bars (played with a guitar sound that wouldn’t be out of place in a modern-day spaghetti western) The Hurt takes you on a brooding and gritty …
Live Review: Spin Off Festival, Adelaide Showground, 23.07.2022
The return of Spin Off Festival in Adelaide was huge after having to cancel and reschedule several times since 2019. The huge line-up included acts coming over from the Splendour in the Grass Festival in Byron Bay, which meant that tickets sold out instantly. If you were lucky enough to get your hands on this …
Live Review + Photo Gallery: Don’t Tell Malcolm at Altar, Hobart 22.07.2022
Rick Brewster, lead guitarist of Aussie music icons, The Angels, has joined forces with local Hobart legend Dave Wilson (Dave Wilson Band/Four Letter Fish) to dabble in something that can only be described as “music for musicians”. Rick and Dave were joined on stage by a red-hot line-up, including multi-instrumentalist Nick Norton (The Angels), Mick …
Track: Julia Jacklin Drops New Track ‘Love, Try Not To Let Go’
Julia Jacklin’s new track ‘Love, Try Not To Let Go’ is a delight that augurs well for her new album ‘Pre Pleasure’ which is out on 26 August.